2025/2026 here we go... 🚀 Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨ This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

NEW PAPER!! 🎉🎉 Happy to see this work finally out in Population, Space and Place!! 💫💫 We observe a clear geographical pattern in the educational gradient of age at first motherhood across Spanish provinces. Access the full paper here ⬇️⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! 🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development? ✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills. Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💼 Oferta de trabajo! Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG: - 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes - Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive) 👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche... ¡Se agradece difusión!

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨 Apply or circulate: A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries" Deadline: July 21 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

📢 Last chance to apply for tuition waiver scholarships for our interdisciplinary Master’s in Social Sciences! 🎓 3 tuition waivers still available 🗓 Deadline: this week – May 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

Joint work with Daniel Oesch @unil.bsky.social now beautifully formatted in first open access issue of @europeansocieties.bsky.social We ask: have European regions followed similar or divergent trajectories in terms of occupational change over time?

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

Tomorrow and Friday at the UNED, in Madrid: meeting of the Spanish Research Committee on Inequality and Social stratification. 👇 the program: it is small RC28/ECSR! Everybody welcome to attend. Or meet the presenters later with a beer at the Mercato San Fermando in Lavapiés

🚨 New publication out! Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction. Curious? Have a look! 📄✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain doi.org/10.1093/esr/... Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @marespadafor.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social alumna @aliciagsierra.bsky.social

Our study shows educational expansion isn’t always enough. Wondering what this means for policy today? A summary with the key takeaways in this short policy brief: www.linkedin.com/posts/maresp...

New paper out with @marespadafor.bsky.social: we study the intergenerational effects of Spain’s 1970 school reform and find that, despite major educational expansion, inequality persisted 📚📉 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Postdoc job alert: 🇨🇭 If you are a quantitative stratification / inequality / life course sociologist (or close) who could plausibly teach in French then you should apply for this super job at LIVES / @dessociales.bsky.social / @unil.bsky.social with Daniel Oesch @populationeu.bsky.social

📈 Inner London: +20 pts in high-wage jobs 📉 Outer London: growth at top and bottom Dr. @katymorris.bsky.social's #Socius article shows how #OccupationalChange in London from 1991–2021 reveals stark #spatialinequality. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

🚨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

Beyond Germany and Switzerland, are there other countries that automatically issue work certificates? Essentially a preemptive confirmation of employment and reference letter from the employer, rather than an employee Would love to know more about the origins (VET linked?) if anyone can direct me

First issue of 2025 is out! New research findings -most #openaccess- at academic.oup.com/esr/issue/41/1 With contributions by @frankvantubergen.bsky.social @aliciagsierra.bsky.social @martinkolk.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @jochemvannoord.eu & many more (not found in BS, sorry if they are)

No, las niñas no son peores en ciencia. En el día de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia recuerdo este texto de 2018 en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social sobre la interacción entre estereotipos, actitudes, expectativas, rendimiento y decisiones académicas y laborales: www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

Unirti a noi 🇮🇹 🇬🇧. Scholars working in Italy and/or studying Italy: you can now apply to visit us at Nuffield College for 1 to 6 months through the Jemolo Fellowship. Apply by 21/2, see here for more info www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

On my way to Lausanne to present the massive health consequences of refugee allocation policy in Switzerland. Thanks for inivting me to LIVES and my alma mater, Michael and @aliciagsierra.bsky.social ! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... (DM me if you can access the paper.)

And delighted to have @aliciagsierra.bsky.social, aka #ECSR best thesis rockstar as friend and colleague ❤️ @unil.bsky.social for the win

Thrilled to have received the #ECSR Best PhD Thesis Award 2024, and it's even more special to celebrate surrounded by so many good friends! Very grateful for all the support along the way 🌿🌿🌿

🪧 social scientists! Who would like to visit Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social or #UNIGE in 2025? 🇨🇭📈🏔️ Travel and accommodation grants of up to CHF 3,000 are available for research stays of at least 2 months ➡️ see 🔗 for details and apply by 15th November 2024 www.centre-lives.ch/en/appel/liv...

Children benefit when their mothers gain occupation-specific skills (especially in high-SES families!)👩‍🔬👩‍💻👩‍🔧 More about this pathway for intergenerational transmission of advantages here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ osf.io/preprints/so...

Our working paper on whether an educational reform moderates the relationship between genes and life chances is now available (with exciting results!) 🧬👩‍🎓💰 osf.io/preprints/so...

New article with Asri Maharani and Lindsay Richards in "BMJ Public Health:" Subjective social status and frailty in ELSA Open access link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjp...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobility in the life course 🏫 : LIVES & nccr on the move 🗓 : 5-6th November 2024 📍 : Geneva 💰 : no conference fee; lunches & conference dinner provided 📄 : abstracts by 31st May 2024 centre-lives.ch/fr/lives-int...

🔊❗ New paper out in European Sociological Review #OpenAccess: "Parental responses to children’s early health disadvantages: evidence from a British twin study" I use a twin design to examine how parents respond to their children’s early health problems: academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Last few days to apply!

We all have biases, and merit evaluators in the educational system are no exception. In a large experiment on 20 Faculties of Education, we identify biased assessments of (future) teachers by student's gender, class, ethnic origin, and cultural capital 👇 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

I am happy to use my first skeet (do we still say that here?) to share that this paper with Martin Diewald on parental support strategies in response to children's school performance, which is based on my master’s thesis, is now published online #OpenAccess in ESR (doi.org/10.1093/esr/...)

🥁 New working paper (w/ Michael Grätz), where we develop an empirical framework to measure liberal and radical equality of opportunity! Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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

The EAPS working group on Child and Adolescent Development will be hosting a Masterclass for early career researchers before the EPC conference in Edinburgh, June 12th. Abstract deadline March 1st. A great opportunity for those working on childhood, and broadly within a demography perspective.

Excited to share that the 1st paper of my thesis is now published in SMR, co-authored by the great @emstruffolino.bsky.social and Anette Fasang. We introduce the SA-KOB, a novel life-course-sensitive decomposition of group inequalities, and apply it to the Gender Pension Gap! 👇🧵 (1/14)

Two weeks left to apply for this fantastic postdoc position on Equality of Opportunity at the University of Lausanne! 🏔️ It does not only come with great institutional support and atmosphere but also with quite a view... Happy to talk about it with anyone interested! 🙂

Postdoc position on the EQUALOPP project at the University of Lausanne! Application deadline: January 31, 2024. A fascinating project, with an amazing environment, great conditions, and a lot of flexibility to do your research! More information here: ⬇️ career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...