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Tom VanHeuvelen

@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota My blog: asocial.substack.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UMN leadership email about devastating budget cuts giving off major “my girlfriend in Canada” vibes with “We are deeply grateful for the many expressions of support and partnership as we forge the path forward together.”
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In honor of #LaborDay Learn how unionization affect health disparities in old age: bit.ly/3ANbO3D By Xiaowen Han @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social Jeylan T. Mortimer & @zparolin.bsky.social @umnsociology.bsky.social @minnpop.bsky.social @Unibocconi @asamedsoc.bsky.social
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A college degree still offers a strong earnings premium, yet more graduates are experiencing negative labor-market outcomes. On Sept. 29, @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social draws on seven datasets spanning 75 years to examine this shift. Free and open to all. RSVP: bit.ly/CID-RSVP
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Fall 2026 Speaker Series graphic with a smiling headshot of Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota associate professor of sociology. Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, noon–1:30 p.m., Room 1430, ISR Thompson Building. Lunch at 11:45 with RSVP; free and open to all.
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nice reminder from Richard Feynman of some of the benefits of teaching.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very cool forthcoming ASR by @aeppli.bsky.social . Relevant for those interested in inequality, job quality, organizations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congrats to Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social who received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's IPM Section! @asa-ipm.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/matt-cl...
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Matt Clair receives William Julius Wilson early career award | Department of Sociology
Associate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How do individuals combine health behaviors to form adult health lifestyles? #NewPublication in our May issue finds significant yet complex parent/adult child correspondence in health lifestyles and behaviors: bit.ly/4a7lVPJ By Mahala Miller Jane S. VanHeuvelen & @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Pat does it again. Important - ... depressing, but important - findings.
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ed Cornelius (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) is a recipient of the 2026 Dissertation Award, for “Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field,” completed at @utoronto.ca. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Erin Ice (University of Texas at Austin) is a recipient of the 2026 Dissertation Award, for “My Mother’s Keeper: The Singularity of Caregiving in the U.S.,” completed at @umich.edu. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Woohoo!! Congrats Jillian!! @umnsociology.bsky.social
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Effect of the Great Recession on U.S. Fertility”: Using a cohort discontinuity design, Wu, @nickdemark.bsky.social & Hill show “strong & credibly causal evidence” that the GR altered fertility behavior, esp. for the youngest cohorts (relative declines of 7-30%). read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In “Dynamic Contributions of Chronic Diseases,” Hui Zheng found half of the ↑ gap in activity limitations was assoc w/ ↑ disability probabilities “linked to mental illness, lung diseases & musculoskeletal conditions” among those w/o a college degree. @utoronto.ca read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 10/06/2026
UPDATE + we get to celebrate a win: Yesterday the U.S. House PASSED the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would make it easier for workers to secure a first union contract without unnecessary delay. 🎉
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U.S. House could soon pass legislation making it easier for workers to secure a first union contract
Update: The U.S. House passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act on June 9.  Over the last five years, workers have won unions in several high-profile campaigns, including Amazon workers in Staten Island ...
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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Could be updated, but to a close approximation they used to stop 50-100 people a day for speeding/red lights/DWI suspicion etc. Then they just decided not to do that from about June 2020.
traffic envorcement in Minneapolis, 2017-24
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Some remarks and evidence on the interesting report of the Onderwijsraad (Education Council) on standardized testing. Standardized testing in the Dutch educational system > open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
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Standardized testing in the Dutch educational system
Some comparative evidence in light of the Education Council Report on the Dutch testing culture
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Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Delighted to have had the opportunity to talk to the legend that is @durlauf.bsky.social about inequality and the division of labor.
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Stratification research in sociology and sister fields open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
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The Rise of Stratification Research in Sociology, Economics, and Political Science
How social stratification became increasingly studied in sister fields of sociology
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
lol, what!? One of the weirder Social Forces book reviews ever I've seen. Going out on a limb and guessing Wimer has a negative view of Kenworthy's book?
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Great news here. This was a v interesting book to read, highly recommend. I assigned it as one of the possible books to read in a book club project in my undergrad inequality course. The students who read Doubled Up were super, super engaged w the book. Really fired up about it.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Such an important point, and one that I have yet to hear addressed by administrators who are pushing faculty to explore "radical innovation" with AI in their research and pedagogy. ("Radical" here means "radical but within the bounds of acceptability for an inherently conservative institution.")
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@umnsociology.bsky.social @pennye.bsky.social
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Beth Truesdale @truesdale.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you're interested in job quality, the AJQS is a fabulous new source of data. Check it out.
