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Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy:
Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Immigrants typically arrive in good health but experience fast health declines. Is the same true for Asylum Seekers though?

Check out my latest publication on PDR: doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Short answer: yes for (self-reported) physical health, but the opposite is true for mental health!

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the “Gender Revolution” in the United States - Kimberly McErlean, 2025 In the context of women’s increased economic status coupled with declining divorce rates, the “gender revolution framework” suggests that greater gender equalit...

Chapter 2 of my dissertation is now available in Socius! doi.org/10.1177/2378...

In it, I aim to shed light on the debate as to whether gender specialization or gender egalitarianism is more beneficial for marital stability, considering education as an under-explored moderator of these associations

The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…

First single-author pub out in SSM!

It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️

OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The picture shows members of the CLIC working group in a cheerful mood, wearing funny and colourful hats, glasses, and other accessoires.

That’s a wrap for #ECSR2025! After three days of inspiring presentations and stimulating exchanges with old and new friends in Cologne, the CLIC delegation happily packs up its tents.

Many thanks to the organisers and participants for making this such a rewarding conference - time well spent!

And me! Also Thu at 15.30! (Session on Discrimination)

CLIC in Cologne! 🧳🚋

#ECSR2025 kicks off in Cologne tomorrow and we are excited to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥

Come join us in these great sessions 👇

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

Track Differences in Civic and Democratic Engagement During Secondary Education: A New Panel Study From the Netherlands Whether students educated in different ability tracks in secondary education develop different levels of civic and democratic engagement is yet unclear. To explore this issue, we focus on how schools...

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... >

Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments* Abstract. We study whether the educational disadvantage of children from households where parents have dissolved their union is due to selection or deterio

Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR

Great keynote by @melindacmills.bsky.social at the @eui-eu.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, in a full teatro.

Melinda Mills was awarded an honorary doctorate at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. The laudatio was given by @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. @melindacmills.bsky.social congratulations!

How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status?

Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l‬ suggests small or null effects in Germany.

With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!

Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?

→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

I once read one full sentence of Bourdieu. drive.google.com/file/d/12qrD...

A very nice evening to end the academic year of @clic.bsky.social. Not everybody made it to the pic… thanks everybody for your engagement.

Happy to share that my last PhD article found a home at RSSM. Together with Julia Lang we examine how employees expect their co-workers to react (exit or voice) to perceived wage injustice—and how these expectations vary by gender and workplace context.

doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing

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.

How to Educate our Children: The Tasks of Qualification, Allocation and Socialisation in Comparative Perspective This public lecture will be delivered by Prof Herman van de Werfhorst, Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, Florence.

On May 20, 12:00 I will give a public lecture in the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series, in Edinburgh.

How to Educate our Children: The Tasks of Qualification, Allocation and Socialisation in Comparative Perspective

For more information: education-sport.ed.ac.uk/how-to-educa...

Last week we had a wonderful thesis defence by @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social 🔥

Congratulations Gaia, what a great job 🎉🎉 We are really looking forward to what's to come next 💫

@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social defended her PhD yesterday at the EUI.
An outstanding thesis and a fantastic defense, so proud of you, Gaia!!
Here pre-defence with the Bologna ultras supervisor and post with the committee @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social (zoom) and Nicola Barban

Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? And do they stay healthy? Are immigrants healthier than non-migrants? New evidence from Germany on the "immigrant health paradox" - using height as a proxy for underlying health.

Using height as a measure of an individual’s underlying health, @ferraraale.bsky.social @rrluthra.bsky.social & Lucinda Platt investigate the health of immigrants over time, offering a solution to the “immigrant health paradox” #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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A possible mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequalities: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity and overweight, while low-SES environments trigger them ⚖️

New working paper here 👇 osf.io/preprints/so...

Thank you, @distasioval.bsky.social, for an inspiring talk at the University of Copenhagen on discrimination in childcare access. What an important project and huge effort to collect data in nine countries—we look forward to following the next steps!

Celebrating Richard Breen’s work in honour of his retirement, with a great conference organized by @berkayozcan.bsky.social , @kbkarlson.bsky.social and Janne Jonsson

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!

How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?

Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...

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Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.