Together indicating that the rising cost of living is felt especially by families with young children, across the income distribution.
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Together indicating that the rising cost of living is felt especially by families with young children, across the income distribution.
In ongoing research, I together with coauthors see how families with young children reduced spending on outsourcing domestic work since 2020. Other household types (without children) did not, and the overall SES gradient in outsourcing decreased somewhat.
While a governmental investigation on the topic is ongoing, inflation-adjusting the child allowance to its earlier real value would be a reasonable first step (1600 SEK instead of 1250 SEK per child and month).
Such investment could also help minimize other costly consequences of decreased fertility, such as (pre)school closures and retraining of teachers.
The cost of living of families with children is more sensitive to costs for housing (and food), which have increased faster than overall inflation.
Given decreased fertility, larger investments per child (child allowance,school,daycare) are possible without increasing overall expenditure on children
Today, Dagens Nyheter publishes my debate article. I highlight the contrast between governmental concern on decreasing fertility on the one hand, and decreasing family benefits (due to inflation) in a context of rising costs of living on the other hand.
När barnafödandet minskar och bostadskostnader äter upp en allt större del av barnfamiljers inkomster, finns det alla skäl att värna Sveriges familjepolitik - i stället för att låta inflationen urholka den.
www.dn.se/debatt/ni-un...
A study just out in ESR also suggests that women do not benefit professionally from keeping their own surname (in the German context): doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Between "making a name" for oneselve, or taking one, this study suggests taking one is more beneficial for women in academia
Claudia Goldin previously showed that US women who made a name for theirselves before marriage were less likely to adopt their partner's: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
"Women who have changed their surname received more favourable [academic] evaluations compared to those who did not.[...academic] female participants favoured female academics who have changed [surname...] and this was mediated by higher perceived competence and commitment"
doi.org/10.3390/socs...
"Nobody like a Swede to respond to a yes or no question with: eh, kind of" (meaning: no!)
Double Dutch - Teater Giljotin
Hahaha, 45! Amazing! I just spent a feverish day watching a slightly bad Dutch rip-off to House of Cards ("BuZa"), time less well invested.
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
And an interesting companion article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"...race and SES lines, define childbearing norms. Black women receive less approval if in low- versus high-SES positions, whereas White women receive similar levels of approval regardless of SES."
Social policy and the SES gradient in fertility: "We find that local government spending cuts were associated with a 9.1 percent reduction in the probability of having a(nother) birth for women in the poorest households, but not for women in the middle or richest households"
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
Stone centre online dialogue screenshot
The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
Stockholm, as cold as ice
Remember, remember, an icy November
Ice is ice, nanaa naanana
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
Latest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.
Singlehood is accelerating across continents and different age cohorts. But not all those who remain single have chosen to do so
Allemaal stemmen, jongons! En vergeet niet: stem vooral op basis van wereld- en mensbeelden, ideologische grondslagen en partijprogramma's. Dan komt het goed.
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Congratulations! 😃
Stem!
"We construct sleep and wake-up times from hourly app usage [...] For each student on each day, sleep onset is defined as the first hour within a three-hour
window after 9 p.m. during which total app usage falls below 10% of the student’s average daily usage over the prior month."
/Sleep well