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Whoa! "When Walmart Supercenter openings do occur, union membership declines by an average of 3.5 percentage points...Remaining union members are not protected against Walmart’s downward pressure on earnings." Very imp. looking new article.
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Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (ASA Section) @asa-ipm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What inequality-related articles from 2025 should sociologists be reading? The IPM Section is creating a community-sourced reading list of notable 2025 articles on inequality, poverty, mobility, stratification, and related topics. Submit your recommendations here: forms.gle/QWQuLZfVc5y3...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Shifting returns to education, not educational inequality, is the main force driving intergenerational income persistence today. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... Proud supervisor moment to see this out in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Xiaojie Xu (2026) "Explaining gender-specific trends in income mobility: the role of education"
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 05/12/2025
Here's that preprint. We take a look at the use of common replication-crisis reforms such as pre-analysis plans in observational sociology. How can these reforms function outside experiments, when the goal of controlling false positives loses relevance? @socarxiv.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Cool historical inequality work by Alfani. He also wrote a great book, As Gods Among Men. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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As Gods Among Men
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good teachers don't just raise the achievement of students they teach. They also shape the teachers of tomorrow. Standard estimates of teacher impact ignore these intergenerational spillovers. Thread on new work led by @danilok.bsky.social. Paper: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/10
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Apropos of some debate on Piketty-Saez-Zucman versus Auten-Splinter brewing again on the other site, let me post my lecture notes that does a deep dive into this, looking at both pre- and post-tax income inequality. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4k5gj...
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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 15/05/2026
Lovely example for teaching of how weak statistical designs can produce misleading results, and how stronger designs can fix that.
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work. gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
shoutout to @hannahrecht.bsky.social for a fantastic R package. This is a great way to get US census data: github.com/hrecht/censu... #EconSky
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GitHub - hrecht/censusapi: R package to retrieve U.S. Census data and metadata via API
R package to retrieve U.S. Census data and metadata via API - hrecht/censusapi
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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H. Jacob Carlson @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Honored to receive this award from @ipums.bsky.social for our @sfjournal.bsky.social paper on the last 120 years of segregation Glad to be #poweredbyIPUMS !
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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Instant classic article by Carlson, Logan, and Won on segregation in the United States over the last 120 years (tl;dr ... it's about the suburbs, but how it's about the suburbs differs a bit around the country) academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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The changing spatial pattern of metropolitan racial segregation, 1900–2020: the rise of macro-segregation
Abstract. This paper tracks 120 years of Black-white segregation in US metropolitan areas. We draw on comprehensive Census data at consistent small-scale g
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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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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The IPUMS Excellence in Research Published Award goes to @jessiehimmel.bsky.social & @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social for "Trends in Realized Job Insecurity Rate and Depth in the United States from 1978 to 2022" (doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...).
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Trends in realized job insecurity rate and depth in the United States from 1978 to 2022
Abstract. Scholars have argued that the past four decades have undergone a fundamental change to the nature of economic security in the American labor mark
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
👏 🏆 Congratulations to @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social and incoming PSC postdoc @jessiehimmel.bsky.social on winning the @ipums.bsky.social Excellence in Research Award for their paper on job insecurity in the US over four decades! 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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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Really excited to see this advance article by a great team of life course scholars at @amjsoc.bsky.social. A team from @umnsociology.bsky.social (and alum). Including Jeylan Mortimer and Xiaowen Han. Congrats! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Constancy of Self-Attitudes from Adolescence to Midlife: Does Change Become More Durable or Transient with Age? | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"What the HIstory of Social Security Can Teach Us." New Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...
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What the History of Social Security Can Teach Us
Still the Elephant in the Room
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 17/04/2026
Can we make this a thing again: Scholars of financial capitalism publishing papers about Renaissance Florence, with killer abstracts, in the American Journal of Sociology. Please.
Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence1  John F. Padgett  University of Chicago  Paul D. McLean Rutgers University  The birth of a new form of business organization, the partnership system, in Renaissance Florence is examined closely in order to discover the social processes of invention in that extraordinarily inventive place. Stated generally, the processes of invention the authors discover there are transposition, refunctionality, and catalysis across multiple social networks. Specifically, political co-optation of cambio bankers in the aftermath of the Ciompi revolt induced the transposition of domestic guild methods to the international plane, thereby changing their purpose and their reach. Subsequent social absorption through marriage of these elevated bankers into the victorious political alliance infused partnership with the multiplex logic (and often money) of dowry, thereby reproducing partnership systems as an integral component in post-Ciompi republicanism. Medieval organizational logics of patrilineage and guild were transformed into Renaissance organizational logics of marriage and clientage. The origins of financial capitalism are partly rooted in this elite social-network response to class revolt.
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