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Max Thaning

@thaning.bsky.social
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Social stratification and socioeconomic inequality. Lover of yacht rock, disco and explicit estimand specification - ideally all at the same time.

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 30/07/2026
One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This paper finds that economists whose job market papers report (marginally) statistically significant results are more likely to secure academic jobs. Hiring committees prefer statistical significance; this creates incentives for researchers to p-hack.
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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📢 Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility & Labor Markets 📍 𝐖𝑼 Vienna | 🗓 19–20 Nov 2026 🗓 Submission deadline: June 30 🔗 Details & submission: wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26 #INEQ #CfP
CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility and Labor Markets - NOvember 19-20, 2026
Research Institute Economics of Inequality, Vienna University of Economics and Busines
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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
One for the linear regression vs cumulative logit (probit) nerds
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Wim Van Lancker @wimvanlancker.be · 04/03/2026
🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨Household typologies in European surveys are biased against the reality of families in Southern and Eastern European countries. They mainly reflect family types that are more common in North-Western countries. This is problematic for European statistics, research and policy. 🧵
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Jens-Peter Thomsen @jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We have a new paper out in Sociology of Education @soceducation.bsky.social on Intergenerational educational mobility in Scandinavia and the United States. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the United States - Jens-Peter Thomsen, Stefan Bastholm Andrade, Florian R. Hertel, Max Thaning, Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg, 2026
Intergenerational educational mobility reflects a welfare state's ability to provide citizens with opportunities to climb the social ladder. Representing t...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Only this week left to apply!
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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).
A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and
Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises

A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time
Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems

A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research
Output in University Research Teams

Authors
Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3*
Affiliations
Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu

Abstract
Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services
enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study
analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the
configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of
operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample
includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer
service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate,
and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1
configuration variables on service quality
customer service team is controlled withi

A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and
Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational
Manufacturing Enterprises

Authors
Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3*
Affiliations
Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich
(TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
*Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu

Abstract
Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the
rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the
relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Nordic ESPAnet Early Career Seminar! Opportunity for Doctoral students and Postdocs to discuss their work, in an environment tailored to quality feedback. Organised at @sofi.su.se and keynotes by @cassandraengeman.bsky.social and @janhelmdag.bsky.social More info: espanet.org/nordic-semin...
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Nordic ESPAnet Seminar for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers: Social Policy Context of Life-course Transitions – ESPAnet
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Torbjörn Dalin @dalinutanh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Min besvikelse över att framträdande Socialdemokrater inte högljutt protesterar (och ångrar beslutet) över att dessa utvisningar fortgår är monumental. special.aftonbladet.se/story/L40VBP
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Ayla, 21, utvisas ensam till Iran – resten av familjen får stanna
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/01/2026
Explainers & tutorials are a great way to criticize current practices with a positive twist. Tailoring them to a specific substantive (!) subfield can greatly increase uptake. Forget about novelty; if some statistican said sth in the 70s but no one was around to hear it, say it again.>
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 30/10/2025
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Big congratulations to @zethis.bsky.social, whose doctoral thesis has now been published! Outstanding work. And it is almost as thick as Tolstoy's War and Peace...
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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Indeed! Thanks to the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, Forte 🙏🏻 w/ @pengzell.bsky.social
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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Just FYI if you are not familiar with Academia, it is at least 50% this
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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Something to look forward to 🤩: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Causal Mediation Analysis
Cambridge Core - Research Methods In Sociology and Criminology - Causal Mediation Analysis
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J
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Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition working paper out! Extending KBO decomposition for more than two groups by relating group prevalence and estimated coefficients to the sample average - as well as other juicy meth discussions 😎 Joint work together with @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
With the Inequality Cluster, Alex Ludwig (EUI Economics), Francis Vella (Georgetown U), and I organize a one-day conference on Social Mobility. www.eui.eu/events?id=58.... Looking forward to welcoming speakers @pengzell.bsky.social @xisong.bsky.social, Jo Blanden, Kjell Salvanes and Mikael Lindahl>
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Workshop on
Organised jointly by EUI scholars Alexander Ludwig and Herman van de Werfhorst, together with Professor Francis Vella (Georgetown University), this event offers a unique forum for dialogue across disc...
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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to.. Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication" #AkadSoz25 #sociology 1/
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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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Vacancies
Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics. Because good statistics is not about producing code. It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.
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Jan Sauermann @jansauermann.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@ifau.bsky.social utlyser forskningsbidrag 2025! Ansök senast 15 september om medel för projekt inom arbetsmarknad eller utbildning. Totalt ca 5,6 miljoner kr delas ut. 👉 Läs mer och ansök: ifau.se/Forskningsbidrag #forskning #utbildning #arbetsmarknad #IFAU
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Luxembourg is going to be unstoppable. The world better get ready for Bouneschlupp and Kniddelen
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology
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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
You cannot be truly creative if it is not safe to fail. Yet modern academic science requires constant short term success. To survive, you must win grants & 'deliver' on those grants by publishing lots of papers. That leads to a culture of low risk, iterative research oversold as 'groundbreaking.
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INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna @ineq-wu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Voices from INEQ 🔊 "In bester Gesellschaft" is a podcast co-created by INEQ. In episode 6: Wealth @franziskadbacher.bsky.social joins the discussion. 🎧 Listen (in German): short.wu.ac.at/ineq_podcast_06 #INEQ
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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Andrew Penner @andrewpenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The families in households typology In this new paper from the @reusilience.bsky.social project, we improve standard family-type variables in EU-SILC By @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @wvlancker.bsky.social and @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The families in households typology: searching for families in social surveys
Studying families with social surveys is not always as straightforward as it may seem. The reasons for the challenges are both conceptual and methodological, stemming from the specificity of the da...
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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey! @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I asked Chatbox AI for a graph: trends by political party in their attention for educational expansion (with a more elaborate instruction). This is what came out.😱
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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 25/06/2025
Tech bros pitching machine learning over "conventional stats" be like
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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
<div> The purpose of this book is to introduce applied researchers to </div> <div> modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) estimators, tailored to potentially
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
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PhD student in Analytical Sociology
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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework New @reusilience.bsky.social working paper by @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman. reusilience.eu/publications...
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The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: an inequalities in resilience framework — rEUsilience
Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This...
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why do social class and income still stick together after 100 years? @thaning.bsky.social has the Swedish data – and the answers. June 24, 12:15 Hosted by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social Because meritocracy is more of a vibe than a reality. #isimunich #sociology #inequality #lmu
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 03/06/2025
Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.
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Max Thaning @thaning.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
👇🏻 @martinhallsten.bsky.social 🤘
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What we know and do not know about social mobility osf.io/uznr6 This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the field of social mobility research, examining both class/occupational mobility and income mobility. It traces the historical development of sociological and econom #sociology
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 12/05/2025
This is a brutal report on the status of non-EU international PhD students in Sweden. Due to a wave of anti-immigration policies, the Migration Authority is slow, opaque, and inconsistent adding massive burdens to non-EU PhD students' lives. universitetslararen.se/2025/05/08/i...
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International PhD students advise against doctoral studies in Sweden - Universitetsläraren
Sweden is no longer an attractive country for international early-career researchers, says the SULF Doctoral Candidate Association in a new report.
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · 05/05/2025
Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉 Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century. Great work, Xiaojie! #PhD #education #sociology
Xu in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall, holding a printed copy of her dissertation. She wears a headset microphone and stands next to a bouquet of fresh flowers, a stack of dissertations, and some notebooks.
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