Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie! Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026 www.ecsr2026.net #ECSR2026 Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

Excited to see our paper on the immigrant–native pay gap featured in @nature.com’s new policy brief pilot, please take a look!

Two awards in one week to our "Great Separation" article in AJS, brilliantly led by Olivier Godechot!

It was such an honor to receive this award from @isa-rc28.bsky.social on behalf of @oliviergodechot.bsky.social and other coauthors.

The winner of this year’s significant contribution award goes to The great separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies O Godechot, et al American Journal of Sociology 130 (2), 439-495, 2024 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Nature research paper: Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs go.nature.com/40ripuF

📍 Immigrants to Europe and North America earn, on average, 17.9% less than natives, as they struggle to gain access to jobs in higher-paying industries, occupations and companies. Three-quarters of the pay gap between the two correspond to a lack of access to high-paying jobs for immigrants. (1/4)

Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

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

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

Stay tuned for much much more. Sad story.

Same Neighborhood, Same Employer? Residential Networks and Workplace Concentration Among Immigrants: http://osf.io/bvues_v1/

On the loss of a model of intellectual integrity and courage—Christopher Jencks. He showed us how to wade into troubled waters and come out the stronger for it. @theprospect.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...

Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper:

New paper out in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Mats Lillehagen on workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation! We study why immigrants concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces and whether their native-born children gain better access to workplaces in the mainstream economy. #sociology

It’s there ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... . With a little work (9 years), some data points (1 billion +) from a handful of OECD countries (12) during a couple of years (30) and a few coauthors (28: 1/n

The application deadline for our PhD course on organizations and inequality at the University of Oslo is coming up this Sunday (April 21). If you know of students that would be interested to participate in the course, please forward this information to them!

📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

We are organizing a new Ph.D. course at the University of Oslo this spring (June 10–13 this year) that aims to provide a broad introduction to research on how organizations and employers contribute to creating or reducing inequality in the workplace. For more info please see flyer and link below!

MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]

In "Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs", we show that sorting of immigrant-background workers into lower-paying jobs on average accounts for about 4/5th of immigrant–native earnings difference Our WP led by @aresherman.bsky.social is out: osf.io/preprints/so...