@caseyfbreen

Demographer. Asst Prof @UTAustin.

 Oxford, UK
caseybreen.com
Joined November 2017
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New paper (w/ @dennisfeehan) on 'new' data sources for demographic research and the shared cross-cutting methodological challenges they present: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Population and Development Review | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

We are in the early stages of a new era of demographic research that offers exciting opportunities to quantify demographic phenomena at a scale and resolution once unimaginable. These scientific...

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Oliver Traldi
@olivertraldiOct 14
Rereading a draft now that it has an R&R
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CenSoc@censoc_demogSep 9
We're hosting our 2nd annual CenSoc Users Conference on December 4th, remotely. Please consider joining us! docs.google.com/document/d/1…

CenSoc Users Conference 2026

2026 CenSoc Users Conference Hosted by the CenSoc Project Organizer: Casey Breen We invite submissions for our second annual CenSoc Users Conference. The conference will be held remotely on December...

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John Ternus
@johnternusSep 1
hello
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosadAug 21
A thread of Dean Karlan trolling Elsevier's stupid required "article highlights" 🧵
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David Holtz@daveholtzAug 17
most of the data science work that agents produce for me looks like it was done by someone who just injected thousands of mediocre “towards data science” style blog posts directly into their veins.
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Ben Golub
@ben_golubAug 6
Refine is proud to announce this partnership with the two leading US economics publishers, the AEA and the Econometric Society. We offer a technical diligence check to their journals to ensure authors can correct detectable errors before publications are finalized.
Refine
@RefineDotInkAug 6
We’re proud to announce that Refine has signed partnerships with two leading publishers in economics. Both the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society now use Refine’s AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes. 1/
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Friendly reminder that I ultimately get to decide what happens in the Marina District
Laura Waxmann@laura_waxeeJul 24
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront. @sfchronicle
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@Steven Ruggles@HistDemMay 15
My new article on the “Pig in the Python” argues that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. 1/28
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Reilly Steel@reillysteelMay 14
Here is some small-N evidence from Princeton that PhD student research matters in the form of a news post reporting that two recent PhD graduates published part of their dissertations in the field’s top journal (ok self-serving b/c one is me 🙂): csdp.princeton.edu/news/rece… 3/3

Recent Graduates Anthony Taboni and Reilly Steel Publish Articles in APSR

Two of CSDP's recent graduates, Anthony Taboni (University of Texas at Austin) and Reilly Steel (Columbia Law School), have published articles in the August 2025 issue of American Political Science...

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Academia in a nutshell: We are status-seeking chimps searching for status through a tiny number of journals. This is not particularly healthy nor efficient.
Chris Blattman
@cblattsMay 13
Replying to @cblatts
At the end of the day, every human being is just a status-seeking chimpanzee. And we are status-seeking chimpanzees where a main thing that gives us status and validation has amazing diminishing marginal returns and a weird discontinuity at the "top 5"
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New in PDR! Happy to see this one out. (Joint w/ @n_seltzer) Structured Inequality, Uncertain Lifespans: Demographic Perspectives on Predicting Individual-Level Longevity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Population and Development Review | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

There are striking disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups in the United States, shaped by structural forces such as racism, class inequality, and policy environments. To what...

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Alexander Kustov
@akoustovMar 5
Replying to @akoustov
4/ Academics hold AI to absurd double standards. We criticize AI hallucinations while tolerating p-hacking, non-replicable findings, and data errors in peer-reviewed work. Very few published papers are genuinely useful. AI is held to a standard we never applied to ourselves.
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I use em-dashes and colons all the time, sigh. AI is stealing our best punctuation marks. Who can we sue?
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Today's DUPRI seminar features Jennifer Montez, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Aging and Policy Studies at Syracuse University. She is presenting "Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?"
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Maya Sen@maya_senFeb 4
Replying to @DStephenVoss
I don’t blame the students as much - they’re just responding to the incentives I do blame universities!
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Per Engzell@pengzellFeb 2
Anyone still on here? I'm hiring a second postdoc to work on my MaMo project... 2 years, start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, email me to know when the listing goes live.
Per Engzell@pengzell16 Sep 2024
Excited to launch my @ERC_Research Starting Grant at @UCL! I will hire Predoc/RAs starting early 2025 and a PhD Student + Postdoc starting Autumn 2025. Experience with admin data, linked employer-employee data, causal inference are a plus. Sounds like you? Get in touch!
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Matt Hall@fertmortmig22 Dec 2025
Just out in @ReadDemography: We leverage variation in applications to ICE 287(g) agreements 2000-2020 to show that #deportations and immigration enforcement is causally linked to increases in Latino-White segregation. OPEN ACCESS PDF doi.org/10.1215/00703370-123…
Demography Journal@ReadDemography22 Dec 2025
“Deportations & Latino Segregation”: @fertmortmig J. Rugh & @hliaang show how 287(g) enforcement slowed drops in local segregation by a third, esp. in New South states, entrenching “patterns of residential stratification & inequality.” read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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Phryne Astynome@PAstynomeJan 11
Remember people, school name doesn’t matter at all and the tech industry doesn’t care about school prestige.
Steve Hou
@stevehouJan 10
This is genuinely pretty incredible. Tshinghua and Peking U are the only foreign universities on this list. Source: @rohanpaul_ai
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
University of Waterloo is located in Ontario, Canada uwaterloo.ca
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Elon Musk
@elonmuskJan 4
😂
ruslan
@ruslanjabariJan 4
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Ethan Raker@ethanraker18 Dec 2025
Need some holiday reading? Want to know how to estimate extreme weather impacts on demographic outcomes when data IV and O are at different spatial scales? My latest with Nick and Gerard in @ReadDemography read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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