Michelle Jackson
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford
https://www.mivich.com/
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Jeremy Freese
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April 23-24: Two-day online National Academies workshop on enhancing scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences. The program is here (
bit.ly/NASprog
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Don Moynihan
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Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse. It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."
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Seth Abrutyn
5 days ago
A really great substack by the ever-brilliant
@dsilver432.bsky.social
charting the rise and fall and sometimes rise again of sociological research areas, discourse, and interests. Sadly, I find myself somewhere in that mid-20th century world...
thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/sociologys...
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Sociology's evolving discourse
Me and Codex have entered the chat
https://thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/sociologys-evolving-discourse
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David Lay Williams
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Delighted to find my "Greatest of All Plagues" in such excellent company (including
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@mivich.bsky.social
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@aaronreeves.bsky.social
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@samfriedman.bsky.social
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10 Valuable Reads on Inequality - Stone Center
Understanding inequality requires cross-disciplinary insights. The field is evolving constantly, with new research shaping how we think about economic disparities and mobility. That’s why the work we ...
https://stonecenter.uchicago.edu/news-insights/10-valuable-reads-on-inequality/
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C. Kirabo Jackson
11 days ago
Delighted to share our revised paper (w/
@juliaturner.bsky.social
&
@jacobbastian.bsky.social
) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs.
nber.org/papers/w33767
#EconSky
#EarlyChildhood
#ECE
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Sara Hobolt
11 days ago
Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right 👇
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Steven Durlauf
13 days ago
Please join us!
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Henry Farrell
18 days ago
Weaponized interdependence is happening
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Ea Blaabæk
18 days ago
When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in
@pnas.org
with Emil Smith,
@davidreimer.bsky.social
&
@madsjaeger.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2523152123
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Tim Bale
21 days ago
Great book - here's my review, hot off the
@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Tribal politics in Britain – how Brexit divided a nation - LSE Review of Books
Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt & James Tilley argues that the 2016 Brexit Referendum did not reveal, but created, two polarised political identities in the UK
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2026/03/23/book-review-tribal-politics-how-brexit-divided-britain-sara-b-hobolt-james-tilley/
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CREST Sociology
21 days ago
New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening" Link:
doi.org/10.1086/739108
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Kieran Healy
23 days ago
This also happens when you’re going to sleep and at random times during any given week.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
25 days ago
A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail
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Nina Bandelj
25 days ago
Happy global birthday to OVERINVESTED! 🎂 Celebrate with me & join a discussion organized by Dr.
@audreyharroche.bsky.social
in conversation with Prof. Tina Miller at Oxford Brookes University 📅 30 April, 16:00–17:00 (UK time) Online event open to all; register here:
brookes.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Ruth Delgado
25 days ago
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
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March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555
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Jens-Peter Thomsen
27 days ago
Our paper on international educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the US is now open access👇👇👇
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Florencia Torche
about 1 month ago
New
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy
doi.org/10.3102/0002...
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Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026
Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...
https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312251409059
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Matthew Clair
12 months ago
New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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This is exciting! The first edition is very good indeed, and is one of the required readings for the first class in our statistics sequence. Looking forward to reading the second edition.
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Henry Farrell
about 1 month ago
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
about 1 month ago
This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >
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Had a great time talking to
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
about The Division of Rationalized Labor. Listen to the podcast here:
newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...
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Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-division-of-rationalized-labor
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Manuel Schechtl
about 1 month ago
⚠️ New WP ⚠️ with
@ftorche.bsky.social
: Can childhood exposure to local wealth inequality help explain growing class gaps in income mobility? Short answer: Yes! Read the full answer here:
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
#Demography
#Sociology
#EconSky
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Jani Erola
about 2 months ago
I have a 5-year Senior Research Fellow position open! This is linked to my Academy Professorhip that launched in January. I am looking for a person with strong methods skills, cv sufficient for an adjunct professor (”dosentti”, a bit similar to habilitation), and supervision experience.
