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Isma Muñoz

@ishmamunoz.bsky.social
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Departmental Lecturer, Social Policy & intervention, U Oxford. Previously Postdoc @Demography_CSIC (ERC-ECHO Project) | PhD @penn_state. Studying education, health, families, social inequalities, Demography

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another great.
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Yayoi Kusama: Japanese avant-garde artist dies aged 97
Her colourful creations drew large crowds and fetched some of the highest ever prices for a female artist.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ghent was warned about what Nathan Cofnas' "work" was about before he was hired; many people begged the university not to take him on and give academic and institutional sanction to those beliefs. They didn't listen, obviously.
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Vijayendra Rao @bijurao.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In this essay in In Devolopment, I reveal myself as an anthropology spy in Economics 🙂 and explain the implications of the approach for research - particularly in development Economics. indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/why-econom...
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Why Economists Don’t Listen: Tales From an Anthropology Spy in Economics
In 1993, I was sitting on a mud floor with a small group of women in a village in Karnataka, trying to start a conversation about their lives.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New meme just dropped
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Good for Cape Verde, especially Vozinha, but, except for Messi and Martinez, worst game of Argentina in the World Cup.
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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
💡New research on #Ageing What happens when a country ages rapidly in the context of deep social and territorial #inequalities?  Read research on Peru co-authored by DSPI’s @ishmamunoz.bsky.social :
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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🙌Congratulations to DSPI’s @ishmamunoz.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 IPUMS Research Award for outstanding published research using @ipums.bsky.social Global Health data.
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DSPI’s Dr Ismael G. Muñoz receives international research award for study on grandparents’ role in child nutrition
Research reveals how the benefits of grandparental co-residence vary across Africa’s demographic and health contexts
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Guy Abel @guyabel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🚨Out today in @nature.com our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive, four-decade dataset of annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that global migration has nearly tripled since 2000. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
arXiv is introducing a one year ban for manuscripts containing hallucinated AI-generated references and other clear signs of unchecked generative AI use. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
IPUMS Global Health Published Award: @ishmamunoz.bsky.social, Guillermo Gómez Moreno, Clara Bueno López, Néstor Aldea Ramos, @borchgrevink.bsky.social, & Alberto Palloni: "Grandparental Co-residence, Grandchildren Nutrition, and the Role of Demographic and Health Regimes" (doi.org/10.1111/padr...).
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...
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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thank you to everyone who submitted their #poweredbyIPUMS work from 2025 for our annual research awards competition. 🏆 We are thrilled to announce this year's winners! 🎉 www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...
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IPUMS Research Awards | IPUMS
The IPUMS Research Awards competition honors outstanding research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. We look for papers that use innovative ap...
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cool paper using acknowledgment sections in articles to trace informal ties in academia: “1) informal ties create a larger and denser network of support than coauthorship ties” and “3) informal ties are a more relevant predictor of publication success than formal collaborations (i.e., coauthorship)”
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New paper out in The Gerontologist on ageing and inequality in Peru! We examine how demographic change is unfolding through deeply unequal social and territorial conditions, and what this means for pensions, care, health, and social policy. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026
New paper documenting a negative association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and inter-class social ties in adulthood. If children have fewer chances to meet peers from different class backgrounds, those divides may persist far beyond childhood.
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📢APPLY NOW! The Department of Social Policy & Intervention and the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at DPIR seek to appoint an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy. 🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (BST) 27 April: ow.ly/PLO850Yv8na
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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Vacancy alert! Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy A fantastic opportunity to undertake innovative research with @dspi-oxford.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social Apply by 27 April: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
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Associate Professorship of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy
University salary from £58,265 - £77,645 per annum which is inclusive of an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 p.aPermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during th...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education remains stronger than ever.
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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Also reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I ever got re. teaching. As a new lecturer I was frustrated about students being late to class. A friend suggested I CHOOSE to believe that late students had done their very best to be there on time, and been prevented from doing so. [cont]
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
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Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. 

The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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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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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity. The abstract reads:  Do digital technologies affect diversity in cultural tastes? Digital sociologists have warned of “filter bubbles,” whereas sociologists of culture have shown that diversity in consumption is valued as a marker of upper-middle-class status. We estimate the effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption using a matching technique applied to 2018 survey data from France. We find a statistically significant positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows. The magnitude of this effect is much higher for TV shows. The study brings new evidence against the filter bubble thesis; it shows that platforms do reinforce cultural inequalities by increasing the social gap in consumption diversity. It further suggests that the effect of technology on cultural consumption might mainly operate through its impact on cultural markets rather than changes in cultural experience.Main figure of the article. Difference in number of genres consumed, liked, and disliked between streaming users and non-users. Streaming users consume more genres than non-users after controlling for confounders. The difference is small for music (0.1 sd), moderate for movies (0.2 sd), and high for TV shows (0.46 sd). However, differences
in number of genres liked or disliked are small or not significant. SMD before (light) and after (dark)
adjustment through matching, with error bars indicating 95 percent confidence interva
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Angela Li @angelamli.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
On elite college admission inequity: Kids from the top 1% are twice as likely to get into Ivy-Plus colleges as middle-class peers with same scores, a gap absent at public flagships. Advantage comes from legacy status, non-academic credentials, athletic recruitment (none predict post-college success)
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Why do associations between grandparents & child health vary [Africa]?: "implication is that net flows of support from grandparents to children diminish as societies undergo demographic & epidemiological transitions, weakening the positive association between grandparent coresidence & child health"
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...
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Todd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Oh my
Japanese people being silly.
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
New article out in Social Science & Medicine (with David Baker): “Revisiting the education–HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes.” Our analysis of DHS data from eight African countries reveals a temporal shift in the educationHIV gradient 👇
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Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes
This study examines the changing relationship between education and HIV in Africa over time. While a negative relationship between education and morbi…
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐: It finds that in low- and middle-income countries - women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐 - 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men ( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱) www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
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Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access
A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Back to teaching after a while, and I’d almost forgotten how common it is to overprepare. Once questions start rolling and discussion flows, the class just flies. Finding that balance is hard!
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If Difference-in-Differences has been on your “to-learn” list, now is your chance to dig in. Our #GESISworkshop with @janmarcus.de takes you from DiD basics to advanced topics like triple differences, synthetic control, and modern estimators — all in R and Stata. ➡️ t1p.de/dif_in_dif_26
GESIS Workshop
Foundations and Advances in Difference-in-Differences
03 to 04 February 2026 | Online
Jan Marcus (Freie Universität Berlin)
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Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Interesting analysis! PS. This type of work will not be possible 5 years from now unless we save the DHS now.
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
New paper out in Population and Development Review: We explore how the influence of grandparental co-residence on grandchildren’s nutrition varies across Africa’s diverse demographic and health contexts 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1111/padr...
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
New paper out in Population and Development Review: We explore how the influence of grandparental co-residence on grandchildren’s nutrition varies across Africa’s diverse demographic and health contexts 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1111/padr...
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...
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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 05/11/2025
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
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Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
once again seeking others' opinions to guide my life choices: of those who dropped out of a PhD or converted to Masters, did anyone subsequently complete a PhD with a different topic and supervisors? thoughts for or against this path?
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)! Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers: Gender, Cognitive Labor, and the Limits of Time and Money - Ana Catalano Weeks, Helen Kowalewska, Leah Ruppanner, 2025
Globally, women perform the lion’s share of domestic labor. Research indicates that gender disparities in cognitive labor—the “thinking work” required to antici...
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