New paper and software alert! arxiv.org/abs/2408.14620 Interested in modern mediation analysis methods with machine learning and multivariate mediators? Take a look at this joint work with Richard Liu, @nickWillyamz , and Kara Rudolph Short 🧵...

Academic ambitions can be contagious among early teens, even more so than actual achievements (beyond selection) OA article w/ Eszter Vit Marco Castellani & Károly Takács thanks to visiting Analytical Sociology while at Università degli Studi di Brescia doi.org/10.1177/027243… Behave Università degli Studi di Milano 🧵

New WP: “Monopsony Power and Poverty.” What happens to poverty & public finances when a Walmart Supercenter enters a local labor market? Poverty increases by 2 pp (16%) in 10 years after, driven by declining earnings. Income transfers up, taxes paid down. iza.org/publications/d…

Explore how family ties beyond the nuclear unit impact social support and inequality. KINMATRIX data reveal new insights into the complexity of modern kinship networks. #FamilyResearch #Sociology #KINMATRIX demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at namlet00 on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education

New #inequality paper! I find that rising inequality in the U.S. links with wider socio-economic gaps in what -and how much- economic support parents give to young adults 👵👴➡️👨‍🦱 Very happy to see this out in Social Forces: doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa… School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh Q-Step Edinburgh

The CSIS delegation never stops! Today our Irene Michelin presented her work (w/ Filippo Gioachin & P. Barbieri) about overeducation, social origin and career mobility in the 🇩🇪 and 🇬🇧labour markets at @iab_news workshop on “Training, Education and the Labor Market”.

🆕#OpenAccess! Who is most impacted by neighborhood disadvantage? Combining a Neighborhood Choice Models with quantile regressions & Norwegian register data, @ntborgen Henrik D Zachrisson find children with just below-average achievement are most vulnerable! ➡ doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…

📢 New publication alert! Our latest study, led by @giuliacrt and @Sav54122 explores long-term trends in assortative mating in the U.S. from 1700 to 1910, revealing shifts in age difference and marriage homogamy patterns between spouses tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… genpop Università di Bologna

Our article on #discrimination in #hiring intentions based on the #intersection of #gender, #parenthood, and social #status is now available on ESR w/ Filippo Gioachin and P. Barbieri doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc… 1/3 🧵👇

Among the highlights of this project: Filippo Gioachin does not entirely trust Stata graphs extra/3

🥳 Happy to share our latest experimental work with Anna Zamberlan & P. Barbieri on employers' discriminatory intentions. Signals of social #status do matter—both alone and in interaction. Check it out! 👇

📢 New in! Is there a #motherhood #penalty in UK recruiters' #hiring intentions? Can signaled social #status compensate for this penalty? Find out the answers from a novel factorial survey #experiment by Anna Zamberlan Filippo Gioachin #P_Barbieri at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…!

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

Horizontal #segregation fuels economic #inequalities. Yet, the perceived fairness of these disparities is underexplored. Diana Galos, S. Strauß, Thomas Hinz, and I investigated how people perceive #fairness in the economic returns of #fields of study. doi.org/10.1111/1468-4…

No class death/decomposition🧟‍♂️— Wealth💸accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity for young generations Springer Social Sciences paper with LIS by Pedro Salas Rojo Vidal & Villani👇#DIGCLASS LSE Inequalities Università di Firenze link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New at Journal of Public Economics w/ Lukas Lehner & Nathan Wilmers: Personal earnings inequality finally declined in the US from 2010-2022. Simultanously, household income inequality continued its decades-long rise. What explains the discordant inequality trends? Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: F. Bernardi & G. Ghirardi employ genotype data & find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…concentrated among those with a low PGI EA.” ow.ly/yQF550W79Ia

➡️New paper out with amazing data: library borrowings of the entire population of Denmark! If cultural tastes are always stratified, the type of stratification depends on the wider inequalities within a context #EH_Blaabæk #S_Friedman #MM_Jæger #A_Reeves doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…