¿Te interesan los temas de desigualdad y movilidad social? ¿Quieres hacer el doctorado? Va a salir una Beca FPI en el proyecto I+D que dirijo: “Does luck matter? The role of luck in individual life courses and views of redistribution”. La convocatoria oficial de la UNED saldrá en breve. 1/2

What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing? With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.

The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year

Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy: Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

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...

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

"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

💥New publication in Population Studies: We explore how health in early adulthood influences fertility, using data from the 1958 British birth cohort. Read more here 👇

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

The University of Florence offers 4 positions within the PhD in Life Course Research! 🔹 3 open positions on topics such as social demography, family formation, fertility, union dissolution, ageing & wellbeing 🔹 1 thematic position on reproductive health & low fertility Come join us in Florence! 👇👇

📢 Applications open for the National PhD Program in Life Course Research! 👉 12 fully funded positions in Demography and Social Statistics, promoting an interdisciplinary approach to studying life courses. 🗓 Deadline: August 7 📍 More info: www.phd-lcr.com 📄 To apply: www.unifi.it/sites/defaul...

Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2] academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

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 paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

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...

Poster winners at #PAA25: @conteristo.bsky.social, @marcocozzani.bsky.social & @pfallesen.bsky.social ⭐️ Project: From spring to summer: change in the seasonality of fertility in 24 European countries 1950-2020

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

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 👇🧵

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...

GENUS joined Bluesky over a year ago—one of the first (if not the first) demographic journals here. A year later, the club is growing! 🎉 Comment below if you’d like to be added to our starter pack of demographic journals and resources! go.bsky.app/E6UtfNx

In Spain in regions like Madrid (7 public, 14 private), public unis face huge cuts while private ones thrive—backed by right-wing policies. What to do? Read my Op-ed published in El País: Defending Public Universities (translation from Spanish below) 1/2

🚨 New paper 🚨 with @pstanig.bsky.social forthcoming at @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 about the political consequences of climate-related disasters 🌲💦⚠️ Pre-print 👉 osf.io/preprints/os... Summary 🧵👇

1 Postdoc (3 years) in my ERC DIGINEQ project! At Centre for Demographic Studies & Dept. of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona "Adolescent Well-Being; Social/Digital Inequalities; Computational Social Science" Deadline: December 3 Apply & share!! ❤️‍🔥🔝 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO526/p...

In this research note we show how the anti-far-right movement Le Sardine managed to curb far-right electoral performance in Italy's 2020 regional elections. Using a diff-in-diff design, local exposure to Sardine events significantly reduced far-right vote shares. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

New paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social We run a factorial experiment on a large sample of (future) teachers to causally test for discrimination/bias in academic evaluations by student-ascribed status (sex, class, ethnicity, cultural capital), net of ability sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

🔥days lower #fertility rates in Spain! @conteristo.bsky.social et al. found a decrease in TFR across Spain for days with mean temperature >25°C nine months after exposure.Interestingly,the impact doesn't substantially vary across different sociodemographic groups. www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

In “Historical Patterns in Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan & Longevity,” Saverio Minardi et al. examine US cohorts born btw 1700 & 1900 & confirm multigenerational & horizontal associations in lifespan. @gcorti.bsky.social @nicolabarban.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Only 7 days left - Apply & Share!! 🎇🌟 Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population at the Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology (UAB, Barcelona) - Exciting project & city - Excellent scientific hub - Competitive conditions Deadline: June 17th Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

🆕 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...

In a new paper, I show that cuts to child allowances introduced back in the 1990s in the Netherlands had long-lasting effects on children's educational attainment. Cuts lead to more persistent poverty, care burdens for mothers, and lowered expenditures for children link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

🚨🚨Only one week left to apply to the Doctoral Programme in SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH at the University of Trento. 5 fully funded PhD scholarships. ⌛⌛DEADLINE May 14. More info here: sociologia.unitn.it/en/dottorato...

A favorite paper, with great coauthors. Birthweight inequalities were surprisingly similar in FR, UK, US, but mechanisms were very different. Income was important in the US but not at all in FR. In FR: mostly due to smoking, which was not important for US. And the UK? Somewhere in the middle!

If you are in Madrid, don't miss it! Best seminar in town! See you tomorrow!

UNED Ineq and Soc Dem seminar Alice Goisis (UCL) Having a live birth following Medically Assisted Reproduction: does socio-economic status matter? Wednesday 8th May 19-20.30 , room 6,  Centro UNED , calle Argumosa 3, Lavapiés, Madrid Come to the seminar and the afterward sociological beer(s)!

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...

Today, the LSE-inequalities blog features our work (with @karlosj89.bsky.social, P. Salas-Rojo & D. Villani) on wealth and social class: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Tomorrow UNED inequality and Soc Dem seminar with Daniele Vignoli (Uni Florence) Employment, Family Policies and Fertility: New Evidence from Italy   19-20.30 , room 6,  Centro UNED , calle Argumosa 3, Lavapiés, Madrid Join us for the seminar and the post-seminar sociological beer(s)!

ECSR network workshop on Geography of educational inequalities at UNED Madrid 9/10th of April Interested in attending the workshop? Come along! Just send an email to Manuel Valdés ([email protected]) or Ilaria Lievore ([email protected]) to register Program and great line-up ⬇️

Tomorrow 13th March 19.00-20.30 the UNED Ineq and Soc Dem Seminar  with Sergi Vidal (UAM) Occupational Outcomes of Migration across Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood: A Case Study of South-to-North Migration in Italy   Centro Asociado UNED Gregorio Marañón (Lavapiés, Madrid, planet Earth)

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

My work w/ @alderotti.bsky.social “Migrants’ health in Italy: do the union status and the partner’s nationality matter?” has been honored as one of the top three under-40 paper at the 59th Scientific Meeting of SIEDS in Naples! “La Sapienza” @florenceups.bsky.social 👉🏻 www.sieds.it/index.php/20...

Very excited to share that one of my PhD papers has been published in Social Science Research! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

🚨Last 4 days to apply to two positions on my newly started ERC-CoG project EDUPOL at Univ of Milan!! Position 1 (18 months), school policies analysis: www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/r... Position 2 (24 months), analysis of international educational datasets: www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/r...

💥We are recruiting! Two exciting positions (post-doc or post-grad) available in my recently started ERC-Consolidator Grant "EDUPOL - Education policies that work: A context-sensitive ‘big data’ approach" Deadline: 9/02/24 More info below 👇

Does inequality in child health shocks spillover into educational inequality? We study this in the context of concussions (mTBI) that occur more among children from low SES families Answer: Not in this case (fortunately) With @pfallesen.bsky.social and @larshandersen.bsky.social