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Manuel Mejías

@mmejiasl.bsky.social
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PhD @uva-es.bsky.social • @cedemografia.bsky.social | Interested in families, educational inequality and the intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantages manuelmejiasleiva.github.io

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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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Marco Albertini @marcoalbertini.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo
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The educational wealth divide in Europe: Post-secondary enrollment gaps across parental wealth components and countries
Parental wealth is a crucial dimension of socioeconomic status (SES) and plays a significant role in the intergenerational transmission of educational…
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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🆕 NEW Paper with K. Bobrowicz (lead), Z. Teuber & S. Greiff in @plosone.org! Early Childhood Education (ECE) Stakeholders push Competition & Achievement over Solidarity & Cohesion #Meritocracy #Trap 🌍 53 countries 📊 Thematic Analysis 🕰️ 1999–2023 Open Access 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Which family life course aspects shape wealth the most? Our (@crowold.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social) novel data-driven study uncovers the key family-related predictors of wealth in late working age. Hint: It’s not as simple as you think! 👀👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Manuel Mejías @mmejiasl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨New paper in the International Journal of Sociology of Education where I analyse how growing up in single-parent families influences tertiary education attainment, which mechanisms explain this, their heterogeneity by parental SES and how it has changed over time. 👉🏽 doi.org/10.17583/ris...
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 19/04/2025
For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The keys to the house - How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities
This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequ…
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets
Article: Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets | Sociological Science | Posted May 12, 2025
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Asta Breinholt @astabreinholt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups
When sociology deals with differences within groups of similar socioeconomic status, research and theorizing tend to focus on the heterogeneity among …
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
📣 New paper by Mejías-Leiva & Mínguez: adolescents from single-parent families have more school absences than those from two-parent families due to poorer economic and family resources, especially among lower social backgrounds. 🔗https://genus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41118-024-00214-3
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