Happy to share our working paper on the emergence, challenges & sustainability of refugee-led orgs in Europe! We also released the survey data as an open-access resource and built an interactive platform for orgs to connect. Huge thanks to the participating orgs & co-authors!
tinyurl.com/7txpnhpt
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?
“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
Bar chart showing the distribution of childhood experience of transnational separation (TS) from a parent by age at first migration to the United Kingdom.
The last piece of my PhD thesis is now published on @demresjournal.bsky.social 🎉
Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement
Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?
Short answer: yes
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academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
📢 New paper out! How do partnership constellations relate to poverty in Germany?
Together with @emstruffolino.bsky.social, we examine different-sex partnerships and how low education and non-employment cluster, distinguishing non-migrants, descendants of migrants, and EU vs. non-EU migrants.
New publication in @actasociologica.bsky.social!
@filippogch.bsky.social and I use a novel decomposition method (@ang-yu.bsky.social and Elwert) to study if and how *childcare arrangements* under age 3 shape disparities in children’s cognitive skills
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Immigrants typically arrive in good health but experience fast health declines. Is the same true for Asylum Seekers though?
Check out my latest publication on PDR: doi.org/10.1111/padr...
Short answer: yes for (self-reported) physical health, but the opposite is true for mental health!
Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Interesting paper on teacher bias by student SES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First single-author pub out in SSM!
It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️
OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper in Social Science & Medicine: We test the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility using German panel data. Findings suggest costs stem from pre-existing vulnerabilities, not mobility itself. Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU"
just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore
An outcome of the mapineq.eu project
🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load
📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in
@pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n
📣 New article out! With @sedovicmicha.bsky.social we look at not just how the majority thinks about immigration, but also what (first and second generation) migrants' attitudes are
Full piece in European Journal of Population:
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#migration #socialcohesion #europe
🌈 New Publication !!!
I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien:
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
You can find some of the main results in the thread.
How much of the intergenerational transmission of SES is due to social factors?
To answer this, shared 🧬 between parents and children need to be considered. In our new study, we use two designs to account for genetic confounding.
We find that roughly 20 percent is due to social factors!
How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status?
Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l suggests small or null effects in Germany.
With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!
Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?
→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪
New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education
doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174
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🧠🎓 Signal or substance?
What do employers really see in a university degree?
Our new paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social dives into “sheepskin effects” using a factorial survey experiment.
With @jpheisig.bsky.social & @thijsbol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
Marital separation, BMI decline, and the myth of the revenge body
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@socarxiv.bsky.social preprint by Associate Member @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @andreatilstra.bsky.social
New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...
🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨
Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities.
📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible
🧑💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund
👉 Apply by June 7
ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P...
🙏 Share widely 📣📣
#Sociology #Postdoc
This
is
insane.
"two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%"
🚨 Concern about climate change is linked to lower fertility intentions in Italy.
👉 New study out in Genus by @chiarapuglisi.bsky.social, Daniele Vignoli @florenceups.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak.
🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review!
How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term?
Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1177/0197...
