On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions doi.org/10.1016/j.obhd… “[B]oth scientists and laypeople overestimated the continuation of bias against female candidates.”

Experts greatly overestimate the effects of policy interventions doi.org/10.1017/XPS.20… “Those who declare themselves expert in the area relevant to the intervention are particularly resistant to new information that the treatment is ineffective.”

"Which job attributes attract individuals high in public service motivation and self-efficacy to a public service job?" Novel findings from a conjoint experiment by Nathan Favero, Mogens Jin Pedersen, and JoohyungPark. doi.org/10.1111/padm.1…

A new year, a new JPART editorial team, and a new X account. We'll use this first tweet to send our deepest thanks to the outgoing editor Mary Feeney and her amazing team, who have done an incredible job in the past 5 years. Editing JPART is an unpaid and time consuming job. The

Here we go: PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) The starting date is on 1 September 2024. All subfields are welcome! jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1608…

🏫👨‍💻 Remote work in education and employment services—what's the impact? Mogens Jin Pedersen and I unveil findings from a survey of 1,500+ street-level bureaucrats. Discover the implications for public service performance in Review of Public Personnel Administration. 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/share/FCQE7MWM…

🧵1/ Pleased to share that Mogens Jin Pedersen, @joohyungpark05, and I have a new(ish) study out in PA Journal examining which job attributes attract potentially high-performing individuals to a job in the public sector.

Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape. A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command. A thread from Joop Adema, Olle Folke, and me 1/11

Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals. All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses "they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very excited to share our new NBER paper “Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States” w/ Amory Gethin! ⬇️⬇️ We provide systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes. A 🧵 (1/9).

New PAR article alert: Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future by Justin M. Stritch, Mogens Jin Pedersen Mogens Jin Pedersen , and Ignacio Pezo: buff.ly/4d504sd

A really strong policy statement from the new editors of American Political Science Review. Bravo.

On the topic of null results, this paper is absolutely fascinating. Holding all else constant (precision, p-values, etc.), studies are deemed much less publishable, *lower quality* and less important when results are null vs. significant 😳 CC: Carlisle Rainey

Many fields—including psychology, sociology, communications, political science, and computer science— use computational methods to analyze text data. We find that the all versions of #GPT are capable of accurately detecting various psychological constructs in text across 12

(1/7) A new study in a top sociology journal compares a field experiment (FE) and a factorial survey experiment (FS) on hiring, finding they yield different results. A thread on why I doubt its conclusions and the validity of the comparison. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-3…

New paper out of China, released before the election, uses GPT-4 to simulate voter behavior & aggregate the results to predict the 2024 elections (pretty well) The technique is quite crude here, but expect to see LLM predictions used more in the future in politics & marketing

Public servants often need to prioritize clients in public services, because of the limited resources they have for dealing with an almost infinite demand of public and social needs. (1/n) doi.org/10.1111/puar.1…

[RESEARCH GROUP] 🧐Are you familiar with the research groups at the Department of Political Science? We are excited to acquaint you with the important work of these groups through a series of introductions. This time, we would like to present the Public Administration and

🥁The LOBBYMETRY project is hiring: 1 PostDoc (3 years) 1 fully-funded PhD Come to beautiful Copenhagen to research lobbying, informational quality and public policy formulation Department of Political Science, UCPH ! PostDoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… PhD: employment.ku.dk/phd?show=163770 Pls spread the word!🚀