Fabrizio Bernardi

New at ESR

#OpenAccess
Does violence back home still shape refugees’ plans after reaching safety?
#Y_Kosyakova #A_Ette @SchwSilvia show that especially short-term spikes in violence strongly affects Ukrainian refugees’ intentions to settle abroad!

Read it at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag008

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Iniesta effects? a spike in fertility in Bodø in 9 months? or In Bergamo?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AcademicSky

I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour

These aren't incompatible complaints

Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers

New #OpenAccess

Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002

A college on every cape: gender equality, gender segregation and local college openings Abstract. The expansion of higher educational systems in Western countries in the latter half of the 20th century is central to the reversal of the gender

New at ESR!

#OpenAccess!

Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #ARogne #TKnutsen @modals.li revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf060

The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital Abstract. When a child moves home multiple times, the consequences for the adult they will later become can be substantial. This study investigates how fre

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Does moving often as a child weaken social capital later in life?
#RValente #MVacchiano find a more complex picture: childhood moves reduce place attachment, but can strengthen personal agency, supporting social capital in adulthood!

🔥 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag001

Solidarity with the people in Minneaplois protesting agaist ICE from Madrid Spain: ICE OUT!!

Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has

New at ESR: The integration paradox reconsidered!

@frankvantubergen.bsky.social shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone
What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource!
➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf054

Addio a Corbetta, cuore e motore dell’istituto Cattaneo | il manifesto (Commenti) Piergiorgio Corbetta è stato per decenni il cuore, il motore dell'Istituto Cattaneo di Bologna, che ha diretto dal 1989 al 1994 e poi dal 1997 al 2002, diventandone poi direttore di ricerca...

P. Corbetta has passed away. Prof at UniBo, methods teacher, his manual was a bible among PhD students in Trento.

My first small teaching job was with him at Bologna, and he later involved me in several research activities at the Istit Cattaneo.

I owe him a great deal. Ciao grande Piergiorgio

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

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/...

An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

New OA In ESR

How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment?
@lucaspasin.bsky.social #Aaszekely @squazzoni.bsky.social find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion, even when evasion is socially disapproved
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf057

New paper #OpAccess
Labour market insecurity matters beyond jobs!
@vincentrramos.bsky.social @ann-berrington.bsky.social show that unemployment, underemployment, and temporary work are all linked to higher parental co-residence, especially among advantaged young adults!

doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf058

I have reviewed 'Orienting to Chance. Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory' by @omarlizardo.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @michaelstrand.bsky.social

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La aventura española de la UFM - Fernando Díaz Villanueva El mes pasado fue inaugurado en Madrid el campus de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín, una casa de estudios guatemalteca completamente desconocida en España más allá de un reducido círculo de profeso...

Una de las universidades privadas recientemente establecidas en Madrid, con una calidad académica cuestionable y una dirección marcada por casos de corrupción vinculados al PP. ¿Por qué no ha recibido la atención que merece? @eldiario.es @elpais.com
diazvillanueva.com/la-aventura-...

This Thursday UNED/GEPS Inequality and Social Demography seminar with:

Lucas Sage (IAST)

Starting low to finish high? Reassessing wage growth trajectories in early careers

at 19.00-20.30
Room Jorge Cavodeassi, UNED,
Calle Bravo Murillo 38, 28013 Madrid

and don't miss the post-seminar drinks!

If you read this post, you might be one of those you benefit from cumulative advantage.

Learn more with this new article at @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil Abstract. Research in social stratification has long posited that the direct effects of social origin on destination are diminished for individuals with hi

🌟New paper out at ESR!

Does more education mean more mobility?

Evidence from Brazil by #A_Salata #SY_Cheung shows otherwise!

🚩As university access expanded, its equalizing power faded!

➡️Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf049

Hoy en Madrid hay huelga en defensa de la Universidad pública/ today in Madrid we go on strike to defend public univerities

("Today I wake up and strike", writing on a wall, Bologna, some years ago)

@ipp-csic.bsky.social. En un día como el 25N hay que contarlo: La violencia contra las mujeres se esconde en la intimidad de los hogares y se cobra víctimas cada día globalmente con un coste social abrumador: No podemos ignorarlo ni tampoco relativizarlo. @csic.es
elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Attitudes towards education spending when facing a fiscal trade-off: an analysis of stakeholders Abstract. Public investment in education is popular in advanced countries. This paper examines whether such public support prevails when individuals are as

Are citizens supportive of public spending on education when it requires paying more taxes?

#ID_Özel #S_Parrado #K_Yıldırım new paper says: No!
Yet evaluations of one’s own children’s schooling reduce this cost sensitivity!

➡️Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf043

We use:
- Variance function regressions

- Siblings fixed models

- Sociogenomic data for propensity for educational attainment

We show that the effect of luck is socially stratified: it is larger for low SES students with high PGI for education

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Off to Mannheim!
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the MZES:

“Unequal Luck: Chance as a Mechanism of Educational Inequality”

with @ferraraale.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

where luck= chance+ consequences

Here the wp:

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction Abstract. Interactional incidents are a common object of survey studies on perceived discrimination and of field experiments on discrimination in social in

🚩New experimental evidence at the European Sociological Review!

#Martin_Aranguren advances the conceptualization of discrimination, addressing it as a stressor and highlighting its environmental origin!!

Read the full article at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf047

Newly accepted manuscripts at ESR, below.

Check it out for continuos updates

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But then can we non maliciously instruct AI as a direct alternative to online surveys?

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

The Conference Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...

See you in Sevilla!

RC28 conference, 20-22 May 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 1st of December

eventos.upo.es/137585/secti...

On my way to chair a session at the GEPS (Population and Society) workshop in Madrid.

Great line-up today.

If you want to drop by:
Sala S. Aleksiévich
Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM

A flow chart on what to call your Professor. Undergrads are advised to never call professors by their first name.

In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”.

I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway