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Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

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We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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Great write-up on the life and legacy of the late Sandy Jencks. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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I’m sorry to hear Sandy (Christopher) Jencks has passed. He was an eminent & influential scholar of poverty, inequality & social policy. I recommend his several books as thought-provoking, engaging and smart. prospect.org/health/2025-...

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Interesting FT article about the declining response rate to the UK LFS #EconSky h/t @jterrerodavila.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/dd55...

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We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

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New OECD report on reducing inequalities in early childhood education & care out now. An important read for everyone concerned with ensuring equitable access to quality childcare. (And I'm happy to have contributed to one of the workshops leading to this report 😉) www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

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@ipums.bsky.social undefeated

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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One reason it’s harder to escape poverty in America www.vox.com/policy/39765...

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📢Calling all social science scholars from and/or researching Italy: applications for the 2025-26 Jemolo Fellowships are now open. 🗓️Deadline: 21 Feb 2025 ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

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Not sure if generative AI has increased my research productivity yet, but I am very certain that it has made the "TANF is not dead, we're bringing it back to life!" part of my PowerPoint slides infinitely more thrilling.

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What did we learn from the 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion? What's next for the CTC? Join us online on Jan. 30 for this Hamilton Project & Brookings event to discuss findings from our recent ANNALS volume w/ Hilary Hoynes and Megan Curran. Register here: www.hamiltonproject.org/event/taking...

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Exciting preview of @christinajcross.bsky.social's upcoming book! But also: wow, absolutely enjoying this short-form, well-produced video series on inequality research ("Inequality Stuio Sessions") from @umichstonecid.bsky.social.

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Sociologists working on inequality: Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required) EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f... Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

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We have long known that economic mobility varies across localities within the US. This innovative data-rich article presents remarkable evidence as to why. Spoiler: Fiscal structures matter. @rourkeobrien.bsky.social @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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In research cited in a new article in The Atlantic, @zparolin.bsky.social and colleagues use 49 years of umpsid.bsky.social restricted county level data, they to examine the deleterious effect that the openings of a Walmart Supercenter have on poverty, taxes, and income. https://buff.ly/3DxKJ68

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"When it comes to escaping childhood poverty, the differences btw the US & peer countries are much larger than the differences btw places within the US...even in the most economically mobile US places, poverty is stickier from childhd to adulthd than it is in the UK, Australia, Denmark, or Germany."

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JOB ALERT: I am looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral scholar to work with me in projects related to social stratification, human capital formation and health disparities. Data management and statistical analysis skills required. The position offers competitive salary and benefits.

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Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility" New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology #demography #econsky

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What explains recent declines in income inequality in the European Union? Despite rising within-country inequality from 2007-2019, EU-wide inequality declined sharply due to upward convergence in market earnings among its poorest member states. More here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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2021's American Rescue Plan showed us that direct financial support works: U.S. child poverty hit a record low thanks to expanded aid to parents. Read our latest piece by Leo LaBarre on research by @zparolin.bsky.social and @stefanofilauro.bsky.social in Demography. 🔗 bit.ly/3BXSv8L 🔗

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What happens when a Walmart Supercenter comes to town? Earnings go down, while poverty and receipt of public transfers go up. The cost savings of Walmart are not enough to compensate. Here is a summary of our recent paper in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Fun new project! The 2006-2014 GSS had rotating 3-wave panels. Only 44% gave the same answer each time about childhood income rank, even though what was being measured couldn't change. We unpack this in a new working paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Feedback welcome!🤗 @socarxiv.bsky.social #sociology

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Free idea: the Facebook poke button, but within Manuscript Central to give journal editors a friendly, awkard, and word-free nudge after your paper has spent a month on the "Pending Decision" status.

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This can't be good papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Fascinating study on how increases in private aviation contribute to climate change: www.nature.com/articles/s43.... The authors track 19 million private flights from 2019-2023. Private jets to the World Economic Forum in Davos alone produced 7.5 megatons of CO2 (340 million trees worth of carbon!).

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A few studies find that personal earnings inequality (finally) declined in the US from 2010-2022. But, a twist: household income inequality continued to climb. What explains the discordant inequality trends? @lukaslehner.bsky.social, @natewilmers.bsky.social, and I try to answer this Q in a new WP:

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Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Science Po in Paris, France is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology w/expertise in social inequality. Deadline March 11. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

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A couple days left to apply to this two-year post-doc position with our growing research team in Milan. Details below. 📉📈

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Permanent faculty position posted in the Stockholm University Sociology Department (which includes Demography)--come join us at a wonderful workplace in a fabulous city! www.su.se/english/abou...

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Early Career Scholar grants from the Washington Center for Equitible Growth. 📉📈 #polisky #sociology equitablegrowth.org/research-pap...

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📢ECR JOBS📢 We're recruiting 2 postdocs to work on a new ⁦‪@ERC_Research‬⁩ project looking at who counts in poverty research across Europe ⁦‪@igopbcn‬⁩ ⁦‪@PolitiquesUAB‬⁩ Pls get in touch if you’re interested or share with anyone who might be! 🙏🙏 shorturl.at/hlCFV

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🚨Job Vacancy!🚨I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher (two years, competitive compensation) to work on a project related to labour market inequalities using new data on EU platform economy. Join our growing research lab of 10 post-docs, PhDs & RAs at Bocconi in Milan. Full details at link below.

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Hey, first post here :) Gael Le Mens and I just uploaded a paper about scaling political text using ChatGPT. This approach is fast, cost-efficient, and reliable. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.16639

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Excellent conversation about the causes, consequences, and solutions to child poverty in the US with @zparolin.bsky.social, Kathy Edin, @rsbaker.bsky.social, Janet Gornick of @stone-lis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sDM...

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New @PNASnews article w @je_nobles shows large adverse impact of COVID infection on infant health. Adverse impact disappeared ~1 year earlier in zipcodes with high vaccination rates, suggesting vaccines prevented thousands of preterm births. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Funded by NICHD_NIH, NSF

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The Administration for Children and Families has quietly proposed closing loopholes in the nation's cash assistance program for the poor that a 2021 ProPublica investigation found states had exploited for years.

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