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Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#CallforPapers #EconSky #EconConf 📣Workshop on Socio-emotional skills & education | Sept 11-12 Trento, Italy Keynotes @gabriconti.bsky.social Giuseppe Sorrenti & @emmatominey.bsky.social 🚨Deadline 6 June Please repost, share & submit your work bit.ly/4da5dzq

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Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

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Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World! @karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social

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Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

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Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Still a couple of weeks left until the submission deadline for the Workshop on Inequalities in Bari, jointly organized with Sapienza and LISER. See you guys there! :)

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The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology: Why we strive for equality and why it is always at risk from would-be social bullies. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-deep-r...

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Great to see "The Social Genome" by my colleague Dalton Conley now in print. A wealth of evidence and insights, challenging the old "nature vs. nurture" debate and showing how genes and social contexts interact to shape our lives.

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New paper out with @karlosj89.bsky.social, @guillemvidal.me and Davide Villani! We had already discussed the main findings at the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities... Some notes in a very short thread:

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No class death/decomposition—Wealth accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity: new @socialindicators.bsky.social📝 by @psalasr.bsky.social @guillemvidal.me Villani 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @florenceups.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

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#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

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Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality? New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social! 🧵 Thread 👇

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The Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP) scale is also now fully integrated into the DIGCLASS R package, so you can construct OEP from ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 with just a couple of lines of code

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ICYMI: Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social @perlinedemange.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

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La desigualdad en grandes empresas Estas son las compañías que cuentan con directivos que ganan hasta 1.200 veces el salario de sus empleados 👇 www.eldiario.es/economia/des...

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Remember Monopoly was originally created to say capitalism was bad?

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OpenAI has just released a new AI model that it believes is the future of the technology: a computer program that can reason. Is it a magic trick, a genuine step forward, or both? @matteowong.bsky.social reports:

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📢 New III working paper: Francisco H G Ferreira and Paolo Brunori discuss the differences between inequality of opportunity and meritocracy, and their possible roles in a fair society and growing economy. 🔗 https://buff.ly/3OFU5yU

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He publicado una tribuna el El País: "Defender la universidad publica" #UniversidadPublica #DefendPublicUniversity elpais.com/opinion/2024...

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Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

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I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A 🧵:

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Otro starter pack: go.bsky.app/5vnvpMR Si alguien se quiere añadir solo tiene que comentarlo abajo

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New paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social We run a factorial experiment on a large sample of (future) teachers to causally test for discrimination/bias in academic evaluations by student-ascribed status (sex, class, ethnicity, cultural capital), net of ability sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

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NEW: Gil-Hernandez et al, "Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education."

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We are Sociological Science, and we have finally joined BlueSky! Sociological Science is the leading online open-access journal in sociology. Quick turnaround times, no R&Rs, and ... great sociological science. Check us out at https://buff.ly/4fXoPYv. Spread the word!

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New paper! 🥳 I had so much fun working on this interdisciplinary project, and proud it is part of @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social's great thesis! This started from a chat with @karlosj89.bsky.social during online ECSR in 2020, proof that online conferences can lead to collaboration too 😃

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A low genetic 🧬 propensity for (non)cognitive skills is less consequential for educational outcomes 🎓 among high-SES students. A twin study 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 with molecular data (children-parents) we just published in RSSM by a great interdisciplinary team of sociologists and psychologists 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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First publication of my thesis is out w/ this fantastic & interdisciplinary team: @karlosj89.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social E. van Bergen @perlinedemange.bsky.social!✨ Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% Z-GPA & -5% acad. track advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error: @florenceups.bsky.social 📄WP with @marespadafor.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/unifi-disia

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🆕 3-year Postdoc in Quantitative Sociology & Population!! - Topics: Social Stratification, Adolescent Wellbeing, Digitalisation, Life Course. - Place: Centre for Demographic Studies & Department of Sociology at UAB, Barcelona. -Deadline: June 17th. Share & apply!! 😃👇 Link: ced.cat/recursos/DIG...

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Today, the LSE-inequalities blog features our work (with @karlosj89.bsky.social, P. Salas-Rojo & D. Villani) on wealth and social class: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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We all have biases, and merit evaluators in the educational system are no exception. In a large experiment on 20 Faculties of Education, we identify biased assessments of (future) teachers by student's gender, class, ethnic origin, and cultural capital 👇 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Class death ⚰️? Most economists dismiss class, while sociologists overlook wealth in class analysis. Still, big occupational classes fairly capture high/rising wealth inequality trends in Europe. Yet, class measures need sharpening beyond labour market attachment 👇 t.co/IDJvLawa8I

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🚨 New #DIGCLASS working paper just out! With @karlosj89.bsky.social, p. S. Rojo and D. Villani we study wealth inequality and stratification across social classes. Although often neglected, wealth is critical to understanding class inequality! publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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The Piketty/Saez/Zucman versus Auten/Splinter debate: come for the big social questions (what has happened to inequality in the US?) and stay for the wonky ones (how to treat underreported income? and retirement income?) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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🧵1/10 Are online job ads skewing our view of the labor market? In a recent policy brief, Matteo Sostero and I deep dive into this data to assess its prmises and pitfalls. A short thread on this #LabourMarket #Skills #BigData publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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☀️Join us on Thursday for the next CLIC seminar 🔥Carlos J. Gil Hernández @karlosj89.bsky.social (EU Commission - Research Centre) with a factorial experiment on teacher's bias in essay grading 📅25/01, 13:30-15:00 ✉️[email protected] for the Zoom link

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[SAVE THE DATE] The 4th session of the 2023-24 #DIGCLASS seminar series on "A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty will take place next January 23rd, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digclass/dig...

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Looking forward to showing the findings of our factorial experiment on teacher-biased assessments by student gender, SES, ethnicity, & cultural capital (with @irenepaneda.bsky.social, L. Salazar & J. Castaño) at the great EUI-CLIC Seminar Series @clic.bsky.social c.bsky.social next week in Florence!

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[SAVE THE DATE] The 4th session of the 2023-24 #DIGCLASS seminar series on "A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty will take place next January 23rd, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digclass/dig...

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📚Happy new year with fresh new CLIC seminars: The 2024 CLIC winter program is out! (with a teaser for the spring☀️) Take a look at the program 👇 ✉️[email protected] to join the mailing list

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The 3rd session of the 2023-2024 DIGCLASS seminar series on "lifestyle distinction(s) and inequality" by Mads Meier Jæger will take place next Tuesday, December 19th, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digclass/dig...

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