Carlos J. Gil
@karlosj89.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @florenceups.bsky.social • PhD @eui-sps.bsky.social @clic.bsky.social • Inequality
https://me.eui.eu/carlos-javier-gil-hernandez/
https://me.eui.eu/carlos-javier-gil-hernandez/
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Happy to see this finally out!
Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement.
Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results.
Details in the thread!👇👇
1/6
Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement.
Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results.
Details in the thread!👇👇
1/6
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
1/2
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Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
1/2
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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
academic.oup.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy to see this finally out!
Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement.
Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results.
Details in the thread!👇👇
1/6
Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement.
Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results.
Details in the thread!👇👇
1/6
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
¿Los resultados educativos se explican solo por el mérito? agendapublica.es/noticia/2032...
Por qué no funciona la meritocracia en el sistema educativo español
El sociólogo José Saturnino García denuncia, con datos, que "las desigualdades sociales de origen se transforman en desigualdades de mérito"
agendapublica.es
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
¿Los resultados educativos se explican solo por el mérito? agendapublica.es/noticia/2032...
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
www.pnas.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Las democracias necesitan una política social y fiscal que limite la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza si quieren sobrevivir a largo plazo:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century | PNAS
Among the most pressing problems societies face today are economic inequality and
the erosion of democratic norms and institutions. In fact the two...
www.pnas.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Las democracias necesitan una política social y fiscal que limite la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza si quieren sobrevivir a largo plazo:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
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...
eventos.upo.es
October 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...
If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Merece la pena leer esta entrevista al politólogo Adam Przeworki publicada en castellano en Nueva Sociedad.
nuso.org/articulo/dem...
nuso.org/articulo/dem...
¿Cómo se desmoronan las democracias? | Nueva Sociedad
El politólogo de origen polaco, que dedicó su vida a estudiar las democracias -y también sus vínculos con el capitalismo y el socialismo-, analiza los desafíos políticos y conceptuales del presente. R...
nuso.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Merece la pena leer esta entrevista al politólogo Adam Przeworki publicada en castellano en Nueva Sociedad.
nuso.org/articulo/dem...
nuso.org/articulo/dem...
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...
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
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...
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...
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!
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When we think rationally about the data we do have, we simply cannot say that migrants as a whole are more likely to commit crime than everyone else.
We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void
www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...
We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void
www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...
Does anyone know whether migrants really commit more crimes?
News reports suggest asylum seekers are more likely to break the law than people born in the UK — so what does the data show?
www.thetimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When we think rationally about the data we do have, we simply cannot say that migrants as a whole are more likely to commit crime than everyone else.
We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void
www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...
We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void
www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Entramos en modo ‘beta’ global: aún no hemos domado las redes y las mismas tecnológicas van a someter a la humanidad a un experimento masivo desplegando con avaricia sus ineficientes herramientas de IA en nuestras vidas.
Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias:
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias:
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
Modo ‘beta’ global: el experimento masivo de la IA
La humanidad se convierte de nuevo en un laboratorio para las grandes tecnológicas, que despliegan sin control unas herramientas poco fiables que ya forman parte de la vida cotidiana de miles de millo...
elpais.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Entramos en modo ‘beta’ global: aún no hemos domado las redes y las mismas tecnológicas van a someter a la humanidad a un experimento masivo desplegando con avaricia sus ineficientes herramientas de IA en nuestras vidas.
Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias:
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias:
elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
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🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
labdisia.disia.unifi.it
July 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
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Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
buff.ly
June 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟
📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
June 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟
📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
June 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova!
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova!
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social
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🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
files.persona.co
May 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
May 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
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Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf
📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy
Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social
🚨Deadline 6 June
Please repost, share & submit your work
bit.ly/4da5dzq
📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy
Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social
🚨Deadline 6 June
Please repost, share & submit your work
bit.ly/4da5dzq
#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf Workshop on Socio-emotional skills and education takes place on Sept 11-12 in Trento.
Keynotes: @gabriconti.bsky.social, Giuseppe Sorrenti (@heclausanne.bsky.social) & @emmatominey.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 June
Please repost, share and submit your work!
Keynotes: @gabriconti.bsky.social, Giuseppe Sorrenti (@heclausanne.bsky.social) & @emmatominey.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 June
Please repost, share and submit your work!
May 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf
📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy
Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social
🚨Deadline 6 June
Please repost, share & submit your work
bit.ly/4da5dzq
📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy
Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social
🚨Deadline 6 June
Please repost, share & submit your work
bit.ly/4da5dzq
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
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.
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Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World!
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World!
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
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Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies:
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain
Evidence shows that immigrants are often in better health than the native born—the so-called ‘immigrant health paradox’—and this advantage may extend to their children’s health. A commonly cited bu...
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies:
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups
Reposted by Carlos J. Gil
Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR!
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR!
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...