WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR: Hello Maik Hamjediers! Maik investigates social inequalities over the life course and the institutional and cultural mechanisms that shape them. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_maik_hamjediers_15821

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I just had the chance to comment on Prof. Kenneth Nelson's keynote at the Finnish Social Policy Days. I agree with his argument that we need a strong welfare state and redistribution to tackle climate change, but my commentary was on the role of the wealthy, pretty much summarised in this citation.

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Peers represent a long hypothesized influence on mental health. In this new study, we leverage quasi-random classroom assignment, a genetically informed approach, and nationwide registry data to examine peer effects on psychiatric disorder risk in adolescence: osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵

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🎉 My chapter on Special Voting Arrangements is out in the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity! Thanks to editors Holly Ann Garnett & Toby S. James @tobysjames.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197777497.013.0024 🧵

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Som følge av voldtektsskandalen «Cornell 7», så har spesielt menns holdninger til seksuelle overgrep fått mye oppmerksomhet i Norge. I Aftenposten skriver Francesca, Øyvind og jeg om kjønns- og generasjonsforskjeller i holdninger til voldtekt og samtykke.

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