Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJohn Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This chart is telling you about median wealth *for household heads* across generations -- that's a mix of actual distributional changes and compositional changes in headship. It is *not* the median household wealth of each generation! 2242 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/10/2026Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so. I conducted a survey of U.S. demographers, and this is what I found: 3%: “The low birth rate is a demographic crisis” 25%: "serious concern” 53%: "should be monitored, but no intervention necessary” 20% :“not a problem at all.” 26837 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What do you make of this one? fion.ac/jellyfish.pdffion.ac 000 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Great cartoon on police violence and student protest in France from artist Johann Danielis. 02612 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 05/10/2026A striking regression in morally tolerant attitudes in the US between 2022 and 2026. In four editions of updating this graph, I haven't had to deal with a big reversal yet. How am I supposed to teach the next generation that the arc of the moral universe bends toward debauchery now? 5123 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Does this apply to NIH proposals that go in in 2 weeks? 010 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case anyone is interested, here is a new working paper on non-binary treatments with staggered interventions. Essentially, I show under what assumptions it is valid to estimate cohort x time dose-response functions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comA Heterogeneous Slopes Approach to Difference-in-Differences with Non-Binary TreatmentsI extend the approach of Wooldridge (2023, 2025) to allow for heterogeneous gains to treatment in the context of staggered interventions for non-binary treatmen 211135 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The coinage! I gasped when I got to that sentence. 020 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... 02017 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkSean Corcoran @seanpcorcoran.org · 23/09/2026Our department at Vanderbilt is seeking an assistant/associate professor of higher education policy. The position is intended for a quantitative researcher with a PhD in a social science, public policy, or education. Please circulate and let me know if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/193891apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 01113 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkShannon 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 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🧵 Let's talk about the backstory here, which you can also read about in my book. Bergtraum was 1 of 8 new selective citywide career-themed HS opened between 1969-82. 8 new schools doesn't sound like a lot, but at the time, there were 86 HS in NYC & new schs recruited from the whole city. 1/12 13726 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkChantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Nikole Hannah Jones article has invoked a lot conversation on race, school choice for Black families. I’ve been researching how black folks choose schools for 17 years, I have a lot of nuanced thoughts. Long thread. 1/ 111038 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkMark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Our department is hiring an assistant/associate professor of higher education policy!! I am not on the search committee this time, but am happy to chat with those who are interested about our amazing departmental community and Vanderbilt. Please help circulate! apply.interfolio.com/193891apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 0109 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m excited to share that The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education is officially out in the world. It seemed important to find a slice. 77530 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkC. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer? My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35755nber.orgThe Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal EvidenceFounded 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... 112752 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Job alert! @harbatkat.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc to help lead research on Michigan's Partnership Model of school and district turnaround. We're looking for qualitative or mixed-method researcher, and hoping to hire ASAP. Reach out with any questions! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...careers.umich.eduRESEARCH FELLOW (Hybrid) | U-M Careers 11522 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Buyout compensation received by households of color is at least 6 percent lower than that received by white households. White participants relocate to higher quality neighborhoods and are better off than white nonparticipants. Black participants... move to worse neighborhoods and are worse off."nber.orgRacial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone AreasFounded 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... 086 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkJeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ever since the pandemic, we've had a school attendance crisis...right? I have a new essay arguing that the "crisis" narrative is a bit overblown, and may be distracting us from longer-standing issues that predate the pandemic: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1574 🧵 2208 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkFabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Critiques of meritocracy are having a moment. In this review article, Mike Sauder and I look beyond the "we think it promotes equity, but it doesn't" argument. 0168 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Thanks for linking that post! I hadn’t seen that before. 010 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026not an infertility expert, but I know a little bit about the NSFG and practically their entire argument rests on a break in the infertility trend that corresponds with the new data collection that had far worse response rates, particularly among the younger cohorts. So color me skeptical 150 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkNathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My paper "Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation" is out in Social Science Research. Spoiler: In simulations, double robustness appears less important than flexibility, and OLS does pretty well! 