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Schools and Learning Inequality: A Theoretical Model and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Do schools reduce or amplify learning gaps by socioeconomic background? I develop a formal model that clarifies the estimands implicit in the literature and synthesizes its seemingly contradictory fin...

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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on teacher sorting and the impact of teacher qualifications on student achievement. Read more here:

Arnout van de Rijt@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

📝Join us Thursday 2nd for the first @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social seminar of this term. We are very pleased to have @saidhassan.bsky.social from Uni of Oxford, who will be examining the impact of Muslim schools on ethnic minority children’s academic performance. Sign up here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉 His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝 Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

Ozan Aksoy

sociology.ox.ac.uk

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼 apply.interfolio.com/173544

Excited to present this paper at the CEPEO seminar series at UCL @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social (also online!) Always happy to catch up with friends and colleagues in London. Let me know if you're around!

UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · last yr.

📢📢📢New academic year, new seminar series!! ⬇️ We've got a great line up of speakers for Autumn 2025. Join us in-person and online fortnightly on Thursdays at 3PM. Sign up to join online here: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Honoured (and a little overwhelmed!) to have received the ECSR Best PhD Thesis Prize in Cologne last week. Looking forward to sharing the published papers (hopefully soon!)

Nuffield College, Oxford@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows Said Hassan and Kasimir Dederichs who have been awarded first and second ECSR Prize for best PhD thesis, respectively, for their Nuffield College DPhil theses! Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Reviewing, and doing it well, is one of the best services one can do to our profession. Massive thanks to the winners of the #ecsr2025 Best Reviewer Award: @saidhassan.bsky.social, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social, Nicole Schwitter

🗓️ Excited to share our Sociology Seminar Series for this term at Nuffield College! @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Join us every Wednesday at 4 pm from next week #Sociology #Stratification #Inequality

Never not amazed by Danish library register data analyses: osf.io/preprints/so...