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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · 2h

Do school meals work?

No: according to a new meta study by Sara Ayllón and Samuel Lad summarizing results from 42 studies.

I discuss that study in slightly more detail here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/the-causal...

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 3h

📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:

This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.

Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl

Measuring distributional preferences: opportunities and challenges - The Journal of Economic Inequality

This article introduces, and puts in context, the fourteen papers in the special issue, "Inequality perceptions and fairness judgments."

link.springer.com

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Academy of Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie, not on Bsky wut?) is offering a 1,500 Euro prize for the best #replication study in #sociology as25.sociology.uni-mainz.de #openscience 🧪

AS Conference 2025

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 1d

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?

✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.

✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5d

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...

If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

The Conference

Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...

eventos.upo.es

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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 5d

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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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 6d

Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials
using directed acyclic graphs

Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer
from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion
about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific
imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections,
such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total
treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable
outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained

Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out

An example DAG from the paper.
Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance.

U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.

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NBER @nber.org · 8d

Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 8d

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark!
If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context
#EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves

academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 9d

This is a great paper!

Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
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How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

New paper! Led by the brilliant @blaabaek.bsky.social and based on library borrowing data for the entire 🇩🇰 population. Thread below

Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Teacher bias by student SES or measurement error in ability? A cautionary tale for observational studies

Teachers act as judges of academic merit, but unfair evaluations beyond students' true abilities may perpetuate inequality based on socioeconomic stat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

As a side note: We struggled with how to meassure "highbrow" tastes without having to simply pick what we thought of as "fancy"

In the end, we asked librarians and literary critics to rank genres. Personally, I think this is neat to capture taste hierarchies as expressed in the empirical context

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

In a time of political polarization, it’s worth asking if
culture can bring people together across social divides?
👉 Crime fiction might be such a place for common ground

Public libraries are for everyone. But if some groups don’t use them, we should consider:
📚Do libraries appeal equally to all?

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

@madsjaeger.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social

👩‍🎓 People with higher education & wealth use libraries much more
💼 Differences across income and occupations are smaller
‍🕵️‍♀️ Everyone loves crime novels!
🎨 But the highly educated & wealthy are also drawn to “highbrow” genres

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Ea Blaabæk @blaabaek.bsky.social · 9d

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

doi.org

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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 9d

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 9d

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS

Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.

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Theodore Alysandratos @thalysandratos.bsky.social · 12d

"We find considerable social stratification in library borrowing and in highbrow literary tastes by wealth and education, but not by income and occupation." academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 12d

How Are Cultural Tastes Stratified? Evidence from Library Borrowing for the Entire Population of Denmark Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few dimensions of stratification. To
#sociology link

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 12d

Interesting paper by @blaabaek.bsky.social and colleagues about cultural tastes using libary borrowing data in Denmark academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark

Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14d

More evidence, on top of Baby's First Years experiment, that cash alone in early childhood does not improve children's early developmental trajectory.

In contrast, there is strong evidence that policies that improve children's care experiences do improve their early development & adult outcomes.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 14d

Even zooming in on poorer groups who are more likely to see larger income falls due to the policy, we still see no evidence of adverse effects on school readiness.

Chart shows the proportion of third and subsequent children achieving a good level of development by age 5, by date of birth relative to 6 April 2017, for families previously entitled to free school meals and those born in the 20% most deprived areas. Title states: "Children in families already entitled to free school meals or born in the poorest areas also saw no significant impact on school readiness from the two-child limit."

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 19d

1 year left of my @erc.europa.eu grant on siblings and social mobility! It has been a blast. Below some of the reserach conducted by the outstanding postdocs

Jung In, JMF, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jesper Birkelund, BJS, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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#sociology

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