Martin Gädecke

Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills impact children’s developmental processes? This study examines whether mothers’ occupation-specific skills influence children’s development. I argue that while education is a valuable proxy for…

📣 New publication in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility!

🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills.

Open access here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The international reproduction policy database
doi.org/10.1177/0958...
Paper in Jnl of European Social Policy by H Zagel, R Khan, A Kluge, M Tamakoshi and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social student @martingaedecke.bsky.social‬

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning (Gift Article) The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.

The White House is considering several actions to raise birth rates, none of which will work.

The White House is also cutting funding for women’s health programs and programs that support children’s health and development.

Pronatalism is dangerous.

Five Key Takeaways From Tracking Student Visa Revocations More than 1,500 students from nearly 250 colleges have had their visas revoked, but who they are—and why they’ve been targeted—is still largely unknown.

The number of international students hit by the Trump administration's visa actions is likely much larger than reported. For example, Northwest Missouri State has 43 revocations--twice as many as the University of Michigan. The regional public angle here deserves more attention.

Congrats on a great first PAA presentation, @martingaedecke.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉, presenting our paper with @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social on conceptualizing & testing new sequence-analysis-based measures for children's family life's and their consequences on their educational outcomes in FE designs! #PAA2025

Ich freue mich am nächsten Dienstag ganz frische Ergebnisse zu verschiedenen Konzepten von Familienkomplexitäten und deren Auswirkungen auf Kinder in Bamberg vorzustellen aus dem gemeinsamen Projekt mit @martingaedecke.bsky.social & @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social 💫

“Can Family Policies Enhance Fertility?” R. Guetto, G. Alderotti & D. Vignoli explore the policy-fertility nexus & assess how parental leave, childcare services & child benefits may influence fertility--with childcare appearing to be the strongest policy lever. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

New #PostdocOpportunity📢
passionate about family dynamics, gender inequality, and social disadvantage over the life course?
🌟Join our dynamic team at University of Queensland, led by Prof.Janeen Baxter
Apply👉 www.seek.com.au/job/81137916
Deadline📅:4 Feb
#FamilyResearch #Gender #SocialScience

Are you planning to attend PAA meeting in Washington DC? Consider to present your work in our one day workshop on sequence analysis.
Papers on both applications of SA or new approaches with SA are welcome.
The event is free of charge. More info on our website

2nd position⬇️

📢The Vienna Institute of Demography is seeking a Postdoc to join Demography of Austria Research Group

📍 Location: Vienna, Austria
📅 Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

➡️https://oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID192PD124_.pdf
@oeaw.bsky.social

I would be happy to be added - great initiative! 🙏

🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉

📅 3-5 September 2025
📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st
ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu

I'm happy to be on the organizing team.

Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome.

#ECSR2025

The postdoc 'big mac plus' index Which university in Europe has the best postdoc package? In order words, which university is perhaps 'undervalued'? This blog considers salary, cost of living, life satisfaction and uni reputation.

Another week, another blog:) this one is for my academic friends entering the European postdoc job market. laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-postdo...

New Working Paper

#SequenceAnalysis for Large Databases

dx.doi.org/10.12682/liv...

Rcode available in new WeightedCluster version 1.8-0
Check
?seqclararange

Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society Hear Nhat An Trinh describe how gender disparities in wealth levels vary by parental class and examine the contribution of the gendered allocation of parental wealth to these differences.

📢 QSS-CLS Seminar Series: #Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap

@natrinh.bsky.social uncovers how gendered parental wealth transfers drive #WealthInequality, with the largest #GenderGap at the top of the class hierarchy.

⏰Dec 4th, 1pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

One more week to apply for this postdoc position to work with me at @unipd.bsky.social
Deadline: December 6, 1:00pm (CET)

Are you working on a paper using sequence analysis /SA related method and want to discuss some aspects of it?

Consider our webinar series "work-in-progress edition"!

Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.5th 2025.

More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

3-year Postdoc Opportunity in the DECIPHE project at DIW Berlin.

You'll work closely with P. Lersch and collaborate with the team to study intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe.

Deadline: 15 Jan 2024

For job details: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

For DECIPHE: www.deciphe.eu