Mastodawn

Liz Ackert Jun 14, 2023

CPIPR Jun 13, 2023

Data from New Immigrant Survey (2003-04) indicate that immigrant children who were once separated from their parents exhibited poorer literacy & higher risk of emotional/behavioral problems than those who migrated with parents. Longer separation amplified disadvantage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30339267

#NICHDImpact #Immigration #ChildDevelopment #Literacy

Diverse Experience of Immigrant Children: How Do Separation and Reunification Shape Their Development? - PubMed

Although many immigrant children to the United States arrive with their parents, a notable proportion are first separated and later reunited with their parents. How do the experiences of separation and reunification shape the well-being of immigrant children? Data were from a national survey of lega …

PubMed

Liz Ackert Jun 1, 2023

I just can't with the bird site anymore. What has kept me there this long is that several people didn't migrate to Mastodon or they are here and I can't find them. I still go on the bird site and learn new things that are relevant to my research, teaching, and mentoring. What are your tips for optimizing your Mastodon experience? (or should I just get over ever thinking it will be like the bird site?)

Liz Ackert Apr 28, 2023

Philip N Cohen Apr 27, 2023

Inequality and Inequity explained by an old sociologist of #inequality. (Even if you don't see it this way, the sociologists you're reading probably did when they wrote up their research.)
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#sociology @sociology

Liz Ackert Apr 28, 2023

Ludo Waltman Apr 28, 2023

To Preprint or Not to Preprint: Experience and Attitudes of Researchers Worldwide https://dapp.orvium.io/deposits/6442f782b2b5580ba561406b/view

3506 researchers participated in a survey about preprinting that I conducted together with @RongNi, a visiting PhD student at @cwts.

Let me share some of our initial findings, paying special attention to differences between countries/regions.

First of all, respondents in the US and Europe are much more familiar with preprinting than those in China.

To Preprint or Not to Preprint: Experience and Attitudes of Researchers Worldwide

Read now "To Preprint or Not to Preprint: Experience and Attitudes of Researchers Worldwide" publication in Orvium

Orvium

Liz Ackert Apr 28, 2023

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Apr 28, 2023

Is Covid "like the flu"?

We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid

Answer: 17 years

In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths

Otherwise: nope

#Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1

Is Covid-19 Mortality "Like the Flu"? A Cumulative Death Rates Comparison

It has been common both to make and to resist comparisons that equate the Covid-19 pandemic to influenza. We take the comparison between Covid-19 and flu seriously by asking how many years of influenza and pneumonia deaths are needed for cumulative deaths to those two causes to equal the cumulative toll of the Covid-19 pandemic between March 2020 and February 2023 -- that is, three years of pandemic deaths. We find that in one state alone -- Hawaii -- three years of Covid-19 mortality is equivalent to influenza and pneumonia mortality in the three years preceding the Covid-19 pandemic. For all other states, at least nine years of flu and pneumonia are needed to match Covid-19; for the United States as a whole, seventeen years are needed; and for four states, more than 21 years (the maximum observable) are needed. These results provide an easy-to-understand calibration of flu as a heuristic for Covid-19, and vice versa. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This study was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development via the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023). ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: The study used only openly available human data that were originally located at the CDC Wonder repository at https://wonder.cdc.gov I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes All data and statistical code are available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5JS8B <https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5JS8B>

medRxiv

Liz Ackert Apr 20, 2023

Nick HK Apr 20, 2023

My first Substack-native post is up! It’s about using covariates in difference-in-differences, the ways in which we think we can just sorta do ‘em and it’ll be fine, why it’s really not, and what you can do instead. https://open.substack.com/pub/nickchk/p/controls-in-difference-in-differences?r=kgc69&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Controls in Difference-in-Differences Don't Just Work

Covariation, Violation, Frustration

Data, On Average

Liz Ackert Apr 20, 2023

Philip N Cohen Apr 20, 2023

How did I just hear about this #sociology https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/turkey-attack-leaves-mail-carrier-with-broken-hip-i-was-horrified/3012235/

Turkey Attack Leaves Mail Carrier With Broken Hip: ‘I Was Horrified'

Two turkeys attacked a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month, according to the man, who had to have his hip replaced, and neighbors who helped shoo the birds away.

NBC Boston

Liz Ackert Apr 20, 2023

Brendan Nyhan Apr 20, 2023

The real blue checks were the friends we made along the way

Liz Ackert Apr 18, 2023

This year was my first time organizing sessions for the #PAA2023 conference for
@PopAssocAmerica. I was able to organize 4 sessions. It was so great to see them all happen! (I saw 3/4 in person and I heard the 4th one was great.) Makes the effort worth it to see 4 great panels!

Liz Ackert Apr 18, 2023

This year's #PAA2023 was great! (Except for getting stuck an extra night in NOLA because
@united canceled my flight and did not give me a hotel or an option to get home until 2 days later... I rebooked on @Delta.)