Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

How do we agree on what is “fair” without endless haggling? A post on the psychology and game theory of fairness, with a solution to the egalitarian vs utilitarian debate. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/how-we-dec...

¿Interesado/a en la investigación científica de las desigualdades sociales? ¡La UNED (@uneduniv.bsky.social) tiene un nuevo máster que te va a interesar! Checkéalo aquí: blogs.uned.es/mads/

You want to know about this app that turns normal words into LinkedIn speak. “I ate an apple.” translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

An excellent review of my "Visions of Inequality" Inequality Without Class To grasp where inequality is headed—much less to reduce it—we will need to look beyond the economic by Simon Torracinta dissentmagazine.org/article/ineq...

🚩 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 – 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 & 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 We are excited to announce the II Early Career & PhD Workshop on Socioeconomic Mobility and Public Policies, taking place on October 22–23, 2026, at the University of Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain). Join us!

📢 Está abierto el plazo para enviar resúmenes extendidos y pósteres al XVI Congreso Español de Sociología 📍 Bilbao | 15–17 de julio de 2026 🔹 Plazo de envío: 19 de enero – 8 de marzo de 2026 🔗 Más info: congreso2026.fes-sociologia.com/wp-content/u... #FES2026 #CI06

📄 New III working paper: This paper describes a new public-access online database containing internationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for seventy-two countries, covering two-thirds of the world’s population. 🔗 buff.ly/3IEgjiU

Natalidad y Economía, os lo dejo aquí por si os apetece escucharlo www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

Happy to see this finally out! Together with @fabriberna and Ilaria Lievore, we examine how university expansion among parents shapes their children’s academic achievement. Using data from 30 countries participating in 7 PISA waves, we uncover compelling results. Details in the thread!👇👇 1/6

¿Los resultados educativos se explican solo por el mérito? agendapublica.es/noticia/2032...

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

Las democracias necesitan una política social y fiscal que limite la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza si quieren sobrevivir a largo plazo: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

Merece la pena leer esta entrevista al politólogo Adam Przeworki publicada en castellano en Nueva Sociedad. nuso.org/articulo/dem...

Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy: Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research doi.org/10.1093/esr/... OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow... @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!

When we think rationally about the data we do have, we simply cannot say that migrants as a whole are more likely to commit crime than everyone else. We await better data. Until then, bad data and bad interpretations threaten to fill the void www.thetimes.com/article/72b6...

Entramos en modo ‘beta’ global: aún no hemos domado las redes y las mismas tecnológicas van a someter a la humanidad a un experimento masivo desplegando con avaricia sus ineficientes herramientas de IA en nuestras vidas. Aquí trato de explicar porqués y consecuencias: elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.' Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!

Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟 📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville. Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026. Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova! Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏 @karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇 labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf 📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social 🚨Deadline 6 June Please repost, share & submit your work bit.ly/4da5dzq

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World! @karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology: Why we strive for equality and why it is always at risk from would-be social bullies. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-deep-r...

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.

No class death/decomposition—Wealth accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity: new @socialindicators.bsky.social📝 by @psalasr.bsky.social @guillemvidal.me Villani 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @florenceups.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality? New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social! 🧵 Thread 👇

The Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP) scale is also now fully integrated into the DIGCLASS R package, so you can construct OEP from ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 with just a couple of lines of code

ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

La desigualdad en grandes empresas Estas son las compañías que cuentan con directivos que ganan hasta 1.200 veces el salario de sus empleados 👇 www.eldiario.es/economia/des...

Remember Monopoly was originally created to say capitalism was bad?

OpenAI has just released a new AI model that it believes is the future of the technology: a computer program that can reason. Is it a magic trick, a genuine step forward, or both? @matteowong.bsky.social reports:

📢 New III working paper: Francisco H G Ferreira and Paolo Brunori discuss the differences between inequality of opportunity and meritocracy, and their possible roles in a fair society and growing economy. 🔗 https://buff.ly/3OFU5yU

He publicado una tribuna el El País: "Defender la universidad publica" #UniversidadPublica #DefendPublicUniversity elpais.com/opinion/2024...