Felix Busch, Wenhao Jiang, and I just published a piece in Social Forces asking what explains the increased wage gap between those in professional and managerial (PM) jobs vs all other jobs in the US. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Man Xu and I just published "Nonunion and Cohabiting First Births in the U.S.: Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Predict Nonunion Births for Men as Well as Women"in the new journal, Populations. You can find it here: www.mdpi.com/3042-4372/2/...

Does AI do p-hacking? Yes it does open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

Has anyone flown out of Terminal 4 (International) in JFK in the last week that could tell me what TSA lines look like and whether TSA PreCheck lines are faster? I'm trying to calibrate how early I need to get there Saturday night.

My latest in PNAS about changes in SES and voting: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

George Farkas, my coauthor on Households, Employment, and Gender has died of brain cancer. He studied what helps kids learn, his rigor matched by his deep caring about poor kids being able to learn reading better. He taught me the uses of FE models. RIP, my friend.

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Raewyn Connell is indeed a lovely and creative scholar. Interesting to read her view of her career intersecting with the personal.

I love Dolly's songs, including this one.

10.9% couples include at least one sexually diverse partner—twice+ rate seen when only one partner’s identity is counted. Most bi & multi-identity individuals have het partners; g/l & straight adults often partner within their identity. #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social

When an AEI economist describes the conservative economist nominated to be the BLS head as “utterly unqualified and as partisan as it gets,” you know it’s bad.

I just finished a memo to reviewers for an R&R and just realized that it is 19 single-spaced pages long. Now I have to try to get that in half or more. Ugh.

This article by Franklin Foer filled in a lot of gaps for me. The goal is the destruction of the professional managerial class—the people who conduct scientific research, run libraries and museums, predict the weather, and monitor food safety. It is the Chinese Cultural Revolution for America.

Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.

And yours truly!

What I keep turning over at 3am: How do we design an education system that cultivates people to have the courage to stand up, and stand together, for something greater than themselves?

Check our new paper! Health Care Stereotype Threat During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 3 @kris10gustafson.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

RIP Sandy Jencks, a great social scientist www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

"everything [they] say about what they’re doing is false, including what they say about their motivations. The ignorance and chaos are real, but you should never lose sight of the underlying thrust of their actions. For what’s happening... is an attempted autogolpe... a 'self-coup'"

I usually love horror films. They don't scare me, but in light of this new administration, this is the scariest frucking movie I have ever seen.

If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

Recent BAs: You'd be working for one of the most brilliant and productive social scientists in the world at Princeton if you got this job!

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

Our latest in JMF: US unmarried folks vote more for Dems than married since 1980. Biggest reason: higher % of married voters are white. Also, married folks are more religious-->voting against Dems (among whites). OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just 2 days after the 12th anniversary of Sandy Hook, the US has its 83rd school shooting of the year, surpassing last year's record for the most school shootings. This breaks my heart. And my heart will keep on breaking b/c the US won't change anything. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

At the 1992 RNC convention, some delegates held up signs that said “Thank God for AIDS” and “Family Rights Forever/Gay Rights Never.” Not exactly as catchy as “Mass Deportations Now,” but just as dehumanizing.

You wouldn’t be referring to a recent job talk haha

Authorities in Tanzania stopped reporting COVID-19 cases very early in the pandemic, and stated that virus had been “eradicated”from country. An interesting serosurvey shows that SARS-COV2 kept spreading widely despite these official denials. www.ajtmh.org/view/journal...

There are now 35 journalists and members of the media on the Verified Bluesky Press List. All of these folks are who they say they are. They all have "the juice." bsky.app/starter-pack...

Starting a unit on the Holocaust, genocide, and Israel/Palestine tomorrow in Social Problems. I'll post the materials in the morning.

New to Bluesky? If you want to understand the far right, violent extremists, White Supremacists, and Christian nationalists, these are the journalists, researchers, academics, and other experts that monitor, research, and provide analysis on all the flavors of the far right and extremist movements.

Half of US young adults (age 18-29) now live with a parent, up from 29% in 1960. 1960 29% 1970 31% 1980 32% 1990 36% 2000 38% 2010 44% 2022 50% (Current Population Survey data)

ACA and health policy nerds go.bsky.app/9HMShsJ

Surveys of mobile phone users became popular in LMICs during COVID pandemic. Are recommendations to keep interviews <15-20mns too restrictive? In RCT, we could not detect differences in participation & data quality when users asked to complete longer interviews journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Friends in queer/LGBT families: this is from a good friend of mine who I trust completely. He has specialized in LGBT family law for over 20 years. www.jernerlaw.com/after-the-el...

Trans friends - here's an overview of what to expect/prepare for legally. This is from a lawyer I know well, who specializes in LGBT family law. I trust him to be 100% accurate and careful in his analysis. www.jernerlaw.com/after-the-el...

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

Here's a description of Bluesky's advanced search features bsky.social/about/blog/0...

In the last three years, satisfaction with democracy dropped by double digits in the US, UK, Canada, South Korea, Germany & Greece. pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

This NYT essay on the negative indirect consequences of high US gun ownership is important--e.g. drug cartels in Mexico wouldn't be so strong without US guns and cops might not be so trigger happy if less civilians armed. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/b...

I came over here cuz Musk is disgusting. But I keep going back & find more info and viewpoints there (follow social scientists and reporters). I've decided to go back to reading and posting on X. Will try to check in here too, but decided I don't need to believe in the owner to participate there.

Looking since the last peak in 2007, birth rates have still risen above age 35, but not offsetting lower rates at young ages. As they say, births delayed and foregone. #demography

I wish more donors, legislators, and other external observers decrying the alleged homogeneity of thought at universities understood that many (most?) faculty will defend students' right to peacefully protest even if they think some or all of the students' demands of the university are misguided.

You can read more about the project here and the PI Karin Halldén is a wonderful person to work with www.mdu.se/en/malardale...

Terrific postdoc opportunity in Sweden on a project tracking occupational gender segregation nationally and internationally over the past 50 years web103.reachmee.com/ext/I018/115...

I know it sounds extreme, but I'm almost starting to like Repub US House Speaker Mike Johnson. Rhetoric aside, he's acting like a regular politician acts on issues that have broad bipartisan support.