Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...

In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness. doi.org/10.1332/1757...

How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...

See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!