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Neil Malhotra

2 years

I am excited to announce the launch of Aletheia, a new platform for communicating peer-evaluated research. My collaborator on this project is @JakeJares . 1/14

Aletheia

Aletheia, a research dissemination platform dedicated to transparency and efficiency.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

Over 43% of white admitted students at Harvard are legacies, athletes, donors, or faculty/staff children. “Our model of admissions shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs.”

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The reason MIT gets away with not having legacy admissions is because if your mom/dad went to MIT and you suck at math, there's sort of universal agreement it's not a good fit. But if your mom/dad was an engineering major at Harvard, you can major in gov and get a job at Goldman.

Aaron Carr

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1 year

The argument that legacy status in college admissions is wholly necessary to keeping endowments high, really falls apart when you consider the fact that MIT doesn't have legacy admissions but, at a whopping $25 billion, has the 6th largest endowment in America.

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Alternative headline: Millennials understand theory of comparative advantage developed two centuries ago.

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Millennial dads have pathetic DIY skills compared to baby boomers

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4 years

Some professional/personal news. According to Spotify, I am in the top 3% globally of Taylor Swift listeners.

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@reznavajo What I love about MIT is to graduate with a bachelor's degree in English or History, you need to take: multivariate calculus, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and SWIMMING!

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These statistics are not meaningful without considering the challengers. In 2022, Walz beat an extremely qualified moderate Republican. In 2022, Shapiro beat a terrible, extremist candidate.

(((Harry Enten)))

@ForecasterEnten

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Mark Kelly wouldn't be a bad VP pick, but, from an electoral perspective, Josh Shapiro is clearly the best. He greatly outperformed the baseline in PA in 2022 & now has a 61% favorable rating. IMPT: the chance PA determines the presidential winner is higher than any other state

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Neil Malhotra

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4 years

There are Wall Street analyst jobs where you make tons of money to do terrible political science research.

Carl Quintanilla

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4 years

JPMORGAN: “Trump’s re-election chances are rising, .. due to two effects: 1) the impact of the degree of violence in protests on public opinion and voting patterns and 2) a bias in polls due to Trump voters being more likely to decline or mislead polls.” - @MarkoKolanovic4

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

In any other administration, this would be a *major* scandal.

ProPublica

@propublica

5 years

Trump staffers helped themselves to top-shelf liquor at a Mar-a-Lago bar. No one paid that night. Six days later, Mar-a-Lago billed the State Dept which refused to pay. The tab was then forwarded to the White House which paid for it w/ taxpayers' money.

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Neil Malhotra

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6 years

Now that I've muddled through being an associate editor at JOP for a little more than a month, I just wanted to let people know a few things. 1/5

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

Always good to hear when you have an impact outside academia. I edited this paper and it definitely should have been published. All papers have strengths/weaknesses. This paper is very carefully done and was rigorously peer reviewed. Look forward to replications/extensions!

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

5 years

@mattyglesias Not only that, but none of the evidence in the paper supports their claims. It shouldn't have been published.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

4 months

I am very honored to receive this fellowship and look forward to putting together a research team. If anyone has candidates at all levels (post-doc, pre-doc) who would be interested in working with me, please send them my way:

Neil Malhotra | Carnegie Corporation of New York

www.carnegie.org

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

I see a lot of misinformation around this news story. Stanford attempted to expand (enrollment, housing, academic programs), and local politicians did not allow it.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

6 years

When I was a third year grad student, Jamie Druckman randomly emailed me to meet at MPSA to discuss one of my papers. I thought it was a prank from a friend. The feedback was so thoughtful. Reminds me of a saying. Everyone is smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

6 years

I am ass. editor of a major public opinion journal. Over the last 3 years, I have never seen a single paper using 538 (or other polling aggregate) data, from an Ivy League school or elsewhere. I also don't remember any other paper I read outside my editorial duties that did so.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

6 years

I wonder it's fair to start asking academics at Ivy League universities with giant endowments to start paying for our datasets instead of publishing a ton of stuff it takes hundreds of hours to organize for free.

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Neil Malhotra

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3 years

I hope people understand how much life changed for people of South Asian and Middle Eastern descent after 9/11, and the systemic racism and discrimination they have faced over the last 20 years.

