Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 4hYes, ITT is the so often the best we can identify (if we’re lucky!) 010
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11h I thought the paper could do more is in moving from statistical non-significance to ruling out substantively meaningful associations. For example by showing that confidence intervals exclude *meaningful* reductions in autism or ADHD diagnosis rates. Definition of meaningful matters a lot. 130
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11hImportant point! I think multiple-testing correction is good practice here, esp. if question is whether any association is detectable, rather than whether findings replicate across datasets. And they do not 'erase' a conventional significant finding: uncorrected p-values are .51, .08, .07, and .07. 020
Reposted by Florencia TorcheDanielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 13hFun fact: in 2024 there were more Trump voters in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties than all of Nebraska, Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and most of Montana combined. 37220
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 14hon the relevance of a precisely estimated null effect: www.nber.org/papers/w3587...nber.orgIn Utero Exposure to the 1982 Tylenol Recall and Neurodevelopmental OutcomesFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 0256
Reposted by Florencia TorcheStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/10/2026The fact this is was completely avoidable and preventable...what the fuck America. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comNew York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles OutbreakNew York Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in response to rising measles cases on Monday, as infections skyrocket nationwide. 1119269
Reposted by Florencia TorcheLeslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There's a lot going on here, including the fact that apparently the reported difference in healthy years in the abstract does not account for increasing healthy life expectancy. But the coinage is FOR SURE the worst part www.nber.org/papers/w35773nber.orgCompound Delay: The Causes and Consequences of Later GrandmotherhoodFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 7213
Reposted by Florencia TorcheKoji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026IU sociology is hiring! We have a wonderful department and exceptional graduate students. It's a great place to work. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34396indiana.peopleadmin.comOpen Rank Organizations/MHOThe Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a rank-open (tenured or tenure-track) position beginning in the fall of 2027. We seek an individual with expert... 058
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved"... Weber's description of the iron cage fits the new AI-managed world pretty well 040
Reposted by Florencia TorcheShannon Monnat @smonnat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now recruiting PhD applicants for Fall 2027 for our Policy, Place, Population Health, and Aging (P3HA) Training Program - an NIA-funded T32 program on how policies and places shape health, longevity, and wellbeing across the life course. Info: www.maxwell.syr.edu/academics/po...maxwell.syr.eduPolicy, Place, Population Health and Aging ProgramAn NIH-funded T32 training program preparing Syracuse University doctoral students to research how policy and place shape health and aging outcomes. 146
Reposted by Florencia TorcheJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling. 41856344
Reposted by Florencia TorcheMatt Hall @fertmortmig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026📣📣📣Cornell Population Center is hiring for its next Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow The fellowship is competitive and provides ample time for pursuing independent and collaborative research. Welcome applications from all scholars interested in population research. Please share widely!academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Job #AJO32452, WDR-00060532 Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 047
Reposted by Florencia TorcheKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026New paper alert! Vital stats only capture individual births, not people’s reproductive career. For that, demographers use surveys that collect full fertility histories. But these fertility histories are less helpful if people don’t fully report all their births or report info inaccurately. 1/ 13516
Reposted by Florencia TorchePer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Equality in the Nordics is mainly driven by collective bargaining, not tax and transfer or public goods spending 1316
Reposted by Florencia TorcheJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/07/20261) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation. 431625432
Reposted by Florencia TorcheSociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026NEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...sociologicalscience.com 0134
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 16/06/2026such a treat to work with @schechtlm.bsky.social on this study 030
Reposted by Florencia TorcheManuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026Can childhood exposure to rising local wealth inequality help to explain growing class gaps in income mobility? Short answer: Yes! New paper with @ftorche.bsky.social now out OA in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social here: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... #Demography #Sociology #EconSky 1219
Reposted by Florencia TorcheTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133939735
Reposted by Florencia TorcheAmanda Weiss @amandaweiss.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Y'ALL I was reading up on the history of the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, which is already wild. Then I discovered that THIS is how young Evelyn became Mrs. Kitagawa (even before becoming Dr. Kitagawa). 1367
Reposted by Florencia TorcheKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Happy to be part of this mini-documentary on the pill with Claudia Goldin & Elaine Tyler May. It seems especially timely given certain groups seem hellbent on rolling back women's reproductive autonomy.retroreport.orgThe Birth Control Pill, Approved in 1960, Helped to Reshape Modern America - Retro ReportRetro Report is an independent, nonprofit newsroom creating trusted documentary videos and classroom resources. 23918
Reposted by Florencia TorcheKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention. 383507772
