New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

We’re looking forward to hosting #economist Ségal Le Guern Herry tomorrow at 10:30 am EST! He will be in Ann Arbor as he presents, “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” at #Umich. Join us at @umisr.bsky.social. Get the details & RSVP: myumi.ch/mRQpN #AcademicSky #EconSky

Urban sociologists! I'm organizing a Community and Urban Sociology Section session at the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting titled "Housing as an Asset." Please submit extended abstracts or full papers related to topics on homeownership, house values, taxation, mortgages, etc. Deadline is 2/25. bit.ly/3Zx2eez

While overall segregation has declined in recent decades, nearly half of its durability in 2020 is accounted for by this macro-segregation. Suburban NIMBYism is a likely culprit.

New piece in the March issue of Social Forces tracing 120 years of segregation. We note the emergence of a new kind of segregation starting the 1950s: macro-segregation. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... @sfjournal.bsky.social

We found, for example, racial disparities in upward mobility —that is, the rate at which people move to higher-income areas varies according to the racial composition of their current area of residence, even after controlling for income levels. 6/9

Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share the findings from Therese Christensen's and my article! In a nutshell: living in Denmark doesn't prevent you from experiencing a motherhood earnings penalty, but it does give you access to government benefits that help offset those financial losses.

#A2Council Ann Arbor should stack, pack and tax the rich: sstrudeau.com/posts/how-an...

We’re thrilled to share that @umichstonecid.bsky.social has received a new $5M gift from the Stone Foundation to continue our critical work to produce research on social inequality and train the next generation of #inequality scholars. Learn more: myumi.ch/e35w2

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

@joelabriola.bsky.social has shown that the mortgage interest deduction has contributed to growth of the White-Black wealth gap in recent decades. LaBriola presents findings next week in the @umichstonecid.bsky.social speaker series! inequality.umich.edu/speaker-seri...

Specific to people in Ann Arbor: I will be giving a talk next Tuesday at the Stone Center on Inequality Dynamics seminar series. I'll be presenting new research on the intergenerational transmission of housing wealth in the US, more details here: inequality.umich.edu/john-voorheis/

The extended public comment & review period for the third draft of Ann Arbor’s proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan ends tomorrow (Monday, January 5) at 9 A.M. To review the plan and submit public comment, please visit a2gov.org/CLUP. #A2Council

Check out this great opportunity at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social! #GoBlue! #AcademicSky #NowHiring #Umich #SocialScience👇

The UCLA Housing Voice podcast now has a Substack! ✍🏻 It'll be a place for listeners to share comments and questions for book club and mailbag episodes, and to discuss regular episodes in a venue less ephemeral than social media. Be a pal, subscribe + say hi! uclahousingvoice.substack.com

1/5 Is there a gender wealth gap in Canada? In my latest paper with Mamadou Diallo and @dianapenaruiz.bsky.social, we provide some answers. We also compare gender wealth gaps across provinces and over time to assess whether Québec’s adoption of a family policy reduced these gaps. rdcu.be/eOvwS 🧵

Ready to launch your social science career? ISR’s Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) Program is a full time paid opportunity offering hands on research experience, mentorship from ISR faculty, and professional training at the world’s largest social science research institute.

I'm excited to share this big report, a few years in the making, which contemplates how policy and financial reforms could make it possible for tenants to build wealth through renting. I call it Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing.

Thanks for your causal inference readings suggestions! Next Q: what's a paper that (mostly) convinced you of causal relationships *without* an exogenous shock? My students seek examples of good work when using an IV or RD or something isn't an option. (Again, I appreciate RTs to crowd source.)

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a... ). But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Join us Nov. 11 at ISR for Laura Tach's in-person talk hosted by @umichstonecid.bsky.social on the impact of federal place-based policies and neighborhood inequality. RSVP now to attend: inequality.umich.edu/laura-tach/

One week until the deadline! Apply by November 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in August 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

New working paper on family structure & parental investment in extracurriculars. Economic resources explain much of the spending gap between married & cohabiting families. What remains isn't explained by biological relatedness or relationship duration. Feedback welcome! doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The cities where home prices have changed the most (and least) over the past 130 years wapo.st/46ZuESX

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

At the blog, I wrote about two very interesting recent methods articles - Inference to the Best Explanation and External/Construct Validity. Very thoughtful pushback against the ascendancy of the credibility revolution. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality... Hope you enjoy!

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Day 2. #ISIWealtheConference2025 #isimunich

Day 1. #isiwealthconference2025 #isimunich

Community is great! 💙 Thanks for coming to the PSC picnic... @socinequality.bsky.social @joelabriola.bsky.social #PSCPicnic

@sashakillewald.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com: "The number of children Americans have affects the gender pay gap only because parenthood decreases women’s wages while increasing men’s wages." @umichstonecid.bsky.social theconversation.com/us-women-nar...

Dr. Sunghee Lee (@sungheelee.bsky.social‬) featured in this NYT article examining the consequences of deep NIH cuts on health disparities research. Her work on dementia in underrepresented populations was defunded despite its critical value. Read more: myumi.ch/W6dZb #HealthEquity #SocialResearch

Have you seen what we're up to next semester? 👀 From #Econ & Public #Policy to #Sociology & Urban Planning, our fall lineup of speakers represent an array of fields studying social #inequality. #AcademicSky We hope you can joins us! 👇 inequality.umich.edu/fall-2025-sp...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

I just emailed @a2gov-mirror.bsky.social to urge the City Council to vote NO on tomorrow's resolution, which will significantly limit the amount of new housing that can be built under the proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan. (1/3)

New paper!! We show access to credit differs by race, class & geography-diffs in credit scores emerge early & persist through life. Childhood contexts play large role-credit scores of parents & neighbors predict later-life repayment, even cond. on income, wealth, ed. www.wsj.com/economy/cred...

New working paper alert! Posted at @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, it investigates the economic geography of social transfer programs and financial income--with implications for the Medicaid and SNAP cuts proposed in the reconciliation bill 👀 equitablegrowth.org/working-pape...

New data are here! #PSIDdata are now available in the PSID #Data Center and zip packages. Learn more: buff.ly/weBpf1n