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Alessandro Ferrara

@ferraraale.bsky.social
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Postdoc at @wzb.bsky.social & @einsteinberlin.bsky.social | PhD in Sociology at @eui-eu.bsky.social | Social stratification, migration, education and health

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🆕 NEW paper in 'Youth & Society'! We examine the links and pathways between digital use and depressive symptoms among boys and girls. with Melissa Bohnert (lead) & Yvonne Kelly @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat @ucl.ac.uk @ucddublin.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0044...
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Fabian Gülzau @fguelzau.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026
Interesting OA article (🔓) by @ferraraale.bsky.social, @yaso.bsky.social, and Alicia Vignali on immigrants' attitudes toward abortion across generations, published in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
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Between beliefs and borders: migration, religion, and abortion attitudes
Abstract. Abortion remains a uniquely contentious issue, rooted not only in moral concerns but also in its broader implications for women’s reproductive au
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Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun @taekyeong.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Happy to share our working paper on the emergence, challenges & sustainability of refugee-led orgs in Europe! We also released the survey data as an open-access resource and built an interactive platform for orgs to connect. Huge thanks to the participating orgs & co-authors! tinyurl.com/7txpnhpt
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Repository of Refugee-Led Organisations in Europe - Migration Policy Centre
This repository is a database that maps and amplifies the work of organisations led by forcibly displaced and stateless persons across Europe
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
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Claudia Brunori @claudiabrunori.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The last piece of my PhD thesis is now published on @demresjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
Bar chart showing the distribution of childhood experience of transnational separation (TS) from a parent by age at first migration to the United Kingdom.
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Maria Hornung @mariahornung.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📢 New paper out! How do partnership constellations relate to poverty in Germany? Together with @emstruffolino.bsky.social, we examine different-sex partnerships and how low education and non-employment cluster, distinguishing non-migrants, descendants of migrants, and EU vs. non-EU migrants.
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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Immigrants typically arrive in good health but experience fast health declines. Is the same true for Asylum Seekers though? Check out my latest publication on PDR: doi.org/10.1111/padr... Short answer: yes for (self-reported) physical health, but the opposite is true for mental health!
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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 29/09/2025
Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Teacher bias by student SES or measurement error in ability? A cautionary tale for observational studies
Teachers act as judges of academic merit, but unfair evaluations beyond students' true abilities may perpetuate inequality based on socioeconomic stat…
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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
First single-author pub out in SSM! It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️ OA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5
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The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study
Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…
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Martin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
New paper in Social Science & Medicine: We test the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility using German panel data. Findings suggest costs stem from pre-existing vulnerabilities, not mobility itself. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Testing the Psychological Costs of Intergenerational Social Mobility: Evidence from a German Panel Study
This study investigates the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility, focusing on both upward and downward mobility. While prior resea…
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU" just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore An outcome of the mapineq.eu project
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The geography of tertiary education inequality in Europe: a within- and cross-country analysis over time
Abstract. In this article we study differences in levels of educational inequality across European countries and regions. We address two research questions. First, we ask whether educational inequalit...
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵
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The political consequences of the mental load
Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic
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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
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Lenka Dražanová @lenkadrazanova.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📣 New article out! With @sedovicmicha.bsky.social we look at not just how the majority thinks about immigration, but also what (first and second generation) migrants' attitudes are Full piece in European Journal of Population: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #migration #socialcohesion #europe
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Migrant and Non-migrant Views on Immigration in Europe - European Journal of Population
Attitudes toward immigration are usually investigated from the non-migrant residents’ perspective. Much less is known about how perceptions of immigration policy and immigrants vary across immigration...
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Fernanda Fortes de Lena @ferfortes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... You can find some of the main results in the thread.
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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How much of the intergenerational transmission of SES is due to social factors? To answer this, shared 🧬 between parents and children need to be considered. In our new study, we use two designs to account for genetic confounding. We find that roughly 20 percent is due to social factors!
