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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 2d

enhorabuena, la mejor! 🫶

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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Tomás Cano @tomascano.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Contrato Inicial de Doctorado (UNED) 📢

🔹7 meses · 10h/semana · 725€/mes
🔹 Remoto o presencial
🔹Tema: socio-demografía, familia, género, estratificación social.
🔹Requisitos: máster afín, inglés alto, análisis estadístico.

📅 Plazo: 13/10/25
📩 Info: files.persona.co/60187/Contra...

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · 8d

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀

Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

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Cristina Suero @cristinasuero.bsky.social · 17d

NEW PAPER!! 🎉🎉

Happy to see this work finally out in Population, Space and Place!! 💫💫

We observe a clear geographical pattern in the educational gradient of age at first motherhood across Spanish provinces.

Access the full paper here ⬇️⬇️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 17d

thank you, glad you like it! 😊

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you, Per! Nothing beats the thrill of a fresh citation drop... ☺️

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 28d

🫂😊

Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 28d

Also…

⏳ The effects grow the longer mothers stay in those jobs.
📊 Children from high-SES families benefit more than those from low-SES families.

⚙️ Evidence from NLSY79-CYA + O*NET, using (asymmetric) fixed effects models & inverse probability weighting.

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · 28d

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility!

🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills.

Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes?

This study examines whether mothers’ occupation-specific skills influence children’s development. I argue that while education is a valuable proxy for…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 28d

💼 Oferta de trabajo!

Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:

- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)

👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...

¡Se agradece difusión!

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

doi.org

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫 💫 so well deserved!

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨

Apply or circulate:

A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries"

Deadline: July 21

www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab...

@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · May 26

📢 Last chance to apply for tuition waiver scholarships for our interdisciplinary Master’s in Social Sciences!

🎓 3 tuition waivers still available
🗓 Deadline: this week – May 31, 2025

🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · May 13

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social

We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

Uneven shifts: the geography of occupational change in France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, 1992–2018

ABSTRACT. Amid renewed interest in geographical inequalities in life chances and an ongoing debate about occupational upgrading versus polarisation, we investigate how the occupational structure chang...

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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · May 7

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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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · May 7

Tomorrow and Friday at the UNED, in Madrid: meeting of the Spanish Research Committee on Inequality and Social stratification.

👇 the program: it is small RC28/ECSR!

Everybody welcome to attend. Or meet the presenters later with a beer at the Mercato San Fermando in Lavapiés

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Cristina Suero @cristinasuero.bsky.social · May 5

🚨 New publication out!

Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain

Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · Apr 9

¡Muchas gracias! Por desgracia aún no está en abierto, no pudimos acceder a la publicación con Open Access por temas de acuerdos institucionales...

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 9

The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @marespadafor.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumna @aliciagsierra.bsky.social

The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain

Abstract. This article explores the relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes, addressing endogeneity challenges inherent

doi.org

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Mar Cañizares Espadafor @marespadafor.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our study shows educational expansion isn’t always enough.

Wondering what this means for policy today?

A summary with the key takeaways in this short policy brief: www.linkedin.com/posts/maresp...

Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · Apr 9

New paper out with @marespadafor.bsky.social: we study the intergenerational effects of Spain’s 1970 school reform and find that, despite major educational expansion, inequality persisted 📚📉
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain

Abstract. This article explores the relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes, addressing endogeneity challenges inherent

academic.oup.com

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Alicia García-Sierra @aliciagsierra.bsky.social · Apr 9

New paper out with @marespadafor.bsky.social: we study the intergenerational effects of Spain’s 1970 school reform and find that, despite major educational expansion, inequality persisted 📚📉
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain

Abstract. This article explores the relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes, addressing endogeneity challenges inherent

academic.oup.com

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · Apr 4

Postdoc job alert: 🇨🇭

If you are a quantitative stratification / inequality / life course sociologist (or close) who could plausibly teach in French then you should apply for this super job at LIVES / @dessociales.bsky.social / @unil.bsky.social with Daniel Oesch

@populationeu.bsky.social

Career Opportunities: Postdoctoral position in the analysis of the life course (22161)

career5.successfactors.eu

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