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Bastian Betthaeuser

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Assistant Professor at the Sciences Po, Paris. Social and educational inequality, social mobility, and life-course research.

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When Political Pivots Shift Behaviors but Not Beliefs: Evidence from Trump’s Position Reversal over Facemasks during the COVID-19 Crisis - Bartholomew A. Konechni, 2026 Political leaders play a potentially important role shaping behaviors and beliefs during crises. In the pandemic, a number of high-status politicians, notably l...

What happens when politicians pivot during a crisis?

I examine Trump’s July 2020 mask pivot. It increased Republican mask use, closing 40% of the partisan gap.

But paradoxically, beliefs about masks' efficacy didn’t change.

doi.org/10.1177/0003... @asanews.bsky.social #Trump #PublicHealth

23.02.2026 10:29 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April:

⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate
www.google.com/url?q=https:...

⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher
www.google.com/url?q=https:...

24.02.2026 15:57 👍 18 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
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Hi Bluesky!

I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!

It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).

Thread below 👇 (1/)

09.04.2025 15:17 👍 41 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 4
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🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

02.10.2025 19:58 👍 83 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 3
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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

25.09.2025 05:58 👍 322 🔁 124 💬 4 📌 18
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ISSUE #1 ISI has a newsletter now, isn't it exciting?

🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched!
Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨

Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this.
isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27...

#isimunich

26.08.2025 08:01 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities 20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers

RC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info,
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...

01.08.2025 13:50 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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ISI has a new website.
Yes, one that works.
Yes, also on your phone.
No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim.

Visit www.isi-munich.de/en
Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.

22.07.2025 13:59 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"

w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon

🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!

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08.05.2025 05:00 👍 47 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 5
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Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.04.2025 01:07 👍 234 🔁 78 💬 1 📌 9
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

20.03.2025 18:30 👍 1463 🔁 437 💬 57 📌 29
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

07.02.2025 08:16 👍 1122 🔁 376 💬 42 📌 29
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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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20.01.2025 10:27 👍 362 🔁 164 💬 7 📌 21
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Hi alll,

Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border.

We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-...

#data #econsky

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10.01.2025 14:33 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

08.01.2025 13:53 👍 113 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 4
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Within-School Achievement Sorting in Comprehensive and Tracked Systems - Per Engzell, Isabel J. Raabe, 2023 Why do inequalities in schooling persist, even in relatively egalitarian school systems? This article examines within school sorting as an explanation. We use c...

I’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

08.01.2025 08:28 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

05.01.2025 14:21 👍 36 🔁 45 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:

⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant

👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

09.10.2024 13:52 👍 19 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1

Great list! I'd love to join if there's space.

17.11.2024 14:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great list — would love to join if there's space.

14.11.2024 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great list! I'd love to join, if there's space left.

13.11.2024 08:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring:

⭐️Postdoc
⭐️Doctoral researcher
⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant

👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

09.10.2024 13:52 👍 19 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
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How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔

We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.

Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...

09.10.2024 12:44 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

02.07.2024 18:01 👍 8 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation
We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms.
Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy
Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge

02.09.2024 13:22 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Please get in touch if you or someone you know would be keen to join our research team as a
⭐️Postdoc,
⭐️Doctoral Researcher,
⭐️Predoc, or
⭐️Research Assistant
The project will be based at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris. Start date and conditions are flexible.

05.09.2024 10:29 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

✨Grateful and excited that my research project
‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’
will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺

05.09.2024 10:28 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
Spring School on perceptions of wealth (inequality) SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY

2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality

Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/

@dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social

31.07.2024 09:44 👍 22 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

02.07.2024 18:01 👍 8 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
The front cover of the book Born to Rule by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman.

The front cover of the book Born to Rule by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman.

We have a cover and a publication date. It will be out on the 10th September. Nervous but excited! @samfriedman.bsky.social

If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...

15.05.2024 07:25 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0