After an economic crisis, some children grow up to provide more comfort and support to other people. But speaking of resilience hides a web of market pressures, gender norms and care needs, argues @gmari.bsky.social 📄👉https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/55/1

JUST PUBLISHED! Great to see my commentary published in Critical Social Policy today: "The resilience trap: Deepening the 'risk shift' in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... More in the following posts:

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.

“Black mothers experience a convergence of traumas and disadvantage that results in an experience of sustained deprivation unlike what may be captured when examining a singular adversity or social system.” New research by our graduate research assistant Solome Haile:

Returning to an analysis of power and the centrality of black women: an empirical response to the battles over intersectionality

Abstract. In the decades since its conception, intersectionality scholarship has grown to span a range of topics, study populations, disciplines, and metho

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Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢 Young carers are the forgotten group in NEET policy. They’re 119% more likely to be persistently NEET, and far less likely to complete FE/HE - a new study by @rebeccalacey.bsky.social shows. www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u... @ucliehc.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org

NEW: Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas, "Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach

Article: Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach | Sociological Science | Posted June 2, 2026

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Providing childcare services might mitigate the child penalty in labour markets. But what happens when childcare services are constrained by fiscal austerity? We examine this question in a new working paper with Emanuele Fedeli @lelepicchio.bsky.social. A short thread (link at the end) 1/

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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NEW: Long-term childhood poverty in Britain rose sharply after austerity reforms 📈 The study, by @sbeduk.bsky.social (Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy) & Anna Yong found that more than 1 in 5 children born after 2013 experience poverty for at least half their childhood.

UK's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? 6m unpaid carers provide vital support to sick, disabled, old. 1.4m receive Carer's Allowance of £86.45 a week. More likely to be prosecuted for tiny errors in claims. Govts don't value humanity.

Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan

Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment

For unpaid #carers, earning more does not always lead to economic security. Motivated by the recent #Carer's #Allowance scandal, I have a new working paper @usociety.bsky.social on how much insecurity carers experience, for how long, who's most exposed and why: osf.io/preprints/so... 1/2

David Autor (@davidautor.bsky.social) just wrote a very kind and thoughtful review of "The Means of Prediction" for the Journal of Economic Literature (@aeajournals.bsky.social): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Our analysis of national survey data (2018 to 2025) found 1 in 6 UK adults – equivalent to 8.9 million people – provided unpaid care in the period 2023–25. Learn how caring varies across groups, intersects with work and health, and about unpaid carers’ support needs ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3Mzj4ql

Repositioning care in economics: concepts, measurement, and policy implications url: academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Repositioning care in economics: concepts, measurement, and policy implications

Abstract. Care work, encompassing childcare, eldercare, disability care, household maintenance and emotional support, sustains the human capabilities upon

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"Expanding Paternity Leave: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Gender Gaps" Read the latest @nber.org working paper by Camille Landais and co-authors Henrik Kleven, @ansolassen.bsky.social, Philip Rosenbaum, Herdis Steingrimsdottir & Jakob Egholt Søgaard www.nber.org/papers/w34862

The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

A new article from The Conversation explores the effects of Denmark's policies on mothers' wages: tinyurl.com/39s6ukkc Two JMF articles are featured: one examining fathers' wages, one testing how paternity leave affects the gender wage gap: tinyurl.com/mtnwhymt tinyurl.com/ntrtxyh5

Denmark’s childcare and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’

Strong financial support from the government can make motherhood more affordable and promote gender equality in economic resources.

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New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem! In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference. www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t.

Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...

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New #OpenAccess Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training - Higher Education

Higher Education - Academic content, such as teaching materials and academic publications, has become an economic resource. This has occurred through assetization as the key economic regime in...

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☀️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...

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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 publication in the Journal of Public Policy!🚨 ⚖️It shows how feminist advocacy pushed for a reform entitling mothers and fathers to equal parental leave in Spain. 👉This also unveils that descriptive representation matters because it can open access for feminist groups. doi.org/10.1017/S014...

🧵 NEW: Our report 'Listen and learn' sets out how the Government should improve Universal Credit (UC) for the 15 million people who rely on it. 13 years after its roll-out began, it’s time to get UC right. We've co-produced recommendations with @changingrealities.bsky.social participants 👇

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Austerity and Populism

A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

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We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

This is a brief reminder that the Call for Streams for the 24th ESPAnet Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submissions is the 16th of January 2026. More information at: www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/event/24th-e...