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Asta Breinholt

@astabreinholt.bsky.social

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Sociologist at Roskilde University researching social inequality in education, parenting, and the interplay between genetics and the social environment.

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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So pleased to see this piece published! Thanks to amazing co-authors @andershtrolle.bsky.social and Mikkel Büchler Henriksen - and the thorough annonymous reviewers and editors <3

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🚩New experimental evidence by @Asta_B_Lund @AndersTrolle #M_Büchler_Henriksen! Teachers’ grading bias against boys, minoritized students, and those from less educated families persists even when more individual-level information is available! Read it at doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag005

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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Come work with me! Feel free to contact me via email, if you have questions : )

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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🧪 Advances in genetic research have been skewed towards European ancestry populations 📣The broader call of our new study in LLCS is to eliminate this bias through the collection of large, diverse genotype samples and measuring genotypes with arrays designed for multi-ancestry populations🧪 See here ⤵️

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Econ's changed a smidge since I was in grad school! academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Description of a paper from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, "Exploitation Through Racialization."

Abstract: I develop a model of the social construction of race. Racial categories emerge from labor conflict when elites privilege intrinsically irrelevant traits to divide workers against each other and extract workers’ surplus. I show that elites use color to grant unequal rights and track these rights across generations because it is heritable, observable, and relatively immutable. Depending on the demographic conditions the elites face, the system of racialization manifests either as ancestry-based or color-based categories. This approach to the social construction of race provides a unified explanation of skin-tone inequality, racial homophily in marriage, the social status of mixed-race people, the psychological wage of Jim Crow, and legal restrictions on manumission. I test for historical variations in racial boundaries using census data from the United States and Brazil and for differential patterns of skin-tone inequality between ancestry-based and color-based systems using survey data from across the Americas."

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

While the return of eugenic ideology in “science" and public debate is deeply troubling, I’ve seen no genetic determinism promoted anywhere by sociologists in sociogenomics. On the contrary, there’s a strong awareness of how socially constructed genetically associated traits truly are 2/3

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups

When sociology deals with differences within groups of similar socioeconomic status, research and theorizing tend to focus on the heterogeneity among …

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@astabreinholt.bsky.social just won a grant to advance the sociogenomics field by studying educational inequalities! ✨ Keep an eye on this project in the coming years—it promises to bring exciting outcomes!

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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Do genetic effects on education work through social mechanisms? And does the social environment moderate these effects? I’m addressing these RQs with brilliant @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social in a new project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark!

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Aleksi Karhula @aleksikarhula.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

How do work and family life courses differ in welfare states with varying emphasis on the state, market, and family for welfare provision? The authors compare life courses until midlife in Denmark, Fi...

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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Working papers I read - week 45 #econsky @astabreinholt.bsky.social and coauthors assess whether statistical discrimination can explain the difference between teacher grades and exam grades in 🇩🇰 (see Figure). They have two approaches.. 1/N

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