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...

Our postdoc affiliate Jake Hays and @pfomby.bsky.social provide the first estimates of nonresident parent wealth for US children. Hays: "We show that children likely have access to this wealth and that it matters for their educational attainment in young adulthood." @umichstonecid.bsky.social #PSID

Thanks to @umichstonecid.bsky.social for putting this together! If you want to read more, here are links to my research on race and the origins of residential growth controls (doi.org/10.1080/1051...) and on housing market appreciation and the White-Black wealth gap (doi.org/10.1093/socp...).

The IDC discussion has been focused on the facilities part of IDC-but as damaging as not being able to pay for the buildings where labs that study life saving therapies are done-there are people

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

Michael Burawoy taught my grad Classical Social Theory class. My interests, methods, favorite theories, and approaches to social science were nothing like his. Yet his passion & excitement for sociology and his genuine care & interest in his students has been an inspiration & model. What a loss.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

What happened at NIH today www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Wealth in the U.S. is increasing concentrated in the hands of the few. My work with @dyligent.bsky.social & @joelsuss.bsky.social shows *where* the wealth is, which cities are the most unequal and how trends have evolved. My new piece for @theconversation.com brings you up to speed. bit.ly/40gqvoZ

"English readers, if you're curious about what @celinebessiere.bsky.social and I had to say on families and wealth, check out the English translation of our introduction to the special issue (in French) that we recently co-directed on the topic journals.openedition.org/efg/21099

ISR is accepting applications for the next cohort of Junior Professional Researchers! This is a great opportunity for recent college grads to get experience working in social science research at ISR. Please reach out with any questions! #statsky #episky #econsky #publichealth #academicsky #polisky

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The GC Wealth Project has launched an updated version of its data warehouse! Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods. Discover all the updates: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...

Cheers to 2025! As we begin the new year, we took a moment to reflect on all that we accomplished in 2024. Check out our most-read news stories from the past year. #NewYear

Our latest newsletter just dropped! Catch up on what's happening at the Stone Center: mailchi.mp/umich/cid-de...

After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence. New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

My AAUP Florida Cmte colleague (and sociology professor) Afshan Jafar on the state's moves to ban sociology: "a tragic blow to students’ intellectual freedom. It will prevent generations of students from being introduced to subject matter that is uniquely suited to address complex challenges."

New paper! 📊 You’ve heard of the (debated) summer learning gap. We look at the summer parental investment gap. Joe LaBriola and I find larger SES gaps during the summer, and larger gaps for younger school-age children than older children. 🧵 1/9   authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvO1%7EuW...