🧵👇 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 24511 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Also yinz is spelled with a z not an s. where are these survey writers from, Cleveland? 140 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026What’s especially great is that this is getting coverage outside of political outlets - and that coverage includes info on the attacks on reproductive autonomy. This is part of the story in @usweeklymag.bsky.social www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne... 0134 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkThomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Sociology in the tradition of Karl Mannheim says that what you live through in your impressionable years tends to leave a lasting imprint. But which events do people themselves count as formative for their lives? Our data visualization in Socius answers this. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 610643 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkEconometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We propose an algorithm for building efficient recentered IVs. While simulated IVs for Medicaid eligibility discard individual variation as non-random, our recentered IVs preserve it and deliver much more precise estimates. @instrumenthull.bsky.social, @borusyak.bsky.social buff.ly/H1JYjlX 11710 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A key difference between the two eras is that earlier violence was ostensibly in the interest of workers, today‘s frames the oppressed as consumers. That’s part of what makes collective action that much more difficult. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out. (Gift Article)The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself. 030 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026What don’t you like about it? I agree the smell test is still the best imo but it’s good to have something to point to when you have that feeling 110 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I presume Pangram has some of this internally? 110 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“my first move” But really these differ by model no? I’m way more familiar with Claude-ese, maybe ChatGPT stuff sneaks by me? 120 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/08/2026In the richest country in the world, we shouldn’t be treating childcare as a privilege reserved for the rich. It’s about time we pass universal childcare. 1853555704 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026did the same. in this case was particularly aggravating because it’s a good journal, the ai review was factually incorrect, and 1st author is a grad student. But 🤷♂️ 130 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkPaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 17/08/2026➕➕➕ New Working Paper ➕➕➕ Fixed effects are the workhorse of management and economics for dealing with unobserved confounding. But what if they themselves create bias? 😲 A short thread 🧵 1/6 610535 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkDemography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“Pregnancy Intentions, Race & Ethnicity, & Infant Outcomes”: Among Black & Hispanic mothers, @nickdemark.bsky.social shows that outcomes for wanted pregs were “often statistically indistinguishable” from those for pregs wanted later or unwanted. @uwsoc.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... 1122 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkDemography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In “Flood Risk & Uneven Patterns of Immobility,” Katherine Thomas uses PSID & flood risk data to assess n'hood risk & probability of moving, finding that h'holds in risk areas are ↓ likely to move than those w/o risk, esp renters & Black and low-income homeowners. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... 0105 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I loved this sentence. Perfect example of tell me you’ve never talked to a sociologist. no notes. 030 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A few papers have recently come out on the importance of social influence and support on childbearing 1/3 in South Korea: "We argue that reproductive decisions are shaped by relational processes within neo-traditional familism, not solely individual planning"compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.comFrom Childless Intentions to Motherhood: Familial Pro‐Natalism Among Korean Middle‐Class WomenWhile literature often frames fertility decisions as individual economic choices, the subtle influence of kinship ties is underexplored. This study examines how married South Korean women, who initia... 12610 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkKaren 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 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkNBER @nber.org · 08/08/2026Expanding H-1B visas boosted US worker incomes and productivity, especially in non-STEM jobs, with gains flowing downstream via supply chains, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, Ahmet Gulek, and Jens Hainmueller www.nber.org/papers/w35560 13017 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkAnna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026ND sociology is HIRING! We have three (yes, 3!!!) lines! (1) Open-Rank, Open Field careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311611/... (2) Assistant Professor, Quantitative Sociology careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311610/... (3) Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311609/... 02720 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If you're attending #ASA2026 in NYC later this week/next week, please join us bright & early on Monday for a session on pronatalism. 0127 0
Nicholas D.E. Mark @nickdemark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is correct. The amount of milk in coffee is orthogonal to the strength of the coffee. 010 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkA Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm organizing a session on Reproductive Injustice for PAA this year. Send along all your depressing papers. I'll read them for science! ✊✊✊ higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/POPULATIONAS... 0146 0
Reposted by Nicholas D.E. MarkKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It's here! The @popassocamerica.bsky.social Call for Papers for its 2027 annual meeting is officially live! Lots of great topics. Start thinking about your submissions!!! paa_acgi.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...static.klipy.comGet to workALT: Get to work 0156 0