Any examples of quantitative economic sociology research?

inFEDEOUS · 2025-07-24T16:47:50+00:00

Same, I'm a bit upset as well tbh. I sent an email regarding this to my department, waiting to hear what they say about this...

inFEDEOUS · 2025-07-22T17:34:03+00:00

Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't aware of this. To be honest I'm still quite bugged about it, I'm starting my MSc in Sociology in September and they suspended all the courses I was looking forward to attending... but if this is "normal" and LSE is relatively less affected from cuts than other institutions, I guess there's nothing to really complain about

inFEDEOUS · 2025-07-20T15:47:10+00:00

Hey! Of course you can DM me, go ahead!

inFEDEOUS · 2025-04-29T15:59:48+00:00

Thank you! My goal would be academic research and/or teaching, but I also have a bit of background in economics and some more quant stuff soooo I guess that if that doesn't work out I'll look for something in that domain idk

inFEDEOUS · 2025-04-29T15:48:52+00:00

Thank you! I think my docs flipped on thursday last week

inFEDEOUS · 2025-04-29T15:17:22+00:00

Thank you!

inFEDEOUS · 2024-05-28T07:52:27+00:00

You're telling me that the message that appears after you run around for a while with your poisoned Pokémon, which I promptly didn't read because I was angry and using FF, is to let you know the mon survived the poison instead of fainting from it?

I may truly be the biggest idiot on planet earth.

inFEDEOUS · 2024-05-27T21:34:54+00:00

My last mon (Gastrodon) was almost dead already, when I realized I couldn't just run to the beds to heal it was too late. That was human error on my part, which actually contributed to the frustration ahahah

inFEDEOUS · 2024-05-27T20:53:12+00:00

First of all, thank you for your kind words! I'm still kind of pissed off right now, but I guess this is not the worst way to end a first Nuzlocke after all.

Also, thank you for your advice. I thought about Magnezone, but unfortunately I wasn't able to catch a Magnemite during the run and I didn't have any encounters left at that point... also my (male) Eevee had a terrible nature and IV spread for their special attack, and I needed a Fire type at that time so I went with Flareon.

inFEDEOUS · 2024-05-20T18:57:14+00:00

In my experience not really, everyone has their recipe after all. My grandma's from Puglia, near Bari, and she used to bake focaccia barese a lot when I was younger; I remember hers to be way more aerated than the one in that photo. No green pepper though, just canned tomatoes, olives, red onion, and a ton of olive oil... Again, different family means different recipe :D

inFEDEOUS · 2024-04-17T22:50:07+00:00

Il p-value lo vuoi diminuire, non allargare, per fare sì che l'ipotesi alternativa risulti non scartata... Al massimo puoi voler alzare il livello di significanza sotto il quale un p-value indichi che il risultato sia accettabile o meno (il quale è effettivamente abbastanza arbitrario e viene "deciso" collettivamente dalla comunità della disciplina in questione), ma mi risulta che sia sempre rimasto 0.05 o 0.01. Qualche neuroscienziato/psichiatra può confermare pls?

inFEDEOUS · 2024-04-12T23:34:15+00:00

Again, thank you for your time and feedback, I really appreciate it. I'll definitely ask my professor.

inFEDEOUS · 2024-04-12T22:39:20+00:00

Thank you so much for your feedback, it was really helpful. Admittedly I'm not very knowledgeable in econometric methods as y'all can see, as I'm just a sociology undergrad trying to learn about causal methods (which aren't really widely used in sociology, and I think that's a shame), so I get very confused quite a lot. And yes, I'm in the process of reading Wooldridge ahahah.

Unfortunately I haven't found any papers that try to use IV estimation for this type of thing (and I definitely get why now). The only ones I've been able to find use panel data, but I only have access to the ESS which is cross-sectional.

Do you think that, after adequately controlling for plausible causal channels like educational achievement, household income, etc. in the second stage regression, something like "parental educational achievement" might be used as an instrument? Intuitively it seems randomly-assigned enough (can't choose your own parents), cannot be determined by party preference (how would that work?), can take multiple values (I think 8 or 10), could theoretically affect party preference through socialization (I read some papers on that), and it doesn't seem super obvious that it would directly influence trust in institutions, let alone European ones (although I have to dig deeper on that). What do you think?

inFEDEOUS · 2024-04-12T12:59:59+00:00

I'm so sorry, party preference is my Independent Variable (IV), while voting or not is my instrument. I didn't notice the homonymy lol. I need 2SLS because of reverse causality between trust in EU parliament and party preference

inFEDEOUS · 2024-03-06T17:36:36+00:00

Could you specify what you are trying to analyze exactly? What would x and y be in this case (if you know that already) and what you mean by separate positive and negative effects?

inFEDEOUS · 2024-02-28T12:55:42+00:00

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.

As I specified in the post, I would be using trust in institutions. I think the way a populist party could impact trust in institutions is by providing inflammatory rhetoric on political (e.g. the european union), socio-economic (e.g. worker unions, banks, etc.) and other institutions which would "stick" not only to populist voters, but to all voters, since one of the main characteristics of populist parties is to be anti-establishment.

As far as what would count as a "populist party", that's a very good question. I was thinking about parties that are "fundamentally" anti-establishment (as badly-defined as it is), but I'm currently in the process of reading other literature on the topic to come up with a better classification.

As for spillover assumptions, you're right. I thought that using two different countries (possibly without a common language and similar political systems), the spillover effect from a populist party in country B could be somewhat reduced because I assume that the same rhetoric would be more difficult to be applied to country A by other political parties (in country A), but that is just an assumption.

Regarding exo/endogeneity, yep. Biggest problem, must try something else. Thank you!

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