Back from #ASA2026 with so many great conversations, new ideas, and inspiring work! Sharing a few moments from ASA—congratulations to all the award winners, and thanks to everyone who made the section such a great community. See you next year! 🎉📚

In my keynote at the International Chinese Sociological Association, I emphasized the value of assessing relative and absolute poverty together, especially during rapid change. Between 2002-2018, in China, relative poverty rose while absolute poverty fell. @lisdata.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org

Janet Gornick@janetgornick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The GC-CUNY Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality had the pleasure of co-hosting today's meeting of the International Chinese Sociological Association. Two keynotes, 20 panels, and a ton of impressive research. @stone-lis.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social

Next step for the Extreme Wealth Line project - you can now sign up to newsletters - We have been making progress and plan to share more details very soon :) To sign up, go to extremewealthline.com and scroll all the way down.

Extreme Wealth Line

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What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Don’t forget to nominate your favourite inequality paper in 2025!

Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (ASA Section)@asa-ipm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What inequality-related articles from 2025 should sociologists be reading? The IPM Section is creating a community-sourced reading list of notable 2025 articles on inequality, poverty, mobility, stratification, and related topics. Submit your recommendations here: forms.gle/QWQuLZfVc5y3...

New paper out in PNAS! We show that becoming a grandparent substantially reduces employment and earnings, especially for women. At the same time, grandparents go more to the doctor for respiratory infections, but less for mental health conditions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The cost of caring: Gendered health and labor market effects of grandparenthood | PNAS

While the effects of the transition to parenthood are well researched, less is known about how the transition to grandparenthood affects health and...

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With @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @lukaslehner.bsky.social in the American Sociological Review, we ask: What happens to organized labor when Walmart Supercenters enter a local labor market? Broadly, how do worker power and buyer power interact to shape inequality? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What inequality-related articles from 2025 should sociologists be reading? The IPM Section is creating a community-sourced reading list of notable 2025 articles on inequality, poverty, mobility, stratification, and related topics. Submit your recommendations here: forms.gle/QWQuLZfVc5y3...

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

WHAT IS PUBLIC POLICY THEORY? My new Substack post opens this debate thinking about the big picture questions I’m grappling with as I prepare a PhD seminar on public policy theory. substack.com/@davebrady72...

What is Public Policy Theory?

Part I: The Big Picture Questions

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Temporary visa status is a growing source of inequality. My dissertation chapter published in IMR uses 3.4M population-level administrative records of H-1B workers. I show they are OVEREDUCATED and paid 10% less than similarly employed U.S. citizens. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Have a new publication in inequality, poverty, or mobility? We welcome scholars and graduate students to share their work and tag @asa-ipm.bsky.social! We’d be glad to help highlight exciting new research from across the field.

The data warehouse includes information on household wealth levels and balance sheets, distributional statistics, and wealth transfer taxation. It brings together data on tax revenues, rates, exemptions, and schedules. Explore: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu

The GC Wealth Project

Expanding and consolidating research and data on wealth, wealth inequalities, and wealth transfers and related tax policies — across countries and over time.

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Apply for an ASA Travel Award! Student members and sociologists who would otherwise find it difficult to attend the annual meeting in NYC are eligible to apply for financial assistance via the Travel Fund Award or Student Forum Travel Award. Deadline April 27. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4dhWL3r

Submit to the IPM's Participatory Budget Proposal! Submit here: forms.gle/2j6GaCwvS77B... Due date is the end of the month.

Do you have a good idea of how to spend up to $1,500 to help the community of inequality researchers? Then submit it by Jan 31 (here: forms.gle/2j6GaCwvS77B...) to be included in the new participatory budgeting process of the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section. @asa-ipm.bsky.social

There are only a few slots left! Grad students, see the quoted post for the link to sign up!

Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (ASA Section)@asa-ipm.bsky.social · last yr.

The IPM section will once again be hosting a mentoring event at ASA in Chicago this year - Saturday, August 9 (12:00-1:30pm). Registration for the event is open to the first 40 graduate students who sign up. Grads can register here: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

The IPM section will once again be hosting a mentoring event at ASA in Chicago this year - Saturday, August 9 (12:00-1:30pm). Registration for the event is open to the first 40 graduate students who sign up. Grads can register here: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

The nomination deadline for @asa-ipm.bsky.social awards is TODAY. It doesn't take much or long to nominate a book, paper, or person -- including your own work!

Fabian Pfeffer@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please nominate someone for an award of the Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (@asa-ipm.bsky.social) IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS (due: March 31st) Also: Nominate yourself. No time to be shy! Lots of people self-nominate and you should, too. Details below /1

IPM community - submit nominations for the IPM paper and book awards - nominations for yourself or for others - by tomorrow (March 31)!

Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (ASA Section)@asa-ipm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Send nominations for IPM paper and book awards by March 31! Send to: OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD: emonk@fas.harvard.edu OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: jayanti.owens@yale.edu GRAD STUDENT PAPER AWARD: mclair@stanford.edu EARLY CAREER AWARD: dbloome@hks.harvard.edu DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD: aajack@bu.edu

For an overview of all awards and submission details: www.asanet.org/communities-... /end

Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association

Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest.  Following are the most recent calls for nominations

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Please nominate your favorite senior sociologist by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT M. HAUSER DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD (awarded to celebrate the field’s most fundamental accomplishments) Send a brief nomination letter and their CV to Anthony Jack (aajack@bu.edu). /6

Please nominate your favorite junior sociologist by March 31 for the 2025 WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON EARLY CAREER AWARD (to recognize a scholar who has made major contributions early in their career) Send a brief nomination letter and their CV to Deirdre Bloome (dbloome@hks.harvard.edu) /5

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 DEVAH PAGER OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Jayanti Owens (jayanti.owens@yale.edu) /3

Please nominate a (or your) book by March 31 for the 2025 IPM OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD (published 2022, 2023, or 2024) Send a brief nomination letter to (and have the book publisher contact) Ellis Monk (emonk@fas.harvard.edu) @ellismonk.bsky.social /2

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Send nominations for IPM paper and book awards by March 31! Send to: OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD: emonk@fas.harvard.edu OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: jayanti.owens@yale.edu GRAD STUDENT PAPER AWARD: mclair@stanford.edu EARLY CAREER AWARD: dbloome@hks.harvard.edu DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD: aajack@bu.edu

Fabian Pfeffer@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please nominate someone for an award of the Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (@asa-ipm.bsky.social) IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS (due: March 31st) Also: Nominate yourself. No time to be shy! Lots of people self-nominate and you should, too. Details below /1