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Sociology PhD candidate at Cornell, studying wealth inequality and elites. www.wesleystubenbord.com
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New from me: An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals. Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
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Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
https://wesleystubenbord.com/viz/billionaire-migration-map/migration-map.html
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FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
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➡️ La durée des mandats des élites économiques suisses a été divisée par deux depuis le début du XXe siècle. En 2020, elle n’était plus que de sept à huit ans, contre env. 15 ans vers 1900. 👉 Böhme, E. D. & Bühlmann, F.
www.socialchangeswitzerland.ch
Données : OBELIS
@obelitessuisses.bsky.social
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Nhat An Trinh
3 days ago
Excited to share a new
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study with
@dariatisch.bsky.social
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@schechtlm.bsky.social
🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️
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Klaus Pforr
8 days ago
For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and
@nataliebackes.bsky.social
, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics?
direct.mit.edu/euso/article...
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Migrant rent penalties in the German housing market
Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...
https://direct.mit.edu/euso/article/doi/10.1162/EUSO.a.98/135222/Migrant-rent-penalties-in-the-German-housing
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Yang Hu
10 days ago
🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with
@yueqiansoc.bsky.social
just out in
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples:
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
@sriucl.bsky.social
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Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization
Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002
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Andreas P. Weiland
17 days ago
"Behind Closed Doors: Intra-Couple Pension and Wealth Gaps in Germany and Beyond" 🚪👩🦳👴
@lisdata.bsky.social
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@liser.lu
policy brief by
@nicolekapelle.bsky.social
and me out now! Read more here 👉
www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/n...
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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/newsletter/nl-2025-36-im-2/
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NBER
17 days ago
Studying whether low-economic-mobility neighborhoods can be transformed into high-mobility areas through the HOPE VI program, which invested billions to distressed public housing developments, from Chetty, Diamond, Foster,
@lkatz42.bsky.social
, Porter, Staiger, and Tach
www.nber.org/papers/w34720
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Joshua Choper
24 days ago
My new article, now online
@sfjournal.bsky.social
, examines trends in Black-White inequality by gender in earnings losses among displaced workers. Lost earnings premia, disadvantageous re-sorting, and statistical discrimination play distinct roles in shaping inequality.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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The fine journalists over at
@volkskrant.nl
have turned my data viz on billionaire migration into an excellent article on the tendency of billionaires to stay put: "Billionaires are homebodies: Where do the world's richest people live?" by Pepijn de Lange, graphics by Stefan Pullen
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Miljardairs zijn honkvast. Waar wonen de allerrijksten der aarde?
Ze zijn deze week weer samen in Davos, veel rijken der aarde. Maar waar wonen miljardairs eigenlijk? En waar komen ze oorspronkelijk vandaan?
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2026/miljardairs-woonplaats~v2553041/
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
about 1 month ago
New in Socio-Economic Review: Cohabitation & wealth in France and Germany. 📈 Cohabitation boosts wealth for both women and men; France’s Pacs adds an extra premium. ⚖️ Regulation > norms in explaining these wealth patterns. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
@nicolekapelle.bsky.social
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf013
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Christophe Van Langenhove
2 months ago
🚨New working paper 🚨 – Saving Rate Heterogeneity across the Wealth Distribution in the United States Using PSID data (2001–2021), I provide mobility-consistent estimates of saving rates across the U.S. wealth distribution.
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Nathan Wilmers
2 months ago
I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
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Adam Bonica
3 months ago
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
https://open.substack.com/pub/data4democracy/p/money-doesnt-buy-elections-it-does?r=10322&utm_medium=ios
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American Sociological Association
3 months ago
ASA member Cristobal Young (Cornell University) says data show that the rich generally stay put, countering warnings that millionaires would flee NYC if Mamdani were elected.
