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Pat Hastings

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Sociologist at Colorado State University

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I think I’d say I rescaled x by dividing by the sd and then call it the scaled or rescaled x (less confusing if x is not a scale variable).

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I always figured this is because "relative poverty" is usually discussed as a percent of median income, but SPM is based on a percentile of expenditures.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock's avatar Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social
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🚨 modelsummary 2.0.0 📦 for #RStats is out now!

Draw beautiful and customizable tables for your descriptive statistics, regression models, correlations, balance, etc.

Save your tables to HTML, Word, LaTeX, PNG, Typst, and more. 

Check out the GIF and website for much more!

modelsummary.com

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Robert Manduca's avatar Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social
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We have a new paper out in AEJ: Applied! Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe, joint with @adrianadermon.bsky.social + many others not on Bluesky

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Stephen Vaisey's avatar Stephen Vaisey @vaiseys.bsky.social
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The General Social Survey now has post-stratification weights for all waves (1972-2022)! You can get them in the new release of the data.

Check out the codebook (~p. 36) for technical details: gss.norc.org/Documents/co...

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Sanjay Srivastava's avatar Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.net
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Occupational prestige is a core component of SES. But it is often overlooked in research because it is hard to measure. We wanted to fix that. This new pub presents an easy to use index, validity evidence, and analyses of what makes a job get seen as prestigious online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

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I would reconsider having a phone line in my office (which they took out during the pandemic) if this were an option.

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Janet Gornick 's avatar Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social
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NYC, June 3-7, 2024: workshop on #inequality research/methods! The @GC_CUNY Stone Center is excited that our annual workshop - Inequality by the Numbers - is returning live. Apply by March 12. I will present @lisdata - covering contents, access, and research strategies. Details here: bit.ly/IBTN2024

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Dan Hopkins's avatar Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social
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The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be here at Penn in Philadelphia July 17-20 '24 & the deadlines for tutorials (2/2) & abstracts (3/3) are fast approaching.

See the conference website for more--and consider applying!

ic2s2-2024.org

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Vincent Arel-Bundock's avatar Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social
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I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

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Are you a student passionate about social sciences and research? Join NORC's nine-week summer program! This paid internship offers invaluable hands-on experience in survey research, data analysis, and methodology. 
 
careers.norc.org/en-us/job/50...

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Put your citation count chart in your email signature? 😆

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alex hayes's avatar alex hayes @alexpghayes.bsky.social
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there are two profs on my committee who don't respond to emails so i've started turning my subject lines into research clickbait and it's criminally effective

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The CEX is the most representative expenditure survey, but it is not *that* fine-grained. Depending on your topic, you might focus on excessively high expenditures in various categories. This paper gets into some of the categories you may be interested in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Danny Schneider's avatar Danny Schneider @dschneider.bsky.social
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David Weil & I are hiring a full-time post-doc to work with us on new strategic enforcement research. Folks interested in computational methods, labor policy, industrial relations, labor economics, etc.. pls apply (+ don't hesitate to get in touch)! Apps due 1/8/24
shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/

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Ansgar Hudde's avatar Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social
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💥New in Sociological Science💥 Many researchers use panel data to trace outcomes over life events. They often estimate YEARLY dummies – which throws away valuable info on the exact MONTHS of events & interviews. We show how to turn the MONTHLY info into insight: 👉"There's More in the Data!"👈

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Misha Teplitskiy's avatar Misha Teplitskiy @innovation.bsky.social
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Really important paper showing very concerning effects of a tool commonly used by U.S. high school counselors

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Saw the paper presented and, like, half of the students in the audience said tool was used in their HS

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Just sent my first email where I said no to a thing because I plan to be on SABBATICAL then, and wow, that feels amazing.

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How competitive is ESS to get into? I have a grad student who wants to submit something of ours that is quite preliminary. Only a 500 word abstract is allowed, right?

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First letter is exactly how my grandmother wrote a cursive L.

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Takeaway 2: Parenting is a year-round endeavor, and there is no “summer break” for investments in children. The effects of this money and time are likely to accumulate throughout childhood, providing cumulative advantages to higher-SES kids that lead to inequalities in adulthood. 8/9

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Takeaway 1: We think it's helpful to look at money and time together because there can be tradeoffs: money spent on children’s activities can crowd out parent's time with their children. Accounting for both more fully reveals the extent of inequality in parental investments. 7/9

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Third, a lot of concerted cultivation talk focuses on activities for older children, but investments targeted at younger children may have greater returns. We find the summer SES gaps in fathers' childcare time is driven by younger rather than older school-aged children. 6/9

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Second, these gaps have not grown substantially over time—certainly not any faster than the gaps during the rest of the year. 5/9

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First, SES gaps in expenditures are larger in the summer than during non-summer months. For time use, they are about the same size. So, overall, the gap is larger in the summer. 4/9

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In Research in Social Stratification & Mobility, we examine the seasonality of parental investments in school-age children using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (1996-2019) and American Time Use Survey (2003-2019). We look at gaps by parental income and education and find… 3/9

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Scholars have theorized how socioeconomic status (SES) may moderate how parents use parental investments to respond to the loss of the provision of public schooling during the summer. In turn, this can shape inequalities in children’s outcomes. 2/9

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New paper! 📊
You’ve heard of the (debated) summer learning gap. We look at the summer parental investment gap. Joe LaBriola and I find larger SES gaps during the summer, and larger gaps for younger school-age children than older children. 🧵
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authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvO1%7EuW...

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As a fellow I-use-R-but-Stata-is-my-first-language person, I relate!

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*discipline* seriously, we can’t have an edit button on here either?

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This happened to me recently! 😖Though, a lot of replication packages are confusing and it’s not always clear what happened even when they produce the right result. I know I should comment my code better… not that I think the reviewer even looked in my case.

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Some evidence that we talk more about everything!

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Yes, we talk more inequality, but this figure shows we talk more about *everything*. That may not be a great thing either, but it might suggest a different interpretation than the disciple shifting its focus.

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Does anyone have a favorite social science example of this? My sociology undergrads politely nod and roll their eyes if I talk about penguins…

#sociology #dataviz

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This is cool to see! But if we’re talking more about everything, maybe this isn’t so much of a signal of a changing trend? What about “health” or “race”? (I know you keep graciously looking at other words for folks, so no pressure.)

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Yeah, I wondered if this result is partly that today’s ASR articles cover so much ground to try to be relevant to everyone. I’d expect every sociological area gets mentioned more today, regardless of the article’s focus.

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When I read old ASR papers I’m often struck by how “simple” they are. I feel like papers in the top journals today just talk about more of everything. Can we control for the number of unique words? Are there sociological words that have fallen out of popularity?

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I loved my #SICSS experience. Learned a ton. Started a project. Met a co-author. Highly recommend!

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