Reposted by Florencia TorcheNBER @nber.org · 01/04/2026A student-level event-study design across three states shows special education supports substantially boost achievement of students with disabilities, from Stephanie G. Coffey, Joshua Goodman, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, Marcus A. Winters, and Yunee H. Yoon www.nber.org/papers/w34998 082
Reposted by Florencia TorcheHerman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Williams, Martin J. “Causal Inference, Agency, and the Problem of Inherent Endogeneity,” 2025. 241
Reposted by Florencia TorcheJeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 20/03/2026It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards. 818737
Reposted by Florencia TorchePer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell... 1429299
Reposted by Florencia TorchePhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13/03/2026New from me: Most Americans who aren’t having children don’t want to (and not because of the environment). To look at the overlapping reasons not to have children, I got the Pew data, constructed categories, and made a table of combinations. /1 familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/m... 33710
Reposted by Florencia TorcheCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/03/2026It is pretty remarkable how little the press is remarking on the Trump administration's constant, harping, scraping desire to specifically remake the press. 9858138
Reposted by Florencia TorcheJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My weekly NIH update... The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace. 1/4 16833
Reposted by Florencia TorcheNBER @nber.org · 10/02/2026New data on ICE arrests (2015–2025) show that as arrests surge, the share of arrested people with criminal convictions fall sharply, from Chloe N. East, Caitlin Patler, and Elizabeth Cox www.nber.org/papers/w34794 0177
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11/03/2026so sorry to hear this, mark! hopefully you find relief soon 020
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11/03/2026exactly. once again, sociologists have been engaging questions about inequality and opportunity for a long time. cc: @mivich.bsky.social 140
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Yes! Interesting that the educational mismatch q has been relatively neglected in the v recent past in the US, while there is great English scholarship including at least Campbell etal (2022) and Maragkou (2020)... and that the lit is restricted to matching conditional on attaining a univ degree. 120
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Thank you! It appears that focus here is on field of study mismatch conditional on university enrollment. 110
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026This is collaborative work with a wonderful team: Alejandra Mizala, Alejandra Abufhele, and Luis Herskovic. Unpaywalled version of this manuscript available at: osf.io/preprints/so... As always, thank you @socarxiv.bsky.social 131
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...doi.orgBright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc... 34818
Reposted by Florencia TorchePhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/03/2026I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1 69134
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 05/03/2026great work by @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social and coauthors. i like the explicit consideration of physiological and behavioral factors. 020
Reposted by Florencia TorcheKasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”nytimes.comThe Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing. 23412
Reposted by Florencia TorcheManuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026Results show a marked relationship between increases in local wealth inequality and reduced mobility for children in the lower half of the income distribution. 043
Reposted by Florencia TorcheManuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026⚠️ New WP ⚠️ with @ftorche.bsky.social: Can childhood exposure to local wealth inequality help explain growing class gaps in income mobility? Short answer: Yes! Read the full answer here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... #Demography #Sociology #EconSky 1317
Reposted by Florencia TorcheSamuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 25/02/202685% of babies in 2026 will be born in Asia and Africa. 86120
Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 18/02/2026New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246 Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 0118
Reposted by Florencia TorchePopulation Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The McLanahan Award is given in honor of Sara McLanahan, a remarkable scholar, mentor, and policy advisor. The award goes to a senior scholar for extraordinary contributions to the study of family change, the well-being of children and families, and related social policies. 0104
Reposted by Florencia TorcheRachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Good morning epi methods community! Please consider applying for (and spreading the word about) this position here at Minnesota. It's a great place to be! (You can read the whole description and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179313) #EpiSky 22221
Reposted by Florencia TorcheGayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Did you publish a sociological book about families in 2024 or 2025? You should nominate it for the ASA Goode Book Award! I'm on the committee and looking forward to reading nominated books 🤓 075
Reposted by Florencia Torchederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026finally, we're living through precedented times 199182202339
Reposted by Florencia TorcheDemography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 19/12/2025“Severe Tornadoes & Infant Birth Weight”: In considering “environmental hazards as drivers of inequality & stratification,” @nickdemark.bsky.social et al. show how severe tornadoes led to ↓ in birth weight for the infants of Black mothers, esp. early in pregnancy. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... 1116
![Wikipedia screenshot of a biography of Evelyn Kitagawa, which reads: "She was born as Evelyn Mae Rose, in 1920[4] in Hanford, California, to a family of Portuguese Catholic descent. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941, she began working for the War Relocation Authority, which ran the internment camps of Japanese-Americans during World War II, as head of its statistics unit. In one of the camps, she met her future husband, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, who had come to the US in 1941 as a divinity student and became an Episcopalian minister while interned. After marrying him, her family disowned her and she lost contact with them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:37il2b455gdb47xs5fsbtfw7/bafkreidrxtgsuufidxcvvy6bbvnuzquzn7zywy74cwsocwilcfk537jn6y)