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Gonçalo Pina
about 2 months ago
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Alondra Nelson
about 2 months ago
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
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Nora Waitkus
about 2 months ago
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on
#debt
dynamics across countries. One position:
#SocialStratification
+ strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and
#EconomicSociology
.
waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/
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Nicole Chung
about 2 months ago
from the family of Virginia Giuffre: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.... He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
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Jen Jennings
about 2 months ago
New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
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Thijs Bol
about 2 months ago
I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):
ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
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Vacancies | ICS
ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology
https://ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
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Brian Holzman
about 2 months ago
1/ 🚨 New publication in Educational Researcher "Who Lives in a STEM Desert?" 🔗:
doi.org/10.3102/0013...
We introduce student-level measures of “STEM deserts”—areas where students have limited nearby access to STEM courses and curricular pathways.
#STEM
#EdPolicy
#Equity
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Brendan Churchill
2 months ago
Thrilled to see this paper finally out in
#BJS
, which delves into the work of getting work on project-based platforms. It's hard work! Often invisible, affective and always gendered
#Sociology
@bjsociology.bsky.social
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Delighted to see Tiffany Liu's paper appear in Social Science Research. A really careful analysis of what happened when the College Board automatically linked SAT testing accommodations to students’ school-based Section 504 plans.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality
Educational categories play a crucial role in shaping students’ access to resources, but we know less about what happens when resources associated wit…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X26000037
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UW-Madison Sociology
3 months ago
"We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school...” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in Science Advances.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course
Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz0757
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
3 months ago
A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2018-19 CASBS fellow
@mivich.bsky.social
- "The Divisions of Rationalized Labor" - has entered the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚 Michelle's initial book ideas developed here 😏 About this
@harvardpress.bsky.social
book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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The Division of Rationalized Labor — Harvard University Press
A pathbreaking study of why, paradoxically, workforce specialization and job responsibilities have increased hand in hand.In the United States and other late-industrial countries, the division of labo...
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296220
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Jennie Brand
3 months ago
Submit your paper to the RC28 summer meeting in NYC! Thank you NYU organizers
@siweicheng.bsky.social
and Mike Hout!
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
3 months ago
Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the
@eui-eu.bsky.social
.
#economicsociology
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phoenixrising
4 months ago
In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇
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RC28 Social Stratification
4 months ago
Call for Papers: the ISA RC28 Summer Meeting at New York University, New York, USA on August 5-7, 2026 Abstracts must be submitted by February 15, 2026 (11:59 pm EST). Authors will be informed of the committee’s decision by April 2026.
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
4 months ago
Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID.
osf.io/5cguq/overview
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Damon Kiesow
4 months ago
A bit of a theme emerging for my holiday reading list.
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This skeet will self destruct
4 months ago
Very much agree. If science behaves anyway close to what Kuhn understood it to be (paradigms, normal science, etc), then LLMs would be particularly bad at discerning the quality of contributions that don’t fit standards of practice, both very good and very bad.
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Chase Madar
4 months ago
why it’s good for scientists, engineers, administrators, diplomats and jurists to be artistically literate
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD
5 months ago
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
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My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
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Stanford Sociology
5 months ago
New paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: PhD candidate Swan Htut shows how the ways that immigrants relate to ethnic and national labels in the US are influenced by nation-building and ethnic conflict in their home country. Congrats, Swan!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DZRMD...
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‘In Burma, We're Not Called Burmese’: how nation-building and ethnic conflict at home influences ethnic and national identities abroad
Although literature on immigrants’ ethnic and racial identity formation has generally assumed the dominance of host-country schemas about race and ethnicity, recent scholarship argues that immigran...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DZRMDTTRA5TKTQFRAF9A/full?target=10.1080/1369183X.2025.2585133
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
5 months ago
"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
5 months ago
Recently accepted by
#QJE
, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman:
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf050
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