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Markus Klein

@markusklein.bsky.social
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Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | schoolattendance.org

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian, "No Stalled Revolution: The Closing Gender Gap in Early Careers in Europe and the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why do children from lower-SES backgrounds have lower academic achievement? Our new study (with @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) shows that higher levels of school absence are one contributing factor to these inequalities in achievement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When students miss school across their school career matters. Absences are harmful throughout schooling, but particularly at educational transitions. Our new BERA blog summarises what we found 👇 Full findings in the American Educational Research Journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing? - Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu, 2025
Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11...
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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📢 PhD vacancy Are you interested in understanding how families, schools, and neighborhoods *jointly* shape educational outcomes? Eva Jaspers, @glorenz.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate to work on this topic at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD: Contextual (dis)advantage and educational inequality
Do you want to understand how families, schools and neighbourhoods jointly produce school outcomes and educational inequality?
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Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looking for published papers in the social sciences/econ/education with pre-registered secondary-data analysis. Self-nominations welcome! Extra points if its with a null effect
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kasparburger.bsky.social @kasparburger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Good news, everyone! I have a short piece coming out in The Conversation on Monday that explains the main issues with this study. It's impossible for me to have the same media reach as the original press release. So I'd be extremely grateful if people could help me share it as widely as possible 🙏
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A great thread on the evidence regarding human capital vs. signaling explanations of the return to higher education.
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...
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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right? New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇
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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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PNAS
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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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
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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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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...
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Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026
Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...
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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Another nice application of our decomposition! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Directions for improving the policy relevance of inequality research: Lessons from social origin–specific health disparities
This study examines how social science research can more effectively inform policy interventions aimed at reducing social inequalities. Focusing on he…
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
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‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 02/02/2026
Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years. Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In"). aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Grade inflation in high schools harms students. GPAs rose by about a quarter of a letter grade over the past decade, even among students with similar test scores. This new working paper shows grade inflation lowers future test scores, high school graduation, college enrollment, and earnings.
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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. 
Deadline: 6 Feb 2026
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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
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Call for Papers/Extended Abstracts | American Sociological Association
Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper/extended abstract to the ASA Annual Meeting. The call for submissions opens on November 3, 2025, and closes
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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
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Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇
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Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets | PNAS
Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer sl...
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
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How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
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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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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar 🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150 Open to researchers/students! cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The value of public R&D
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is brilliant! formatmypaper.com
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FormatMyPaper - The End of Manuscript Formatting
Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.
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Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach
Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
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Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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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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DIW Berlin @diw.de · 22/08/2025
DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
Podcast-Zitat von DIW-Bildungsforscher Jascha Dräger: “Personen, die mehr Fehlzeiten in der Schule hatten, haben als Erwachsene im Durchschnitt geringere Bildungsabschlüsse und ein geringeres Einkommen.”
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025
School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
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Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing? - Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu, 2025
Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11...
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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
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School absence 'most damaging' in transition period
Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research
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Kristina Lindemann @kristinalindemann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
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Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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cdgd: Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities
The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>&gt;. This pac...
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Philipp Lersch @pmlersch.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
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DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession. New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.
Summary of report
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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧? 👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️ 💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men 🎲 Random assignment? No change osf.io/preprints/so...
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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.
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Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment | Demography | Duke University Press
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