Giulia Corti
@gcorti.bsky.social
Postdoc @CED, Barcelona | Families, couples and a bit of historical demography
How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...
Al casero le pagas la hipoteca de la casa que te alquila. Pero le sobran 400 euros todos los meses, que los ahorra para la entrada de otro piso que también alquilará. Asi sucesivamente Este es el problema de vivienda. Es rentismo y especulación, y está partiendo a la sociedad
NEW: Yuan Cheng, John K. Dagsvik, Xuehui Han, Zhiyang Jia , "Force of Attraction and Partner Availability in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Two-Sided Matching Model" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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En el Madrid de los jóvenes desesperados por emanciparse y de las familias atrapadas en ratoneras por los precios disparados de la vivienda, un contraste: en 2026 se ha roto la barrera de los 75.000 propietarios de tres viviendas en la región
Madrid rompe la barrera de los 75.000 propietarios con tres viviendas y tiene más de 500 que llegan a 50
Con los precios del alquiler y la compra disparados, la capital concentra a los grandes tenedores de la región, presentes también en Alcobendas, Parla o Getafe
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Restrictive immigration quotas in the 1920s reduced intergenerational mobility for US-born white men, and had imprecise but positive effects on intergenerational mobility of Black men, from @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella www.nber.org/papers/w34775
“Mothers & Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery”: Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge et al find that mothers’ presence was most imp. determinant of survival, esp. before 18 months--bringing needed research attention to the demography of enslaved populations. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
☀️Happy to be back with a new article in @jmfncfr.bsky.social! W/ Saverio Minardi we explore how parental loss during childhood was linked to family formation in adulthood. This was my last contribution to the ERC funded project GENPOP. Check it out Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This paper examines the long-term impact of parental loss in early years on family formation as adults in U.S. cohorts born between 1850 and 1910, focusing on age assortative mating and th.....
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📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org
🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... You can find some of the main results in the thread.
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👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys In a paper recently published in @readdemography.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social and his colleagues, @maikevd.bsky.social and @afcastr0t.bsky.social (CED), compared ... 🧵1/5
the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets
Article: Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets | Sociological Science | Posted May 12, 2025
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En Sevilla hay unos 38.000 ciudadanos de 10 barrios a los que el apagón masivo no les sorprendió. El pasado lunes fue un día más en su triste rutina. “Como la distribución eléctrica está en manos privadas [de Endesa], el barrio es un vertedero y las instituciones no aparecen”
Vecinos de las 3.000 viviendas: “El gran apagón del lunes es nuestro día a día”
Unos 38.000 sevillanos sufren frecuentes cortes de luz, agravados el último lustro, sin que Endesa ni las Administraciones ofrezcan soluciones
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For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The keys to the house - How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities
This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequ…
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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
📢 We find that shifts in the gender imbalance in education promoted rising hypogamy and declining hypergamy. Yet, if the gender-education association had remained constant, educational expansion would have also led to changes in hypogamy and hypergamy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education
Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…
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Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.
“Biologico”, “all’aperto”, “a terra” e “in gabbia”: guida definitiva per comprare le uova al supermercato, e sapere cosa guardare su scatole e gusci
Guida definitiva per comprare le uova al supermercato - Il Post
Tutto quello che bisogna guardare su scatole e gusci per capire come vengono allevate le galline, e fare scelte non solo economiche
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Trends in Completed Fertility by Educational Field: Swedish Men and Women Born 1946–1975 "The ranking of educational fields by childlessness and completed fertility is remarkably similar for men and women and stable across cohorts" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
Previous research on fertility by field of education has revealed stronger fertility variation than by the more frequently studied metric of educational level. However, this line of research has not ...
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Which family life course aspects shape wealth the most? Our (@crowold.bsky.social @nicolekapelle.bsky.social) novel data-driven study uncovers the key family-related predictors of wealth in late working age. Hint: It’s not as simple as you think! 👀👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
ÚLTIMA HORA | El Govern pacta con ERC, Comuns y CUP limitar el precio de los alquileres de temporada sin finalidad turística
El Govern pacta con ERC, Comuns y CUP limitar el precio de los alquileres de temporada sin finalidad turística
El Ejecutivo de Illa ata el apoyo del Parlament a dos decretos clave tras aceptar incluir en la regulación todos los alquileres de uso residencial, aunque mantiene dudas sobre su constitucionalidad
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In a shift, American women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman. As one researcher told Stephanie H. Murray, “understanding the dynamics of these couples is key to understanding the future of marriage”: https://theatln.tc/MTCP3Ef0
“Self-assessed Physical & Mental Health & Fertility Expectations”: Using HILDA data, Ester Lazzari & Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social examine how self-assessed health influences expectations at different stages of men's & women's reproductive life. @univie.ac.at read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“War Fatalities in Russia in 2022-2023”: D. Kobak (@hippopedoid.bsky.social), @alexeyb.bsky.social et al. used official statistics & the excess male mortality method to estimate 58,500 Russian deaths in the Russo-Ukrainian war. @hertie-ai.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Convocadas 4 plazas de profesor ayudante doctor en sociología en la UNED @uneduniv.bsky.social Perfiles: Socio-demografía, cambio social, vulnerabilidad, y sociología de la comunicación. www.uned.es/universidad/... (Convocatorias 5 y 6/2025). Deadline: 9 de abril
UNED | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). pública, Grados, posgrados, másteres, investigación, formación permanente
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“Income Volatility & Parenting Styles During Hard Times”: @gmari.bsky.social studied whether volatility affects parenting, finding it associated w/ ↓ warmth & ↑ harshness in families w/ ↑ incomes & the opposite in fams w/ ↓ incomes. @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Nice opportunity to work on a great project with a brilliant PI! ☀️☀️
Ariane Ophir@arianeophir.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography
Are we facing the return of "inheritocracy"? @morellisal.bsky.social, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on inherited wealth, discusses the rising importance of inheritance and potential solutions for the negative effects of the Great Wealth Transfer. bit.ly/3R5B2z5
Salvatore Morelli on the Rising Importance of Inheritance and How to Curb Its Negative Effects - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Salvatore Morelli, whose research was cited by The Economist in a recent article on the “return of inheritocracy,” discusses the surge in inherited wealth, what this means for wealth inequality, and p...
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Join me next July in Barcelona for my module, "Digital Cartography and Spatial Analysis with R," at the BaRcelona Summer School of Demography! 📢 Applications are open until March 15! 🔹 Day 4: Accessing Open Street Map @openstreetmap.bsky.social data in R. 📌 More info: ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso...
