New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

📢 New paper out! How do partnership constellations relate to poverty in Germany? Together with @emstruffolino.bsky.social, we examine different-sex partnerships and how low education and non-employment cluster, distinguishing non-migrants, descendants of migrants, and EU vs. non-EU migrants.

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

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...

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!

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...

Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5

New paper in Social Science & Medicine: We test the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility using German panel data. Findings suggest costs stem from pre-existing vulnerabilities, not mobility itself. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU" just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore An outcome of the mapineq.eu project

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

📣 New article out! With @sedovicmicha.bsky.social we look at not just how the majority thinks about immigration, but also what (first and second generation) migrants' attitudes are Full piece in European Journal of Population: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #migration #socialcohesion #europe

🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... You can find some of the main results in the thread.

How much of the intergenerational transmission of SES is due to social factors? To answer this, shared 🧬 between parents and children need to be considered. In our new study, we use two designs to account for genetic confounding. We find that roughly 20 percent is due to social factors!

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...

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 🧬👪

New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

🧠🎓 Signal or substance? What do employers really see in a university degree? Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment. With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Marital separation, BMI decline, and the myth of the revenge body doi.org/10.31235/osf... @socarxiv.bsky.social‬ preprint by Associate Member @nicolekapelle.bsky.social‬ and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @andreatilstra.bsky.social‬

New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇 labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

This is insane. "two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%"

🚨 Concern about climate change is linked to lower fertility intentions in Italy. 👉 New study out in Genus by @chiarapuglisi.bsky.social, Daniele Vignoli @florenceups.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak. 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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 buff.ly/0yUtKbt

Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

It's no longer on pause. It's been terminated.

New working paper with @ferraraale.bsky.social

#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

Parental union dissolution substantively and persistently lowers children's wellbeing. ew article in @sfjournal.bsky.social by Mikkeline M. Nielsen (@rockwoolfonden.dk), Michael Gähler (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social), and I (@sofi.su.se ), we use longitudinal data on Danish children. #divorce (1/n)

We made a similar point last year in an opinion piece that we should start to open up our file-drawers, as well as better time management to prevent complete projects within contracts of researchers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the U.S." by Toman Barsbai, Andreas Steinmayr, and Christoph Winter www.journals.uchicag... @ChicagoJournals #EconSky

New article with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social just out in Sociology of Education We show that high SES parent’s expectations that their children complete university are sticky, ie. not affected if children’s performance at school is low. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Does grassroots mobilization against the far right help or hurt the movement electorally? @francescocolombo.bsky.social, @ferraraale.bsky.social, @fabriberna.bsky.social, Elias Dinas, and Foteini-Maria Vassou explore this in Sardinia after local groups mobilized against the far right in 2020.

An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% Z-GPA & -5% acad. track advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error: @florenceups.bsky.social 📄WP with @marespadafor.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/unifi-disia

🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

Is there an Immigrant Health Paradox & unhealthy migrant assimilation in Germany? Do findings hold in longitudinal data analyses with multiple health outcomes? New article on SocSci&Med with Carla Grindel & @claudiabrunori.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

New paper published in Nature Mental Health! nature.com/articles/s44... Is educational attainment causally associated with mental health? We compare EA and psychiatric diagnoses of 1.7M Dutch siblings, and we check if Mendelian randomization analyses tell us the same story. Spoiler: not always! 😱

When can immigrant educational selectivity explain second-generation attainment? Renee Luthra and I outline some conditions and analyze a case where they are not met (the UK). Check out our new paper on Social Science Research: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

New in Health & Place 🔓: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Fun collaboration with Dimitrios Lampropoulos in which we confidently assumed one thing about health inequalities and then found and had to explain the exact opposite, using 🇨🇭 data

Class death ⚰️? Most economists dismiss class, while sociologists overlook wealth in class analysis. Still, big occupational classes fairly capture high/rising wealth inequality trends in Europe. Yet, class measures need sharpening beyond labour market attachment 👇 t.co/IDJvLawa8I

Does immigrant educational selectivity explain their children’s better health at birth in Spain? Yes: but only for low birth weight and certain origin groups. Check out our new Working Paper (with @marcocozzani.bsky.social) on Socarxiv at osf.io/preprints/so...

Today I begin a 🧵 on new, striking immigration research. @leamarchal.bsky.social et al. meta-analyze 2,146 estimated effects of immigration on native wages. Average almost exactly zero, across skill levels. Novel result: publication bias favors negative estimates. leamarchal.fr/wp-content/u...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

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