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Ruben Mathisen

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Ruben Mathisen

@rubenbmathisen

Political Scientist at University of Bergen🇳🇴 Research on inequality, public opinion, and policy. I like charts 📊📈

Norway

Joined March 2022

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Ruben Mathisen
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Jan 7, 2025
New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/osf/… Findings 🧵👇
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Ruben Mathisen
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Jul 1, 2023
The graph below shows how well the richest Top 1% have done across different countries over the past 200 years. Some interesting patterns explored in 🧵. #dataviz
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Ruben Mathisen
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Jan 7, 2025
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Ideological polarization between teenage boys and girls has grown rapidly in recent years, reaching its highest recorded level.
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Ruben Mathisen
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Aug 4, 2022
Do rich people really work longer hours than poor people? The graph below plots data from the United States (Current Population Survey). Turns out the difference in working hours between the Top 1% and Bottom 1% is only 3.4 hours per week. #dataviz
Ruben Mathisen
@rubenbmathisen
May 9, 2023
Poor people in rich countries: Usually the richer the country ➡️ the better off the poor are. But not always. The US, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland are just as rich as Norway, but the poor are closer to the poor in Slovakia, than the poor in Norway. #dataviz
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Ruben Mathisen
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Aug 7, 2023
Would the rich pay more in tax if public opinion decided? My new article "Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy" is now available in FirstView at @BJPolS. (cambridge.org/core/journals/…). Here's a thread 🧵 on the main findings
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Ruben Mathisen
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Aug 15, 2022
Norway’s oil fund is big. But just how big? Here’s one way to see it: It’s bigger than the combined wealth of the richest 10 people in the world. #dataviz
Ruben Mathisen
@rubenbmathisen
Aug 15, 2022
A simple illustration of wealth inequality in 2021. If there were 10 people on earth, this is how wealth would be split: 1 person: negative wealth (debt) 3 people: less than 1 % each 4 people: between 1 and 6 % each 1 person: 11 % 1 person: 76 % #dataviz
Ruben Mathisen
@rubenbmathisen
Aug 7, 2022
Do the rich really work longer hours than the poor? The graph below plots data from 27 countries. On average, the Top 10% actually works ~1 hour less per week than the Bottom 10%, among full-time workers. Working hours are usually pretty similar though. #dataviz
Ruben Mathisen
@rubenbmathisen
Jan 15, 2023
What percentage of total national wealth does the Top 1% in Europe own? Highest: 🇷🇺 Russia 48% Lowest: 🇧🇪 Belgium 15% Europe as whole: 🌍 26% #dataviz
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Ruben Mathisen
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Jul 1, 2023
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In Russia🇷🇺, the income share of the Top 1% fell suddenly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and stayed low during Soviet. After the breakup of Soviet, it took under a decade (1990's) for Top 1% income share to reach _higher_ levels than during the days of the Tsars.
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Ruben Mathisen
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Jun 5, 2024
New charts📈📊: Who has the most generous welfare states? You're probably thinking Sweden, Denmark, and Norway? Not true anymore for Sweden and Denmark (according to data from CWEP). Here's a short thread 🧵 on the decline of the Swedish and Danish welfare states. #dataviz
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Ruben Mathisen
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Jan 7, 2025
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What might explain this? A strong candidate is views about gender equality, which have changed just as dramatically as political orientation in recent years. Boys increasingly believe that "gender equality has gone too far".
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Ruben Mathisen
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Feb 1, 2023
What percentage of total national wealth is owned by the Top 1% in Asia? Highest: 🇱🇧Lebanon 48% Lowest: 🇦🇲Armenia 23% #dataviz
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