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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Anyone have recent experiences with Journal of Family Issues? #FamilySociology #Sociology #Demography

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 17/08/2026

6/6 The broader message: fixed effects are not merely a technical adjustment. Choosing which heterogeneity to absorb is a causal modeling decision. I joined Jesse and Jae later in the project and I'm very glad they brought me on board. Feedback is welcome! 🙏

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Image of the Department of Sociology building overlaid with text: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Positions). Deadline: 31 July 2026

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

How researchers are linking over 200 million census records to transform historical research

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New research shows that, in the mid-20th century, China was able to achieve remarkably rapid declines in child mortality in the absence of economic growth, by investing in healthcare. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Regular reminder that every time we are in a position to evaluate "signaling" vs. "human capital" models of education, "human capital" wins hands down.

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

the front page of the paper, which can be read in:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056

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David Reimer @davidreimer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Very happy about this publication. We managed to pool two unique data sources: Behavioral reading data from the reading app Bookbites (used in many schools in DK) and population level data on library-loans. Both sources of data confirmed the same trend regarding gender differences in reading.

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

During school closures and holidays, boys' reading declines while girls maintain their reading habits, widening the gender gap in reading engagement outside structured school environments. doi.org/hbtm4f

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Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study

When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen.

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Ever wondered who use reviews to direct behavior? I did. So I collected data on literary reviews and awards and studied who loan these books from libraries following favorable quality signals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Preaching to the converted: Cultural intermediaries and cultural consumer behavior

This article studies the impact of signals from cultural intermediaries. Who aligns cultural behavior in response to signals from which cultural inter…

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

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Sven Ehmes @svenehmes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

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The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

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Anne Sophie Lassen @ansolassen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yesterday, it was Women’s Day Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just career slowdown 👇👇👇 Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social

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Manuel Mejías @mmejiasl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🚨New paper in the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research (REIS). We analyse how class inequalities in youth emancipation in Spain have changed over the last 50 years. The main finding: the class gradient has been reversed. reis.cis.es/index.php/re...

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REIS. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas

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Luca Fumarco @lfumarco.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🚨Forthcoming paper, @aeajournals.bsky.social 🚨#econsky A thread 🧵 on "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods". Humbled to work w/ @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social, @bdhuey.bsky.social, Levi Halewyck & Simon ter Meulen 1/9

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I am incredibly excited that May 1st I will be Associate Professor of Educational Sociology at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University 🤩 I am so happy to get to work with amazing new colleagues and students. I could think of no better home for my research on reading and stratification 📚

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New research on postpartum depression as a mechanism of the motherhood penalty (i.e., mothers' reduced lifetime earnings) in Denmark "The penalties are concentrated among less educated mothers and those in less family-friendly jobs." (Application to the US is left as an exercise for the reader)

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EconPapers: Postpartum Depression and the Motherhood Penalty

By Bhalotra. Sonia, N. Meltem Daysal, Louis Freget, Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, Priyama Majumdar, Mircea Trandafir, Miriam Wust and Tom Zohar; Abstract: Using Danish administrative data linked to two independent, validated postpartum depression screenings, we study how

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 03/02/2026

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

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Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager

Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

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Josephine Arnfred @josephinearnfred.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New study on divorce by @elinaeinio.bsky.social & Ponkilainen shows that women divorcing men face larger losses in homeownership & in retaining the marital home than both their former husbands and women divorcing women. @pophel.bsky.social 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... PS. Happy New Year! 🥂

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Hans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Last week, our new paper on indirect assortative mating was published.🍾 Let’s take a closer look at what this means, why it matters, and what we found (🧵/32): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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Ben Jarvis @benjarvis.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

People are willing to forgo a significant portion of their earnings—between 12-36% of their wages—to avoid hostile work environments. Women exhibit a stronger aversion to exclusionary workplaces and environments with sexual harassment.

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Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

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The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

📢New publication: The poor want redistribution regardless of whether they think society is meritocratic. 🎉 Big congrats to my former supervisees — now co-authors, @irenepaneda.bsky.social, @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social, and Bala Battu! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The relevance of meritocratic beliefs for redistributive preferences increases with income

A leading explanation for why in democratic societies the rich are not taxed more is that meritocratic beliefs breed tolerance for inequality. We prob…

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Look ma I'm on substack! (Courtesy of @toteraltermann.bsky.social) wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/default

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

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Yevhen Voronin @yevhenvoronin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I have decided to make the final chapter of my cumulative dissertation available as a preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Seneste DØR rapport: Børnenes trivsel og fravær i skolen forværres i årene til henvisning til udredning i børne- og ungdomspsykiatrien Længere ventetid fra barnets henvisning til udredningen mindsker især mødrenes arbejdstid Politiske fokus: ventetid & indsatskvalitet dors.dk/vismandsrapp...

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 24/10/2025

🚨New publication alert🚨 I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social: "School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic" Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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Selin Köksal @selinkoksal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.

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Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

📣 Let's talk about menopause and the midlife collision. 📣 Our new qualitative paper in Social Science and Medicine investigates how menopause intersects with a range of pressures and challenges that women experience during midlife. Free to read here ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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GESIS Panel @gesis-panel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Call for Research Proposals: GESIS Panel.dbd We offer researchers the opportunity to conduct their studies for free! We grant: Access to ~ 7,000 participants Free participation in surveys & web tracking Deadline: Nov 1, 2025 Details: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan... We look forward to your proposals!

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Abel Aussant @abelaussant.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'm excited to share my new paper: "What Do Culture Vouchers Really Buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ Policy Effects" now published on SocArxiv. This research dives into a major cultural policy experiment. doi.org/10.31235/osf... #sociology #culturalpolicy #culturalconsumption

The image showcases the paper title and its abstract. You can read it in PDF format here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pmdvy_v1

The image report regression model results. It shows the net effect of ‘pass Culture’ grant spending on 12-month participation likelihood of several cultural practices. For a full description of the results, read section 7.2.2 in the linked article.

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