Thread by @JohnHolbein1

Wow! This project looks amazing.

In it, three scientists at Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland introduce VRscores: a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the United States.

The dataset is constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles.

The dataset covers the 2012-2022 period. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8 million workers across 2.6 million employers.

Wow!

Overall, many employers in their sample have a distinct Democratic tilt. Look at how few sectors are dominated by Republicans!

{This could have something to do with what orgs are in their database, but their sample is quite large!}

Look at how liberal Universities {left screenshot} are relative to their entire sample of employers {right screenshot}.

Here's a figure that summarizes the average party scores across sectors.

Here are the party leanings of various universities.

Look at how right-leaning BYU employees are! {BYU employees are significantly more to the right than even Liberty U. employees--wow!}

Here are various industries/sectors.

What stands out to you?

This is an incredible project.

And the data underlying these visualizations will soon by free and open to the public.

So cool.

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Data: vrscores.org/data-visualiza…

Looks like they are releasing the full dataset soon.

Sign up here to be notified when the data drops!

vrscores.org/data-download.…

Addendum: there will, inevitably, be many questions about how representative their sample is. I have some of those questions too!

We'll know more once their data drops.