Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
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#OpenAccess!
Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes!
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060
Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Fabrizio Bernardi
Does moving often as a child weaken social capital later in life?
#RValente #MVacchiano find a more complex picture: childhood moves reduce place attachment, but can strengthen personal agency, supporting social capital in adulthood!
🔥 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag001
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
@frankvantubergen.bsky.social shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone
What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource!
➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf054
My first small teaching job was with him at Bologna, and he later involved me in several research activities at the Istit Cattaneo.
I owe him a great deal. Ciao grande Piergiorgio
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi, Krzysztof Krakowski, Andreas Haupt
How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
Labour market insecurity matters beyond jobs!
@vincentrramos.bsky.social @ann-berrington.bsky.social show that unemployment, underemployment, and temporary work are all linked to higher parental co-residence, especially among advantaged young adults!
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf058
Reposted by Patrick Präg
Fabrizio Bernardi is reviewing 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by Strand and Lizardo.
Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Fabrizio Bernardi is reviewing 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by Strand and Lizardo.
Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Lucas Sage (IAST)
Starting low to finish high? Reassessing wage growth trajectories in early careers
at 19.00-20.30
Room Jorge Cavodeassi, UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38, 28013 Madrid
and don't miss the post-seminar drinks!
Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others?
#RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”!
➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037
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Learn more with this new article at @europeansocreview.bsky.social
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Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others?
#RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”!
➡️ Read it ungated at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf037
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Does more education mean more mobility?
Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!
🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!
➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049
("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)
elpais.com/opinion/2025...
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#ID_Özel #S_Parrado #K_Yıldırım new paper says: No!
Yet evaluations of one’s own children’s schooling reduce this cost sensitivity!
➡️Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf043
- Variance function regressions
- Siblings fixed models
- Sociogenomic data for propensity for educational attainment
We show that the effect of luck is socially stratified: it is larger for low SES students with high PGI for education
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Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the MZES:
“Unequal Luck: Chance as a Mechanism of Educational Inequality”
with @ferraraale.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
where luck= chance+ consequences
Here the wp:
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Check it out for continuos updates
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#Martin_Aranguren advances the conceptualization of discrimination, addressing it as a stressor and highlighting its environmental origin!!
Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf047
Reposted by Dave O’Brien
RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December
eventos.upo.es/137585/secti...
Great line-up today.
If you want to drop by:
Sala S. Aleksiévich
Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM
Reposted by Marc Lynch, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell , and 46 more Marc Lynch, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell, David Lazer, Sander van der Linden, Will Jennings, Gordon Pennycook, Brendan Nyhan, Carl T. Bergstrom, John De Vos, Olivier Klein, Scott L. Greer, Steven Van de Walle, Michael A. Clemens, Victor Asal, Steven S. Smith, Maarten Vink, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Jon Green, Rebecca Sear, Calvin K. Lai, Juan Cole, Benjamin Braun, Mary Corcoran, Dorothea Kübler, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jane Suiter, Paolo Crosetto, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, Julia Lynch, Margot C. Finn, Andreas De Block, Matthijs Rooduijn, Sebastian Karcher, Jutta Haider, Michael Jones‐Correa, Fabrizio Bernardi, Guy J. Curtis, Johannes Breuer, Georg Weizsäcker, Tom Louwerse, Juan Ramón, Tim Stephens, Todd M. Gureckis, Pepper D. Culpepper, Dana Howard, Evan Roberts
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Mañana nos visita @lalamur.bsky.social de la @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Acércate hasta el @cchscsic.bsky.social o sigue su charla en directo por aquí:
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Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy
Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++
Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org
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This is the way we put it. With expansion subjects with less cultural capital attain BA and there is a longer queue of BA holders in the labor market. Some become overqualified. So: they have less cultural capital and less interest in transmitting it to their children.