Young people's moves contribute to inequality by sorting people with high earning potential to areas with high pay premiums. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great new work by @xiaoweixu.bsky.social based on English admin data. @theifs.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

Really thoughtful cross-national qualitative work by @elenaah.bsky.social that highlights how different policy contexts (re: employment, housing, poverty alleviation) translate into different lived experiences for young people experiencing insecurity.

New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11

Teaching a class on panel data and all of my good examples are US-only data. What are your go-to examples for panel and / or multilevel datasets that aren't just the US? Can be at any level (individual, national, organizational, etc), and the clustering can be across either space or time (or both).

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.)

Happy to say that the reading/teaching guide for Unequal Lessons is now live! It's chockful of prompts and resources for folks who are using the book in reading groups or classes. You can find it on the NYU Press book page or access it directly here: nyu.app.box.com/s/hcffzukiyq...

I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):

If you are like me, you sometimes table big research projects to work on more urgent things. 📝 Here is a guide for coming BACK to big research projects (in empirical social science) after some time off. Wrote this note for myself after doing this one too many times: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.

👉 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 used the results to make an interactive web map that allows people to look up how the property wealth in their own metro area (or any other) is fragmented across different local municipalities. This tool visualizes tax base fragmentation across the US—check it out: www.taxbasefragmentation.net

🚨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]

What are Americans’ perceptions of immigrants’ politics? How do beliefs about whether newcomers are future allies or adversaries shape immigration attitudes? A new #AJS article shows that perceived partisan (mis)alignment powerfully informs US public opinion on immigration.

Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas. (The link preview is bad, but it's: Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Excellent new work on the ways that harsh immigration policy affects kids. In a paper last year colleagues and I found evidence for the specific mechanism Tom hypothesizes: fear. This makes me so sad for our kids. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In the early 1980s, the typical household with an elderly householder had a net wealth similar to the national average. Now it's about 55% greater than the average. Meanwhile, young households now have substantially less comparative wealth than they had back then. www.nber.org/papers/w34131

One thing Doug Massey knows? Social inequality is firmly grounded in geographic inequality. 📍 Check out his new essay for @contexts.org ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

Excited to announce that our @stone-lis.bsky.social Seminar Series starts its new iteration soon. You can join in person or online on Wednesdays 10.00 am EST, biweekly! The programme: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/programs/mul... We will first convene on Wednesday!

The WWII GI Bill made millions of veterans homeowners, but it also increased Black-White gaps in homeownership and wealth. Results demonstrate how historic policies not only exacerbated past inequalities but also how these inequalities have persisted and intensified into the present.

As Chicago’s gangs have weakened, it’s become easier for members to leave their groups but harder to avoid violence. My research in Criminology reveals why. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👶 Average age at first birth hit 27.5 in 2023 — the highest ever. By education: 21 yrs (<HS) vs 33 yrs (Doctoral). By geography: 24.5 in Mississippi vs 30.8 in DC. 📖 Explore the new @NCFMR Profile → doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

Cool data alert!

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

This paper from @tomlyttelton.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social is amazing. It shows that removing educational requirements can have big impacts for workers...except that employers don't really hire those workers below the normal education level anyway.

Need central AC data for US neighborhoods? Using methods Carina Gronlund & Veronica Berrocal developed (📝 doi.org/10.1038/s413...), @umnanda.bsky.social predicted central AC access across census tracts. 📊 doi.org/10.3886/E237... @icpsr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

Amazing that this book is offered as an *open-access PDF* for all! Sharing in case folks missed this over the summer: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe.... Looking forward to seeing how this work describes the relationship between metros and their peripheries + questions of race, space, and housing.

In my dissertation (working on revising this chapter into a journal article atm) I address some of the issues John discusses in this thread. Here’s a teaser on what policies US adults said would most improve their personal safety from a wider selection of policies typically on public safety polls.

"ordinary people simply do not believe that adding more housing to the regional stock would reduce housing prices" Glad to see this article on folk economics of housing prices. There's surprisingly little research on folk economic beliefs despite their importance! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

The Community and Urban Sociology Section's summer newsletter is online. The newsletter features two city spotlight pieces on Chicago, along with a list of section sessions. See you there! comurb.org/wp-conten...

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

In our polarized political environment, I’m excited to share my new ASR publication: “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you want to browse academic work without accidentally doom scrolling I cannot recommend this feed enough

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

New paper with Rebecca Johnson (@rebeccaj.bsky.social) on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools, now out in Sociological Science (@sociologicalsci.bsky.social):

At the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Extremely honored that my article "Urban social movements and local state capacity" has received an honorable mention for the Best Faculty Article Award in the ASA section on Sociology of Development! It is available open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

New article w/ @emroberto.bsky.social out in SMR! We introduce a framework for analyzing images 🖼️ with generative multimodal models and provide an empirical application using satellite and street images. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

writing another review where I point to the Table 2 Fallacy (doi.org/10.1093/aje/... and doi.org/10.1017/psrm...) and say stop interpreting every single coefficient

Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

Our piece is out now in ASR! See Lauren's fantastic thread below for the highlights. We believe scholars who study elites, culture, and education will all have something to take away from this work. Let us know what you think. (1/2)