Amanda Austin

Mom to two amazing boys and Ph.D. candidate. I study ideology, inequality, and political behavior.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The #1 factor in dating is political alignment.

It’s more important than any personality factor, height, weight, mental health, etc

[Charlotte Cavaille @CharlotteCavai1]

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[Jae-Hee Jung @jung_jaehee_]

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) https://t.co/SdxqBXIBPB

[Gary King @kinggary]

Teaching or taking stats? Here's a new paper & app for you: "Statistical Intuition Without Coding (or Teachers)" with @NatLou21, @ZagrebMukerjee, & Dominic Skinnion. See https://t.co/BblyNuv251

[University of Houston Political Science @UHPoliticalSci]

Jeronimo Cortina and Samantha Chapa (@SamanthaChapa7) have published an opinion article in the @HoustonChron on Greg Abbott's latest border policies.

https://t.co/F24lOoxc8d

[Adam Berinsky @AdamBerinsky]

Today's the day! The culmination of a 14-year odyssey: Political Rumors is out and available. https://t.co/O2pXoss3Gc

[Trent Ollerenshaw @Trent_Oll]

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: https://t.co/1C1g2mI1pz

[Aaron Richterman, MD @AaronRichterman]

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

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

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

https://t.co/jy8iy0wHjM

[Oliver Scott Curry @Oliver_S_Curry]

"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 https://t.co/vPYyA0ABJQ

[Marina Povitkina @MPovitkina]

Corruption causes people to trust others less - our evidence from a lab experiment is finally published in AJPS!

https://t.co/pdAVuFtWhu

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

!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

https://t.co/x7WoSnH5Ia

[Kettering Foundation @KetteringFdn]

A deep dive on @UHouston's "Deliberation Testbed" + #KetteringFoundation's/@NIForums' "Common Ground for Action" platform. Cc: @RyanKennedy7; @MichaelNeblo; @MyriamShiran; @karadillard. https://t.co/ZNk2P3FB8q

[Suthan Krishnarajan @Suthan_1607]

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 👇🏾

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

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.

[Kurt Gray @kurtjgray]

"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. 🧵

[Ludvig Wier @LudvigWier]

How has global profit shifting to tax havens evolved from 1975-2019?💸

Me & @gabriel_zucman investigate this in a new WP. https://t.co/god22Q4udb

Key finding: profit shifting has increased relentlessly. In 2019, nearly $1Tn. was shifted to havens. (1/9)👇

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion"

https://t.co/0NnyoG9s6y

[HPMpolitics @HPMpolitics]

Meet @bjrottinghaus and @jcortina IN PERSON at a special LIVE broadcast of #PartyPoliticsPod this Friday, Nov. 4, 7:30pm at @posthtx! Go vote! https://t.co/mJoPho8lUD

[Steve Rathje @steverathje2]

🚨New working paper 🚨

We found that people (N = 511) across the political spectrum think that divisive content, misinformation, and moral outrage all go “viral” on social media – but do not think that this type of content *should* go viral.

https://t.co/lEewbJ3wNV