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Simone Zhang

@simonezhang

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Assistant Professor @NYUSociology. Forgets to cancel after the free trial.

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2 years
Excited to share this new work with @beckyj1 in @ASR_Journal! We examine how local organizations sort people to ration scarce social benefits. We analyze the case of prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program (1/12)
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@NicoleRPrause @MishaTeplitskiy Makes sense! Fwiw, we think that studies will vary a lot in how much they're affected by AI use and I definitely still think you can get high quality data with careful design + mitigations in place.
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@NicoleRPrause @MishaTeplitskiy Agree that pay is important for data quality! Funnily enough, our paper was inspired by other studies that I and others fielded recently that received many answers that seemed *too* good: long, typo-free, and unusually even-handed. It was a departure from our past experiences
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RT @ang3linawang: I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at Cornell Tech! If you are interested in topics relating to machine learning…
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RT @random_walker: 📢 AI Snake Oil is out today! I have too many feelings because this book has been five years in the making. In 2019 I gav…
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@matt_haslberger Thanks! This was something that also first popped up in some of our other work, which led us to look into it further.
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@_Tiagoventura @aj_alvero Thanks Tiago! I read your survey professionalism paper just the other day -- such a cool design!
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5 months
Joint work with @aj_alvero and Janet Xu. Comments and suggestions welcome!
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RT @karen_ec_levy: Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: @CornellInfoSci is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels…
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RT @madianou: TODAY: NYC friends, join us @nyu_ipk for this public event with @fstflofscholars and @simonezhang to discuss my new book #Tec
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@mbwong I remember you telling me about this 10 years ago!! Congrats!
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@pstanpolitics The term of art is "opportunity hoarding," originally coined in:
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RT @DHirschelBurns: There was James Scott the academic, James Scott the activist, and James Scott the person. They were all top-quality. I…
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RT @EmilyA_Parker: New paper out in @socprobsjournal! 🎉🎉🎉 Through a qual case study, I examine how privatization influences the way margina…
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RT @StephanieTern: Finally holding my copy of How the Heartland Went Red! My new book examines how place intersects with race, class, and…
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1 year
@hpostel @DukeSanford Yayayay congrats Hannah!! 😀
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1 year
@sahnicboom I’ve assigned this one. It’s great for discussion
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@familyunequal @beckyj1 No worries. The link is at the top of our Online Supplement.
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1 year
@familyunequal @beckyj1 and I also posted a replication package for our paper:
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