VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!
New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!
edopportunity.org/segregation/
A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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We are pleased to announce the 2025 Editors’ Choice Award for the paper “How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on 67 Replicated Studies” by @apoorvalal.com, @maclockhart.bsky.social, @yiqingxu.bsky.social, and @garyzu.bsky.social.
Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.
Everything (and everyone) looks better in #viridis 😂
Happy to teach #Geodata and #SpatialRegression 🌍📊 in colourful R, this week at @goetheuni.bsky.social
If you're interested in Geodata Analysis, the materials are all online (comments welcome): ruettenauer.github.io/Geodata_Spat...
When criminals sit on the Supreme Court, laws are optional.
This privilege-to-tinfoil-hat pipeline is likely why lots of disaffected young (White) men like both Bernie and Trump. Both Bernie and Trump have focused on telling young men they're right to feel wronged and giving them someone to blame (billionaires or libs/feminists/immigrants/China/etc.).
Susan Collins is what we get when we get rid of affirmative action before getting rid of systemic sexism. We get token women who are happy to hold themselves up as an example of what women can accomplish, even as they're throwing other women under the bus. See also: Amy Coney Barrett.
Published: the paper 'On the uses and abuses of Regression Models: a Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching' by John Carlin and Margarita Moreno-Betancur in the latest issue of Statistics in Medicine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/8)
Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
Our latest brief is here! 🎉 Mapping the Education Evidence Base: Unlocking opportunities to Reduce Educational Inequalities, for the @horizoneu.bsky.social LEARN Project. 📑 Read in full here: zenodo.org/records/1530...
@katchzhen.bsky.social @neilkaye.bsky.social @charlottecampbell.bsky.social
We've been enjoying a really positive and productive 2 days in Manchester for our annual consortium meeting.
#SISEC2025 kicks off in Pavia today, and we're thrilled to see many EDUlabers & friends on the program! Join us if you want to check out some exciting work in education!
We've had a paper reviewed by ERROR, which has concluded we had a "major error that affects a core conclusion"
Few comments on the conclusion and the process in general
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Jornal Nacional showing the truth.
For younger scholars in the social sciences interested in policing, incarceration, etc., Russell Sage Foundation has a new set of grants just for you:
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper.
Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.
(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )
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Some things I've learned in 2024:
1. A jail-based education program in Flint MI which emphasizes rehabilitation and improved jail culture dramatically reduced misconduct and recidivism
(More: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ep5xy...)
A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.
Causal inference is hard:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Threats to validity (with helpful DAGs)
journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...
Maybe useful for cultural analytics exercises: a dataset about every Pixar film: "It lists each film’s creators (storywriters, screenwriters, directors, composers, and producers), budget, box-office earnings, aggregate critic ratings, Oscar nominations and wins, and more."
github.com/erictleung/p...
The Weekly Read is "Just One More Thing?: International Students' Perceptions of Contract Grading" by Catherine Gabor. Published in "Ungrading," a special issue of Pedagogy, the article is free through 2/15/25: https://buff.ly/3VLKpqz
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
If you are not too busy in rushing for presents (or finalising your re-submission if you are an academic) before Christmas, here another entry based on East, West Street by P. Sands. Great book!
On genocide, crime against the humanity, Jews, Ukraine, Poland, Lviv and Rastro in Madrid
Photo of Pride flag from @AFPost with caption: “Homosexuals will be allowed at Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup.”
But can we leave after?
Harvard’s incoming law school class has not had so few Black students since the Civil Rights era
