Chapter 2 of my dissertation is now available in Socius! doi.org/10.1177/2378... In it, I aim to shed light on the debate as to whether gender specialization or gender egalitarianism is more beneficial for marital stability, considering education as an under-explored moderator of these associations

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

That’s a wrap for #ECSR2025! After three days of inspiring presentations and stimulating exchanges with old and new friends in Cologne, the CLIC delegation happily packs up its tents. Many thanks to the organisers and participants for making this such a rewarding conference - time well spent!

And me! Also Thu at 15.30! (Session on Discrimination)

CLIC in Cologne! 🧳🚋 #ECSR2025 kicks off in Cologne tomorrow and we are excited to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥 Come join us in these great sessions 👇

🔴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

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR

Great keynote by @melindacmills.bsky.social at the @eui-eu.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, in a full teatro.

Melinda Mills was awarded an honorary doctorate at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. The laudatio was given by @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. @melindacmills.bsky.social congratulations!

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 🧬👪

I once read one full sentence of Bourdieu. drive.google.com/file/d/12qrD...

A very nice evening to end the academic year of @clic.bsky.social. Not everybody made it to the pic… thanks everybody for your engagement.

Happy to share that my last PhD article found a home at RSSM. Together with Julia Lang we examine how employees expect their co-workers to react (exit or voice) to perceived wage injustice—and how these expectations vary by gender and workplace context. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing

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.

On May 20, 12:00 I will give a public lecture in the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series, in Edinburgh. How to Educate our Children: The Tasks of Qualification, Allocation and Socialisation in Comparative Perspective For more information: education-sport.ed.ac.uk/how-to-educa...

Last week we had a wonderful thesis defence by @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social 🔥 Congratulations Gaia, what a great job 🎉🎉 We are really looking forward to what's to come next 💫

@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social defended her PhD yesterday at the EUI. An outstanding thesis and a fantastic defense, so proud of you, Gaia!! Here pre-defence with the Bologna ultras supervisor and post with the committee @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social (zoom) and Nicola Barban

Using height as a measure of an individual’s underlying health, @ferraraale.bsky.social @rrluthra.bsky.social & Lucinda Platt investigate the health of immigrants over time, offering a solution to the “immigrant health paradox” #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/0yUtKbt

A possible mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequalities: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity and overweight, while low-SES environments trigger them ⚖️ New working paper here 👇 osf.io/preprints/so...

Thank you, @distasioval.bsky.social, for an inspiring talk at the University of Copenhagen on discrimination in childcare access. What an important project and huge effort to collect data in nine countries—we look forward to following the next steps!

Celebrating Richard Breen’s work in honour of his retirement, with a great conference organized by @berkayozcan.bsky.social , @kbkarlson.bsky.social and Janne Jonsson

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

Another happy Poster winner at #PAA2025 @marcushagley.bsky.social (now at @univie.ac.at) on fecundity in contemporary Europe

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

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 👇🧵

There are still two days left to submit abstracts for this year's PopFest!

The EUI crowd at the #rc28 conference last week! @eui-sps.bsky.social

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

A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️ As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!) #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

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...

@clic.bsky.social proudly congratulates the winner of the @isa-rc28.bsky.social conference bingo of this year's meeting in Milan 🥳 Congratulations @ivancanzio.bsky.social

It seems that among this perhaps the most quant oriented group of the field, the social stratification researchers of RC28, sociological theory is currently taking massive leaps forward. The group that is so often considered as the most unimaginative number crunchers by other sociologists.

Attending #RC28 Spring meeting? Come give me some feedback tomorrow at the session on Inequality of Educational Opportunity at 11:00. Maybe you'll make it to my dissertations acknowledgements!

come join me @isa-rc28.bsky.social the morning after the conference dinner to see some of my new research AND my first foray into sequence analysis

☀️ RC28 starting in Milan tomorrow and we are very happy to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥 Join us in these great sessions👇

Read Sara Geven and Dieuwke Zwier's study of over 1200 Dutch students, which found positive associations between expressions of students' interactional cultural capital and academic performance. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/R8ze5kw

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌎🪧 In the first paper of my PhD—just accepted in the American Journal of Sociology (!!!)—I show how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp 🧵 (1/7)

📢 Do employees perceive gender pay gaps to be (un)fair? Susanne Strauß, Julia Lang and I contribute to the discussion around this question and explore how the organizational context shapes these perceptions. Out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Still a couple of weeks left until the submission deadline for the Workshop on Inequalities in Bari, jointly organized with Sapienza and LISER. See you guys there! :)

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

Round 2 of this week Brown Bag Seminar (#BBS) is a wrap! 🏔️ Today, it was @pfallesen.bsky.social turn to share his expertise and insightful contribution on research on the effect of divorce on children. We are left with one question: What are the counterfactuals? 💡 #BBS

Our first year’s PhD students of @clic.bsky.social and the analytical sociology colloquium presented their plans. Our postdocs were discussants. Great day!

📚 Today, the Max Weber Programme's January Lecture featured Anna Dreber Almenberg, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Professor Dreber Almenberg discussed her co-authored research testing the replicability of experiments published in high impact journals.

In “Restricting Access to Marriage for Young Immigrant Women in Denmark,” B. Cuzulan, @mls-nielsen.bsky.social & @pfallesen.bsky.social explore how “marriage probability, fertility behavior & human capital were affected when the marriage market" was constrained. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Dear demographers, the call for papers for the Nordic Demographic Symposium, hosted by @demografi.dk, closes on Monday. Send us your abstracts here: event.sdu.dk/nds2025demog... #demography #youpayforyourowndrinks

It was great giving a talk at #UPF. A paper that I have been working on for some time, with @hakhverdian.bsky.social, Wouter Schakel and Brian Burgoon. About assessing political polarization in attitudes in a different way, and understanding its implications for voting.