Applications open for our PhD program!

PhD candidates compete for scholarships of their European country of origin (or often their country of master degree), to do a PhD at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. We also have scholarships for non-EU candidates. It is a super international and vibrant community. Please forward to your students!

I delivered the laudatio for @socarxiv.bsky.social which won the 2025 @kohli-sociology.bsky.social Infrastructure Prize for Sociology. The ceremony was at the @eui-eu.bsky.social and SocArXiv was represented by @philipncohen.com . My laudatio here: www.fabriziobernardi.net/laudatio-for...

New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social! @filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/5

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy: Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Immigrants typically arrive in good health but experience fast health declines. Is the same true for Asylum Seekers though? Check out my latest publication on PDR: doi.org/10.1111/padr... Short answer: yes for (self-reported) physical health, but the opposite is true for mental health!

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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