Over at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings.
* (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws
* NAFTA kills
* (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship
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Hope you find this interesting!
Stone CID announces a new article titled “Is College Really ‘the’ Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection,” featured in the March 3 issue of Sociological Science. Includes authors’ names and publication details, with a portrait framed in yellow.
In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.
Abstract text of working paper
What do we know - and what should we know - about economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies? This new WP by our Affiliated Scholar @guidoalfani.bsky.social identifies the main gaps that need to be filled in reconstructions of wealth & income distributions.
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The distributional consequences of opening up to trade are very real. In this case, the costs are grim, as mortality increased from NAFTA. Creating a good fiscal system that re-distributes is extremely important.
This looks relevant if you are interested in the ONS Longitudinal Study:
It's a great study, Davon. Nice work!
We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!
The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Education Jennifer L. Jennings Blackboard with chalk and eraser
Since so many of us are inside & online, it's auspicious the final book cover just came in.
Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇
This is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes.
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I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.
Thinking about submitting some inequality-related research to ASA, but not sure what session it should go in? Or feel like it doesn't fit any of the session topics? Perfect! I’m organizing the Open Call session for @asa-ipm.bsky.social. Deadline: Feb 25.
(Now back to working on my ASA paper...)
While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Plot of the median real hourly wage by state over time
To explore the State of Working America Data Library on the web: data.epi.org
New working paper on recent trends in class mobility in the US: www.nber.org/papers/w34800
I learned a lot from an amazing team of collaborators at the @ucstonecenter.bsky.social while working on this propject: Weiqi Wang, @butaevak.bsky.social, and @durlauf.bsky.social
Correct. This is valuable time that researchers could be investing into changing the formatting styles of their citations between resubmissions.
Huge thanks to Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social, Evelyn Ersanilli, and Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social for their outstanding service to European #sociology.
What a difference their leadership at European Societies has made!
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Goodness. Thank you for writing them. They are very helpful to me. And they're easily the pdfs I email graduate students the most.
Ha!
Thanks for sharing this. Good to know I'm not alone.
@ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social wrote, imo, the best practical sociology-journal-writing pieces of advice out there.
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His second part came out in 2015. Has any sociologist done anything like this in the last decade?
You don't usually hear language this stark from the business-oriented Conference Board:
"Confidence collapsed to the lowest point since 2014, surpassing pandemic depths..."
"well below the threshold of 80 that usually signals a recession ahead..."
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from:
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Small samples. Grains of salt and whatnot. But some fun pot stirring.
1. Each Soc Sci discipline thinks they're more scientific than others...
2. ... exception being Anth
3. Soc. think that only Psych is more scientific than them.
4. Poli Sci thinks both Psych and Econ are more scientific
5. Psych has v. high opinion of itself
6. Econ has v. low opinion of others
New in ESR
Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
This paper looks extremely interesting. Nice work!
Are you interested in inequality of opportunity / inter-generational mobility? Take a look at this impressive new resource: a public-access database containing cross-nationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for 72 countries, covering 2/3 of the world’s population. 👇👇👇
On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
y'all have done a really, really great job at rssm. really appreciate it.
@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social, Natasha Quadlin, and Jordyn Wald investigate regret amongst women with computer science and engineering degrees. They find that these fields are defined by a uniquely large unexplained amount of regret among women. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The best way to make sense of all this, we argue, is through the cultural explanations exemplified by folks like Cech, Blair-Loy, Neely, and others.
Hope you find this useful.
