"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications

Article: Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications | Sociological Science | Posted June 30, 2026

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Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Said Hassan, "Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

New research shows that, in the mid-20th century, China was able to achieve remarkably rapid declines in child mortality in the absence of economic growth, by investing in healthcare. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

Regular reminder that every time we are in a position to evaluate "signaling" vs. "human capital" models of education, "human capital" wins hands down.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Gender gaps in reading increase during unplanned and planned school closures | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪

we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:

Very happy about this publication. We managed to pool two unique data sources: Behavioral reading data from the reading app Bookbites (used in many schools in DK) and population level data on library-loans. Both sources of data confirmed the same trend regarding gender differences in reading.

Ea Blaabæk@blaabaek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls. New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

During school closures and holidays, boys' reading declines while girls maintain their reading habits, widening the gender gap in reading engagement outside structured school environments. doi.org/hbtm4f

Boys ditch books when schools close—girls keep reading: Study

When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen.

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Ever wondered who use reviews to direct behavior? I did. So I collected data on literary reviews and awards and studied who loan these books from libraries following favorable quality signals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Preaching to the converted: Cultural intermediaries and cultural consumer behavior

This article studies the impact of signals from cultural intermediaries. Who aligns cultural behavior in response to signals from which cultural inter…

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Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

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Yesterday, it was Women’s Day Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just career slowdown 👇👇👇 Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social

Berlin School of Economics@bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👶📚 Does #parenthood affect academic careers equally? A new study shows that after the first child, many mothers leave #academia and are less likely to reach tenure (a permanent professorship) – while fathers’ careers remain largely unchanged. berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

🚨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...

🚨Forthcoming paper, @aeajournals.bsky.social 🚨#econsky A thread 🧵 on "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods". Humbled to work w/ @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social, @bdhuey.bsky.social, Levi Halewyck & Simon ter Meulen 1/9

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods" by Mariagrazia Cavallo, Elizabeth Dhuey, Luca Fumarco, Levi Halewyck, and Simon ter Meulen.

I am incredibly excited that May 1st I will be Associate Professor of Educational Sociology at The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University 🤩 I am so happy to get to work with amazing new colleagues and students. I could think of no better home for my research on reading and stratification 📚

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

Nhat An Trinh@natrinh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

New research on postpartum depression as a mechanism of the motherhood penalty (i.e., mothers' reduced lifetime earnings) in Denmark "The penalties are concentrated among less educated mothers and those in less family-friendly jobs." (Application to the US is left as an exercise for the reader)

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager

Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

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Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods

At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...

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My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

New study on divorce by @elinaeinio.bsky.social & Ponkilainen shows that women divorcing men face larger losses in homeownership & in retaining the marital home than both their former husbands and women divorcing women. @pophel.bsky.social 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... PS. Happy New Year! 🥂

Last week, our new paper on indirect assortative mating was published.🍾 Let’s take a closer look at what this means, why it matters, and what we found (🧵/32): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does uncertainty - at micro, meso and macro level - affects childbearing behaviour? (with @comochia.bsky.social ) just out! #childbearing #uncertainty #mesolevel #sociallocation #demography #sociology