Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, Education @UVAbatten
I share social science.
Nov 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!
If it's too hard to see, here's the takeaway: men dominate spoken work in popular films.
Nov 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Clear evidence that people who include their pronouns in their email signatures receive preferential treatment in higher education settings.
"Gender identity and access to higher education"
Week to week variation in religious attendance according to cell phone tracking data.
Jun 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Can you guess what happens when you give kids food stamps?
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They...
⚫live longer,
⚫invest more in human capital,
⚫are more economically self-sufficient,
⚫live in better neighborhoods,
⚫are less likely to be incarcerated.
academic.oup.com/restud/advance…
"Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment in young children."
Source: "Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program"
Anyone else feel like social scientists actually know far less than we think we know?
I was thinking about this in the context of all of the failures to replicate many findings in social science fields in recent years.
And how before those replication failures occurred, we were so very certain that we knew something about the world.
Feb 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is your periodic reminder that the graduation regalia for PhDs in Finland is a top hat and a sword.
"The Doctor's Sword is a symbol for the scientist's fight for what he or she, in rigorous research, has found to be good, right and true."
Feb 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
PhDs who leave the academy are *definitively* not failures. But, all too often, the academy fails them.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...
If PhD programs are, truly, going to prepare students for non-academic jobs, they should, at minimum, stop sending signals—overtly or covertly—that non-academic jobs are inferior.
Dec 20, 2021 • 35 tweets • 10 min read
Americans are less likely to respond to emails from African Americans.
Here's what we did, what we found, and why it matters. 1/n
pnas.org/content/118/52…
We have ample evidence that African Americans face violent and overt forms of discrimination.
Need I say more?
2/n
Oct 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!
If it's too hard to see, here's the takeaway: men dominate spoken work in popular films.
Oct 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
the spread of COVID-19 visualized
It's impossible to look at this and not think, "we had this thing beat in the Spring of 2021..."
Jul 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
My latest (with @KalMunis, Bradshaw, Rabinowitz, and Ialongo) is out today at Prevention Science.
Using a RCT, we show that high quality childhood education programs increase voter turnout in adulthood *a lot*.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
This new article conceptually replicates/extends my previously published 2017 article at the @apsrjournal that shows that helping kids develop their "noncognitive" skills has long term payoffs in terms of increasing adult voter turnout.