turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 2hthe existence of diff-in-diff implies the existence of sum-in-sum. 020
Reposted by turgut keskintürkStephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 6hThe real DiD was the friends we made along the way. 0263
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026peter hull comparing TWFE and modern DIDs & it seems TWFE is OK. people will go "YOU SEE IT DIDN'T MATTER AFTER ALL" but regardless of whether TWFE is ultimately useful or not that all DiD chaos was a net good because it clarified the estimand. tinyurl.com/twfevsdid 64111
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026a Granovetter-Jackson win would bridge our painful divides... 371
Reposted by turgut keskintürkStephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science. 09797
Reposted by turgut keskintürkDavid Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Very interesting new article linking historical racism and contemporary attitudes. 095
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it is almost time for the annual *Well Actually It's Not A Real Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel Never Talked About Economics* discourse. 1121
Reposted by turgut keskintürkAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026my greatest secret is that because I am a public-opinion nerd, everyone thinks I am also an elections nerd, and by nature I am not 6462
Reposted by turgut keskintürkKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 03/10/2026If I were a philosopher I would simply solve the hard problem, and the other problems, perhaps by doing a breakthrough of some kind, or by biting a bullet, or by answering a different question I know the answer to, something of that nature 41128
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026a new paper forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science! we use a novel choice task to estimate values in the Schwartz Value Space and study how these values structure political preferences among kids, one of their parents, and a U.S. sample. read: tkeskinturk.github.io/values-politics.pdf 1206
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026a very important intervention to this debate. 040
Reposted by turgut keskintürkJeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it closed, the server was opened to reveal a little man who took a bow. 012316
Reposted by turgut keskintürkSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 1972 ANES is a trip 68010
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the NYT 100 best TV shows list is not real, it can't hurt you. 260
Reposted by turgut keskintürkHilma Lindskog @hilmal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do educational networks at workplaces shape political attitudes? 👬 Happy to share that the latest paper in my dissertation is now published in @bjpols.bsky.social. 1168
Reposted by turgut keskintürkparticle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me 2639167
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026a fun passage from Harsanyi on why gotchas against utility maximization are actually quite confused on their target: 120
Reposted by turgut keskintürkStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They don't know I'm gonna be the pope 215419
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026the funniest part of the *heterodox* debacle was indeed the fact that the ones preaching rigor do their preaching with the least rigor imaginable. 3142
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf 16620
Reposted by turgut keskintürkYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October. 1451223153
Reposted by turgut keskintürkKim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Fascinating study of video data on class differences in parenting styles about food and mealtimes. Class differences in parenting styles are fairly weak and the boundaries blurry. #socsky: a good addition to syllabus if you teach Lareau or Bourdieu, or more generally about social class "cultures."sociologicalscience.comSocial Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of MealtimeArticle: Social Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of Mealtime | Sociological Science | Posted August 25, 2026 1146
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026adding this footnote to a 55-word definition... legendary move: 190
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a new job market paper! using surveys from 10.4 million college students over 40 years, I study the role of ideology in career aspirations. I show that ideology structures what careers people want, a pattern much stronger among high-income students. see here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf 27124
Reposted by turgut keskintürkJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026On this day in 2018. Kieran @kjhealy.co ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece. 1035984
Reposted by turgut keskintürkMike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New causal inference primer just dropped - he's not on socials but many thanks to Scott Cunningham for this amazing free resource #EconSkymixtape.scunning.comCausal Inference The Remix 05918
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026this whole discourse about academics causing right-wing attacks on academia reminds me of the Turkish phrase "isn't the thief guilty at all?" (hırsızın hiç mi suçu yok?), what you say to those who tell you that you should have locked your door, should have had an alarm, etc. 1296
Reposted by turgut keskintürkturgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I'll go one step further: the BLM I think also generated some strong cohort dynamics, such that the future will be even more progressive (at least on this issue). young-old differentiation after the event: (also, a shameless plug: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf). 27915
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026well, El-Sayed won by ~1% (~15,000 votes out of 1.5M for the two), Hong lost by ~0.5% (~4,000 votes out of ~600,000). FWIW, I think whatever lesson we want from either is not there. 092
Reposted by turgut keskintürkAmanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 23/07/2026reading this thread like "haha what a coincidence this person who's talking about the odyssey is named is emily wilson" and then clicking on their profile and being like oh that actually is Emily Wilson 26618
Reposted by turgut keskintürkSpooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026everyday 2155351
Reposted by turgut keskintürkAsjad Naqvi @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The #DiD page has been updated after two years! The site has been substantially cleaned up: code is now better documented, resources have been expanded, list of Stata/Python/R/Julia packages updated, and all Stata code has been revalidated. Check it out: asjadnaqvi.github.io/DiD/ 0289
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026just had a hit post and now Deep Bluesky is after me. 0210
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026data visualization is my passion. 491173882143
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026the new york times apparently made the *unforgivable* mistake of confusing anarchists with democratic socialists in a recent write-up, but in fairness to them the original report had a pie-chart: 7233
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026with very large numbers of covariates you don't need randomization. 3464
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026early on I was happy that LLMs can proofread my writing so that I can fix my broken English, but now I feel the need to keep it broken just to signal that I just wrote the damn thing myself. 1263
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026a new blog post! given how politically sorted occupations are in the U.S., I wanted to examine whether occupational prestige judgments differ by partisanship. using the restricted GSS data from 2012, I show that there is, in fact, no such partisan penalty. post: tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/prestige 3154
turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026a new working paper with Chris Johnston & @stephenvaisey.com! we study issue opinions among a novel sample of 10-12-year-olds, showing that children, contrary to received wisdom, express reasonably structured preferences. a working paper here: tkeskinturk.github.io/poldevelopment.pdf 28135
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Y'all still follow Jonathan Swift? The man who literally supports eating babies?
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