Rourke O’Brien
@rourkeobrien.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Sociology @ Yale
public finance, economic mobility, household finance, health, demography, public policy
public finance, economic mobility, household finance, health, demography, public policy
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New interactive map from @CenterOnBudget showing out-of-pocket premium increases in every congressional district due to premium tax credit enhancements expiring. Explore it here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
Marketplace Enrollees Across the Country Face Steep Premium Increases Unless Tax Credit Enhancements Are Extended
Annual premium increase, 60-year-old couple with income of $85,000 (401% FPL), by congressional district, 119th Congress Note: FPL = federal poverty level. Examples are based on 2026 average...
www.cbpp.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New interactive map from @CenterOnBudget showing out-of-pocket premium increases in every congressional district due to premium tax credit enhancements expiring. Explore it here: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
1/ New paper w/ @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @clowenstein.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Bair showing how the Voting Rights Act had starkly different effects on #mortality by race and age -- and the potential importance of #status #threat in explaining these findings.
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
www.nber.org/papers/w34421
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Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:
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September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:
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I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ...
TikTok video by Harvard University Press
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August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
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⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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**Call for Papers**
The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC)
May 14-16, 2025
UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social
Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025
Funding available for presenters
Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky
isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...
The Advances in Social Genomics Conference
Social genomics researchers from across the world convene at the University of Wisconsin–Madison each year to discuss advances in the field.
isg.wisc.edu
January 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
**Call for Papers**
The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC)
May 14-16, 2025
UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social
Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025
Funding available for presenters
Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky
isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...
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Thanks @glebeda.bsky.social for pulling this list together!
Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJ
Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJ
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Thanks @glebeda.bsky.social for pulling this list together!
Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJ
Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJ
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The GC Wealth Project - an invaluable source for data and research on wealth and wealth-related policies - continues to grow. Check out the latest expansion and update!
@stone-lis.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social 👇👇👇
@stone-lis.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social 👇👇👇
The GC Wealth Project has launched an updated version of its data warehouse!
Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods.
Discover all the updates:
wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...
Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods.
Discover all the updates:
wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...
January 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The GC Wealth Project - an invaluable source for data and research on wealth and wealth-related policies - continues to grow. Check out the latest expansion and update!
@stone-lis.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social 👇👇👇
@stone-lis.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults
Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility"
New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
#sociology #demography #econsky
New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
#sociology #demography #econsky
January 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility"
New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
#sociology #demography #econsky
New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003...
#sociology #demography #econsky
Great opportunity 👇
Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
December 20, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Great opportunity 👇
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Thrilled to announce that I am joining UNC-Chapel Hill this fall as Assistant Professor of Public Policy! Many thanks to @stone-lis.bsky.social and everyone who helped me get there.
March 7, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Thrilled to announce that I am joining UNC-Chapel Hill this fall as Assistant Professor of Public Policy! Many thanks to @stone-lis.bsky.social and everyone who helped me get there.
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Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Interested in mortality? Apply for a POSTDOC with @drjenndowd.bsky.social. I can confirm that it’s a great team & research community!
🗓️: deadline 25 Jan
⏳: 3-years
💷: Grade 7 (£36,024-£44,263)
🧐: investigate the drivers of population mortality!
📍: Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
🗓️: deadline 25 Jan
⏳: 3-years
💷: Grade 7 (£36,024-£44,263)
🧐: investigate the drivers of population mortality!
📍: Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Job Details
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December 21, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Interested in mortality? Apply for a POSTDOC with @drjenndowd.bsky.social. I can confirm that it’s a great team & research community!
🗓️: deadline 25 Jan
⏳: 3-years
💷: Grade 7 (£36,024-£44,263)
🧐: investigate the drivers of population mortality!
📍: Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
🗓️: deadline 25 Jan
⏳: 3-years
💷: Grade 7 (£36,024-£44,263)
🧐: investigate the drivers of population mortality!
📍: Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
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Quick look at the UK inheritance tax discussion using the wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/EIG/ In 2021, the UK raised 0,78% of total tax revenue from inheritance and gifts vs 1,65% in France (in the 1960s, the UK collected over 2,66%!). The UK annually collects about $12 Billion less than France. #EconSky
November 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM
Quick look at the UK inheritance tax discussion using the wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/EIG/ In 2021, the UK raised 0,78% of total tax revenue from inheritance and gifts vs 1,65% in France (in the 1960s, the UK collected over 2,66%!). The UK annually collects about $12 Billion less than France. #EconSky
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Just yesterday, CBO released a working paper showing that enrolling kids in Medicaid half pays for itself mostly due to those kids ending up with higher earnings.
And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.
And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.
November 2, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Just yesterday, CBO released a working paper showing that enrolling kids in Medicaid half pays for itself mostly due to those kids ending up with higher earnings.
And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.
And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.
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Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all charges.
November 2, 2023 at 11:49 PM
Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all charges.
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UNC-CH Sociology is also hiring at the senior full level for a Distinguished Professor position, with preference for expertise in immigration, inequality, or work!
Come work with us! 😊
Review of apps begins Nov 15th! See ad linked below for details.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...
Come work with us! 😊
Review of apps begins Nov 15th! See ad linked below for details.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...
William Burwell Harrison Distinguished Professor of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Senior Full Professor to fill the William Burwell Harrison Distinguished Professorship of Soci...
unc.peopleadmin.com
October 31, 2023 at 6:25 PM
UNC-CH Sociology is also hiring at the senior full level for a Distinguished Professor position, with preference for expertise in immigration, inequality, or work!
Come work with us! 😊
Review of apps begins Nov 15th! See ad linked below for details.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...
Come work with us! 😊
Review of apps begins Nov 15th! See ad linked below for details.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...
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'Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies', joint work with @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, now published in @sfjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but creation. #Polisky #EconSky #Sociology
We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but creation. #Polisky #EconSky #Sociology
October 25, 2023 at 11:05 AM
'Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies', joint work with @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, now published in @sfjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but creation. #Polisky #EconSky #Sociology
We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but creation. #Polisky #EconSky #Sociology
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As part of a transformative expansion, Sociology at Johns Hopkins is poised for significant growth in the coming years. We invite applications for tenured and tenure-track appointments at any rank and in any subfield. [1/2]
October 2, 2023 at 2:46 PM
As part of a transformative expansion, Sociology at Johns Hopkins is poised for significant growth in the coming years. We invite applications for tenured and tenure-track appointments at any rank and in any subfield. [1/2]
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Visualizing the evolution of estate and inheritance tax exemptions over time. What an insane development! #EconSky and #Polisci, check our interactive website with many other features here: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/EIG/graphs/#...
September 25, 2023 at 12:48 AM
Visualizing the evolution of estate and inheritance tax exemptions over time. What an insane development! #EconSky and #Polisci, check our interactive website with many other features here: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/EIG/graphs/#...