New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS/Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 3 December: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate drive.google.com/file/d/1DT8i... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher drive.google.com/file/d/1AiRo...

NEW: Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian, "No Stalled Revolution: The Closing Gender Gap in Early Careers in Europe and the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-44-1159

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Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Why do children from lower-SES backgrounds have lower academic achievement? Our new study (with @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) shows that higher levels of school absence are one contributing factor to these inequalities in achievement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When students miss school across their school career matters. Absences are harmful throughout schooling, but particularly at educational transitions. Our new BERA blog summarises what we found 👇 Full findings in the American Educational Research Journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing? - Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu, 2025

Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11...

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BERA@beranews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📝 NEW BLOG POST When absences matter: Timing of school attendance and achievement Markus Klein, University of Strathclyde Edward Sosu, University of Glasgow Jascha Dräger, DIW Berlin Read here: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/when-absences-matter-timing-of-school-attendance-and-achievement

📢 PhD vacancy Are you interested in understanding how families, schools, and neighborhoods *jointly* shape educational outcomes? Eva Jaspers, @glorenz.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD candidate to work on this topic at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD: Contextual (dis)advantage and educational inequality

Do you want to understand how families, schools and neighbourhoods jointly produce school outcomes and educational inequality?

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Looking for published papers in the social sciences/econ/education with pre-registered secondary-data analysis. Self-nominations welcome! Extra points if its with a null effect

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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Good news, everyone! I have a short piece coming out in The Conversation on Monday that explains the main issues with this study. It's impossible for me to have the same media reach as the original press release. So I'd be extremely grateful if people could help me share it as widely as possible 🙏

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5mo ago

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

A great thread on the evidence regarding human capital vs. signaling explanations of the return to higher education.

David Slichter@davidslichter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

(1/n) Holding the coursework constant but changing whether there's a diploma has no effect on wages: www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...

APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me Deadline: 12 May, 2026 Call👇 8d87235d-b140-4b6e-949c-c9606376b3fa.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d8723_a...

Does public service deprivation boost support for the populist right? New evidence in our paper, conditionally accepted at APSR 🥳, where we study how GP closures shape voting intentions in England. 👇

Zach Dickson@zachdickson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

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/...

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...

Bright but Poor: Undermatching in the Access to Postsecondary Education - Alejandra Mizala, Luis Herskovic, Alejandra Abufhele, Florencia Torche, 2026

Undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatc...

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Another nice application of our decomposition! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Directions for improving the policy relevance of inequality research: Lessons from social origin–specific health disparities

This study examines how social science research can more effectively inform policy interventions aimed at reducing social inequalities. Focusing on he…

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Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

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Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years. Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In"). aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

Grade inflation in high schools harms students. GPAs rose by about a quarter of a letter grade over the past decade, even among students with similar test scores. This new working paper shows grade inflation lowers future test scores, high school graduation, college enrollment, and earnings.

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

Call for Papers/Extended Abstracts | American Sociological Association

Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper/extended abstract to the ASA Annual Meeting. The call for submissions opens on November 3, 2025, and closes

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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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Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets | PNAS

Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer sl...

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Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 2y ago

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

How to stop the revolving door of German academia

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

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The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition

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see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥@hermwerf.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...