How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...
Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?
I've got something for you!
My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Auf dem Weg zurück nach Hannover von der #Frühjahrstagung2026 der #DGS Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit in Potsdam. Was für eine tolle Veranstaltung mit hochwertigen Beiträgen, wertvollen Kommentaren und Frühlingsvibes 🌷☀️ Großes Dankeschön an das Orgateam der @unipotsdam.bsky.social!
Title page of the paper.
🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social
Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data.
Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)
Great 2-3 year postdoc opportunity in the Social Policy unit here at @sofi.su.se, Stockholm University
SOFI is an incredible research and work environment, could not recommend it more
Deadline for applications (including your own research plan): 13th April 2026
📢 New publication!
Together with @dariatisch.bsky.social, I’m happy to share our new article bringing gender into a key methodological debate on how to answer causal questions.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hey London (spatial) bubble! I will be at LSE this summer term so if you happen to be in the city and want to discuss some research or know some good workshops and seminars - feel free to reach out 🌞🤝 very excited! 🙏🏼
Thank you, Isabel! 😊
Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?
I've got something for you!
My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper with Sebastian Bähr (@sebbaehr.bsky.social) and Bernad Batinic (JKU Linz) out now in @plosone.org ! We investigate whether working from home (WFH) affects latent functions of work and various well-being measures. 1/n
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...
Results for CEM and neighborhood fixed effects regressions. We find robust and significant positive effects (blue coefficients) of childhood exposure to different ethnicities on the likelihood of interethnic marriage.
Left: georeferenced households in 1880. Right: Ethnic organic neighborhoods in Manhattan in 1880. Six ethnic groups are prevalent: first/second generation Americans, Asians, Germans, Irish and Others (residual category). We use these neighborhoods to account for segregation by applying organic neighborhood fixed effects.
New preprint out with @wendering.bsky.social & Nan Zhang!
We show that childhood exposure to ethnic outgroups increases the prob. of #interethnic marriage decades later, using historical linked US census data (1880–1910) and next-door neighbor comparisons 🏠🌃
Read more here:
shorturl.at/U0IHR
Looking for RAs based in Berlin/Brandenburg. Please share! 🙏
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap† By Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue* We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail chain, we find that women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings. Differences in potential ratings account for approximately half of the gender promotion gap. Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues, both on average and on the margin of promotion. We highlight two mechanisms driving the gender potential gap: strategic retention and stereotyping. (JEL J16, J31, J71, L81, M12, M51)
"...women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings... lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues..."
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Participating at the #RC28 online conference on educational inequalities?
Come to my talk on the spatial embeddedness of #VET dropout decisions 🚫 and consequences 💸 in Germany at 11 am (Room 1) today!
Could be a worth-to-investigate dimension of gentrification 🤔
📢Apply now for one of our GradAB PhD scholarships beginning 1st Oct 2026. GradAB is a joint program of IAB and @fau.de in cooperation with TU Dortmund. (1/4)
Das Bild zeigt sechs Porträtfotos von Forschenden des Insituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Ein blauer Balken mit dem Text "Wir gratulieren zur Promotion" teilt das Bild in zwei Hälften.
🎓🥳 2025 war ein Jahr voller Fortschritte und wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Besonders stolz sind wir auf unsere Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die dieses Jahr ihre Promotion erfolgreich abgeschlossen oder verteidigt haben – herzlichen Glückwunsch zu diesem beeindruckenden Erfolg!
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
“Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility & Segregation”: @benjarvis.bsky.social, @kchihaya.bsky.social & @eduardotapia.bsky.social examine ancestry & segregation; they find ancestry sorting effects are 3X greater than kin propinquity effects. @iasliu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Danke! :)
Danke, Kerstin! 🥰
The picture shows the train station city sign of Nuremberg
What a day! After nine years at the @iabnews.bsky.social, I’m closing a chapter that shaped me deeply — from research assistant to PostDoc 🙏
Grateful for the people and ideas along the way.
Nexy stop: RegioHub at Uni Bielefeld where I will investigate the link between place and CSS more deeply 👩💻🌇
🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP)
(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)
👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread:
1/11
Valuable first insights on the spatial imbalance of private vs public run day care facilities by neighborhood ressources with new city-district level data for Germany. Would be great to see this as a panel!
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!
Call 4 INAS26 is open
🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)
☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26
🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social
Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
Workshop: Inequalities in working life An interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the Department of Sociology and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies, Uppsala University December 11 – December 12, 2025 Location: Sigtunastiftelsen
Sigtuna time!
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
