Markus Klein

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Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate

Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️

New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism

edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202

cdgd: Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>&gt;. This pac...

The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package.
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DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession.

New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧?

👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️
💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men
🎲 Random assignment? No change

osf.io/preprints/so...

New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography!
🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

Head of Research & Policy - The Sutton Trust Do you have a deep interest in issues of educational equity, social mobility and increasing opportunity? Apply to be our Head of Research &amp; Policy!

🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy!

This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people.

Apply by 21st May ⤵️
recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5909323...

Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...

📢 Join Professor @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social for a public seminar on 'Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education' on 19 May.

Register to attend in-person ➡️ forms.office.com/e/wzS0F1UJiL
Or join us online ➡️ bit.ly/4lSItbo

#Edusky #Seminar

*The BREATHE project is hiring*

BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France.

We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...

The keys to the house - How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequ…

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M
mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️

School absences hurt achievement, but the impact isn’t equal. Lower SES students suffer more from sickness-related absences, widening the achievement gap, according to this article. #AchievementGap
#TBT

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Main figure of the paper: Associations between parental mental health (anxiety and depression, alcohol problematic use, ADHD, eating disorder) with children's tests scores in mathematics, reading comprehension and English as second language at age 10.

New preprint!

We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Quick thread 👇

Deep Learning With DAGs - Sourabh Balgi, Adel Daoud, Jose M. Peña, Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Jesse Zhou, 2025 Social science theories often postulate systems of causal relationships among variables, which are commonly represented using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). As...

"In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs." 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

Education and Social Mobility While education is often proposed as a solution to inequality, this talk will offer a more balanced and measured perspective on education’s potential impact.

What’s the relationship between education and social mobility? We are holding a public lecture in Edinburgh on this topic with expert Richard Breen. 22 April - register free to watch in person or online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

We are launching the second call for participants in our international conference, "Is Memory Enough in the 21st Century?". It will take place from June 30 to July 2, 2025.

This time, we invite teachers, educators, and researchers to apply.

Details & registration: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...

Anomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate.

Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...

Wie Kinder in der Schule abschneiden, hängt stark von der sozialen Herkunft ab. Das hat DIW-Forscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social untersucht. Besonders die Bildung der Eltern wirkt sich auf die Kompetenzen der Kinder aus. Gerade in Deutschland ist dieser Zusammenhang groß.
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Scottish UKHLS User Group Join us for the Scottish UKHLS User Group, where we will connect online to discuss all things related to the UK Household Longitudinal Study

📣 Are you an Understanding Society (UKHLS) user in Scotland?

New Scottish UKHLS User Group - Meeting Online 2nd May @kateohara.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Opportunity to network with local users, discuss data and statistical data analysis.

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1235734377...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.

On Monday, 3/31 at 12 PM ET, HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social will give a free, virtual talk on their new book, RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. This event is hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library and moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/4k1uuyI

Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology) Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.

🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:

▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...