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Cassandra Cotton @cassandracotton.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

Staying Apart for the Kids? Older American Daters and the Preservation of Family Wealth

Romantic repartnering in later life has received substantial scholarly and public attention in light of population aging and changes in family dynamics. In the United States, the importance of househ...

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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · Sep 9

Are you a new or soon-to-be PhD? Do you work on socio-economic inequality, poverty, and/or mobility? Do you study income, wealth, or earnings? Are you passionate about research as well as policy analyses? If so, we may be the perfect home for you, starting in fall 2026? Take a look! 🍎 #postdoc 👇👇👇

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · Sep 9

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
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Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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Journal of Economics and Statistics @jeconstat.bsky.social · Aug 21

New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany

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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Minnesota Population Center @minnpop.bsky.social · Jul 15

📣 We are seeking to fill multiple postdoctoral positions! We have funding to fill NIH T32 program-based positions. Positions start Fall 2025, but timing is flexible! We'll begin reviewing applications July 21st, 2025 - so don't wait! Apply now! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Postdoctoral Training | Minnesota Population Center

Postdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees.

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Céline Bessière @celinebessiere.bsky.social · Jul 10

Super proud and happy that the special issue of Socio-Economic Review on gender and wealth is finally out🎊 🎉
8 great articles! 🤓
We've also attempted to navigate this rapidly expanding international field of research with @maudepugliese.bsky.social
A thread to explore the content of the SI🧵⏬

Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time?

I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️

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Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective

Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

Enormous thanks to all authors, reviewers and the SER editors!

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

10/ 📖 Access the full issue here: academic.oup.com/ser/issue

Issues | Socio-Economic Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Articles focus on economic action in its social and historical context, and the relationship between society, economy, insti...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

9/🔹 Wealth, gender and sexual orientation—evidence from siblings
by Erwan Dujeancourt, Anne Boschini et Anna Nordén doi.org/10.1093/ser/....

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

8/🔹 The gender (tax) gap in parental transfers. Evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data
by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

7/🔹 The gender of inheritance in an upper-class family network: Dallas, 1895–1945
by @shayobrien.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

🔹 Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap by @natrinh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

6/ 🔹 A cohabitation wealth premium for women and men: considering the regulatory framework and normative acceptance in France and Germany
by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social , Nicolas Frémeaux, @pmlersch.bsky.social & @marionleturcq.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

5/🔹Gendered wealth and the challenges of child support in India by Upasana Garnaik doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

4/ 🔹 Is Kenya’s gender wealth gap narrowing? New insights from probate records
by Rebecca Simson doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

🔹 The shift to stock-based compensation and gender inequality in wealth in the United States
by Angelina Grigoryeva doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

3/ The issue includes 8 original articles that explore how gender wealth gaps emerge and persist in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

2/ Our review introduction:

🔹maps out the methodological challenges of quantifying the gender wealth gap ;
🔹identifies the key mechanisms and structures that sustain them ;
🔹highlights limitations of existing works and proposes an agenda for future research.

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Jul 9

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time?

I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️

academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective

Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

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Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · Apr 24

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

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Franziska Wiest @franziskawiest.bsky.social · Apr 28

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families

Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

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Céline Bessière @celinebessiere.bsky.social · May 18

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Franziska Wiest @franziskawiest.bsky.social · Apr 28

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families

Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

doi.org

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · May 22

À propos de mon analyse des données disponibles sur les #héritages dans les provinces du Canada👇. Et pour les résultats complets: chairepatrimoine.inrs.ca/publications/

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Claire-Lise Gaillard @clairelisegaillard.bsky.social · Apr 30

L'AAC pour le colloque "Les cadres de l'intimité, Pluralité et vulnérabilité des manières de relationner" qui se tiendra à @ined.bsky.social les 18 et 19 septembre prochains est toujours ouvert, n'hésitez pas à faire circuler ! calenda.org/1244286

Les cadres de l’intimité

La notion d’intimité est aujourd’hui communément utilisée, aussi bien dans les manières dont chacun∙e d’entre nous rend compte de ses relations que dans les espaces médiatiques et académiques. Elle...

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social · Apr 30

Join us on May 23rd for a day of exchanges on intimacy, parenthood, and family making outside the conjugal framework. In Montreal and Online. Program and registration here: partenariat-familles.inrs.ca/couplenormeng/

2025 Symposium // The Couple Norm Under Scrutiny: Intimacy, Parenthood, and Family Making Outside the Conjugal Framework

The Familles en mouvance Research Partnership invites you to the 2025 edition of its annual symposium, organized in collaboration with the ERICA-UQAM Chair.

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