So St. Paul (Ramsey County) needs to get a little more serious, I think. You'll notice it _ever so slightly_ sitting outside Minnesota's population trends.

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

@startribune.com story - University of Minnesota spent 15 MILLION DOLLARS for a marketing firm to produce a terrible slogan: leave a future www.startribune.com/university-o... The U's description is some of the lowest effort ChatGPT I've seen. Pretty embarrassing. umarcomm.umn.edu/blog/2026/03...

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

Looking for accessible, high-quality, carefully-documented data on wealth #inequalities, levels, composition, and trends? Explore the GC Wealth Project. The extensive data can be visualized and/or downloaded. @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

Go to the University of Minnesota to leave your future, I guess.

Some quick hitters at the blog today: asocial.substack.com/p/inequality... Including one heck of a devastating graph showing the consequences of the Great Recession for the bottom half of the American labor market

FYI Karen Luftey, a really great medical sociologist, has a substack, "I'm Not Gaslighting You." spencerk.substack.com

Over at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings. * (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws * NAFTA kills * (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship open.substack.com/pub/asocial/... Hope you find this interesting!

Over at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings. * (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws * NAFTA kills * (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship open.substack.com/pub/asocial/... Hope you find this interesting!

In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.

What do we know - and what should we know - about economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies? This new WP by our Affiliated Scholar @guidoalfani.bsky.social identifies the main gaps that need to be filled in reconstructions of wealth & income distributions. bit.ly/4l26cWx

The distributional consequences of opening up to trade are very real. In this case, the costs are grim, as mortality increased from NAFTA. Creating a good fiscal system that re-distributes is extremely important.

This looks relevant if you are interested in the ONS Longitudinal Study:

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Since so many of us are inside & online, it's auspicious the final book cover just came in.

Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇

This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.

Thinking about submitting some inequality-related research to ASA, but not sure what session it should go in? Or feel like it doesn't fit any of the session topics? Perfect! I’m organizing the Open Call session for @asa-ipm.bsky.social. Deadline: Feb 25. (Now back to working on my ASA paper...)

While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social

To explore the State of Working America Data Library on the web: data.epi.org

New working paper on recent trends in class mobility in the US: www.nber.org/papers/w34800 I learned a lot from an amazing team of collaborators at the @ucstonecenter.bsky.social while working on this propject: Weiqi Wang, @butaevak.bsky.social, and @durlauf.bsky.social

Correct. This is valuable time that researchers could be investing into changing the formatting styles of their citations between resubmissions.

Huge thanks to Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social, Evelyn Ersanilli, and Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social for their outstanding service to European #sociology. What a difference their leadership at European Societies has made! doi.org/10.1162/EUSO...

@ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social wrote, imo, the best practical sociology-journal-writing pieces of advice out there. assets.super.so/6b4b5d92-904... His second part came out in 2015. Has any sociologist done anything like this in the last decade?

You don't usually hear language this stark from the business-oriented Conference Board: "Confidence collapsed to the lowest point since 2014, surpassing pandemic depths..." "well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead..." www.conference-board.org/topics/consu...

1. Each Soc Sci discipline thinks they're more scientific than others... 2. ... exception being Anth 3. Soc. think that only Psych is more scientific than them. 4. Poli Sci thinks both Psych and Econ are more scientific 5. Psych has v. high opinion of itself 6. Econ has v. low opinion of others

New in ESR Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions? 🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

This paper looks extremely interesting. Nice work!

Are you interested in inequality of opportunity / inter-generational mobility? Take a look at this impressive new resource: a public-access database containing cross-nationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries, covering 2/3 of the world’s population. 👇👇👇

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social, Natasha Quadlin, and Jordyn Wald investigate regret amongst women with computer science and engineering degrees. They find that these fields are defined by a uniquely large unexplained amount of regret among women. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This looks really interesting. I think it'll dovetail nicely with Josh Seim's forthcoming book, which also looks at the weird tech control of the work of public servants. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-we...

Well now, this is a very exciting development for the sociology blogging world. I'm sure you already know this, but Brady's a top tier poverty scholar. I'm definitely subscribing to his substack.

New in @bjpols.bsky.social! Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN

This paper shows welfare programs alleviating health shock can reduce crime. It makes case poverty scholars have long made about the negative costs of poverty to society. The societal costs of crime need to be factored into benefit-cost analyses of poverty reduction programs.

New visualization in @sociusjournal.bsky.social Extending our prior work with new data through 2024 we show infant health improves under Democratic presidents Black, White, Hispanic & Asian babies benefit, with largest gains for Black infants. Joint w terrific @tsrauf.bsky.social

Honored to be on @durlauf.bsky.social's list of "major inequality books" over the past three years, alongside works by @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, Darrin McMahon, Daniel Markovits, and other luminaries.

Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below

Not great for those in universities w deans and tech folks pushing to get gemini's fingers into all facets of teaching, research, and administration.

We are excited to announce @robertdorschel.bsky.social's upcoming book launch for his book "The Social Codes of Tech Workers.". The launch will be held next term on January 30th in the Sociology Seminar Room from 4pm until 5:30pm.

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

interesting paper on similarity of occupations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?

Check out our new paper (+ the accompanying web viz)!

The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents? Short answer: yes 1/2 academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...