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Fabrizio Bernardi
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Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.

https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
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New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?

Short answer: yes

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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same
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New at ESR!

#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
A college on every cape: gender equality, gender segregation and local college openings
Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender
doi.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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New at ESR!

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
The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital
Abstract. When a child moves home multiple times, the consequences for the adult they will later become can be substantial. This study investigates how fre
doi.org
January 31, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Solidarity with the people in Minneaplois protesting agaist ICE from Madrid Spain: ICE OUT!!
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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New at ESR: The integration paradox reconsidered!

@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
Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants
Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM
P. Corbetta has passed away. Prof at UniBo, methods teacher, his manual was a bible among PhD students in Trento.

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
Addio a Corbetta, cuore e motore dell’istituto Cattaneo | il manifesto
(Commenti) Piergiorgio Corbetta è stato per decenni il cuore, il motore dell'Istituto Cattaneo di Bologna, che ha diretto dal 1989 al 1994 e poi dal 1997 al 2002, diventandone poi direttore di ricerca...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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New in ESR
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/...
Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey
Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e
doi.org
January 19, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
New OA In ESR

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
An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment
Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince
doi.org
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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New paper #OpAccess
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
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I have reviewed 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by @omarlizardo.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @michaelstrand.bsky.social

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January 9, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Una de las universidades privadas recientemente establecidas en Madrid, con una calidad académica cuestionable y una dirección marcada por casos de corrupción vinculados al PP. ¿Por qué no ha recibido la atención que merece? @eldiario.es @elpais.com
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La aventura española de la UFM - Fernando Díaz Villanueva
El mes pasado fue inaugurado en Madrid el campus de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín, una casa de estudios guatemalteca completamente desconocida en España más allá de un reducido círculo de profeso...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:52 AM
This Thursday UNED/GEPS Inequality and Social Demography seminar with:

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!
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
If you read this post, you might be one of those you benefit from cumulative advantage.

Learn more with this new article at @europeansocreview.bsky.social
📢 New #OpenAccess!

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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Professors in the media: dynamics of cumulative advantage, reputation, and gender
Abstract. Translation of science to a general public is increasingly important in modern academia. Yet, there is little knowledge on whether and why scient
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🌟New paper out at ESR!

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
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil
Abstract. Research in social stratification has long posited that the direct effects of social origin on destination are diminished for individuals with hi
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hoy en Madrid hay huelga en defensa de la Universidad pública/ today in Madrid we go on strike to defend public univerities

("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi
@ipp-csic.bsky.social. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo. @csic.es
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November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Are citizens supportive of public spending on education when it requires paying more taxes?

#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
Attitudes towards education spending when facing a fiscal trade-off: an analysis of stakeholders
Abstract. Public investment in education is popular in advanced countries. This paper examines whether such public support prevails when individuals are as
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We use:
- 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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November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Off to Mannheim!
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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November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🚩New experimental evidence at the European Sociological Review!

#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
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction
Abstract. Interactional incidents are a common object of survey studies on perceived discrimination and of field experiments on discrimination in social in
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Newly accepted manuscripts at ESR, below.

Check it out for continuos updates

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November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
But then can we non maliciously instruct AI as a direct alternative to online surveys?
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
See you in Sevilla!

RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December

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The Conference
Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
On my way to chair a session at the GEPS (Population and Society) workshop in Madrid.

Great line-up today.

If you want to drop by:
Sala S. Aleksiévich
Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”.

I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM