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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 12d

Being featured (at about 39:50) on a podcast with the tagline "where sanity takes a backseat and laughter rides shotgun" and the episode title "Radioactive Shrimp" wasn't on my professorial bingo card, but it was a pleasure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Mq...

Radioactive Shrimp - September 23, 2025 | The Last Show with David Cooper

YouTube video by The Last Show with David Cooper

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 21d

@sashakillewald.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com:
"The number of children Americans have affects the gender pay gap only because parenthood decreases women’s wages while increasing men’s wages." @umichstonecid.bsky.social
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US women narrowed the pay gap with men by having fewer kids

Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.

theconversation.com

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · 21d

We couldn't put alllll the work of engaging the pronatalists on your shoulders!

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Aug 26

It was an absolute honor to share a @umpsid.bsky.social RA office with @ninsolera.bsky.social more years ago than either of us care to remember, and it's a joy to have her as part of the @umichstonecid.bsky.social team now!

Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · Aug 26

Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social‬ whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky

inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Aug 22

Big fan of @chinyereagbai.bsky.social's work and this paper - great to see it in print!

American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · Aug 21

The WWII GI Bill made millions of veterans homeowners, but it also increased Black-White gaps in homeownership and wealth. Results demonstrate how historic policies not only exacerbated past inequalities but also how these inequalities have persisted and intensified into the present.

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Aug 15

JUST went through this. My personal fave was my pharmacy chain's app proclaiming the prescription was in stock at other locations and then, once I transferred the prescription, saying "lol kidding."

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Aug 15

The consulting services of UM's CSCAR have helped legions of graduate students and faculty. Ending these services puts Michigan out of step with its peer research institutions and especially disadvantages Michigan scholars with the fewest resources.

John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · Aug 13

Really bummed to hear that @umich.edu CSCAR is being shut down. Such an amazing resource for students, staff, and faculty. #statsky #episky

Statistical consulting unit to wind down

The Office of the Vice President for Research will be closing the Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research unit later this year. This transition is necessary to help OVPR serve a wide range of needs on campus more effectively. We are grateful to the CSCAR team for its many contributions to the research community.

This transition will occur in a phased manner to minimize the disruption to those obtaining statistical consulting from, and those working for, the unit. For investigators who have contracted for statistical consulting with the unit, and investigators who currently have dedicated effort on a sponsored project through the unit, OVPR will arrange continued support.

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Aug 5

As a resident of the Great Lakes State and a frequent visitor to said lakes, I regret to inform NYT readers that the lakes are only mediocre and East Coasters should definitely continue exclusively vacationing at their salty, shark-infested beaches.

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · Aug 5

Have you seen what we're up to next semester? 👀 From #Econ & Public #Policy to #Sociology & Urban Planning, our fall lineup of speakers represent an array of fields studying social #inequality. #AcademicSky We hope you can joins us! 👇

inequality.umich.edu/fall-2025-sp...

Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics on Tuesdays from 10:30-12 noon as we host our Fall 2025 Speaker Series.

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jul 30

Welp, family demographers, our use of "hypergamy" to mean a specific, technical phenomenon had a good run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/s...

Hypergamy? David Geffen’s Divorce Gives New Meaning to an Old Term

www.nytimes.com

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out summer book recs from @umichstonecid.bsky.social, headlined by Circe the 🐈posing with her namesake.
While you're at it, mark your calendars for our great fall lineup of speakers. inequality.umich.edu/fall-2025-sp...

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jul 9

Learned recently that my mom sets a date before which my dad is not allowed to complain about the lack of football. That date is May 1.

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Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey that's @robertmanduca.bsky.social's research!

Roseanna Sommers @rosesomm.bsky.social · Jul 3

Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...

Whitmer warns that Medicaid, SNAP cuts in GOP bill could slash 41k Michigan Jobs, $4.5B in GDP • Michigan Advance

Updated 2:01 p.m. As the U.S. House of Representatives debates whether to give final passage to Congressional Republicans’ signature tax break and spending cuts package, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jul 2

20 years ago, I was on a jury in a domestic violence case. Like the Diddy trial, the facts were not much in dispute, only their interpretation. The way the other jurors talked about the survivor's complicity is seared into my mind forever. Today makes me think not enough has changed.

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 27

I could swear I've seen an ICPSR t-shirt from the '90s that read "different slopes for different folks." Possible?

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Robert Manduca @robertmanduca.bsky.social · Jun 25

New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀

equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...

Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base

Government transfers and financial income form a major component of the basic sector in the United States.

equitablegrowth.org

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 23

Received my first-ever bulk mail addressed to "Mrs. and Mr. Alexandra A Killewald."
Well played, Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.

Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 23

As a grad student, Sheldon Danziger wrote on my draft: "what is 'existing' literature? Is there non-existing literature?" and it's seared into my mind forever.

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 16

Not sure I trust you to bring an elite carrot cake.

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 16

The gift you get when your friends really know you. Who's in?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jun 12

Every time I write "the literature is mixed" what I mean is "I don't want to talk about it"

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · Jun 11

How wealthy are you? Join our own #umich #sociologist @robertmanduca.bsky.social as he explores an aspect of personal wealth many of us overlook: the benefits Americans will get from Social Security and other similar government benefit programs (via @us.theconversation.com). myumi.ch/4mxgq

You’re probably richer than you think because of the safety net – but you’d have more of that hidden wealth if you lived in Norway

The typical worker on the verge of retirement is due roughly $412,000 in this under-the-radar wealth.

myumi.ch

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Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social · Jun 8

When your employer celebrates #NationalBestFriendsDay with a photo of your BFF with someone else. 😢