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...

Excited to share that my new book (w/ Xiang Zhou), Causal Mediation Analysis, is now out from CUP. Order at tinyurl.com/3hspt6em with discount code CMA2025. Includes software for Stata and R, available here: causalmedanalysis.github.io. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Another nice application of our decomposition! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years. Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In"). aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

Grade inflation in high schools harms students. GPAs rose by about a quarter of a letter grade over the past decade, even among students with similar test scores. This new working paper shows grade inflation lowers future test scores, high school graduation, college enrollment, and earnings.

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare

🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar 🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150 Open to researchers/students! cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

This is brilliant! formatmypaper.com

📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows

🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️

New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202

The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession. New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧? 👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️ 💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men 🎲 Random assignment? No change osf.io/preprints/so...

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy! This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people. Apply by 21st May ⤵️ recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5909323...

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

📢 Join Professor @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social for a public seminar on 'Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education' on 19 May. Register to attend in-person ➡️ forms.office.com/e/wzS0F1UJiL Or join us online ➡️ bit.ly/4lSItbo #Edusky #Seminar

*The BREATHE project is hiring* BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France. We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...

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...

⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️ School absences hurt achievement, but the impact isn’t equal. Lower SES students suffer more from sickness-related absences, widening the achievement gap, according to this article. #AchievementGap #TBT journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

"In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs." 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.