Carla Rowold
@crowold.bsky.social
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#StandWithUkraine Postdoc at Hertie School, previously MPIDR and Nuffield College, Uni Oxford. Interested in gender inequalities over the life course & in old age crowold.github.io #firstgen
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crowold.bsky.social
💫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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zparolin.bsky.social
Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Vacancies
Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
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pophel.bsky.social
🚨Job alert!🚨

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
jobs.helsinki.fi
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lilivargha.bsky.social
❓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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femquant.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s FemQuant seminar! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of the presentation by @crowold.bsky.social here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WK...
FemQuant Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes
YouTube video by FemQuant
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nicolekapelle.bsky.social
📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover).

Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Sociology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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crowold.bsky.social
Such a great paper and important finding:
🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

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

Great to see it out, huge congrats, Ali! 💫
aliciagsierra.bsky.social
📣 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…
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crowold.bsky.social
🔈Finally, you can hear a summary of the paper (and another chapter of my dissertation) next week at the @femquant.bsky.social seminar 😊

🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online
Check time in your time zone & register 👇

femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
crowold.bsky.social
🔭 For future research:
- Apply to other inequalities (e.g., intersectionality, wealth, wages)
- For 🚻inequalities: valuable in conservative contexts for capturing the structural drivers of life-course-sensitive inequalities
→ Particularly useful as life courses become more complex in younger cohorts
crowold.bsky.social
🏛️In conservative welfare states like 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱, life-course experiences severely differ across genders

- Pension systems value unpaid care far less than paid work → structural penalties
- Highlights how conservative systems shape & devalue gendered life courses
crowold.bsky.social
📊 Key findings II — Decomposition:

- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty
crowold.bsky.social
📊 Key finding I — Feature selection:
✔️ Care work:
→ among the top pension predictors
→ more important than full-time employment duration
→ especially relevant for women’s pensions & GPG

🔎 Sensitivity tests: when including gender, it’s the strongest pension predictor in both countries!
crowold.bsky.social
🛠 Methods:

- Life Course Feature Selection: ranks key life-course predictors of pension income
- In combi with the feature selection, Ñopo decomposition quantifies how *gender-exclusive* life-course patterns shape the GPG, addressing the lack of common support in gender-segregated life courses
crowold.bsky.social
📚 Research focuses on full-time employment duration

- But life courses are increasingly complex
- Considering life-course complexities like timing and order of family interruptions is vital for policy design & evaluation
- The study contributes to debates on which life-course elements matter most
crowold.bsky.social
💫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...
🧵👇
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
Reposted by Carla Rowold
femquant.bsky.social
Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes.
🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online
Check time in your time zone & register 👇
Seminar Series
The FemQuant seminar series brings together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research commitments and quantitative research methods.  We aim …
femquant.wordpress.com
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satuhelske.bsky.social
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring
invest-flagship.bsky.social
We’re hiring!

Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶

🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

#hiring #openvacancies
Senior researcher or doctoral researcher
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....
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apweiland.bsky.social
Publication alert 🚨
@katjamoe.bsky.social@claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.
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ajriekhoff.bsky.social
Remember to send in your abstracts for our working group on "New social policies for changing labour markets" at the Finnish Social Policy Conference (October 23-24 in Helsinki). Deadline for submissions: September 1.
ajriekhoff.bsky.social
With @laursalo.bsky.social we're organising a working group at the Finnish social policy days. Make sure to send an abstract (FI/EN) if you're doing research on change in labour markets, underlying causes, consequences, or policies to address inequalities! DL: 1.9 www.helsinki.fi/fi/konferens...
A description of the working group theme. Text can also be found by clicking on the link.
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gillwyness.bsky.social
📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper

Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔

w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...
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schechtlm.bsky.social
⚠️ 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...
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daniflorean.bsky.social
The weather is hot in Germany today... but not as hot as my new paper, out now in Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social !
familyresearch.bsky.social
#Published: "Research note: Multidimensional gender ideologies, rural/urban living and self perceptions of place in a German survey" by @daniflorean.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
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claraoverweg.bsky.social
I had a really great time this week at the Netspar International Pension Workshop in Leiden presenting joint work with @crowold.bsky.social and Anette Fasang, a study on female later-life financial security in West Germany and the Netherlands. Thanks for all the valuable feedback!