just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

🆕 NEW Paper with K. Bobrowicz (lead), Z. Teuber & S. Greiff in @plosone.org! Early Childhood Education (ECE) Stakeholders push Competition & Achievement over Solidarity & Cohesion #Meritocracy #Trap 🌍 53 countries 📊 Thematic Analysis 🕰️ 1999–2023 Open Access 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Which family life course aspects shape wealth the most? Our (@crowold.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social) novel data-driven study uncovers the key family-related predictors of wealth in late working age. Hint: It’s not as simple as you think! 👀👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

🚨New paper in the International Journal of Sociology of Education where I analyse how growing up in single-parent families influences tertiary education attainment, which mechanisms explain this, their heterogeneity by parental SES and how it has changed over time. 👉🏽 doi.org/10.17583/ris...

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

📣 New paper by Mejías-Leiva & Mínguez: adolescents from single-parent families have more school absences than those from two-parent families due to poorer economic and family resources, especially among lower social backgrounds. 🔗https://genus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41118-024-00214-3