Timely new paper in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: Does rising wealth concentration undermine American democracy? Using variation across the 50 U.S. states, results reveal a clear, negative effect of millionaire wealth concentration on democratic performance. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag058

On this first day of class, I'm thrilled to share that I've begun a new position here at UNC as an Assistant Professor of Sociology! I already miss my colleagues and students at Rutgers, but am really grateful for a wonderful 3 years there. Here's to new chapter in Chapel Hill. Go heels! 🩵

Happening later today at ASA! Join us to hear from our esteemed panelists on how sociologists can get more involved in health policy.

Emily Parker@emilyparker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 ASA attendees! 📣 Join us @2pm this Saturday for an event (co-organized with @sorchabrophy.bsky.social) on how sociology can more meaningfully impact U.S. health policy. Featuring @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social, @joshpacewicz.bsky.social, Jennifer Karas Montez, and Megan Reynolds. More details below:

📣 ASA attendees! 📣 Join us @2pm this Saturday for an event (co-organized with @sorchabrophy.bsky.social) on how sociology can more meaningfully impact U.S. health policy. Featuring @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social, @joshpacewicz.bsky.social, Jennifer Karas Montez, and Megan Reynolds. More details below:

Congratulations to @hopeharvey.bsky.social, this year's winner of the ASA Sociology of Population Section's Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Excited to see this collaboration w Alec Rhodes out in the American Sociological Review. "State Right to Work Laws and Economic Dynamism in U.S. Counties, 1946 to 2019" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Giving my first talk at the Fed today! Join @ 3pm EST for the Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series on place-based strategies in low-income communities: fedcommunities.org/event/place-...

Place-Based Strategies: Strengthening Local Economies in Low-Income Communities

Experts from research and policy will discuss how location affects job markets and can contribute to income inequality.

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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 · 8mo 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...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

🚨 Excited to share that my work w/ @loreneri.bsky.social, “Knocking it Down and Mixing it Up: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations” found a home at @restatjournal.bsky.social. We study the impact of converting distressed public housing into mixed-income housing on local housing markets. 🧵👇1/9

Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)@restatjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Replacing distressed public housing with mixed-income housing raises local prices and improves local amenities. Just Accepted new paper by Hector Blanco and Lorenzo Neri Bluesky: @hectorblanco.bsky.social @loreneri.bsky.social zurl.co/dAvES

🚨 New paper 🚨 In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies. In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States

Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles

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New work with a fantastic PhD Candidate Aline Vandenbroeck: we find that Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers are not so targeted… reshaping the whole OBGYN workforce in curious ways: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

Targeted Regulations Of Abortion Providers Associated With Significant Decreases In OB-GYN Density, 1993–2021 | Health Affairs Journal

Obstetricians and gynecologists (OB-GYNs) provide essential health care to women across their lifespan. Yet nearly half of US counties have no OB-GYNs, with nonmetropolitan communities disproportionately affected. Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws, spurred by the 1992 US Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, impose regulatory burdens on abortion providers and may have influenced whether and where OB-GYNs choose to practice, which has not yet been comprehensively studied. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design and county-level data, we found that TRAP laws were associated with an average reduction of 4.67 percent in the density of OB-GYNs per 100,000 women ages 15–44 during the period 1993–2021, between Casey and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022. TRAP laws affected both general and fellowship-trained OB-GYNs, as well as counties without abortion facilities. Concerningly, TRAP laws led to lower physician density in nonmetropolitan counties—a difference that persisted for a decade. As OB-GYN shortages are projected to worsen and TRAP laws are still in effect in twenty-four states, policy makers should consider the long-run effects of TRAP laws on women’s access to health care and their potential to exacerbate geographic disparities in access to care.

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📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019

Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

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We are seeking to hire a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor for appointment beginning July 2026. Candidates should have a specialty in #urbanplanning #housing and #quantitativemethods and/or #planninglaw #landuse #finance. To apply visit jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/254...

Join us for the Penn Population Studies Colloquium on Mon 3/24 @ 12PM in the PSC Commons, 403 McNeil Emily Parker @emilyparker.bsky.social of @bloustein.rutgers.edu presents Geography of the U.S. Health Care Safety Net and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality www.aging.upenn.edu/events/collo...

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

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Just keeps getting worse: the reason Trump wants recess appointments is because a hearing will be a shitshow www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/p...

Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whos...

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To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS

The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

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🚨New pub w @emilyparker.bsky.social & @drschut.bsky.social in Social Forces🚨 “The promise & limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics & immigrant access to health care in the US” academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S.

Abstract. In the United States, exclusionary public policies generate inequalities within and across labor, financial, and legal status hierarchies, which

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Are you a social scientist using Generative AI in your research? Daniel Karell and I are organizing the Generative AI and Sociology Workshop at Yale on April 5-6, 2024. Abstracts are due December 15. For more info, visit: tinyurl.com/soc-gen-ai

New working paper with Ranjit Lall and Felix Hagemeister: osf.io/7xqkz/ We leverage the exogeneity of early super spreader events to analyze how the onset of the pandemic boosted support for right-wing populists in Europe using data from Twitter, French elections, and British and Dutch surveys.