Manuel Schechtl
@schechtlm.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at UNC-Chapel Hill | previously Postdoc at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality | PhD from Humboldt University Berlin | inequality, wealth, poverty, taxes, redistribution, social & public policy. https://schechtl.github.io
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Manuel Schechtl
@schechtlm.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
Rising wealth concentration tends to undermine democracy, according to a Stone Center Working Paper by @schechtlm.bsky.social. In this interview, he discusses how he drew on two new sources of data to compare democratic backsliding in 50 U.S. states.
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The Effect of Increasing Wealth Inequality on U.S. Democracy at the State Level - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Manuel Schechtl, a 2022–2024 Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses his Stone Center Working Paper, which combines two new sources of data to compare the extent of democratic backsliding in all ...
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Rising wealth concentration tends to undermine democracy, according to a Stone Center Working Paper by @schechtlm.bsky.social. In this interview, he discusses how he drew on two new sources of data to compare democratic backsliding in 50 U.S. states.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/the-effect-o...
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/the-effect-o...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
I am organizing session 711 Wealth Inequality: International
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I am organizing session 711 Wealth Inequality: International
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
I am organizing session 711 Wealth Inequality: International
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I am organizing session 711 Wealth Inequality: International
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
Comparative Perspectives at PAA 2026. Deadline for submissions is Oct 5th. Non-comparative papers on wealth inequality are also welcome.
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
ICYMI: See what we're up to in September: mailchi.mp/umich/cid-se...
First up: @schechtlm.bsky.social on September 9! #AcademicSky #PublicPolicy #WealthInequality
First up: @schechtlm.bsky.social on September 9! #AcademicSky #PublicPolicy #WealthInequality
August 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ICYMI: See what we're up to in September: mailchi.mp/umich/cid-se...
First up: @schechtlm.bsky.social on September 9! #AcademicSky #PublicPolicy #WealthInequality
First up: @schechtlm.bsky.social on September 9! #AcademicSky #PublicPolicy #WealthInequality
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Tocqueville on the incompatibility of economic inequality with democracy.
August 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Tocqueville on the incompatibility of economic inequality with democracy.
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
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.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
August 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
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📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019
Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
⚠️ 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...
⚠️ 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...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
Most studies on the relationship b/w inequality & the erosion of democracy focus on cross-country comparisons, and on income rather than wealth. A new WP by @schechtlm.bsky.social looks at how rising state‐level wealth inequality in the US is associated with democratic backsliding.
bit.ly/3IuD1w5
bit.ly/3IuD1w5
July 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Most studies on the relationship b/w inequality & the erosion of democracy focus on cross-country comparisons, and on income rather than wealth. A new WP by @schechtlm.bsky.social looks at how rising state‐level wealth inequality in the US is associated with democratic backsliding.
bit.ly/3IuD1w5
bit.ly/3IuD1w5
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
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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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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July 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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/...
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/...
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🚨 New paper alert!
Thrilled to share my latest paper (a joint work with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han)—now out in Nature Scientific Data!
We introduce 5 datasets on civic opportunity in America, built from IRS tax records + 1.7M nonprofit websites.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thrilled to share my latest paper (a joint work with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han)—now out in Nature Scientific Data!
We introduce 5 datasets on civic opportunity in America, built from IRS tax records + 1.7M nonprofit websites.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MapAgora, civic opportunity datasets for the study of American local politics and public policy - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - MapAgora, civic opportunity datasets for the study of American local politics and public policy
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🚨 New paper alert!
Thrilled to share my latest paper (a joint work with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han)—now out in Nature Scientific Data!
We introduce 5 datasets on civic opportunity in America, built from IRS tax records + 1.7M nonprofit websites.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thrilled to share my latest paper (a joint work with Milan de Vries and Hahrie Han)—now out in Nature Scientific Data!
We introduce 5 datasets on civic opportunity in America, built from IRS tax records + 1.7M nonprofit websites.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries"
By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance
"The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries"
By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance
June 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries"
By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance
"The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries"
By @morellisal.bsky.social, Brian Nolan, @juancpal.bsky.social, & Philippe Van Kerm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics #publicfinance
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
At the blog I wrote about five cool new articles on gender inequality:
inappropriate engineering job talk intros
physician culture
demographic inequalities in health degrees --> health jobs
care work trends
tax policies
Very neat articles this week.
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
inappropriate engineering job talk intros
physician culture
demographic inequalities in health degrees --> health jobs
care work trends
tax policies
Very neat articles this week.
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
At the blog I wrote about five cool new articles on gender inequality:
inappropriate engineering job talk intros
physician culture
demographic inequalities in health degrees --> health jobs
care work trends
tax policies
Very neat articles this week.
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
inappropriate engineering job talk intros
physician culture
demographic inequalities in health degrees --> health jobs
care work trends
tax policies
Very neat articles this week.
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
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/...
April 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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/...
Very happy to announce I received the University of Michigan Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics visiting fellowship 2025-2026! I am looking forward to be a part of the community @umichstonecid.bsky.social
inequality.umich.edu/25-26-visiti...
inequality.umich.edu/25-26-visiti...
April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Very happy to announce I received the University of Michigan Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics visiting fellowship 2025-2026! I am looking forward to be a part of the community @umichstonecid.bsky.social
inequality.umich.edu/25-26-visiti...
inequality.umich.edu/25-26-visiti...
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The latest pub. from Rourke O'Brien, @schechtlm.bsky.social, our own @robertmanduca.bsky.social, & Atheendar Venkataramani suggests that local government spending may reduce mortality, esp. for people with lower incomes. Read more in SSM – Population Health:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality
Research finds disparities in local government spending to be one driver of place-based variation in population health outcomes in the U.S. This study…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The latest pub. from Rourke O'Brien, @schechtlm.bsky.social, our own @robertmanduca.bsky.social, & Atheendar Venkataramani suggests that local government spending may reduce mortality, esp. for people with lower incomes. Read more in SSM – Population Health:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
🚨New paper in SER🚨
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
March 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨New paper in SER🚨
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux
#Sociology #Demography #Inequality
Reposted by Manuel Schechtl
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
🚨Now published in issue 🚨
What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky
What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky
March 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨Now published in issue 🚨
What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky
What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky