Per Engzell
@pengzell
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Sociology Prof @UCLSocRes . Associate Ed RSSM & ESR. Past @SOFI_su_se @NuffieldCollege @OxfordDemSci @MIT_IWER . Also /
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New version of
@natewilmers
and my paper on firms and intergenerational mobility now up at
@socarxiv
. 50% longer and loads of new analyses. 1/7
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Got rejected for two grants today. On the other hand, I won't have to update my CV, so I count that as a win.
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When you keep publishing on the topic of your PhD for the rest of your career
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The review process demystified with Great British Bake Off gifs: the definitive THREAD. 🧵
** Manuscript submitted **
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In Sweden, primary schools stayed open throughout the pandemic. A new study shows:
- No COVID-19 related learning loss
- No increase in inequalities
Available open access here:
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Idea: Let’s use our papers’ rejection history to promote them.
“The research that was too daring for Nature!”
“Here’s the paper that Science didn’t want you to read!”
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Feels strange to announce this in such bleak times but from June 1st, I will be an Associate Professor of Sociology at
@UCL
Gratitude to my new colleagues at
@UCLSocRes
and everyone who brought me here: friends, mentors, coauthors, students
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I'm begging employers to require recommendation letters only for candidates you choose to invite
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This website is incredible. Choose a target population and labor market intervention and it aggregates results from hundreds of studies.
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What happened to learning when primary schools first closed to curb the pandemic a year ago? We answer this question in a paper with
@ArunFrey
@MarkDVerhagen
that is now out in
@PNASNews
. Join me for a thread! 🧵 1/12
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Still cannot get over the fact that dummy variables are called ”one-hot encoding” in machine learning
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Why use “use” when you can leverage deploy to harness the meaning of utilize
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Funny how we reserve the term "predatory" for fake journals and not, you know, academic publishing as a whole
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Find someone who checks on you like academics check their manuscript status
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If academia doesn’t work out, I think I’ll just be myself. As they say, publish or Per-ish.
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@alisonkgerber
@socarxiv
Looks like one editor is seriously breaching the laws of space-time by failing to live in our century
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Let's take a moment to celebrate the woman who introduced the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition two decades before it was known by that name [thread]
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What happens to kids when their parents' jobs are lost to automation? Article with
@bergerthor
now out in
@SSReditorial
. A thread... 1/6
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One of my least favorite parts of academia is how it encourages us to treat fellow humans as means to an end. I vow to work against it.
Susan Athey's advice to young scholars on networking in economics:
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European Prof: Given the extraordinary circumstances I will accept correspondence via email
US Prof: Check out my teaching setup for fall, including acoustic panels, reference monitors, treadmill runway, and rotating pyramid stage
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Schools remain open with new lockdown measures in England, Germany, France. Have governments lost their mind? Our study suggests not: even with excellent infrastructure, children learn next to nothing from home.
🚨Working Paper alert🚨
How do school closures affect student performance? Using Dutch data, our paper (w.
@PEngzell
@MarkDVerhagen
) shows that students learn significantly less during lockdown compared to prior years. Disadvantaged students suffer most
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Sociology Postdoc in Munich up to 6 years, to establish your own research agenda on social inequalities, methods, families or labor markets. German is not required, commitment to open science is.
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Happy to have received 4.8 millon SEK from
@Vetenskapsradet
to study Surnames and Social Mobility Across Three Centuries with
@MartinKolk
@HallstenMartin
@elienvandongen
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Has intergenerational income mobility decreased? Increased? Remained the same? Well, it depends. A thread about my newest paper with Carina Mood: . 🧵 1/10
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My job market paper was officially published today, 3 years and 19 days after first being accepted. But it's the lead article, so I'll take it!
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The share of workers who found their current job through "relatives, friends or acquaintances" across Europe
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Calling an end to all puns in paper titles until someone can figure out what the hell is going on.
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Whenever I see "representative publications" on someone's CV I assume it's a strictly random sample
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“This time, the editor in charge has decided to seek the opinion of three new experts.”
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Dear social scientists,
Drawing a DAG does not make your estimates any more causal. They are not fairy dust.
Signed,
Please Don't Make Me Be Reviewer 2
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For once, Twitter's prompt "What is happening?!" seems appropriate
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New publication w/
@fctropf
: Heritability of education rises with intergenerational mobility
tl;dr: Variation in intergenerational mobility by place and time is linked to social inheritance, not genes.
Join me for a thread! 1/10
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The golden rule of observational research.
If your design is not causal, the interest of your findings shouldn’t hinge on a causal interpretation of them.
Pass it on.
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How folks generalize your study on
- A developing country: the developing world
- US: Duh. The World
- Any other country: tell me why this is interesting
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Academic publication is a lifelong journey of learning what a small group of people wants you to say
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Work gets easy with such brilliant colleagues. Extremely proud to share this honour with
@MarkDVerhagen
and
@ArunFrey
.
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We study the Netherlands and use national tests that occurred before and after an 8-week lockdown. Three big findings: 1) students made little or no progress learning from home, 2) social inequalities increased, 3) wide variation across schools. 2/12
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Pro tip: If you've used "delve into" and "intricate" in the same sentence, your reader knows with 100% it's ChatGPT.
