🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

Now in American Political Science Review: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find they have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

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Nobody says it better than Michelle. Watch this – and then make sure you’re ready to vote tomorrow: IWillVote.com

I invited a live HeyGen AI avatar to a Zoom meeting with the instructions that it run the most stereotypical corporate Zoom meeting ever. What have I done.

Love the dudes behind Kamala 🥹….let’s go get it tomorrow! #Vote

A USC Dornsife political scientist explains the basics behind polling. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/p…

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Can union membership impact poverty? In this interesting study, @nTVanheuvelen University of Minnesota & David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) USC Price School WZB show that both union membership and state union density have negative relationships with working and working-aged poverty. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

“The Dept. of Data” at The Washington Post.com profiles our research on single motherhood & poverty. “‘Kindergarten Cop’ lied to us. This is the real single-parent capital of America.” washingtonpost.com/business/2025/… The underlying article in Demography Journal: bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

In print today! In deductive causal generalization, internal validity, external validity, and construct validity are *equal* legs of a stool. Internal validity alone is literally meaningless without the other two. degruyter.com/document/doi/1… with Kevin Estering and David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social)

The 100th PIPE Collaborative Workshop is on the books! Thanks to Jonathan Homola for presenting his work on voter ID laws in the UK. And thanks to David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) for his great comments.

A great little story on my 100th PIPE Collaborative Workshop USC Price School! Thanks to Jonathan Homola and David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) for taking part! priceschool.usc.edu/news/pipe-coll…

“The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income”: Using PSID & mediation techniques, D. Brady et al. find “adult income is a key mediator in the...r’ship btw childhood income & mature adult health.” USC Price School ow.ly/SWOn50W0vZf