Amanda Austin
@ataustin06Mom to two amazing boys and Ph.D. candidate. I study ideology, inequality, and political behavior.
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The #1 factor in dating is political alignment. It’s more important than any personality factor, height, weight, mental health, etc
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Congratulations to @CharlotteCavai1 for winning 'Best Book on Class and Inequality', and 'Best Book Award' and receiving Honorable Mention for 'Luebbert Best Book Prize' from @APSAtweets for her outstanding book "Fair Enough"! 📚 cup.org/3AJmOz1 #APSA2024
Greetings from LA! Looking forward to sharing a nearly-polished draft of our working paper, "The Disparate and Durable Effects of Restrictive Mail Voting Policies: Evidence from Texas." Buckle up for some CRAZY effect sizes 🧵
New pub in @cps_journal, with @PepperCulpepper, Ryan Shandler, @Taeku_Lee! We find that media narratives about systemic unfairness in the economy increase attitudes in favor of redistribution. This holds in AU, FR, DE, CH, and the UK. (1/5) doi.org/10.1177/001041…
Teaching or taking stats? Here's a new paper & app for you: "Statistical Intuition Without Coding (or Teachers)" with @NatLou21, @ZagrebMukerjee, & Dominic Skinnion. See gking.harvard.edu/2k1
Eight years ago we --- @HotPoliticsLab - started collecting facial electromyography data to measure affective responses to politics. Now we have put 5 different data collections done at 8 different locations together to show measurement robustness and validity [1/?]
#OpenAccess from @PLSjournal - Establishing the validity and robustness of facial electromyography measures for political science - cup.org/47Bmu09 - @GijsSchumacher, @maaikehoman, @isabella_reb, Neil Fasching, @bnbakker & @mrooduijn #FirstView
Jeronimo Cortina and Samantha Chapa (@SamanthaChapa7) have published an opinion article in the @HoustonChron on Greg Abbott's latest border policies. houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outloo…
Today's the day! The culmination of a 14-year odyssey: Political Rumors is out and available. a.co/d/djUlyno
Political values are often considered stable, and thus stabilizing, features of deliberative democracy. But in a new @PSRMJournal note, I show affective polarization is associated with changes in Americans' political values (2016-2020). Open-access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Over 100 governments in low- and middle-income countries have introduced anti-poverty cash transfer programs over the last 3 decades In new research, we examined the effects of these initiatives on the ultimate health outcome — mortality Published today in @Nature /1
10 Excellent Empirical Papers on Economic Inequality 1) Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998 - @PikettyLeMonde + Saez This terrific paper details income inequality over the 20th century, positioning WW2 as a key shock in reducing inequality academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab…
"Individual levels of egalitarianism…reflect ongoing interactions between evolved psychological architecture, systematic individual differences & the affordances and constraints of one’s immediate & macro-structural environment" 👏👏👏 @jsskeffington doi.org/10.1016/j.cops…
Corruption causes people to trust others less - our evidence from a lab experiment is finally published in AJPS! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…
!NEW REPORT!: Russia has held more than 6,000 children from Ukraine in 43+ camps and other facilities for systematic re-education, and in some cases foster/adoption from Black Sea to Russia’s Far East finds @HRL_YaleSPH in @ObserveConflict @StateCSO childrencamps.conflictobservatory.org
A deep dive on @UHouston's "Deliberation Testbed" + #KetteringFoundation's/@NIForums' "Common Ground for Action" platform. Cc: @RyanKennedy7; @MichaelNeblo; @MyriamShiran; @karadillard bit.ly/3Ic8UHb
How democratic are ordinary citizens in Western democracies? Academic research has extensively studied this question recently. This 🧵summarizes some of the most important findings from the past 10 years in 22 short tweets 👇🏾
Best books on Economic Inequality. 1) Inequality - Tony Atkinson. Absolutely THE book on inequality and what can be done about it. Atkinson was a giant in the profession and this book reflects this, the length-insights ratio of this book is amazing.
I'm excited to share that Game Theory & Behavior was released today by @mitpress It is an introductory game theory book that includes experimental evidence and demonstrates how behavioral insights have been incorporated into the theory to better model strategic behavior. 🧵👇
"Purity is the worst concept in moral psychology" -A famous moral psychologist. We did a (now published) open-access review to test whether this is true. Turns out it is. Purity a *very* messy concept. This really matters for modern moral psychology. 🧵
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