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Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: a combined twin and adoption study
Abstract. Parents and children tend to have similar socioeconomic status (SES). Sociological theory has often emphasized the role of social mechanisms in i
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status? Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l‬ suggests small or null effects in Germany. With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪
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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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Martin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🧠🎓 Signal or substance? What do employers really see in a university degree? Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment. With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Marital separation, BMI decline, and the myth of the revenge body doi.org/10.31235/osf... @socarxiv.bsky.social‬ preprint by Associate Member @nicolekapelle.bsky.social‬ and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @andreatilstra.bsky.social‬
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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇 labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
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Tomás Cano @tomascano.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc
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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is insane. "two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%"
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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨 Concern about climate change is linked to lower fertility intentions in Italy. 👉 New study out in Genus by @chiarapuglisi.bsky.social, Daniele Vignoli @florenceups.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak. 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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Claudia Brunori @claudiabrunori.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Using height as a measure of an individual’s underlying health, @ferraraale.bsky.social @rrluthra.bsky.social & Lucinda Platt investigate the health of immigrants over time, offering a solution to the “immigrant health paradox” #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/0yUtKbt
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Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? And do they stay healthy?
Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? New evidence from Germany on the "immigrant health paradox" - using height as a proxy for underlying health.
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
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Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain
Evidence shows that immigrants are often in better health than the native born—the so-called ‘immigrant health paradox’—and this advantage may extend to their children’s health. A commonly cited bu...
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It's no longer on pause. It's been terminated.
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Renee Reichl Luthra @rrluthra.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New working paper with @ferraraale.bsky.social
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sisec.bsky.social @sisec.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!
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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Parental union dissolution substantively and persistently lowers children's wellbeing. ew article in @sfjournal.bsky.social by Mikkeline M. Nielsen (@rockwoolfonden.dk), Michael Gähler (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social), and I (@sofi.su.se ), we use longitudinal data on Danish children. #divorce (1/n)
Estimate showing the SDQ score increases persistently following parental union dissolution for at least 12 years on
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
We made a similar point last year in an opinion piece that we should start to open up our file-drawers, as well as better time management to prevent complete projects within contracts of researchers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Journal of Labor Economics @jlaborecon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Forthcoming in JOLE: "Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S." by Toman Barsbai, Andreas Steinmayr, and Christoph Winter www.journals.uchicag... @ChicagoJournals #EconSky
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New article with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social just out in Sociology of Education We show that high SES parent’s expectations that their children complete university are sticky, ie. not affected if children’s performance at school is low. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Does grassroots mobilization against the far right help or hurt the movement electorally? @francescocolombo.bsky.social, @ferraraale.bsky.social, @fabriberna.bsky.social, Elias Dinas, and Foteini-Maria Vassou explore this in Sardinia after local groups mobilized against the far right in 2020.
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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% Z-GPA & -5% acad. track advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error: @florenceups.bsky.social 📄WP with @marespadafor.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/unifi-disia
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Is there an Immigrant Health Paradox & unhealthy migrant assimilation in Germany? Do findings hold in longitudinal data analyses with multiple health outcomes? New article on SocSci&Med with Carla Grindel & @claudiabrunori.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Perline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
New paper published in Nature Mental Health! nature.com/articles/s44... Is educational attainment causally associated with mental health? We compare EA and psychiatric diagnoses of 1.7M Dutch siblings, and we check if Mendelian randomization analyses tell us the same story. Spoiler: not always! 😱
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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
When can immigrant educational selectivity explain second-generation attainment? Renee Luthra and I outline some conditions and analyze a case where they are not met (the UK). Check out our new paper on Social Science Research: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
New in Health & Place 🔓: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Fun collaboration with Dimitrios Lampropoulos in which we confidently assumed one thing about health inequalities and then found and had to explain the exact opposite, using 🇨🇭 data
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The progressive place paradox: Status-based health inequalities are magnified in more economically progressive Swiss localities
Low socioeconomic status (measured both objectively and subjectively) is systematically associated with worse health. Amid renewed interest in context…
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