Did you know that parents' college major influences their kids' major choice?
I didn't!
"University graduates are two to five times as likely to hold a degree in the field that their parents graduated from."
Fascinating.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Interesting.
Is there really a child earnings penalty in the long run?
"In the short run, we find a large penalty immediately after the birth of the first child"
"In the long run, the child penalty fades out, disappears completely, and even turns into a child premium"
docs.iza.org/dp16959.pdf
my totally unsolicited end-of-the-semester advice to junior scholars is to keep the nice notes that students write to you in a safe place so you can reference them when things get tough in the future.
Folks who teach American government/politics:
I'm trying to put together a list of resources (i.e. readings/textbooks/videos/podcasts/etc.) for international students and others who have little exposure to American government/politics.
What should I definitely include?
#Polisky
Cool!
"We include a bird's eye view of the spatial distribution of racial sub-populations, numerical grids for calculating racial diversity within user-defined regions, & precalculated maps of racial diversity"
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Data: socscape.edu.pl
Political scientists have debated about whether football results affect how citizens vote
This new paper examines citizen responses to futbol results
"We find that lucky victories enhanced public opinion about leaders, while unlucky losses lack compensating effects"
osf.io/preprints/so...
Are immigrants more innovative?
Yup.
Immigrants tend to 1.) make up a higher share of business owners and 2.) operate more innovative and productive firms.
This "implies [immigrants make] large contributions to U.S. innovation and growth."
osf.io/preprints/so...
Hey you!
Check out this cool new paper.
"War Causes Religiosity"
The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased U.S. Americans.
People who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones
osf.io/preprints/so...
Wizard: John Holbein is now sharing research papers on Bluesky.
Homer Simpson: That's good!
W: The research found lots of coding errors.
H: That's bad.
W: But at least we know about the errors.
H: That's good!
W: The coding errors contain potassium benzoate.
H:
W:
H:
W: That's bad.
H: Oh.
Wow.
"Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope"
"We uncover coding errors for about 25% of [econ/ps] studies."
"52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates"
iza.org/publications...
Wow.
"Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope"
"We uncover coding errors for about 25% of [econ/ps] studies."
"52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates"
iza.org/publications...
How to explain different findings on the effects of gun violence? It's because work finding large effects on vote doesn't account for parallel trends violations.
Once corrected, shootings show little evidence of sparking large electoral change
Now out at APSR
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Which colleges increase voting rates?
For a long time, we've studied whether going to college shapes voting.
But, does it matter *where* you go to college?
Yes! A great deal.
Check out my new paper with Smith, Bell, and Imlay.
iza.org/publications...
"We find that Southern counties where Democrats lost in presidential elections between 1880 and 1900 were nearly twice as likely to experience Black lynchings over the subsequent four years."
Did you know that mass shootings cause large surges in Americans’ engagement with gun policy?
They do.
Our new article just out in PNAS Nexus.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
