My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward doi.org/10.15195/v12...

I wrote about @hermwerf.bsky.social 's excellent ASR article last year on education expansion and intergenerational mobility. Hope you find it useful! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

I tried uploading my online course's first assignment to Claude and to Gemini. I asked them both to do my assignment. One said: don't cheat! The other said: Sure. Here you go. Which of these AI systems do you think the University of Minnesota has partnered with?

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

Interesting essay in Contemporary Sociology by @stephanieternullo.bsky.social - summarizes several books from the last decade on labor decline's broader social and political consequences. Somehow her new book was off my radar - not anymore! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

At the blog, I wrote about a few recent studies: 1. The US age-wealth curve is going haywire 2. Work from home reduces the motherhood employment gap 3. Unions do more than boost a paycheck Hope you find it interesting. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Unions do more than just improve wages and benefits. They build stronger communities and strengthen democracy. A new report from @epi.org shows that where unions thrive, communities thrive. Imagine what we could achieve if more people had a voice at work. www.epi.org/publication/...

That the variation in findings is small has been pointed out by myself and others in published commentaries 1) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 2) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 3) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

From the Auspurg & Bruderl piece. It’s zero already….

@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social‬ and colleagues investigate whether unionization reduces earnings disparities between Black and White workers in the public sector. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States "This study highlights the relevance of kin relations beyond the nuclear family in contemporary American families" doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

New working paper w/ Jesse Zhou introducing flexible approach to mediation analysis with multiple mediators. arxiv.org/abs/2506.140... See Jesse present it this afternoon at #ASA2025.

Unions reduce sexism.

New post at the blog - Affluence Consumption is Decoupling: Couples Inherit Parents’ Earnings from their Husbands: Universal Basic Income Doesn’t Do Anything for Child Development: Building Costs Don’t Drive Housing Prices asocial.substack.com/p/inequality... Hope you find it interesting!

Did you know: in 1941, C.S. Lewis developed a term for how every single person on the internet talks to one another? Bulverism!

NEW ARTICLE by CREST's @ppraeg.bsky.social in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: "Who do they think you are? Inconsistencies in self- and proxy-reports of education within families," with ‪@chlolv.bsky.social‬, @mathieuferry.bsky.social, and @mathieuichou.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Check out summer book recs from @umichstonecid.bsky.social, headlined by Circe the 🐈posing with her namesake. While you're at it, mark your calendars for our great fall lineup of speakers. inequality.umich.edu/fall-2025-sp...

Unlike claims that the new tax & spending bill will supercharge growth, the shrinking safety net could take a toll on local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social‬ from @umichstonecid.bsky.social says the impact will have rippling consequences myumi.ch/MkxAR @um-psc.bsky.social

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

Inequality scholars might be intereted in Josh Page and Joe Soss' forthcoming book, Legal Plunder. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Even though I'm not a crim / punishment person, I'm very excited to read this one.

🐣 Another chapter from my dissertation was just published in @europeansocreview.bsky.social – Fanny Janssen (NIDI-KNAW), Tobias Vogt (@popresgroningen.bsky.social @rug.nl) & me we were wondering: Do #parents suffer too if their adult children experience #unemployment? OA-🔗: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9

Nice to see our recent AJS article featured in Contexts! @evangelinewarren.com

The urgent national need to enhance the quality and timeliness of American Community Survey data. Response rates are down post-pandemic, threatening small area/group stats. thecensusproject.org/wp-content/u...

As the threats to our democracy mount daily, I was grateful for the chance to brainstorm what forward-looking state legislatures can do to bolster community and worker power for the inaugural issue of the @statesforum.bsky.social: statesforum.org/journal/issu... 1/

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles. Top tax cuts make inequality Top tax cuts grow the financial sector Cognitive skills - use them or lose them Surprisingly frequent housing instability asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Second edition of Nick Huntington-Klein's book, The Effect, has been released. Online version here. theeffectbook.net/index.html The book is gentle, often silly, and includes a vast amount of example code. It's a wonderful on-ramp to these methods, in my opinion.

Strong lineup & many interesting articles in this special issue.

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

There are only a few slots left! Grad students, see the quoted post for the link to sign up!

Congrats to BK and Bernice! Well deserved - I really love this paper.

At the blog I focus on a few recent articles by the one and only Deirdre Bloome. One of them: be careful about interpreting trends in absolute mobility (the % of people who outearn their parents). This measure tends to privilege trends of higher income kids. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Innovative and timely paper on immigrant poverty in the US. By David Brady and 4 colleagues from UC-Riverside. @davebrady72.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social 👇👇👇

At the blog I focus on a few recent articles by the one and only Deirdre Bloome. One of them: be careful about interpreting trends in absolute mobility (the % of people who outearn their parents). This measure tends to privilege trends of higher income kids. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Just sayin'

At the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

. @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social offers a thoughtful review and sharp explainer of our @jpube.bsky.social article on inequality discordance. If you are not already following his Substack on inequality research, social science, and data you should sign up here: asocial.substack.com

Tom is always so good at getting into the guts of academic papers and conveying their methods and meaning in an accessible way. Here is his take on our recent Journal of Public Economics paper that explains why earnings and income inequality in the US are moving in opposite directions. 🔽

At the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Gotta read this but seems consistent with what @natewilmers.bsky.social and I find where about a third of pay differences by major is sorting across employers (this share is lower for returns to schooling or occupation) osf.io/preprints/so...

This was a very interesting book. Moss-Pech makes a compelling case that the big major payoffs can't be fully explained by skills, since lots of folks don't use major-specific skills in their early career jobs! Institutionalized pathways from major to good jobs are key. Recommended.

Some quick inequality hits at the blog today. One of them: be skeptical of claims that young cohorts are unusually wealthy. They may actually be unusually living at home and locked out of homeownership. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Some quick inequality hits at the blog today. One of them: be skeptical of claims that young cohorts are unusually wealthy. They may actually be unusually living at home and locked out of homeownership. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Michigan Surveys of Consumers: Current economic conditions month-to-month down ~4%, down 17% from May 2024. Future expectations down 37% from May 2024. www.sca.isr.umich.edu

Looks like a great substack by Michael Schultz.

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.