Neues Projekt: Deutschlands Großstädte sind sozial gespalten. Bei DIE ZEIT zeigen wir mit Daten von infas360, wo Menschen mit niedrigem (rot) und hohen Haushaltseinkommen (blau) in den Städten leben – und wie die Grenzen zwischen ihnen verlaufen. zeit.de/wirtschaft/202…

𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 0.9.0 is a BIG📦release! Simple yet powerful tools to help you interpret the results of over 70 classes of models in #RStats (LM, GLM, GAM, discrete choice, mixed-effects, bayesian, etc.) 🧵 on some cool new stuff. vincentarelbundock.github.io/marginaleffect…

Extreme earners are not extremely smart 📣 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc… Work with @arnoutvanderijt and @thijs_bol shows that the relationship btw ability & wage is strong but plateaus at high incomes: ⚡️Top wages are not indicative of top cognitive ability

We are happy to announce that the book now physically exists 😊 Translation by Juliette Rogers Published Harvard University Press March 7

Wenn man sich für sein Land schämen muss: "Mein Ziel ist es, für 2030, dass wir die Sozialleistungen in Österreich so neu regeln, dass nur der, der dann zum vollen Sozialleistungsbezug berechtigt ist, der mindestens fünf durchgängig in Österreich lebt".

📢⚠️Major CLD update announcement ⚠️📢 It's been pretty quiet on this account the last few years - but that doesn't mean we've been idle! Check out the latest BIG updates of the Comparative Legislators Database: 🧵

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1/Months in the making, here's the final cut of my story on the long-awaited wealth transfer, no longer in the future tense: We're closer to 2053 than 1992. Elites are already disbursing to heirs while alive. The masses likely need luck or a paradigm shift nytimes.com/2023/05/14/bus…

There are details to quibble with in this The New York Times story, and the documentation is not what it should be. That said, this is an illuminating and worrisome synopsis of the state of #wealth #inequality in the United States. nytimes.com/2023/05/14/bus…

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This is not the 1970s.

Trefferquote: Bescheiden. tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/n… (via Volker Hollenstein)

Deswegen bevorzuge ich es, excel gar nicht zu benutzen: derstandard.at/story/30000001…

The sociology of elites is a core area of sociology and has been a concern in sociology since its institutionalization. Yet there are elites in sociology as well. Read more about Bourdieu, a member of this elite, on our blog: kohlifoundation.eu/sociological-t…

Hier spricht mir jemand aus dem Herzen: derstandard.at/consent/tcf/st…

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Robert Solow: “I’m glad there is no Milton Friedman anywhere [...] today. Milton Friedmans are bad for economics and bad for society. Fruitless debates with talented (near-)extremists waste a lot of everyone’s time that could have been spent more constructively.”

Enough people have brought up Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit that I thought I should actually read it rather than assume I knew what it said. Unfortunately it lived up to all my assumptions, even coming in a bit below expectations. My review. goodreads.com/review/show/62…

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