Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn.
Studying gender, education, ML and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
Joel Mittleman
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What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool."
www.amacad.org/publication/...
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How is gender and sexuality institutionalized in higher education?
Using longitudinal data collected on a national probability sample, this study examines whether and when HEIs establish LGBTQ resource centers and studies programs.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#SOE
Tenured!!!! A dream come true!
On this day in 1946, Claudia Goldin was born. In 2023, she became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics. In 2026, she helped the players’ union for the Women’s National Basketball Association negotiate a nearly 400% raise by demonstrating that the women were woefully underpaid. #WeTheMen
Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
đź‘‹ Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology.
Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols.
experimentalsociology.github.io
Sociology of Education, ASA journal
Jill Hasday
Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson
Joel Mittleman
Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
experimentalsociology.github.io
Our research shows that LGBT people who underwent conversion therapy have a greater risk of suicidality, with double the odds of suicidal ideation, 75% higher odds of planning a suicide, and 88% increased odds of attempting suicide.
tinyurl.com/WIChilesamicus
@usatoday.com: tinyurl.com/29r8sjym
Alondra Nelson
Per Engzell
25 years ago, marriage equality wasn't a possibility. Today, it's the law, thanks, in part, to research by the Williams Institute. Our studies & expertise informed policymakers & courts that turned a movement into a right, now embraced by hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples across the country.