Naunihal Singh

@naunihalpublic

3 years

Flying after 9/11 was harrowing. I recall a TSA air marshal arresting a brown skinned reserve Colonel & taking him off the plane w/o telling anybody bc the marshall didn't like "the way he looked." I put a lot of effort into managing the reactions of other passengers +

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Neil Malhotra

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Lots of discussion about "the politics of Silicon Valley." As far as I know, @dbroockman and I are the only ones ever to systematically collect survey data on the political leanings of this industry, which goes against lots of conventional wisdom: 1/2

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Economic elites regularly seek to exert political influence. But what policies do they support? Many accounts implicitly assume economic elites are homogeneous and that increases in their political...

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Neil Malhotra

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4 years

I look around at the people at my institution, and if we were not allowed to welcome faculty and students from other countries, our quality would dramatically decline. Frankly, I don’t even think I would recognize this place anymore.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

4 years

It becomes depressing tweeting out this article after every instance of government failure ("voters reward the incumbent...for delivering disaster relief spending, but not for investing in disaster preparedness spending"):

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Neil Malhotra

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8 months

When elites dump on bad actors because they went to community colleges or night school, they don't realize they are not just dumping on the bad actor but everyone who went to community colleges or night school.

Emmanuel Acho

@EmmanuelAcho

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Jimmy Kimmel just scorched earth on Aaron Rodgers! “A guy who went to community college, then got into Cal on a football scholarship & didn’t graduate… Aaron Rodgers got two A’s on his report card, and they were both in the word, ‘Aaron’.” @jimmykimmel

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Neil Malhotra

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This is a very famous venture capitalist. Shows that many elites make very fundamental statistical errors.

Keith Rabois

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@jbjakub @zachweinberg with very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization.

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Neil Malhotra

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6 years

Great descriptive statistics that took effort to collect, and that future researchers can build upon. Although there is no hypothesis, statement of causal relationships, or identification strategy, there should be room for more of this type of work in political science journals.

Andy Guess

@andyguess

6 years

New paper on Twitter "political bubbles" w/ @GregoryEady @janzilinsky @Jonathan_Nagler @j_a_tucker ! We linked a survey to Twitter data & estimated ideological distributions of people's social media environments. Lots of findings ... Link (open access!):

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Neil Malhotra

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The largest social media deactivation RCT was just published in PNAS:

The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment | PNAS

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users...

www.pnas.org

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

4 years

Wow this is truly a terrible research design: To assess the “shy Trump effect,” a private sector marketing firm just asked people online whether they would be shy about sharing their Trump support by phone.

Sean Healy

@SeanHealyPR

4 years

A new study by CloudResearch, a Healy Corp client, shows Republicans are more reticent than Democrats and Independents to share their voting intentions in phone polls. via @BW

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This website will never die because only here can you get truly stupid takes like "The way you can tell someone is poor is by their SAT score."

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Neil Malhotra

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3 years

Interesting story from the world of opt-in samples. Prolific went viral on Tik Tok. The sample became 80% female, and the average age is 21.

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4 years

Alert: the economists are discovering social construction.

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5 years

In the same way that his book ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ transformed the way economists support their computer monitor, Thomas Piketty’s new book ‘Capital and Ideology’ will transform the way political scientists keep their doors open in the absence of a door stopper

Robert Went

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5 years

In the same way that his book ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ transformed the way economists look at inequality, Thomas Piketty’s new book ‘Capital and Ideology’ will transform the way political scientists look at their own field — @BrankoMilan

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2 years

Liberals on twitter (and other elite circles) should think hard about whether they think the Court's function is to reflect public opinion (majoritarianism). School prayer is very popular in polling and affirmative action is very unpopular.

What’s Next for the Supreme Court? (Published 2022)

Five Republican-appointed justices are ambitious and impatient to change American law.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

@ERodCal As someone who used to be an investment banking analyst in the financial institutions group at Goldman, I would not say this is true. TBF, investment banking is sort of a dying profession. I believe GS (maybe) hires more engineers than financial professionals now.

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6 years

We just published an @AnnualReviews piece on affective polarization in the US. Hopefully valuable to people, particularly as they do their lit reviews. With @ylelkes @seanjwestwood Shanto Iyengar Matt Levendusky

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Neil Malhotra

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4 years

For people who have extra bandwidth to do reviews, please fill out this Google form: I can also share data with other editors upon request. If you're (tenured) without (young) kids, for example, and have some availability, junior folks would be grateful.

