Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review! @paulhufe.net

I'm thrilled to announce that I joined the IAB Hesse! 🥳💚 Looking forward to advising the Regional Directorates and the Federal Employment Agency, and continuing my labour market research. It is an honour to work with such a community of expert researchers. Please reach out if you'd like to connect!

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality

As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first. Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

🚨 Applications are still open for the rest of the week 🚨 (full review begins Monday, Jan 20)

Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.

Please join us (in person or virtually) for the opening of the Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI). Friday, Oct 11, 5pm German time / 11am Eastern US time. Panelists: Thomas Piketty, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @charlottebartels.bsky.social www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...

🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class

🚨 Job Announcement: Two Positions in Our Administrative Leadership Team 🚨 Lust auf Neues? Dann auf ins Team des Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research (ISI), einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der LMU München. Zwei spannende Stellen sind zu besetzen, Details im Thread: /1

Am Arbeitsbereich Sozialstrukturanalyse und Survey-Methodologie @socfub.bsky.social ist eine Postdoc-Stelle für 3,5 Jahre zu besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.9.2024 #Soziologie Bei Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

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

2025 Spring School: Perceptions of wealth inequality Check out this research incubator where small teams will work with a great set of scholars on this topic. Apply by Aug 31: dariatisch.github.io/SPINE/ @dariatisch.bsky.social @natrinh.bsky.social @lailaschmitt.bsky.social @janlo.bsky.social

The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Introducing ISI, the new Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research: www.lmu.de/isi (for a German news announcement: www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/lmu...) We will support & push forward the study of socioeconomic inequality (esp. wealth inequality) across disciplines & countries. /1

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

OnlineFirst in #JESP: András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, István G. Tóth and I show that using a floating poverty threshold dramatically underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241232272 Thread 👇👇👇

Have you also been looking for literature on the new DiD vs. TWFE estimators in Sociology? Below is a paper that provides an intuitive explanation along with simulations! 👇

Super excited to be part of this group! And really looking forward to Montreal!

💥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 👇

🚨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.

Wir freuen uns sehr, einen der Anerkennungspreise im Rahmen der AK Essaypreis-Ausschreibung zum Thema „Überreichtum“ gewonnen zu haben. Danke an Daniel Mayerhoffer und @jansg.bsky.social für die tolle Zusammenarbeit. Unser Essay findet sich hier:

Die @arbeiterkammer.bsky.social hat heuer den ersten AK Essaypreis zum Thema "Überreichtum" ausgelobt. Gefragt waren Essays 📚, die die gesellschaftlichen und demokratiepolitischen Herausforderungen von Überreichtum thematisieren. 1/5

Returned from an insightful Venice Workshop! Kudos to @kalf.bsky.social for 👨‍🏫 our inequality and taxation research with M Mühlböck and B Kittel. Thanks to LMU Munich and Academy of Sociology for having us at VIU! Engaging discussions, excellent presentations and sunny weather made it memorable ✨🔔!

Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc

📢 I am on the academic job market #EconSky Fields: public economics, applied microeconomics Interests: taxation, gender, policy design luisa-wallossek.com My job market paper studies the marriage earnings gap (co-authored with the great @elenahero8.bsky.social ) Full thread below 👇 1/

I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!

New preprint on #Spatial Data Analysis 🌍 A hands-on introduction to spatial #ResearchMethods such as spatial lag, error, and lag of X models for spatial insights. Example on #LondonHousePrices 🏡💰 osf.io/preprints/so... Comments and Feedback welcome 🤗 #SpatialDataAnalysis #SocialScience #Housing

New in AJS! @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social, Anette Fasang & I investigate a hotly debated question: are Millennials worse off than their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers? We argue that this is a misleading question. Why? See ⬇️ or read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

IZA under Armin Falk.... @simonjaeger.bsky.social departs. Maybe they should rename IZA into Nora-Szech-Institute and start rethinking their plans from there.

New paper on the Social Impact of #ExtremeWeather🌪️ in @europeansocieties.bsky.social 🙌 It unpacks the link between extreme weather events, climate beliefs, and behaviour. Spoiler alert: belief shifts happen, but actions? 🤔 Check out OA: doi.org/10.1080/1461... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

@schechtlm.bsky.social und ich zeigen (osf.io/preprints/so...), dass das deutsche Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuerrecht in Verbindung mit geschlechterspezifischem elterlichen Transferverhalten zu einem Gender-Tax-Gap führt. Erklärt hier: www.zeit.de/geld/2023-10... #GenderSky #Sociology

Fantastic Award!

Inequality in housing is getting more attention. But how should we fight it? In a new video with Kathy Velikov & students, we describe the racial injustice of the US housing system and Detroit-based activists & scholars help us sketch alternatives www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iOE... #RealUtopia /1