Tim Liao
@tfliao
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Professor @UofIllinois | Sociologist @AsaMethodology | Researcher of #inequality | Sequence Analyst @SeqAnalysisAssn | Demographer | Photo Flâneur du Monde
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Joined January 2011
For any of you data analysts out there who use Stata, my new ado program xtvfreg (variance function panel regression) is up and running, downloadable by using "ssc install xtvfreg" in a Stata session. The method is used in a recent paper of mine:
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Abstract. Although unemployment plays a central role in the emergence of labour market disparities, rarely any studies have linked its dynamics with the ov
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Moving up by moving up? D. Witteveen (@dirk_witteveen)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration Read: https://t.co/zKVFahPxRx
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Understanding probability is essential in data science. In 4 minutes, I'll demolish your confusion. Let's go!
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We arrived in a Florence bathed in the setting sun earlier this evening
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Getting ready for my public lecture tomorrow includes a 2.4-km swim in a public pool and a freshly made pizza in the canteen today! https://t.co/QBlCwzr5jK
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Yesterday, they sang this song to the tune of Katyusha. Today, I spoke with some students during their class break in front of the building and found out the Italian version is Fischia il vento, a WWII resistance song. Check it out!
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One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨 Join Dr @ewabatyra as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography! Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨👩👦👦 Apply now 👉 https://t.co/ewFUEHR2vF
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A national general strike day today in Italy in solidarity with Gaza. A protest gathering in front of my building:
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📢Breaking news for family sociologists & demographers!! ➡Explore gender and family change in comparative perspective with the Generations & Gender Longitudinal Survey! Our new #OpenAccess DataBrief shows how GGS supports your research! Read it at: https://t.co/IQ2YsZD2vl
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Spending two weeks at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, the first sociology department in Italy. A first full day in my office!
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🎀🍺 Alcohol Miss-Use C. Uscola’s (@c_uscola) new #Socius study examines how women and men seek to resist #familytrauma informed #genderexpectations through their performance of #alcoholuse. Read: https://t.co/d8jvosw23p
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🚨 The Cornell Population Center (@PopulationCU) is recruiting our next CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (start: Aug 2026). We welcome outstanding early-career scholars in all disciplines engaging population research. Apply + share widely:
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📚How do gender-typed aspirations influence academic performance? Dr. Liza Reisel’s (@lizareisel) #Socius study examines how gender-typed occupational goals and educational expectations help explain the #gender gap in #education achievement. Read:
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Gender segregation in the labor market is closely related to gender-segregated educational choices. Male- and female-typed fields of study are typically associa...
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🍹 “$10 for you, $6 for him.” A #Socius study shows #Black men face higher drink prices than white patrons in urban #nightclubs—subtle but telling #Antiblack #Discrimination in #PublicSpace. By Drs. @ProfRMay, Soener, Jones & Bentley (@UofIllinois) Read: https://t.co/pfluMnpY8D
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📶 Who’s still offline in a wired world? A new #Socius data visualization by @SpencerAllen907 (@UMSociology) tracks #BroadbandAccess in the U.S. from 2013–2023—showing gaps by #Race, #Education & #Poverty have narrowed, but persist. Read: https://t.co/xFNRUXiMAU
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Simplify the creation of publication-ready plots! The ggpubr package builds on ggplot2, providing easy-to-use functions for creating clean and stylish visualizations, perfect for reports, articles, and presentations. ✔��� Publication-Ready Graphics: Designed to help you generate
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Details on the new Demography AI policy are available here: https://t.co/WqZrIJknVE. Some may want to replace me with an LLM, sooner or later, but you cannot replace yourself as a writer/thinker/author in our pages. Just ask Asimov.
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👩👧👦 Long #ParentalLeave helps—but can hurt. A new #Socius study by Jennifer L. Hook & Meiying Li finds 6+ months of leave can widen the #GenderEarningsGap — especially for #Mothers with higher education. Read: https://t.co/bN1IFIz1YU
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Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth— For most of history, almost everyone everywhere was very poor. Hunger was common, half of the children died, and, as the chart shows, average incomes were low across all regions. The chart also shows
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🗞️ Good economic news? Many just don’t buy it. Dr. @KenCaiKowalski’s #Socius study finds deep skepticism—not just toward data, but how elites and media frame it. A double disconnect in #SocialTrust and #KnowledgePolitics. Read: https://t.co/K3PJp5YHOH
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