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

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

10 more days to apply! 👇 #academicsky #postdoc #nowhiring

Late-breaking postdoc opportunity at our Stone Center! Come join our amazing intellectual community @umichstonecid.bsky.social.

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

Slight correction—I’ll be presenting Saturday at 8 AM. Come by if you’re still up from the @um-psc.bsky.social party the night before :)

Wrote one. #A2Council

Housing politics not to fall along partisan lines, says @joelabriola.bsky.social in a recent BLK News Now! podcast-- speaking on rising housing prices that have widened the Black-White wealth gap in the US. @um-src.bsky.social @umichstonecid.bsky.social ➡️ blknewsnow.com/sociologist-...

This banner is showing up on NIH data repositories. If you use data from these archives you may want to consider what you need access to in the near and far term for your research

Enjoyed talking about my recent @socprobsjournal.bsky.social article on housing market appreciation and the White-Black wealth gap on the BLK News Now! podcast. blknewsnow.com/sociologist-...

Join us for the first ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE in Munich, October 9-11 2025 CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates... Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28. Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

ICYMI: Watch past Penn Population Studies Colloquiums on the PSC YouTube Channel! ! Linked below: Joe LaBriola (@joelabriola.bsky.social) presents The Mortgage Interest Deduction and the White-Black Wealth Gap, 1984-2021 youtu.be/FxWfIGlJ-Uo

New today from me @us.theconversation.com: I talk about my research on how rising housing prices have widened the White-Black wealth gap over the past several decades. theconversation.com/rising-house...

"The bottom 80% of earners spent 25% more than they did four years earlier, barely outpacing price increases of 21% over that period. The top 10% spent 58% more." www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

About 3 months ago, the print version of this article had this lead: "Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" Today, the same article came online with a small update: "Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

What’s next at CID? Join the Stone Center as Janeria Easley, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University, presents, “Intergenerational Mobility: Racial Disparities in Mobility from a Holistic Perspective.” Learn more and RSVP: inequality.umich.edu/janeria-easl...