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xavierst-denis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montréal. Sociologist and demographer researching social inequality and mobility, education, careers, families, social policy, administrative data, and other obsessions...
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Pregnancy is a particularly sensitive period, & exposure to wildfire smoke may lead to smaller than average babies. Smoke isn’t the only concern, stress alone can alter physiological processes during pregnancy. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I really did not want to write this. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-the-uni...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

Throughout American history, immigrants have consistently had similar or lower incarceration rates than US-born citizens, say researchers at Stanford, Princeton, Northwestern, and UC Davis. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The Canadian government recently announced it is indefinitely pausing new permanent residency sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents. I wrote an op-ed to discuss what this pause means for thousands of immigrant families. theconversation.com/canada-halts... @ubcmigration.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

In a new paper just published in Demographic Research, we demonstrate how administrative data (Canadian tax data) open possibilities for studying partnership histories, income, and family dynamics of people across sexual minority status. Read here! www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I made a Starter Pack! But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

submitted 108 days ago • 56 comments

This is a good time to share my starter pack filled with researchers in the areas of Stratification, Education, and Labor Market. Mostly sociology, a little on the economics side because that's who I know. Feel free to share; any omissions are accidents. go.bsky.app/PeigPc9

submitted 114 days ago • 22 comments