Bastian Betthaeuser
Assistant Professor at the Sciences Po, Paris. Social and educational inequality, social mobility, and life-course research.
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserHi Bluesky! I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserNow out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🚀 The first ISI Newsletter just launched! Inside: center insights, job opportunities… and a few surprises we promise are way better than finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. 🍟✨ Check your inbox — you don’t want to miss this. isi-munich-news.beehiiv.com/p/issue-1-27... #isimunich
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserRC28 invites all scholars working in the field of educational inequalities to contribute to RC28’s first online thematic meeting. The meeting will take place on 20-21 January 2026. For further info, www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserISI has a new website. Yes, one that works. Yes, also on your phone. No, we didn’t do it ourselves. We called Max from Goodaim (en.goodaim.de). He speaks both design and durkheim. Visit www.isi-munich.de/en Come for the inequality, stay because you accidentally closed all your other tabs.
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserContrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserI’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserHello, Bluesky! ☀️ We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late. Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserOut now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserHi alll, Jakob and I digitized parish-vote data from the 1920 referendum on the Danish-German border. We have made the data available for everyone to use here: hhsievertsen.github.io/Data-on-the-... #data #econsky 1/3
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserChild poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserI’ve shown here that systems with later tracking do better at exposing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to high achieving peers journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- 📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
- 📣 Join our research team at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social to work on the ERC-funded LEARN project on major health crises and children's educational development. We're hiring: ⭐️Postdoc ⭐️Doctoral researcher ⭐️Predoc / Research Assistant 👉Apply by 30 Nov: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
- How do teenagers spend their time? 🤔 We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany. Now out in the Journal of Time Use Research w/ @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social & Anette Fasang 👉 doi.org/10.32797/jtu...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🚨 New report for the Nuffield Foundation We dive into the growing issue of pupil absences in the UK, exploring its impact on educational and labour market outcomes, including the role of timing of absences, trajectories, and mechanisms. Main report: shorturl.at/QWZqy Exec summary: shorturl.at/zTUge
- ✨Grateful and excited that my research project ‘Understanding the Consequences of Major Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic’ will be funded by an ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG 🇪🇺
- Please get in touch if you or someone you know would be keen to join our research team as a ⭐️Postdoc, ⭐️Doctoral Researcher, ⭐️Predoc, or ⭐️Research Assistant The project will be based at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social in Paris. Start date and conditions are flexible.
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/ @dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social
- 📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on environmental inequalities (application by 30 September). Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserWe have a cover and a publication date. It will be out on the 10th September. Nervous but excited! @samfriedman.bsky.social If you like books on culture, elites, or politics you can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/born-to...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🥳New pre-print on #PanelData Analysis with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social Explore the power of tracking between-person differences & within-person changes over time📈🧐 with an example on #Marriage & #SexualSatisfaction Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser❗New methods paper out on OSF ❗ A new R-squared for multilevel models 👀👀 Resolves a long-standing R-squared oddity identified by Snijders/Bosker 30 years ago! with the amazing Anders Holm #sociology #erc Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserLast week, we launched Data Insights, our new brief format on Our World in Data. We just published our seventh Data Insight — 'Declining child mortality, fast and slow'. ourworldindata.org/data-insights
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserNow online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserSciences Po Paris is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Sociology, affiliated to the CRIS. Inequality / stratification on comparative perspectives. Many subjects welcome: education, health, minorities, justice, AI, environment, labor market... Job description: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
- 📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🔥 Exciting news about my book #CausalAnalysis! A free online version is now available, many thanks to MIT press for making this possible! Here's the link to the open access version: mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/causal...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserSeems like my research note on overlap in brother correlations across the life course is coming to a sociology journal near you in the new year! osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserCome and join us! @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social is hiring an assistant prof (tenure-track) with a specialization on political economy in/of Europe www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserNew Faculty Position at Trinity College Dublin, Sociology! 💥 Assistant Professor in Sociology (Quantitative Sociology of Inequality and Life Course) Deadline: 9th February 2024 📣 Apply and/or share this Assistant Professorship call! Details on the call: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEU175/a...
- How do teenagers spend their time? 🧐 We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany. Preprint with @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social and Anette Fasang 👉 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserAt the EUI we have a #vacancy for a #postdoc, for 2.5 years, to study inequality in school careers in the Netherlands using register data. Maybe you know a researcher who would be interested in this position. #socsky Deadline: 31/12/2023. See for more: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser📢Die neuen PISA-Ergebnisse:☹️ 📉Leistungen der 15-Jährigen sind noch unter das Niveau gefallen, das vor gut 20 Jahren den 1. PISA-Schock ausgelöst hat❗ ➡️Wir brauchen einen neuen PISA-Schock! ➡️Als Gesellschaft wieder vollen Fokus auf Lernergebnisse legen! 🧵Ein Thread 1/5
- Treat yourselves to this fantastic, big-picture take on the future of democracy and security by @benansell.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserFür die Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Krisen braucht es Daten über die Menschen selbst. Doch die großen repräsentativen Panel sind unter Druck. Steigende Kosten wegen größeren Aufwands für face-to-face (Menschen wollen sich weniger gerne befragen lassen). www.deutschlandfunk.de/unter-druck-... 1/
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser📈Our Segplot paper has now been published in RSSM! It introduces an intuitive way to visualize multi-group segregation between schools, neighbourhoods, or occupations. We also provide an R-package to create your own segplots🧑🎨. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserWe are hiring two postdoctoral scholars in the ERC project EDUCHANGE in Iceland. The project is a large-scale cross-country experimental study which aims to analyze if social inequality in educational attainment can be reduced by providing students with targeted information and guidance.
- Want to follow respondents of the German Microcensus across waves 2016-2019? Check out this extremely helpful syntax for creating a longitudinal file and the companion paper by Natalie Backes and @klauspforr.bsky.social: www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstr...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserHello Bluesky community! I'm very happy to share a new paper in ESR with @betthaeuser.bsky.social & Anette Fasang with y'all: We use German Microcensus data to study the prevalence of parental non-standard work contracts and schedules and their relationship with children's education 🧐⬇️
- 📣New paper with @natrinh.bsky.social & A. Fasang in the Eur. Sociol. Rev. 👉Key findings: About half of all children in Germany have a parent with a non-standard work contract or schedule. But only mothers' non-standard schedules are associated with children’s education doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
- If you need a break from everything happening on our planet, check out these amazing ultra high-definition visuals of our cosmic neighborhood by NASA plus.nasa.gov/series/space...
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserIn a new article in Nature Scientific Reports I find that male PhD students are almost twice as likely than female PhD students to obtain a cum laude distinction for their dissertation. A cum laude is very rare, and only awarded to 5% of Dutch PhD students. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Bastian Betthaeuser🚨Job Vacancy!🚨I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher (two years, competitive compensation) to work on a project related to labour market inequalities using new data on EU platform economy. Join our growing research lab of 10 post-docs, PhDs & RAs at Bocconi in Milan. Full details at link below.
- Reposted by Bastian BetthaeuserInterested in educational inequalities in Sub Saharan Africa? Want to update your Soc Strat syllabus with an article on Global South? Our new paper with @IlzePlavgo from Uni Mannheim is out now in Sociology of Education: doi.org/10.1177/00380407231210279 #Sociology #GlobalSouth #EducationInequality