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4 years

I believe in a market economy, but today I’m feeling that venture capitalists are overpaid and scientists, janitors, nurses, doctors, first responders (i could keep going) are underpaid.

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Neil Malhotra

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(4) Why did I take a job that sucks? Over the course of my career, I've taken advantage of countless hours of free labor from editors, reviewers, and editorial assistants. I thought it was time to contribute to the commons. 5/5

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5 years

Well that’s only because they didn’t ask “Are you a political science professor?” on the entrance poll.

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

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Elizabeth Warren's strongest constituency, according to the NV entrance poll: Democrats who regularly use Twitter (19%).

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5 years

Grad students often feel pressure to learn fancy new estimators or techniques but much of social science comes down to issues of logic and research design such as this. Very informative thread.

Jonathan Mummolo

@jonmummolo

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There is a new study claiming to find no evidence of racial discrimination in police shootings. Not only does the evidence presented not support that claim, it is also consistent with the opposite conclusion. (1/N)

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5 years

The two most predictive leading indicators of recessions are the inverted yield curve and Harvard having eight open faculty lines for political scientists.

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Neil Malhotra

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4 years

We all need to share costs during this crisis. If you send nasty notes to editors asking you to review, you are basically saying you want untenured faculty/grad students to bear the cost instead of you. There is no mass movement to extend tenure clocks so now is the time we share

Courtenay R. Monroe

@CourtenayMonroe

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In my capacity as IR Editor of @The_JOP , I've received some... pointed responses to my invitations to review manuscripts during this time of heightened stress and uncertainty (1/N).

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Neil Malhotra

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5 years

When an economist has a “hunch” that is detailed in multiple decades of prior social science research.

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@pietrobiroli

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"The effect of low-still migration on know-skill wages is zero" Very powerful oral summary of the (non-RCT) evidence. My hunch is that the problem are not wages, but culture. People who oppose migrants are not afraid of having them as coworkers, but of having them as neighbors!

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Wow, our @monkeycageblog piece was retweeted by @IlhanMN , and then engaged with by @tedcruz . Excited to see political science research entering the national discourse.

Ilhan Omar

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“Our research suggests that prejudice against Latinos is an important, if veiled, reason that some Americans advocate admitting primarily highly educated, highly skilled immigrants.”

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Neil Malhotra

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5 years

One thing that’s hard to explain to Gen Z is that in 2001 Rudy Giuliani was an American hero.

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3 years

Savings bond? What was the second choice, a Bing Crosby cassette? Just give people a $20 visa gift card they can immediately take to Starbucks.

The Recount

@therecount

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Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) announces a new vaccine incentive program for residents 16 to 35: “We’re going to give a $100 savings bond to every single one that steps up and takes their vaccine.”

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I have to admit, growing up, I never imagined an Indian American would be on a national presidential ticket.

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American Politics scholars are dunking on this, but authoritarianism is extremely intoxicating. For many, things like democracy and science are means, not ends themselves. American democracy is not sustainable unless it creates a good life for all Americans, not just the wealthy.

Mike Lee

@SenMikeLee

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Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.

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Lots of discussion of Martin-Quinn scores. For the past few years, our SCOTUSPoll project has been producing ideal point estimates that are easier for the public to understand because we use our public opinion survey as an anchor. Here are our preliminary '23 results: 1/n

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5 years

Florida State raised $20 million not for research or teaching, but to *fire* a football coach. That’s right, not to hire a star football coach, but to get out of a contract with one.

Florida State fires Taggart after less than 2 years

Willie Taggart is out as Florida State coach, the school announced Sunday, one day after a 27-10 loss to in-state rival Miami.

www.espn.com

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Neil Malhotra

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4 years

On many issues that align with their self-interest or ideology (eg housing, this), elite liberals sometimes let the mask slip and reveal their racism/xenophobia.

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3 years

Follow up hot take. We should rely on experts to provide us with facts. But how we translate those facts into *values* is the responsibility of all citizens in a democracy, not the experts. The experts need to better understand this and not conflate facts and values.

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

@BrendanNyhan

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Hot take: Experts are neither always right nor always incompetent fools. They (often) get things wrong. They are affected by incentives. Etc. But they are typically not blithering idiots who are unable to grasp your armchair cost-benefit analysis.

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I once had one of my papers be on an SAT reading comprehension section, but these are life goals.

