Markus Klein
@markusklein.bsky.social
Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. https://markusklein.co.uk/
Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | https://schoolattendance.org/
Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | https://schoolattendance.org/
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Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
www.stillinger.aau.dk
January 15, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
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Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
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December 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
🧵👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
🧵👇
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German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
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The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
www.changingrealities.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
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see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare
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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
🗓 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
🌍 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
🗓 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
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!
Special Issue: Generative AI and Social Science Research. Deadline for full papers extended to 9th of January 2026
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!
📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach
Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre
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September 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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📢NEW Vacancy📢
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Specialising in quantitative sociology
⏰Deadline: 6 October
Maternity cover
MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Specialising in quantitative sociology
⏰Deadline: 6 October
Maternity cover
MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢NEW Vacancy📢
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Specialising in quantitative sociology
⏰Deadline: 6 October
Maternity cover
MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Specialising in quantitative sociology
⏰Deadline: 6 October
Maternity cover
MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
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A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS
Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has
suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...
www.pnas.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
August 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
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A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025
School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...
journals.sagepub.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
August 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
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Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
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Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
School absence 'most damaging' in transition period
Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research
www.tes.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
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🚨 Job alert!
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🚨 Job alert!
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
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New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
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The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cdgd: Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities
The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) <<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>>. This pac...
cran.r-project.org
June 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
www.diw.de
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...