Society & world values

32 US cities · Eviction Lab filings, 2020–2025

Filings froze, then overshot

When did each city’s eviction filings fall below, and later climb past, its own pre-pandemic normal?

Hides: Comparable rates. Each city is measured against its own baseline, so a high index can mean a low baseline.

Try it: Select months on the timeline

European countries · European Social Survey, 2002–2020

The value circle splits left from right — in the West

Which basic values go with placing yourself on the right or the left, and does the pattern hold in post-communist Europe?

Hides: Party or cause. These are associations with left–right self-placement, and the angles come from theory, not data.

Try it: Pick a country

1,581 US counties · Opportunity Atlas, children born 1978–83

Where birth buys the most

Where does a comfortable birth buy the most extra adult income — and is a small premium good news?

Hides: What place does on its own. Effects of place are mixed with who lives there.

Try it: Select counties on the scatter

European countries · World/European Values Study and European Social Survey

Two instruments, one trend?

When two major surveys measure the same country, do they see religion changing in the same direction?

Hides: A pooled estimate. Each survey is analysed on its own, and the two are compared country by country.

Try it: Switch the trend compared

Opportunity Atlas × ACS

What the point cloud leaves hidden

Where do predicted and observed income ranks diverge?

World Values Survey

Values and economic development

How do country-level attitudes vary with national income?