Vanderbilt University Political Science

@VandyPoliSci

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@VandyPoliSci excited to see Prof. Larry Bartels’s Unequal Democracy being part of @Jeopardy question! (Obama’s Reading List for $1600)

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The majority of Republican respondents supported LGBT rights. For the sexual orientation item, the D/R/I support was 90%/74%/84%. For the transgender item, the D/R/I support was 86%/69%/79%. The SC Court's decision today is very much in line with Americans' attitudes. 4/4

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We found that 83.3% of Americans agreed with the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock that it should be illegal to fire employees based on their sexual orientation. 78.8% said it should be illegal to fire based on transgender status. 3/n

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6 years

These are amazing. They make simultaneously clear both the brilliance of these methods, and the major assumptions invoked in using them.

Nick HK

@nickchk

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Difference-in-Difference

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5 years

I hate to keep pushing this article, but it's rare when your academic research speaks directly to the real world. In 2011, we published a paper showing the first (and only) causal evidence that early voting causes people to select withdrawn candidates.

Convenience Voting Can Affect Election Outcomes | Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

Abstract Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up...

www.liebertpub.com

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@namalhotra

5 years

One of my takeaways from this post is how successful the AEJs have been in a short amount of time. APSA should create 4-5 new journals (one for each subfield) and you should be able to send reviews from a rejected APSR article directly to these journals.

Tatyana Deryugina 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

@TDeryugina

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While preparing for my tenure review, I came up with a new (I think) way to rank journals: I calculated what % of authors who published in a given non-top-5 journal in 2018-2019 also have at least one top 5 (since 2000). #econtwitter Read more here.

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The normal practice of cumulative research is to say: "Scholar (XXXX) argued X, and their methods were flawed." A typical practice in economics is to ignore the existence of Scholar (XXXX).

Jason Abaluck

@Jabaluck

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We also (correctly) treat work in economics from 25 years ago this way. It is a naive fiction that research is "done" or that claims about social policy are definitively established. By the standards of today, most research 25 years ago has serious holes. @doc_thoughts

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I have a @monkeycageblog article out this AM explaining why the US is so unprepared to tackle the pandemic—based on my 2009 APSR with @AndHealy . The problem stretches back before the Trump Admin—Voters reward politicians for the pound of cure, but not for the ounce of prevention.

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4 years

Feeling pretty relieved to not be editing a journal for the first time in 6 years.

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3 years

The Political Economy group at the Stanford GSB is hiring (open rank). PE scholars from a wide range of disciplines (political science; economics; management; public policy; etc.) are encouraged to apply.

Faculty Positions in Political Economy

Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the political economy area at Stanford GSB.

www.gsb.stanford.edu

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Non-political scientist academics (high political interest but not academic experts) are often surprised to learn that only ~30-40% of the variation in party ID can be explained by ideology.

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@MattGrossmann Using the numeric versions for each (1-7 PID, 1-5 ideo) was quick to do so I went with that. A little surprised at the small amount of variation. I think most interesting (and clear) trend is over time tightening relationship (looking at diagonal), from 0.57 in '11 to 0.66 in '19

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@JakeMGrumbach It all is really availability heuristic based on SES. Wise centrists (e.g., Brooks/Silver/etc.) are exposed to lots of annoying woke people so that dominates their writing, but probably have never met a Proud Boy.

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@jonmladd Definitely. It’s a common practice at top private universities.

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Thrilled that @zhaoliresearch has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Princeton Politics! Zhao was in the first class that I helped recruit as DGS, and it's been a pleasure to witness her growth and development as a scholar. Check out her research!

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My favorite Alan Lichtman story is when he chose Al Gore in 2000, he said "I meant the popular vote so I was right." And then he also took credit for "correctly" predicting Trump in 2016.

Collin Rugg

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@atensnut There are many "experts" who disagree with this assessment. I would do your own research. But anyone on either side who thinks "we have this in the bag" is wrong. Anything can happen.

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I think people underestimate how deep this goes. I personally know n>1 finance executives who believe the election was stolen.

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Asian Americans are a very complex political group that deserve more research attention. It’s clear that this broad categorization masks diversity. One fascinating thing is the negative relationship at the group level between income and Republican voting.

