Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥

I also like the plea for looking more into the great equalizer hypothesis in comparative research. Luckily we’ve some of that with @aforster.bsky.social 😉. We showed that the heterogeneity in college effects is rather small, and we differentiated between fair and unfair sources of college education

"We conclude that for higher education to serve as a true equalizer, it must become both less selective and more accessible to students from disadvantaged backgrounds."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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My simulations got a bit snowed under because of reviewer and editorial requests - it’s an appendix now - I thought this may have been the most important finding of my paper (that it’s about changing associations that educational expansion causes rather than compositional change).

Although an important difference is that I don’t have a causal effect of schooling in my macro comparisons. @kbkarlson.bsky.social. Great paper!

I think the results fit with my findings in my ASR paper; the simple interaction doesn’t explain why educational expansion is associated with declining OD associations. In my words: with societal change (e.g. expansion) the *parameters* change, not simply the group sizes that have different OD links

This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >

Three guys in the woods from the back

My dad, my brother and me. My daughter, who took the pic, says we have the same skeleton.

Link is dead?

Ja got it. Een kleine vergissing en een extra tijd van de lengte Groningen Rotterdam ofzo

Ha nee! Gelukkig had ik de rechtbank al een keer bekeken - ik kom er elk jaar. Maar nu nog het grote plein voor de massabijeenkomsten en het bijbehorende documentatiecentrum.

2.5 uur extra in de trein pff

I was going to Nürnberg @nsinternational.com

The 13:22 train from Düsseldorf platform 16 did not go the same route as my ticket says. What’s this. Now I’m in Stuttgart.

Hopping on the train to Nürnberg from beautiful Amsterdam ❤️

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.

Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?

Apply by 13 April 2026.

More information and application:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#postdoc #sociology

Over... 8 months after acceptance, my literature review on sexism and political attitudes is finally out in @poqjournal.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

You can find an OA version in the post I am sharing below.

Had a great time talking to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about The Division of Rationalized Labor. Listen to the podcast here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...

How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time?

🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West

Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

Great 2-3 year postdoc opportunity in the Social Policy unit here at @sofi.su.se, Stockholm University

SOFI is an incredible research and work environment, could not recommend it more

Deadline for applications (including your own research plan): 13th April 2026

Stopover at Milano

Thanks @anatoliab.bsky.social and Michael Grätz for the invitation!

It was nice to be in Lausanne to give a talk at the LIVES centre. Great group, interdisciplinary with sociologists, social psychologists, and social policy scholars.

@eunjeongpaek.bsky.social examines whether workers’ access to employee-driven schedule flexibility increased from 1997 to 2015, as well as how trends in access vary across 11 European countries and the United States. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mona Keijzer verlaat BBB en gaat als zelfstandig Kamerlid verder In een interview met De Telegraaf spreekt ze over een grote vertrouwensbreuk met de leiding van de partij.

Just four months after the last elections, and the Dutch House of Representatives already has two new split off parties. Both split offs are on the political right (from PVV and from BBB).

nos.nl/l/2603756

A slacking occupational structure in Britain? Reflections on a recent column in the Financial Times

Fascinating response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s piece on whether a university education is worth it, by my EUI colleague @hermwerf.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...

Update: the Swiss trains are on time.

En jullie allemaal naar Milaan

Or tariffs!

The dif in dif estimate may attribute the win to politics