A few decades ago, working-class youth became independent earlier than upper-class youth.
Today, the opposite is true:
👉 young people from upper-class backgrounds tend to leave home earlier.
🚨New paper in the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research (REIS).
We analyse how class inequalities in youth emancipation in Spain have changed over the last 50 years.
The main finding: the class gradient has been reversed.
reis.cis.es/index.php/re...
just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social )
Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo
🆕 NEW Paper with K. Bobrowicz (lead), Z. Teuber & S. Greiff in @plosone.org!
Early Childhood Education (ECE) Stakeholders push Competition & Achievement over Solidarity & Cohesion
#Meritocracy #Trap
🌍 53 countries
📊 Thematic Analysis
🕰️ 1999–2023
Open Access 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Which family life course aspects shape wealth the most? Our (@crowold.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social) novel data-driven study uncovers the key family-related predictors of wealth in late working age. Hint: It’s not as simple as you think!
👀👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
🚨New paper in the International Journal of Sociology of Education where I analyse how growing up in single-parent families influences tertiary education attainment, which mechanisms explain this, their heterogeneity by parental SES and how it has changed over time.
👉🏽 doi.org/10.17583/ris...
For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M
mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes
sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
📣 New paper by Mejías-Leiva & Mínguez: adolescents from single-parent families have more school absences than those from two-parent families due to poorer economic and family resources, especially among lower social backgrounds.
🔗https://genus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41118-024-00214-3