Steven White

@notstevenwhite

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Who do Asian American voters support in the presidential election? Some numbers from the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey:

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(3) Never feel shy about sending an email during the review process wondering about the status of your manuscript. Especially if you are a grad student or on the tenure track. You are not "annoying" me at all. This gives me some capital to push on a late reviewer. 4/5

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What do you do when you read a book that covers 100 studies, and it mis-cites/mis-understands 2 you know really well (in this case, Pape suicide terrorism + Bishop's Big Sort)? Does it make you distrust the coverage of the other 98 studies you don't know?

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@dandekadt This is obviously true for a narrow set of subfields (applied micro, political economy), but if your life's passion is studying product differentiation in the breakfast cereal market, you likely won't be happy in a polisci program.

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I just served as a discussant for an iposter and it worked really well. I think the participants got better (as good?) feedback than they would have if it was in person. I know the @APSAtweets staff has had a tough week, but just wanted to point out a success. Congrats!

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Political/cultural pundits trying to parse the success of the Mario Bros movie aren't aware of two simple things: (1) Video games are by far the most popular entertainment medium (dominating film/music handily); and (2) Mario Bros is arguably the most valuable IP in the medium.

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I don't know if these facts are accurate, but IF true, this shows the importance of tenure as a mechanism for finding the truth. Personally, I will not really trust any future findings from @CivisAnalytics . tldr: someone (maybe) was fired for sharing @owasow 's impressive APSR.

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New article by @xuyiqing et al. on TWFE models just posted to @aletheia_tweets . Check it out! Also, some @aletheia_tweets success stories with articles by @EfrenPoliPsy et al published in APSR and @GabeLenz et al in NHB (with 50+ citations already) 1/2

What To Do (and Not to Do) with Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from A Large...

Two-way fixed effects (TWFE) models are ubiquitous in causal panel analysis in political science. However, recent methodological discussions challenge their validity in the presence of heterogeneous...

aletheia-platform.netlify.app

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A general trend globally is that conservative elites are economically out of step with their voters, and liberal elites are socially out of step with their voters. Which one of these disconnects is more salient drives the political environment.

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Maya Sen ( @maya_sen ), Stephen Jessee ( @stephenjessee ), and I have launched the Supreme Court Public Opinion Project, or SCOTUSPoll () 1/n

Supreme Court Public Opinion Project

Exploring what Americans think about U.S. Supreme Court Rulings

projects.iq.harvard.edu

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Neil Malhotra

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@EmilyStewartM @voxdotcom Professional class vs. capital-owning class

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Neil Malhotra

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I booked a flight and cannot wait to buy a Cinnabon and pick up someone's discarded copy of USA Today.

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Neil Malhotra

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I know a fair bit about TV. I spent a fairly large part of my life watching TV. And I'm a good TV watcher---it's part of my job. I'm not writing any screenplays on my own. The problem is that they should never have had Rachel get back together with Ross.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

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I'm starting to get the feeling we're not getting this equation.

Keith Rabois

@rabois

1 year

@instrumenthull can write a simple equation to prove this. not rocket science.

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Neil Malhotra

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Screaming into pillow....

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

4 years

The R-squared is 0.73. "You can predict about 73% of the variability in state-level covid symptoms prevalence by knowing how often people wear their masks" @_cingraham with @CarnegieMellon data

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Neil Malhotra

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“Would like to see a serious poli-sci analysis.” - man who does not follow the Poli sci literature

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

3 years

The difference from 2009, when Republicans managed to demonize everything Obama did, is amazing. Would like to see a serious poli-sci analysis. I can think of several stories 1/

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Neil Malhotra

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What's sad about today is that oppressed minorities (race, sexual orientation, etc.) have often appealed to the Supreme Court because there is nowhere else in the democratic system. If the Supreme Court loses its legitimacy, where will minorities go to ensure their civil rights?

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

Apologies in advance, but I'm going to leverage POTUS controversy to self-promote some relevant research. With Alex Kuo and Cecilia Mo, we investigated how questioning citizenship and feelings of social exclusion influence political attitudes:

Social Exclusion and Political Identity: The Case of Asian American Partisanship | The Journal of...

How does social exclusion on the basis of racial/ethnic identity affect partisanship and political attitudes? Drawing on sociological research on the group basis of partisanship and psychological...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Neil Malhotra

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Elon is weird. The Democratic Party gave him lots of taxpayer money for rich liberals to buy Teslas and forced GM/Ford/etc. to give him gobs more money in permits. He doesn't get invited to one White House event because of union pressure, and he gets redpilled.

