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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 20d

Women now earn 85% of what men do, up from 65% in the ‘80s.

ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s.

Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1

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Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social · Sep 8

European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods.
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations

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Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups

Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) ‘the lifecycle’ (the piggy bank). But what is the ...

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Sep 5

India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths

The image displays a line graph titled "Population projections until the end of the century." The graph plots population projections from 1950 to 2100, with population values ranging from 0 to 1.8 billion. Four colored lines represent different regions:

- A brown line indicates population projections for India, showing a steady increase peaking around 2060.
- A blue line represents China, which displays a peak around 2020 before declining.
- A red line shows Europe's population, which rises slightly before declining.
- A green line indicates the United States, which experiences moderate growth before leveling off.

Dotted lines illustrate the projections based on the United Nations' medium scenario assumptions. The data source is listed as "UN, World Population Prospects (2024)" The chart includes horizontal grid lines for better readability of the population figures and timelines. The overall design aims to convey trends in population growth and decline among these regions over time

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SUDA Stockholm @suda-sthlm.bsky.social · Sep 5

A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.

www.su.se/department-o...

@signesvallfors.bsky.social

Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology

If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...

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Stefanie Mollborn @mollborn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

Doktorand i sociologi

Sociologiska institutionen är en av Stockholms universitets största samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och rankas kontinuerligt bland de 50 bästa sociologiska institutionerna i världen. Mer info

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS

Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Sep 4

When you're only ever talking about the kids...

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A New Theory Puts Parenting at the Center of Human Evolution

Can the origin of language can be traced to child care?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology:

AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · Jul 17

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.

www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · Aug 7

A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Something mathematicians and historians have in common: being among GPT's own top list of occupations to be replaced most by GPTs.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 4

I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation.

They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question.

arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 3

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Jul 20

Didn't even say what I'm talking about. This figure, which they ran in NYT and now appears in their book. They call it "The Spike," I call it x-axis abuse. Why not start it a million or a billion years ago?

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Jul 11

New preprint 💥

In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects.

I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model.

#sociology

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OSF

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 16

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature

Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 14

A new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social‬, Rashid, and Simon https://www.nber.org/papers/w33999

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Jul 2

Support for the welfare state, anyone?

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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · Jun 30

Als kinderen later instromen in de kinderopvang, zou de job van kinderbegeleider een pak werkbaarder worden en beter afgestemd op de huidige pedagogische tijdsgeest.
👉 www.sampol.be/2025/06/verl...

Verlaat de instapleeftijd in de kinderopvang

Als kinderen later instromen in de kinderopvang, zou de job van kinderbegeleider een pak werkbaarder worden en beter afgestemd op de huidige pedagogische tijdsgeest.

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The Economist @economist.com · Jun 20

Is it a bad thing if young graduates lose their privileges? Ethically, not really. No group has a right to outperform the average. But practically, it might be https://econ.trib.al/bXMP0Ip

Why today’s graduates are screwed

The bottom has fallen out of the job market

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 25

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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Eivind Ystrom @eivindy.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status!
Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in
@NatureComms
- a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴
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The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway - Nature Communications

The authors examine the genetic and environmental contributions to socioeconomic status (SES) in Norway using a large, population-wide dataset and four different heritability estimation methods. They ...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Jun 23

In the last year I have written 10 posts under the Population tag. Collect the whole set!
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familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/populati...

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Jun 22

Nice mix of several historical roots to the question I ask myself when visiting the Netherlands (as a mother, which is an identity that doesn't define me as much when in Sweden).

www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World?

Part 1

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