Carlos J. Gil

🔴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

Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...

Here we discuss sociological (labour division; power relations) and economic (income sources/attributional/thresholds) perspectives on class theory/measurement and analyse interpersonal inequality (Gini) and stratification (Overlap in distributions) in income/wealth by class: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Thanks :) Also, credit to you for your terrific feedback on the WP!

Gracias :)

LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'

Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!

Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟

📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova!
Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏
@karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨

Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.

📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣

#Sociology #Postdoc

New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf
📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy
Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social

🚨Deadline 6 June
Please repost, share & submit your work

bit.ly/4da5dzq

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World!
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain Evidence shows that immigrants are often in better health than the native born—the so-called ‘immigrant health paradox’—and this advantage may extend to their children’s health. A commonly cited bu...

Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies:

doi.org/10.1080/0032...

We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR!

Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics

Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

FYI: @clic.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social

Still a couple of weeks left until the submission deadline for the Workshop on Inequalities in Bari, jointly organized with Sapienza and LISER. See you guys there! :)

The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology The pursuit of equality and the temptation of power

The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology:
Why we strive for equality and why it is always at risk from would-be social bullies.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-deep-r...

Great to see "The Social Genome" by my colleague Dalton Conley now in print. A wealth of evidence and insights, challenging the old "nature vs. nurture" debate and showing how genes and social contexts interact to shape our lives.

New paper out with @karlosj89.bsky.social, @guillemvidal.me and Davide Villani!

We had already discussed the main findings at the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Some notes in a very short thread:

Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...

No class death/decomposition—Wealth accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity: new @socialindicators.bsky.social📝 by @psalasr.bsky.social @guillemvidal.me Villani 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@florenceups.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

Florencia? Casi ninguna calle del centro histórico es peatonal :(

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality?

New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social!

🧵 Thread 👇

The Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP) scale is also now fully integrated into the DIGCLASS R package, so you can construct OEP from ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 with just a couple of lines of code

ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education?
@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social
No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

La desigualdad en grandes empresas

Estas son las compañías que cuentan con directivos que ganan hasta 1.200 veces el salario de sus empleados 👇 www.eldiario.es/economia/des...

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism Monopoly's inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would have sent herself straight to jail if she’d lived to see just how influential today’s twisted version of her game turned out to be.

Remember Monopoly was originally created to say capitalism was bad?