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Neil Malhotra

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I'm very happy to announce the publication of a new book with Cambridge University Press that I wrote with Ken Shotts, political economist extraordinaire, on leadership and values, based on the course we have taught for the last decade: 1/n

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Neil Malhotra

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@JinXunGoh Google Scholar is not a money making venture for Alphabet. It's probably not even in the top 100 of concerns for the CEO. It was just a fun, pro-social project they did. The fact that so much of academia relies on this lark in the private sector is disturbing.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

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PhD student was one of the best jobs I ever had; untenured professor was one of the worst.

dean

@deanarnoldultra

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phd student is one of the best jobs ever if we’re being honest

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Neil Malhotra

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@conorsen @SteveMatthews12 One of the amazing things about Disney is that from basically any vantage point within the park you have no view of the "real world." At a Six Flags park, you can see the corporate office center from across the street.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

4 years

These are the days that explain why people put up with living in CA.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

3 years

I edited this paper. I thought it was a good experiment. Back-and-forth replications often read like two lawyers arguing that leave readers confused. This approach tries to encourage replication, pre hoc theorizing, and scientific consensus.

John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

3 years

Interesting approach to replication @The_JOP . Article 1: there's a relationship between X (LGB population) and Y (bills advancing gay rights). Submitted replication: there's no relationship. Editors to both authors: team up and do a multiverse analysis. Thoughts on this?

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Neil Malhotra

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@tedmiguel Just to clarify, Stanford attempted to expand undergrad enrollment but local NIMBYs wouldn’t allow it.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

@jonmladd But don’t believe me. The data makes it fairly clear.

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

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Since the menswear guy has given us so much good advice over the years, I'll share with him Bob Shiller's first rule of housing: A house is a box that definitely depreciates sitting on a piece of land that may or may not appreciate.

derek guy

@dieworkwear

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not my aesthetic but it's crazy to me that this 6,000 sq ft home in Saint Joseph, MO is on the market for just $595k 🔗:

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Neil Malhotra

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5 years

I’m new at Twitter. Will setting “Logit” and “probit” to mute have any unintended consequences?

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

3 years

The difficulty with covid is that there are multiple lanes: science/medicine, economics (cost/benefit), ethics (utilitarianism), psychology/communication (vaccine hesitancy). Unfortunately, nobody is an expert in all lanes (including CDC/FDA). People (like Fauci) cross lanes.

Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

@dannagal

3 years

WOW. There are a LOT of shitty takes on here from folks who they they are experts in ALL THINGs wrt the J&J news. I never use this expression.. cause I'm a proponent of blendings and hybridity and all, BUT... in this instance: "Stay in your lane folks. Stay in your lane."

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Neil Malhotra

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(1) I have increased the percentage of desk rejects. I think this is a Pareto improvement for all stakeholders (authors, reviewers). If you have feedback on this, please send me an email. 2/5

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Neil Malhotra

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5 years

Please all celebrities/media members/politicians, listen to @SamaraKlar

Samara Klar

@SamaraKlar

5 years

@SarahKSilverman With lots of respect to you, the woman v. man take is the wrong take. The bill was written by a woman, supported by every Republican woman, and signed into law by a female Governor. (Most) Men are not pro-life -- (Most) Republicans are.

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Neil Malhotra

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It’s amazing what goes viral on Twitter (even among academics) which would be desk rejected by journals.

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦

@ASlavitt

4 years

We don’t need a high tech miracle as much as we need some people to believe in simple cause and effect.

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Neil Malhotra

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There is a simple solution to this issue, but hard to achieve in practice...read the work. Don't rely on journal placement as a heuristic. In my experience, there is more intra-journal heterogeneity than inter-journal heterogeneity. 1/2

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Neil Malhotra

@namalhotra

5 years

Can we agree that neither curated MAGA rallies nor a DC-area sporting event where tickets cost $1000 each are representative samples of the American public?

The Hoarse Whisperer

@TheRealHoarse

5 years

For the first time in his three-year presidency, Donald Trump faced a crowd made up of actual constituents and not just a subset curated to present a fake veneer of popularity. For the very first time, Trump faced the actual public. 1/2

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Neil Malhotra

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Among the worst arguments among political pundits is “demographics is destiny.” It assumed a static, simplistic model of the world.

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