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Alicia García-Sierra
@aliciagsierra.bsky.social
Postdoc LIVES Centre, University of Lausanne.

https://aliciagarciasierra.github.io/
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🌍 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
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Sociology professor jobs in Copenhagen 🇩🇰!

Repost: We're hiring! Open rank. At least 2 profs.

More details 👇
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

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jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
October 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy:
Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢

🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes
🔹 Remoto o presencial
🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social.
🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico.

📅 Plazo: 13/10/25
📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...
September 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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2025/2026 here we go... 🚀

Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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NEW PAPER!! 🎉🎉

Happy to see this work finally out in Population, Space and Place!! 💫💫

We observe a clear geographical pattern in the educational gradient of age at first motherhood across Spanish provinces.

Access the full paper here ⬇️⬇️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility!

🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills.

Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes?
This study examines whether mothers’ occupation-specific skills influence children’s development. I argue that while education is a valuable proxy for…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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💼 Oferta de trabajo!

Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:

- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)

👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...

¡Se agradece difusión!
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps
Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨

Apply or circulate:

A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries"

Deadline: July 21

www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab...

@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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📢 Last chance to apply for tuition waiver scholarships for our interdisciplinary Master’s in Social Sciences!

🎓 3 tuition waivers still available
🗓 Deadline: this week – May 31, 2025

🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
May 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social

We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?
Uneven shifts: the geography of occupational change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, 1992–2018
ABSTRACT. Amid renewed interest in geographical inequalities in life chances and an ongoing debate about occupational upgrading versus polarisation, we investigate how the occupational structure chang...
direct.mit.edu
May 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.
May 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Tomorrow and Friday at the UNED, in Madrid: meeting of the Spanish Research Committee on Inequality and Social stratification.

👇 the program: it is small RC28/ECSR!

Everybody welcome to attend. Or meet the presenters later with a beer at the Mercato San Fermando in Lavapiés
May 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🚨 New publication out!

Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain
Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Our study shows educational expansion isn’t always enough.

Wondering what this means for policy today?

A summary with the key takeaways in this short policy brief: www.linkedin.com/posts/maresp...
April 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New paper out with @marespadafor.bsky.social: we study the intergenerational effects of Spain’s 1970 school reform and find that, despite major educational expansion, inequality persisted 📚📉
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The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain
Abstract. This article explores the relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes, addressing endogeneity challenges inherent
academic.oup.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Postdoc job alert: 🇨🇭

If you are a quantitative stratification / inequality / life course sociologist (or close) who could plausibly teach in French then you should apply for this super job at LIVES / @dessociales.bsky.social / @unil.bsky.social with Daniel Oesch

@populationeu.bsky.social
Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in the analysis of the life course (22161)
career5.successfactors.eu
April 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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📈 Inner London: +20 pts in high-wage jobs
📉 Outer London: growth at top and bottom

Dr. @katymorris.bsky.social's #Socius article shows how #OccupationalChange in London from 1991–2021 reveals stark #spatialinequality.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
April 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Beyond Germany and Switzerland, are there other countries that automatically issue work certificates?

Essentially a preemptive confirmation of employment and reference letter from the employer, rather than an employee

Would love to know more about the origins (VET linked?) if anyone can direct me
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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No, las niñas no son peores en ciencia. En el día de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia recuerdo este texto de 2018 en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social sobre la interacción entre estereotipos, actitudes, expectativas, rendimiento y decisiones académicas y laborales: www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...
No, las niñas no son peores en ciencias
En España los chicos obtienen puntuaciones en ciencias superiores a las chicas, equivalentes a lo que se aprende en casi 3 meses de escolarización. Sin embargo, cuando se analiza el conjunto de países...
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February 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM