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I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories."
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social!
We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer!
@zhenghaowen.bsky.social @professorholm.bsky.social
#sociology
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This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >
Sorry - fixed now.
NEW: Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson, "Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[R]eligious researchers find less evidence for the secularization thesis, whereas secular scholars find more."
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"This article develops and applies a stochastic two-sided matching model to analyze marriage patterns in the United States"
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NEW: Yuan Cheng, John K. Dagsvik, Xuehui Han, Zhiyang Jia , "Force of Attraction and Partner Availability in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Two-Sided Matching Model" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
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NEW: Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx, The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[T]he main drivers of place-based disparities in achievement lie outside of elementary schools."
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NEW: Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Kailey White, Xiang Zhou, "Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-Dimensional Model of Place-Based Disparities in Academic Achievement" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
"[W]hile respondents generally attribute high levels of blame for wrongdoing, greater fragmentation decreases the blame directed at core firms and heightens audiences’ uncertainty about responsibility."
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"We review methodological issues that affect the estimates of the size of religiously unaffiliated populations and their change over time."
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NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
NEW: Carly R. Knight, Adam Goldstein, "Ambiguous Actorhood: Twenty-First Century Firms and the Evasion of Responsibility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Corrected link: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
NEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Looks like a fascinating new paper on cultural tastes, likes, and elite distinction
"[I]ndividuals reporting the highest educational attainment are now overrepresented among categorical tolerants, suggesting that CT may increasingly function as an elite cultural strategy consistent with contemporary forms of status display"
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NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
NEW: Martin Eiermann, Maria Fitzpatrick, Katharine Sadowski, Christopher Wildeman, "How Do (Human) Child Welfare Workers Respond to Machine-Generated Risk Scores?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper
"How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3
More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper.
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NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
NEW: Ian Lundberg, "The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach." sociologicalscience.com/article-v12-...
NEW: Josef Brüderl, Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob, "What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!” "https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12-34-862
NEW: Ramina Sotoudeh, Ginevra Floridic, "Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
"The political ascent of Donald Trump between mid-2015 and the presidential election of November 2016 was not associated with a decline in support for the legalization of undocumented immigrants but the opposite."
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