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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thread about our new @wid.world working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and Svante Prado on income inequality and structural transformation in Sweden, 1870–1970! Link to paper: wid.world/document/inc... Thread 1/

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

new working paper out today! we explore the role played by structural transformation in shaping the Swedish income distribution between 1870 and 1970 ehes.org/wp/EHES_305....

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

När barnafödandet minskar och bostadskostnader äter upp en allt större del av barnfamiljers inkomster, finns det alla skäl att värna Sveriges familjepolitik - i stället för att låta inflationen urholka den. www.dn.se/debatt/ni-un...

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DN Debatt. ”Ni undrar varför vi inte skaffar barn? Här är ett skäl”

DN Debatt. Ekonomhistorikern Elien Dalman förklarar varför dagens barnbidrag inte räcker för unga familjer och hur det påverkar Sveriges födelsetal.

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"Women who have changed their surname received more favourable [academic] evaluations compared to those who did not.[...academic] female participants favoured female academics who have changed [surname...] and this was mediated by higher perceived competence and commitment" doi.org/10.3390/socs...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"Nobody like a Swede to respond to a yes or no question with: eh, kind of" (meaning: no!) Double Dutch - Teater Giljotin

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Social policy and the SES gradient in fertility: "We find that local government spending cuts were associated with a 9.1 percent reduction in the probability of having a(nother) birth for women in the poorest households, but not for women in the middle or richest households" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births?

Abstract. Large local government spending cuts in England, spanning over a decade of austerity policies, have severely restricted the universal services an

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

About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.

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The Stone Centre at UCL @stoneeconucl.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

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The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered

Not with a bang but with a whimper

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

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For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Latest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.

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The Economist @economist.com · 06/11/2025

Singlehood is accelerating across continents and different age cohorts. But not all those who remain single have chosen to do so

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All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up

Social media, dating apps and political polarisation all play a part

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Tamar de Waal @tamardewaal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Allemaal stemmen, jongons! En vergeet niet: stem vooral op basis van wereld- en mensbeelden, ideologische grondslagen en partijprogramma's. Dan komt het goed.

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Peter Eibich @peibich.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇 Short summary in the thread below: 1/8

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Any thoughts on data ethics? There's GPS tracking, mobile app usage, peers, etc.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Women now earn 85% of what men do, up from 65% in the ‘80s. ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s. Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 05/09/2025

India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths

The image displays a line graph titled "Population projections until the end of the century." The graph plots population projections from 1950 to 2100, with population values ranging from 0 to 1.8 billion. Four colored lines represent different regions:

- A brown line indicates population projections for India, showing a steady increase peaking around 2060.
- A blue line represents China, which displays a peak around 2020 before declining.
- A red line shows Europe's population, which rises slightly before declining.
- A green line indicates the United States, which experiences moderate growth before leveling off.

Dotted lines illustrate the projections based on the United Nations' medium scenario assumptions. The data source is listed as "UN, World Population Prospects (2024)" The chart includes horizontal grid lines for better readability of the population figures and timelines. The overall design aims to convey trends in population growth and decline among these regions over time

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SUDA Stockholm @suda-sthlm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council. www.su.se/department-o... @signesvallfors.bsky.social

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Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology

If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...

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Stefanie Mollborn @mollborn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

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Doktorand i sociologi

Sociologiska institutionen är en av Stockholms universitets största samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och rankas kontinuerligt bland de 50 bästa sociologiska institutionerna i världen. Mer info

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS

Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

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Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c... .

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Something mathematicians and historians have in common: being among GPT's own top list of occupations to be replaced most by GPTs.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20/07/2025

Didn't even say what I'm talking about. This figure, which they ran in NYT and now appears in their book. They call it "The Spike," I call it x-axis abuse. Why not start it a million or a billion years ago?

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

New preprint 💥 In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects. I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model. #sociology osf.io/preprints/so...

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

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Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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NBER @nber.org · 14/07/2025

A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social‬, Rashid, and Simon www.nber.org/papers/w33999

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Support for the welfare state, anyone?

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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Als kinderen later instromen in de kinderopvang, zou de job van kinderbegeleider een pak werkbaarder worden en beter afgestemd op de huidige pedagogische tijdsgeest. 👉 www.sampol.be/2025/06/verl...

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Verlaat de instapleeftijd in de kinderopvang

Als kinderen later instromen in de kinderopvang, zou de job van kinderbegeleider een pak werkbaarder worden en beter afgestemd op de huidige pedagogische tijdsgeest.

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The Economist @economist.com · 20/06/2025

Is it a bad thing if young graduates lose their privileges? Ethically, not really. No group has a right to outperform the average. But practically, it might be econ.trib.al/bXMP0Ip

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Why today’s graduates are screwed

The bottom has fallen out of the job market

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/06/2025

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

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AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status! Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in @NatureComms - a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴 1/11 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway - Nature Communications

The authors examine the genetic and environmental contributions to socioeconomic status (SES) in Norway using a large, population-wide dataset and four different heritability estimation methods. They ...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23/06/2025

In the last year I have written 10 posts under the Population tag. Collect the whole set! 🧵 familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/populati...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Nice mix of several historical roots to the question I ask myself when visiting the Netherlands (as a mother, which is an identity that doesn't define me as much when in Sweden). www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

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Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World?

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morellisal.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

As many countries see the rise of a new "inheritocracy," estate, inheritance, and gift (EIG) taxes are declining. But there's a lot of variation across countries' EIG tax. Learn how to visualize data on the GC Wealth Project site (@stone-lis@bsky.social) 👇 wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

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