Ely Strömberg

Email by Emotions and Society (journal) that my article was one of their most downloaded articles in 2025

Did y’all actually read my FIRST! SOLE-AUTHORED! PUBLICATION! 😭 I’m not crying you are

Varför växer det politiska gapet mellan män och kvinnor? - Förmiddag i P1 Flera rapporter visar att unga kvinnor går allt mer åt vänster medan de unga männen går åt höger. Vad beror det på och får det några konsekvenser?

Pratade om vårt nya forskningsprojekt i P1!

A text "captures noise" with the i marked as a tracked change. Below left an overfitted model graph, below right a statue without a nose and a hand making the "I got your nose" gesture

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Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Article in Emotions and Society: ‚Because like if you feel guilty, then it’s usually a sign‘: on the role of emotions in conceptualising infidelity

FIRST! SOLE-AUTHORED! PUBLICATION! 🎊

Making myself guilty of self-promotion but my first ever sole-authored article is an Editor’s Choice... still open access for 10 days, get it while it’s hot

Link doi.org/10.1332/2631...

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

Working on my BILF to do list this morning. That’s Book I’d Like to Finish!

Anyone interested should read the whole thread but here's a big headline finding: assortative mating on education is mostly social, not genetic.

This has major implications for intergenerational transmission, making models that ascribe a large role to genetics (Clark) look less plausible.

I've had the honour to convene this seminar series about the politics of immigration and exclusion.

Looking forward to learning more about the research by @turnbulldugarte.com @profsob.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social + drinks after!

New garden new adventures! Is it elderflower and sage?

He was my highlight! They couldn’t be bothered to write a backstory so just used Instant Gay Best Friend (TM). Enjoyably bad movie!

There's nothing like a revision deadline to motivate me to bake huge amounts of saffron buns, and no, it's not the "christmas spirit"🙃

Should be a word for this…

bsky.app/profile/sbva...

And the far right is dropping the Jewish part of Judeo-Christian values, who could have seen this coming?

As @seanjwestwood.bsky.social's terrifying new PNAS article demonstrates, LLMs can now pass almost every attention check, mirror personas, stay consistent across pages, and systematically bias responses in the aggregate.

So here’s a different angle: verify physical presence, not text.

1. Less skilled labor is abundant. 2. Skilled emigration is a brain drain. 3. Development substitutes for migration. 4. Migration substitutes for failing development, but doesn't cause development.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries.

In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.

www.iza.org/publications...

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On the left Alexandra Breckinridge with blond hair, on the right in a facemask with white beard

Feels strange to have an American movie in 2025 about a cis woman crossdressing as a man in order to get hired as a resort santa, including awkward interactions in the mens dressing room…

Poster for My Secret Santa with a woman in Santa clothes in a chair and a man in a suit behind it.

Our household has an annual tradition of watching bad Christmas movies. First out: My Secret Santa
Small town unemployed single mom meets the scandalous heir to the big resort family that’s trying to shape up his act.

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Awesome project with wonderful people and amazing research! What more could you ask for ?!?!
Now check out our first @equalstrength.bsky.social publication!

Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background Children with foreign-born parents attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) to a lower extent than native-background children in most European…

Just published my first article! 🎉
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.

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Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class Article: Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class | Sociological Science | Posted December 12, 2022

Perhaps interesting for @enlar.bsky.social @smgaddis.bsky.social @johnholbein1.bsky.social who has worked on this in for the US sociologicalscience.com/articles-v9-...

These names are currently being used in correspondence tests carried out in nine countries by the @equalstrength.bsky.social consortium. Great work by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social to lead this survey, especially as the planning happened in teams meetings with 20+participants.

Every year it becomes clearer that names carry a multitude of signals, but often they are used as a clear signal of for example race or ethnicity. Untangling this interplay of gender, class, race, and ethnicity will be easier with this extensive dataset!

After consacrating a significant part of my PhD to the use of names as signals in experimental designs, i am happy to be part of this inter-country evaluation of signals in names - fresh from the press in Nature Scientific Data. A work that was possible thanks to the hard work of a great group!

The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️

✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨

When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background?

🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅

Check it out here: 🧵

Positive trend between monolingualism and accelerated ageing.

Negative trend between per capita GDP and accelerated ageing.

A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good.

New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...

The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe How do opportunities for intergenerational mobility depend on where you live? We address this question using European Social Survey data, studying the association between parents’ and children’s occupation, and how it varies by region of residence. Absolute mobility, largely driven by shifts in occupational structure, differs from relative mobility, which reflects the extent to which opportunities are equal across social origins. Capital regions emerge as hubs of absolute, but not necessarily relative, mobility. Absolute mobility correlates with human capital, labor market, demographic, and spatial factors. In contrast, relative mobility is primarily shaped by economic disparities between social classes. Greater inequality entails less mobility, even comparing different places within a country.

How robust are country rankings in educational mobility? We investigate the impact of analytical choices on country comparisons in intergenerational educational mobility using a multiverse approach. A literature survey gives rise to 2,880 plausible ways of measuring educational mobility, which we apply to European Social Survey data from 16 countries. Although some countries consistently appear at the top or bottom of the mobility rankings, most show substantial variation. Beyond our methodological contribution, we report two substantive findings. First, some countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system but must be sought elsewhere, such as the labor market. Second, the choice of parameter—such as regression coefficients, correlations, or categorical measures—is the single most influential factor that shifts country rankings. As different parameters carry distinct theoretical meanings, researchers should treat parameter choice not merely as a robustness check but as an opportunity to test and refine competing theories.

Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below

Here, at the end, you'll find that ironically, as we use data from the European Social Survey, the answer to the question if Denmark is more mobile than the US, remains a mystery.

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As a Swede, I of course prefer to show regression coefficients, as that is what makes Sweden look the best.