Elyas Bakhtiari

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Sociologist at William and Mary. Research focuses on health disparities, immigration, race. Occasionally writes at http://elyas.substack.com
Websitewww.elyasbakhtiari.com
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Elyas BakhtiariJul 23, 2024
Trying to wrap my head around how to do a demographic decomposition with "unbalanced" data. Example: I want to decompose how much Black and White mortality rates (by age and COD) in the US contribute to overall life expectancy differences between the US and another country. So the US data is broken down by race, but the other country's data is not. Anyone have suggestions?
Elyas BakhtiariAug 24, 2023
CPIPRAug 24, 2023

Gun and car accident deaths explain the higher level of mortality among children and youth (under age 24) in the US south over past 50 years than peers living elsewhere.
@uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Mortality #CarAccidents #GunViolence #Fatalities

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32317859

The persistent southern disadvantage in US early life mortality, 1965-2014 - PubMed

Our results illustrate that US children and youth living in the southern United States have long suffered from higher levels of mortality than children and youth living in other parts of the country. Our findings also suggest the contemporary southern disadvantage in US early life mortality could po …

PubMed
Elyas BakhtiariMay 18, 2023

IPUMS ftw once again

https://cdoh.ipums.org/news#initial-data-release

News | cdoh.ipums.org

Initial release of IPUMS CDOH measures April 11, 2023

Elyas BakhtiariMay 15, 2023

Are one-reviewer journal decisions becoming more common?

I know journals are struggling to find peer reviewers lately, but it makes me uncomfortable when I see an editorial decision based solely on my review (which has happened a couple times recently).

Elyas BakhtiariMay 9, 2023
blinryMay 9, 2023

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Every Author as First Author

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

arXiv.org
Elyas BakhtiariApr 21, 2023

Under Senate Bill 18, public colleges “may not grant an employee of the institution tenure or any type of permanent employment status.”

https://www.chronicle.com/article/ban-on-tenure-for-new-faculty-hires-passes-texas-senate?cid=twitter&utm_campaign=20230421&utm_content=professors_who_have_tenur

Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate

Lawmakers’ campaign to reshape public higher education in the state reached a rare milestone: A tenure ban won approval in a legislative chamber.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Elyas BakhtiariApr 20, 2023
I once got caught in the Boston-area turkey war against the postal service. I had a blue laundry bag that seemed to set off a turkey that lived near my apartment complex in Brighton. It would literally chase me to the laundry room, pecking the bag the whole way. Neighbors thought it was because the blue resembled a mail carrier's bag.
Elyas BakhtiariApr 20, 2023

Glad to see Tlaib connect the push for a MENA demographic category to health equity.

https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-re-introduces-bill-to-promote-health-equity-inclusion-for-mena-community

Tlaib Re-Introduces Bill to Promote Health Equity & Inclusion for MENA Community - Rashida Tlaib

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) along with Congresswomen Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Anna Eshoo (CA-16) and Robin Kelly (IL-02) introduced the Health Equity and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Community Inclusion Act, legislation that will help ensure the experiences and needs of our neighbors within the MENA community are accurately recognized by […]

Rashida Tlaib
Elyas BakhtiariApr 5, 2023

NIMBY housing politics is a threat to the climate

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/climate-footprint-map-neighborhood.html

The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, Mapped

Where and how you live shapes your household’s contribution to climate change. Explore differences across the nation.

The New York Times
Elyas BakhtiariMar 31, 2023
Andrea TilstraMar 31, 2023

RT @drjenndowd
Just when I thought we'd found all the ways to convey the US mortality crisis @jburnmurdoch comes w/
this tear jerker:

"No parent should ever have to bury their child, but in the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most likely will."

https://www.ft.com/content/653bbb26-8a22-4db3-b43d-c34a0b774303

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