@us.theconversation.com
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New York’s wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdani’s win – but the data says otherwise
Research on millionaire migration reveals that social and professional ties matter far more than marginal tax rates.
https://bit.ly/4pPrd85
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Glauber Eduardo Gonçalves
3 months ago
Proud to share the publication of my first paper, co-authored with Silvio Candido, in
@actasociologica.bsky.social
! “Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite” is now out — hope you enjoy the read!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00016993251382721
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Arnout van de Rijt
3 months ago
"We find a highly connected network core of ∼275 directors...We find a large political premium for directors in very large companies." This month in our journal,
@sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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Thelonious Goerz
3 months ago
New working paper up on SocArxiv!
osf.io/preprints/so...
. I use the 1940 Census and linked mortality records in combination with an IV-design to study the causal effects of racial segregation on longevity. I show that segregation reduces both Black and White longevity.
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New from me: An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals. Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
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Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
https://wesleystubenbord.com/viz/billionaire-migration-map/migration-map.html
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Katie Higgins
4 months ago
New article out now 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵
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Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion
In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.70044
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Nice graph in a new Bloomberg article: Massachusetts‘ millionaire tax has brought in more than double its projected revenue.
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Manuel Schechtl
4 months ago
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
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Paula Villa Braslavsky
5 months ago
@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social
on
@deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
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Soziale Ungleichheit - Soziologe Pfeffer: Vermögenssteuer ist "keineswegs radikal"
Der Soziologe Fabian Pfeffer hat sich für die Wiedereinführung einer Vermögenssteuer in Deutschland ausgesprochen.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/soziologe-pfeffer-vermoegenssteuer-ist-keineswegs-radikal-100.html
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Sam Friedman
5 months ago
New paper! Led by the brilliant
@blaabaek.bsky.social
and based on library borrowing data for the entire 🇩🇰 population. Thread below
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Sociological Science
5 months ago
NEW: Elias Nosrati, "The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation"
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12-26-634/
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Thomas Piketty
5 months ago
Net private wealth has skyrocketed since 1980 - this is one of the main findings of a new
@wid.world
study overturning the Kaldor’s facts. More findings in thread 🧵 🔗Study
wid.world/news-article...
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Meanwhile, the wealth of the richest 400 Americans hit a record high yesterday: $6.77 trillion. Up 26% from last year.
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Probably the single largest transfer of wealth to an individual in history: Larry Ellison's wealth rose by $94.5 billion to $388 billion yesterday. Still only the second richest person in the world.
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NBER
6 months ago
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
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Patrick Sturgis
6 months ago
New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden.
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https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9ruwe_v1
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Steven Durlauf
7 months ago
Very pleased to post this great conversation with Cristobal Young.
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Isabell Stamm
7 months ago
In our new article, Jens Beckert and I ask how "Capital and the Family" interconnect in contemporary capitalism. We argue that they come together in owning relations - and are crucial to today's economy. Read more in
@bjsociology.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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American Journal of Sociology
8 months ago
New study on elite tax migration. Using IRS data, we show that while tax rates matter, embeddedness matters more. Millionaires don’t flee high-tax states unless their networks are disrupted. Embeddedness > incentives. States can still tax the rich.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Taxing the Rich: How Incentives and Embeddedness Shape Millionaire Tax Flight | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737165
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James Feigenbaum
7 months ago
Publication day!
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Journal of Public Economics
8 months ago
Just published in
@jpube.bsky.social
: "The Influence of Inheritances on Wealth Inequality in Rich Countries" By
@morellisal.bsky.social
, Brian Nolan,
@juancpal.bsky.social
, & Philippe Van Kerm
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
#publiceconomics
#publicfinance
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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
8 months ago
🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12
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James Feigenbaum
8 months ago
Double the original expected revenue! That doesn't happen if the tax is driving millionaires out of the Commonwealth
#mapoli
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Benjamin Rohr
10 months ago
New paper out in Social Science History about elite networks in the American administrative state
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Elite cohesion in the American administrative state, 1898–1998 | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Elite cohesion in the American administrative state, 1898–1998
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.16
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Franziska Wiest
10 months ago
My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.
@bupjournals.bsky.social
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Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families
Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...
https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y2025D000000064
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