Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Interested in intergenerational mobility in the United States? Join the National Academies for a webinar on Economic and Social Mobility in the United States on Monday, September 22, at 2:00 p.m. ET. More information & registration: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45575_... @nationalacademies.org

Thrilled to co-author 2 recent qualitative papers that perfectly demonstrate the importance of mixed methods research to inform US policy. In the first aptly titled "It's confusing as hell" we examined lived experiences of low-income people applying for the EITC. academic.oup.com/healthaffair... 1/

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

Ending publication of monthly Current Economic Statistics (CES) would violate the will of Congress as expressed federal law. It would also violate OMB's Statistical Policy Directive 3, which governs all Principal Federal Economic Indicators, including the CES. www.bls.gov/bls/statisti...

⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky @stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Very saddened to learn of the passing of Richard Alba, a towering figure in the sociology of immigration. His work shaped the understanding of assimilation, ethno-racial boundaries, and the changing American mainstream. 🔗 www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

welcome to Bluesky, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social !

For an excellent take on polygenic scores & embryo selection read this great post by @drjenndowd.bsky.social.

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

Two new papers on when and how school spending matters. With fabulous co-authors @greermellon.bsky.social @susannaloeb.bsky.social Now if only the federal govt would fund schools appropriately... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Open access version of the article here: osf.io/preprints/so... Thank you, @socarxiv.bsky.social

Declining birth rates are likely driven by "pregnancy avoidance" decisions - people repeatedly deciding that it's not a good time to get pregnant *right now* rather than deciding not to have any (more) children at all, as my colleagues and I show in a new paper. 1/ doi.org/10.1007/s111...

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Excellent explainer of COVID vaccines for kids by @drjenndowd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...

“This bill would introduce the most significant & costliest new federal ed program in decades. It has virtually no quality-control measures, transparency provisions, protections against discrimination, or evidence to suggest that it’s likely to improve ed outcomes.” A+ Jon Valant ECCA explainer

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

Looking for a postdoc opportunity? Want to work on intergenerational mobility? Looking to be in the land down under? Here is a great opportunity to consider working for @siminskipeter.bsky.social, @rkwilkins.bsky.social, Nathan Deutscher and myself: #econsky econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries. For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse. New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

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...

Do not listen to RFK Jr. on covid vaccines for pregnant people. Listen to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which STRONGLY recommends a covid vaccine during pregnancy, for the health of the pregnant person and the fetus. 🧪 www.acog.org/covid-19/cov...

New paper alert on - you guessed it - childbearing decision-making! @srhayford.bsky.social & I evaluate if people's perceptions of their personal lives & how things are going more broadly are associated with whether they thought it was likely they would have a(nother) child. 1/

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960. What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out. 🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

Important paper by Bleemer and Quincy: Since 1960, the college wage premium has become less equal. Lower-income students now get far less out of college than their higher-income peers. www.nber.org/papers/w33797

Honored (& mildly mortified) to be profiled in @pawprinceton.bsky.social The piece highlights research on how college affects mobility, how early-life exposures shape life chances, and how interventions—like vaccination—can promote wellbeing across generations. paw.princeton.edu/article/flor...

Do you want to be included in our family starter pack or know other family sociologists who should be included? Leave a comment here, and follow our starter pack to hear the latest research on families! go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

We got the plan too. www.axios.com/2025/04/17/t...

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

proud of my president today www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

The nomination deadline for @asa-ipm.bsky.social awards is TODAY. It doesn't take much or long to nominate a book, paper, or person -- including your own work!

Welcome Blue Sky newbies! I'm a social science & health researcher @oxforddemsci.bsky.social who discovered a love of scicomm during COVID (via @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social). Determined to keep fighting the good fight to provide accessible, practical, & science-based health information for all.

Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

Cool new paper by @eduardomontero.bsky.social and JD Denton-Schneider... Eliminating Chagas disease in Brazil raised income by 11%! Larger gains for non-whites, reducing racial inequality. Public health interventions can address both development and inequality... www.nber.org/papers/w3351...

Don’t polarize people against you who aren’t really against you (The trick, always, is knowing the difference)

Great to see "The Social Genome" by my colleague Dalton Conley now in print. A wealth of evidence and insights, challenging the old "nature vs. nurture" debate and showing how genes and social contexts interact to shape our lives.

This is not healthy.

Every missed day is a lost learning opportunity. Stop driving down attendance for kids legally entitled to a public education under Plyler by making their families fear immigration enforcement just for getting them to and from school.

I'm chairing the ASA Sociology of Population section's Student Paper Award. Nominations are due March 1st (self-nominations are welcome!). Info in the image below.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

BREAKING: In response to a lawsuit by Doctors of America, a federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to restore information on websites that the Trump admin had ordered agencies to remove. The webpages must be restored to their Jan. 30 state by midnight Tue, Feb 11.

As federal govt backs off from bolstering US safety net, there is room for states to act. Our latest paper found that the most recently implemented state #paidleave policies to support new parents increased breastfeeding practices. academic.oup.com/aje/advance-... @societyforepi.bsky.social 1/

ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.

Check out our new Population and Development Review paper with Andrés Villarreal and @ftorche.bsky.social on changes in preterm birth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mex. We find a decrease for women using private healthcare, and an increase for those in the public sector. doi.org/10.1111/padr...