Next step for the Extreme Wealth Line project - you can now sign up to newsletters - We have been making progress and plan to share more details very soon :) To sign up, go to extremewealthline.com and scroll all the way down.

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Don’t forget to nominate your favourite inequality paper in 2025!

New paper out in PNAS! We show that becoming a grandparent substantially reduces employment and earnings, especially for women. At the same time, grandparents go more to the doctor for respiratory infections, but less for mental health conditions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @lukaslehner.bsky.social in the American Sociological Review, we ask: What happens to organized labor when Walmart Supercenters enter a local labor market? Broadly, how do worker power and buyer power interact to shape inequality? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What inequality-related articles from 2025 should sociologists be reading? The IPM Section is creating a community-sourced reading list of notable 2025 articles on inequality, poverty, mobility, stratification, and related topics. Submit your recommendations here: forms.gle/QWQuLZfVc5y3...

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

WHAT IS PUBLIC POLICY THEORY? My new Substack post opens this debate thinking about the big picture questions I’m grappling with as I prepare a PhD seminar on public policy theory. substack.com/@davebrady72...

Temporary visa status is a growing source of inequality. My dissertation chapter published in IMR uses 3.4M population-level administrative records of H-1B workers. I show they are OVEREDUCATED and paid 10% less than similarly employed U.S. citizens. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have a new publication in inequality, poverty, or mobility? We welcome scholars and graduate students to share their work and tag @asa-ipm.bsky.social! We’d be glad to help highlight exciting new research from across the field.

The data warehouse includes information on household wealth levels and balance sheets, distributional statistics, and wealth transfer taxation. It brings together data on tax revenues, rates, exemptions, and schedules. Explore: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu

Apply for an ASA Travel Award! Student members and sociologists who would otherwise find it difficult to attend the annual meeting in NYC are eligible to apply for financial assistance via the Travel Fund Award or Student Forum Travel Award. Deadline April 27. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4dhWL3r

Submit to the IPM's Participatory Budget Proposal! Submit here: forms.gle/2j6GaCwvS77B... Due date is the end of the month.

Do you have a good idea of how to spend up to $1,500 to help the community of inequality researchers? Then submit it by Jan 31 (here: forms.gle/2j6GaCwvS77B...) to be included in the new participatory budgeting process of the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section. @asa-ipm.bsky.social

There are only a few slots left! Grad students, see the quoted post for the link to sign up!

The IPM section will once again be hosting a mentoring event at ASA in Chicago this year - Saturday, August 9 (12:00-1:30pm). Registration for the event is open to the first 40 graduate students who sign up. Grads can register here: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

The nomination deadline for @asa-ipm.bsky.social awards is TODAY. It doesn't take much or long to nominate a book, paper, or person -- including your own work!

IPM community - submit nominations for the IPM paper and book awards - nominations for yourself or for others - by tomorrow (March 31)!

For an overview of all awards and submission details: www.asanet.org/communities-... /end

Please nominate your favorite senior sociologist by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT M. HAUSER DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD (awarded to celebrate the field’s most fundamental accomplishments) Send a brief nomination letter and their CV to Anthony Jack ([email protected]). /6

Please nominate your favorite junior sociologist by March 31 for the 2025 WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON EARLY CAREER AWARD (to recognize a scholar who has made major contributions early in their career) Send a brief nomination letter and their CV to Deirdre Bloome ([email protected]) /5

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair ([email protected]) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 DEVAH PAGER OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Jayanti Owens ([email protected]) /3

Please nominate a (or your) book by March 31 for the 2025 IPM OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD (published 2022, 2023, or 2024) Send a brief nomination letter to (and have the book publisher contact) Ellis Monk ([email protected]) @ellismonk.bsky.social /2

Send nominations for IPM paper and book awards by March 31! Send to: OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD: [email protected] OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: [email protected] GRAD STUDENT PAPER AWARD: [email protected] EARLY CAREER AWARD: [email protected] DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD: [email protected]