Kristian Bernt Karlson

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Do political attitudes skip generations? Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson kicked off the seminar series of our Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Inequalities research theme with his talk “Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations?” — sparking a lively discussion.

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Education as a mediator of the association between origins and destinations: The role of early skills Sociological research examining how education mediates the association between occupational origins and destinations has long relied on the origins-ed…

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Another example is this 2019 RSSM piece where we used a simple path model to illustrate how much the role of education is overestimated once we control for a rich set of early skill measures.

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Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Article: Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection | Sociological Science | Posted March 3, 2026

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For example, in this recent paper, we show that the baseline outcome gap between college and non-college grads shrinks substantially once unobserved selection into college is accounted for.

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We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact.

Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling...

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Cambridge is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology - great opportunity for colleagues looking for positions in the UK. The job listing shows it's with Caius & Homerton colleges. Worth checking out for those on the academic job market. #AcademicJobs #sociology

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My please entirely working with such a great young scholar!

Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson
Sociological Science March 3, 2026
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Influential research shows that college graduates achieve similar labor marke
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Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Article: Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection | Sociological Science | Posted March 3, 2026

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social!

We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer!

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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.). >

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Briliant. Thought about this one which is just fantastic

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Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading
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New research shows high temperatures affect sex ratios at birth | 'Temperature and sex ratios at birth', a new study led by researchers at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

NEW: Oxford researchers have found that higher temperatures can shift the sex ratio at birth.

Temperatures above 20°C are consistently linked to fewer boys being born across multiple regions - with implications for population health and gender balance.

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Kristian Karlson: Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations? Testing a Formal Model of Intergenerational Attitude Transmission - INVEST Research Flagship Centre Kristian Karlson, University of Copenhagen Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations? Testing a Formal Model of Intergenerational Attitude Transmission Invest Seminar...

Looking forward to presenting work on the multigenerational transmission of political attitudes next week at @invest-flagship.bsky.social

With the outstanding @stephandoc.bsky.social!

Based on survey covering 100,000 cousins and their parents!

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Figure 4 Average marginal effects, representative and wealthy sample. Notes: Each color represents one hypothesis. Based on N = 5,600 evaluations in the representative sample and N = 6,368 evaluations in the wealthy sample. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals shown.

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Sociology at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture.

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Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’.

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Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

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ℹ️ Professorship in Sociology at the University of Zurich
📍 Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
🗓️ Applications open until February 26, 2026

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Check out this awesome preprint by @martinhallsten.bsky.social on the difficulties in interpreting sibling correlations by observed parental characteristics such as parental income - with an excellent application!

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Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Extant work has identified two discursive forms of racism: overt and covert. While both forms have received attention in scholarly work, research on cove
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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.

Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

This is the most econ paper ever

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.

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