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For sure, but I still think they're both important. E.g., much lower AfD vote share in Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein compared to former DDR, despite being similarly protestant.

Speaking very much as a non-expert, I'd say the first two are the main ones, but all of them to some extent. The main difference to Britain, it seems to me, is that class gradients exist mostly _within_ regions rather than across.

(Class and location/region that is.)

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's very hard for Brits to wrap their heads around those two things not being the same thing.

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Related to 3.: Further improvements in e-learning technology, increasing scalability for the "best" educators and displacing the others?

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It says "one of the closest", to be precise.

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I don't claim that GDP is a perfect measure of human welfare, but this is incorrect. Curing diabetes would free up resources, both of diabetes patients and the health care system, which would be put to other uses (see broken window fallacy). Otherwise we could increase GDP by giving people diabetes?

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Would be interesting to know how much of this was the initial "shock" of the spread of protestantism vs the feedback generated from educated mothers educating their daughters and so on.

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I don't think "professionals" is the correct translation of "Beamte" in this case. "Beamte" means civil servants, which in Germany comprises many employees of public institutions (teachers, professors, police officers, administrative officials, ...).

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

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Müller and Watson (2024) show that strong spatial dependence ("spatial unit roots") can lead to spurious regression results even with HAC corrections, in a parallel to well-known results from time series. They develop diagnostic tests and a method to remove unit roots. (3/n)

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Link to Working Paper: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ... It is well-known that spatial dependence is a problem for inference in regressions that use spatial data. However, standard HAC correction methods are only enough when dependence is not too strong. (2/n)

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

Abstract for Paper "Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner’s Guide and a Stata Package"

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The hope is for future high speed rail projects to continue in a clockwise fashion back to Old Oak Common, at which point the lines will form a ring, referred to informally in policy circles as the HS25.

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P David Boll @pdavidboll.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The year is 2047, plans for the new HS6 line from Old Oak Common to Walthamstow have been approved. In Walthamstow, passengers will be able to change to the recently opened HS5 line, which will take them speedily on to Woolwich and Bromley.

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Oh for sure, but does that explain the discontinuities at the borders? (Which aren't all that apparent for Bonn)

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Yes that kind of thing is what I had in mind. Hadn't appreciated the full scale of the horror of those ads though 😂

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Free research idea: The borders of the Holy Roman Empire around 1200 and university choice in the 21st century.

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(Insert hand-waving about network effects.)

Good point. Last attempt: maybe because the education system is so heavily federalised, universities advertise more intensely to secondary schools in the same state? Or the respective state ministry for education predominantly advertises degrees at unis in their state?

Oh okay, I didn't know that. So BW and BV unis didn't/don't give students any kind of transport discounts, or only within-city?

Second reason I could think of is that some fields (definitely teaching, maybe law) are still state-specific. E.g., with a teaching degree from Niedersachsen it is harder to become a teacher in Sachsen, etc. If people want to move back closer to home, this may lead to home-state bias.

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