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We have a very exciting set of speakers presenting at our CenSoc Users Conference this upcoming Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider joining us over Zoom (everyone is welcome) for some interesting research presentations. Full program: docs.google.com/document/d/1My…

The long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33249

Who is we? Of mice and men in longevity science Jason Fletcher of UW–Madison reviews three books on longevity science wp.me/p3I2YF-eHe

Who is we? Of mice and men in longevity science Jason Fletcher of UW–Madison reviews three books on longevity science wp.me/p3I2YF-eHe

*Call for Papers* The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison UW–Madison Deadline: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Daniel Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-adv… Hosted by: La Follette School of Public Affairs and Social Genomics at the University of Wisconsin

African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33394

Faculty members Jason Fletcher and Silvia H Barcellos had their research cited in the Economic Report of the President, showcasing the high-quality research produced at the La Follette School and its influences on policy nationwide. Read more: lafollette.wisc.edu/news/work-by-f…

Beyond excited to share this new paper with all of you . It's the most fun we've ever had. We figured out how to study a latent index driving partner choice without measuring it directly🥂 Qinwen Zheng Preprint📰: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Sumstats⬇️: qlu-lab.org/data.html

🧵 On a Friday night, the NIH twitter account announced the most significant change to research funding in decades. What are indirect costs, how are universities funded and what are the impacts?

We are delighted to announce our next brownbag seminar on Feb 19, 12pm, w/ Jason Fletcher (Jason Fletcher), who will present on "Moving forward by looking back: New evidence that early life shapes our lifespan.” 310 Social Sciences & zoom. Do join us!

IZA in Bonn is closing down by December 31, 2025! klausfzimmermann.de/iza-in-bonn-is… Global Labor Organization (GLO) #EconTwitter United Nations University - MERIT Oded Galor @milenkanik

How is an American research university funded? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/20/how…

A study of Nobel Prize winners suggests changing your scenery leads to better, more creative work, from John Ham, Brian Quistorff, and Bruce A. Weinberg, nber.org/papers/w33579

“An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”: Héctor Pifarré i Arolas et al. introduce a new perspective "that fully incorporates cohort trajectories of all cohorts alive in the period of consideration.” UW-Madison CDHA UW-Madison CDE La Follette School of Public Affairs MPIDR ow.ly/TIWT50VrNzj

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John B. Holbein alerted me, Olle Folke, and Joop Adema (Joop Adema) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

10/ Please help share our extended replication to stop the spread of this erroneous policy evaluation! Read the new report here: econstor.eu/handle/10419/3…

In March last year, at the age of 35, I was diagnosed with advanced stage III rectal cancer with a metastasis in my liver. This was a shock: I had no family history, and none of the doctors suspected it. In fact, I'd had a negative occult blood test when I went to ER with severe

In this Article, the authors introduce PIGEON, a statistical framework for estimating gene-environment interactions for complex traits. Jiacheng Miao Qiongshi Lu nature.com/articles/s4156…

Jiacheng Miao's PIGEON paper on GxE methodology is now published Nature Human Behaviour with a new title. In our view, this paper can reshape the study design for future complex trait GxE work. Paper📰doi.org/10.1038/s41562… Software🧑‍💻github.com/qlu-lab/GSUB