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New work with my talented former student Olivia Granström. We examine European variation in intergenerational occupational mobility and its place-based drivers.
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Make of it what you will, but the key to good academic prose is being a bit less smart than your average reader
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What should we make of country differences in social mobility? Are they as substantial as we like to think? New paper with
@ElyStromberg
, scroll for thread. 1/8
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Science reporters I beg you
1. Make sure reported findings are publicly available as a preprint or otherwise, and point us to it
2. Name authors and discipline, not just “researchers from University X”
3. Solicit an independent opinion from a researcher not involved w/the work
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Just reviewed a paper. R1: reject, R2: reject, R3: major revision. Editor: R&R. Are we sure this is a productive use of everyone's time?
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Humbled to have received a
@RussellSageFdn
grant w/
@natewilmers
to study how firms can help or hinder intergenerational mobility... stay tuned
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As someone who appreciates good penmanship I can't deny I was pleased when this arrived in the mail
@theNASciences
@ArunFrey
@MarkDVerhagen
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Is it just me or does every sociologist's life story sound like this
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Increasingly starting to think that the only thing that matters is how you treat those around you
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New working paper with
@natewilmers
– we show that sorting of workers across firms explains an important part of intergenerational earnings transmission
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Where send that work you're finishing over the summer? Do consider RSSM – we have a relatively fast turnover and I'm happy to look and judge the fit before you submit.
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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) complaining that people publish too much is a whole mood
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When people ask me what happened to that manuscript I presented at a conference 3 years ago
Don’t monetise all of your hobbies, keep something for yourself.
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I have a name on the door so I guess it’s official! If you’re in Cambridge MA and want to meet up in the next few months let me know. I’ll also be going to UPenn and NYU.
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Two-factor authentication is making it hard for those of us who like to keep our phone far, far away while we work
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Very happy to see this paper released into the wild! See thread below or read it open access here:
Has intergenerational income mobility decreased? Increased? Remained the same? Well, it depends. A thread about my newest paper with Carina Mood: . 🧵 1/10
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If results are "robust to controls" you may have controls that aren't measured very well. As this paper shows, a stronger test is often to use the potential confounders as outcomes.
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At 5000 followers, I will reveal what the ideal rate of social mobility is
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Pleased to have this paper with Isabel Raabe out in one of my favorite journals
@ASA_SOE
@SocEducation
. Read it open access or see thread below.
How do education systems affect students' exposure to peers of different ability? In a new(ish) working paper,
@Raabe_Isabel
and I examine this question in four European countries. Short thread. 1/4
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Don't mistake ability to criticize for brilliance. I had to unlearn this the hard way – wish it was more widely known
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It’s only a DAG if it comes from the Dagitty region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling path analysis
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Way to write a horror story into an acknowledgment
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Still wondering why you should come and work with us in Oxford?
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Now start from scratch and write the paper the reviewers wanted
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Sir David Cox has left us. His brilliance was matched only by his kindness. May we all find the courage to be more like him.
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Choose parents wisely
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Applying for professor jobs can be fun. Like this one that wants my detailed degree from secondary school but no evidence that I'm actually capable of teaching.
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“However, all of them raise significant concerns. I have classified this as a major revision”
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Why and how does economic status persist within families across generations? A thread on my recent
@SociologicalSci
paper w/ Mood and Jonsson. 🧵 1/9
NEW: Engzell, Mood, Jonsson: "It's All About the Parents: Inequality Transmission across Three Generations."
@pengzell
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Call for papers! 📣
Do you study social mobility with historical data?
Join us (me,
@GGabbuti
,
@julia_jarame
) in Oxford in June for what will surely be the event of the year.
Apply by Dec 20, more details below and at
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Dream opportunity:
Time to apply for that postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship at
@NuffieldCollege
@SociologyOxford
More info at
Deadline 27 September
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S*RN:
- E*sevier-owned
- Registration required to read
- Removes papers without notice
- Rumored to have once strangled a kitten
SocArXiv:
- Not for profit
- Open access
- Open API
- Doesn’t care if your wear odd socks to work
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Black and Hispanic students who are paired with a different-race roommate in college become less likely to believe that "through hard work, everybody can succeed".
As societies become increasingly divided by socioeconomic fault lines, how do we learn about the lives of others?
My new
#OA
paper asks how adolescents learn about inequality in racially & socioeconomically (non-)diverse contexts
🧵findings below
1/12
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The impact of AI on the thesis drafts I'm seeing this year is staggering... and I don't mean that in a good way
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What's a polite way of saying that you've just had a paper accepted?
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Let it be known
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That top soc journals only take submissions in docx is mainly a gatekeeping device to weed out economists, am I right?
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This paper with
@bergerthor
@jakobmolinder
& Eriksson has been long in the making so very pleased to see it out! Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
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@carltonreid
Agree with the car sentiment but these markings are beautiful imo. I wonder about their effectiveness anything but the first time though
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Rejected by sociology journals for being too methodological and methods journals for not being methodological enough? Send it our way
Where send that work you're finishing over the summer? Do consider RSSM – we have a relatively fast turnover and I'm happy to look and judge the fit before you submit.
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Enjoyed this provocative take on why we do social science from
@StatModeling
: the counterfactual is not no social science, it’s bad social science.
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