Dirk Witteveen

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Gender and racial diversity socialization in science - Nature Computational Science A computational null model is proposed to study the gender and racial diversity-association effects in academia. Researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturi...

📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci

Following the 10-vote win that made him mayor of Burlington 43 years ago, @sanders.senate.gov took to national television for the very first time to explain his socialist politics.

Tell 'm Bernie.

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⬇️ NEW publication from Dr Dirk Witteveen (Departmental Lecturer) in International Migration Review:
'What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?'
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What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration?

Dirk Witteveen & @mobarakhossain.net examine the association between modernization & career growth of American men & European immigrants in this Open Access article:

I actually thought those are transition nodes in the Dutch and German educational systems

What Drives Immigrant Inequalities in Career Growth in the Age of Mass Migration? - Dirk Witteveen, Mobarak Hossain, 2025 This article examines the association between modernization and career growth of American men and European immigrants, focusing on heterogeneity along ancestry,...

New paper in International Migration Review! 📝📈

Our analyses of linked 1900–1940 US Censuses suggest that macroeconomic opportunities do not explain career growth variation variation between multi-gen US men and 1st-/2nd-gen European immigrants.

with @mobarakhossain.net 🙌

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Some RC28 @ Milan impressions

Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.

New in Social Forces: Breathing Unequal Air😷

Our study shows that immigrant minorities in England & Germany face higher air pollution exposure🏭—and moving doesn’t help🚶. In England, disparities are 3x larger than in Germany

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
#EnvironmentalJustice #Inequality #AirPollution

Call for Papers Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H

Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system?

Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social.

Due May 15th.

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"In short, QCA often finds complexity where none exists."

This is a great new ETP editorial by my coauthor Mikko Rönkkö, Markku Maula, and Karl Wennberg, illustrating the massive false positives problem in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). doi.org/10.1177/1042...

Graph showing health outcomes related to spending with the US doing the worst

This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

Spent a fantastic week with colleagues and friends at Stockholm University's @sofi.su.se, despite the slightly disappointing weather ☁️ 👀

I'm very excited to give a talk about ethnic earnings inequality in football at UCL this coming week.

Hybrid format! 🧑🏻‍💻👀

Youth clubs could be valuable investments - Understanding Society What are the effects of youth club closures in the UK? widespread closing of youth clubs during the 2010s driven by government austerity measures led to falling educational performance and increasing ...

New blog: @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social on crime rates and why youth clubs could be valuable investments, based on her @theifs.bsky.social research

📣 @bjsociology.bsky.social is seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education.

Find out more about the project and the call for submissions ➡️ buff.ly/3XOrZXx

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

When I looked at this for sociology I found that a higher journal impact factor successfully predicted which paper would be cited more 54% of the time. (Sociologists, be sociological!) familyinequality.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/d...

Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145) | University of Oslo Job title: Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Universities should have a special travel fund for international students so they can visit their families before Jan 20. Especially the students who already went through 2+ years of not seeing family & friends back home b/c of pandemic-era travel restrictions and quarantine mandates.

Despite what many folks falsely said, research on the pandemic was rock solid:

COVID studies were more likely to use stronger designs, larger samples, justify their sample sizes based on power analysis, pre-register their hypotheses and analysis plans + make their data, materials & code available!

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Miles Corak on the Great Gatsby Curve and Cross-Country Comparisons of Inequality and Mobility Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · 2024-10-07 · 50m

If you are interested in #inequality, how it shapes economic opportunities, and the implications for both public policy and economic research, then listen to this engaging conversation I had with Steven Durlauf, director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social

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