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To first-gen or low-income background respondents who answered that their socioeconomic background disadvantaged them, we asked about mechanisms.
Again overwhelmingly, factors like: academic norms, the hidden curriculum, and limited access to networks or mentorship show up
Again overwhelmingly, factors like: academic norms, the hidden curriculum, and limited access to networks or mentorship show up
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
To first-gen or low-income background respondents who answered that their socioeconomic background disadvantaged them, we asked about mechanisms.
Again overwhelmingly, factors like: academic norms, the hidden curriculum, and limited access to networks or mentorship show up
Again overwhelmingly, factors like: academic norms, the hidden curriculum, and limited access to networks or mentorship show up
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Perceived impact of someone's own socioeconomic background on their academic career outcomes *during or after* their PhD
including initial placement after graduation, research productivity, grant and fellowship opps, long-term career trajectory (e.g. getting tenure)
including initial placement after graduation, research productivity, grant and fellowship opps, long-term career trajectory (e.g. getting tenure)
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Perceived impact of someone's own socioeconomic background on their academic career outcomes *during or after* their PhD
including initial placement after graduation, research productivity, grant and fellowship opps, long-term career trajectory (e.g. getting tenure)
including initial placement after graduation, research productivity, grant and fellowship opps, long-term career trajectory (e.g. getting tenure)
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Reasons why people thought first-gen college grads would get worse academic placements than their PhD classmates from more advantaged backgrounds:
very overwhelmingly:
1. Hidden curriculum
2. Networks and mentorship
3. Geog, financial, time constraints
4. Soft skills and/or bias
very overwhelmingly:
1. Hidden curriculum
2. Networks and mentorship
3. Geog, financial, time constraints
4. Soft skills and/or bias
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reasons why people thought first-gen college grads would get worse academic placements than their PhD classmates from more advantaged backgrounds:
very overwhelmingly:
1. Hidden curriculum
2. Networks and mentorship
3. Geog, financial, time constraints
4. Soft skills and/or bias
very overwhelmingly:
1. Hidden curriculum
2. Networks and mentorship
3. Geog, financial, time constraints
4. Soft skills and/or bias
Reposted by MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
Last was a star-studded panel on inequality in the history of economic & political thought at @stoneeconucl.bsky.social w/@brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5N_... (6/6)
Stone Centre Dialogue on Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought
YouTube video by Stone Centre at UCL
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November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Last was a star-studded panel on inequality in the history of economic & political thought at @stoneeconucl.bsky.social w/@brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5N_... (6/6)