Apropos of some debate on Piketty-Saez-Zucman versus Auten-Splinter brewing again on the other site, let me post my lecture notes that does a deep dive into this, looking at both pre- and post-tax income inequality. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4k5gj...

Lovely example for teaching of how weak statistical designs can produce misleading results, and how stronger designs can fix that.

New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work. gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

shoutout to @hannahrecht.bsky.social for a fantastic R package. This is a great way to get US census data: github.com/hrecht/censu... #EconSky

Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Honored to receive this award from @ipums.bsky.social for our @sfjournal.bsky.social paper on the last 120 years of segregation Glad to be #poweredbyIPUMS !

Instant classic article by Carlson, Logan, and Won on segregation in the United States over the last 120 years (tl;dr ... it's about the suburbs, but how it's about the suburbs differs a bit around the country) academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

Thank you to everyone who submitted their #poweredbyIPUMS work from 2025 for our annual research awards competition. 🏆 We are thrilled to announce this year's winners! 🎉 www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

The IPUMS Excellence in Research Published Award goes to @jessiehimmel.bsky.social & @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social for "Trends in Realized Job Insecurity Rate and Depth in the United States from 1978 to 2022" (doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...).

👏 🏆 Congratulations to @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social and incoming PSC postdoc @jessiehimmel.bsky.social on winning the @ipums.bsky.social Excellence in Research Award for their paper on job insecurity in the US over four decades! www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Really excited to see this advance article by a great team of life course scholars at @amjsoc.bsky.social. A team from @umnsociology.bsky.social (and alum). Including Jeylan Mortimer and Xiaowen Han. Congrats! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"What the HIstory of Social Security Can Teach Us." New Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/davebrad...

Can we make this a thing again: Scholars of financial capitalism publishing papers about Renaissance Florence, with killer abstracts, in the American Journal of Sociology. Please.

NEW: Marie Labussière, Thijs Bol, "Are Occupations “Bundles of Skills”? Identifying Latent Skill Profiles in the Labor Market Using Topic Modeling" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Giving my first talk at the Fed today! Join @ 3pm EST for the Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series on place-based strategies in low-income communities: fedcommunities.org/event/place-...

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...