Marissa Thompson
@marissathompson.bsky.social
assistant professor of sociology at Columbia • researching inequality, education, race/ethnicity, & social policy • 26.2 x2, 13.1 x14 • 1913 | Γ • she/her • views mine marissaethompson.com
For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.
Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale
The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.
stanford.edu
Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant
Michigan wins its first NCAA men's basketball national title since 1989, defeating UConn 69-63. https://cnn.it/4siS79a
New Science Advances paper w/ Jennifer Candipan: Racial change doesn’t just reshape neighborhoods, it reshapes school punishment. We show Black–White suspension disparities grow in places where Black populations are changing, especially in majority White, suburban, & rural areas.
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
Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.
What We Inherit
Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact
press.princeton.edu
How do Black and White Americans assess the legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? Using a series of survey experiments, authors @marissathompson.bsky.social, Sam Trejo, @ajalvero.bsky.social, and @daphmarts.bsky.social illustrate the characteristics that drive racial conceptions
Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
journals.uchicago.edu
New working paper with a rockstar team!! So cool to work with partners in the state of Michigan who are doing excellent work trying to make college more affordable for Michigan students.
Annenberg Institute@annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢 #EdWorkingPapers: A new study by @eburland.bsky.social and colleagues shows how administrative burdens and fractured responsibilities limit take-up of Michigan’s Tuition Incentive Program. 📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1283
