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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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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 7d

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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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · 8d

Immigrants typically arrive in good health but experience fast health declines. Is the same true for Asylum Seekers though?

Check out my latest publication on PDR: doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Short answer: yes for (self-reported) physical health, but the opposite is true for mental health!

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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · 10d

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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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 19d

Chapter 2 of my dissertation is now available in Socius! doi.org/10.1177/2378...

In it, I aim to shed light on the debate as to whether gender specialization or gender egalitarianism is more beneficial for marital stability, considering education as an under-explored moderator of these associations

Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the “Gender Revolution” in the United States - Kimberly McErlean, 2025

In the context of women’s increased economic status coupled with declining divorce rates, the “gender revolution framework” suggests that greater gender equalit...

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · 21d

First single-author pub out in SSM!

It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️

OA:
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The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study

Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…

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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · Sep 5

That’s a wrap for #ECSR2025! After three days of inspiring presentations and stimulating exchanges with old and new friends in Cologne, the CLIC delegation happily packs up its tents.

Many thanks to the organisers and participants for making this such a rewarding conference - time well spent!

The picture shows members of the CLIC working group in a cheerful mood, wearing funny and colourful hats, glasses, and other accessoires.

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · Sep 3

And me! Also Thu at 15.30! (Session on Discrimination)

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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · Sep 2

CLIC in Cologne! 🧳🚋

#ECSR2025 kicks off in Cologne tomorrow and we are excited to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥

Come join us in these great sessions 👇

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jul 1

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands

Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools...

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jun 18

Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR

Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments*

Abstract. We study whether the educational disadvantage of children from households where parents have dissolved their union is due to selection or deterio

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great keynote by @melindacmills.bsky.social at the @eui-eu.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, in a full teatro.

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jun 13

Melinda Mills was awarded an honorary doctorate at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. The laudatio was given by @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. @melindacmills.bsky.social congratulations!

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Alessandro Ferrara @ferraraale.bsky.social · Jun 12

How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status?

Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l‬ suggests small or null effects in Germany.

With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · Jun 10

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!

Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?

→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 10

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: @fabriberna.bsky.social & @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…among those w/ a low PGI EA.” @eui-eu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jun 10

I once read one full sentence of Bourdieu. drive.google.com/file/d/12qrD...

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jun 7

A very nice evening to end the academic year of @clic.bsky.social. Not everybody made it to the pic… thanks everybody for your engagement.

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Ole Brüggemann @brueggemann-o.bsky.social · Jun 6

Happy to share that my last PhD article found a home at RSSM. Together with Julia Lang we examine how employees expect their co-workers to react (exit or voice) to perceived wage injustice—and how these expectations vary by gender and workplace context.

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · Jun 3

Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · May 30

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography!
🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment | Demography | Duke University Press

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · May 11

On May 20, 12:00 I will give a public lecture in the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series, in Edinburgh.

How to Educate our Children: The Tasks of Qualification, Allocation and Socialisation in Comparative Perspective

For more information: education-sport.ed.ac.uk/how-to-educa...

How to Educate our Children: The Tasks of Qualification, Allocation and Socialisation in Comparative Perspective

This public lecture will be delivered by Prof Herman van de Werfhorst, Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, Florence.

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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · May 20

Last week we had a wonderful thesis defence by @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social 🔥

Congratulations Gaia, what a great job 🎉🎉 We are really looking forward to what's to come next 💫

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · May 17

@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social defended her PhD yesterday at the EUI.
An outstanding thesis and a fantastic defense, so proud of you, Gaia!!
Here pre-defence with the Bologna ultras supervisor and post with the committee @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social (zoom) and Nicola Barban

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Apr 15

Using height as a measure of an individual’s underlying health, @ferraraale.bsky.social @rrluthra.bsky.social & Lucinda Platt investigate the health of immigrants over time, offering a solution to the “immigrant health paradox” #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? And do they stay healthy?

Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? New evidence from Germany on the "immigrant health paradox" - using height as a proxy for underlying health.

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