Alessandro Ferrara
@ferraraalessan
Post-doc @FU_Berlin @WZB_Berlin | PhD in Sociology @EuropeanUni | formerly consultant @OECDEduSkills | Social stratification, migration, education and health
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14-06-2020 08:20:34
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📢Postdoctoral fellow opportunity📢 Come work with me and Global Sociology group WZB Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) Postdoctoral opening #soctwitter Job ad & details ⬇️ wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/315/r… Quantitative methods expertise required Deadline July 7, 2024 Great city, exciting research.
New article on colorism in Sociological Science. Glad to see this one out at last. An earlier version of this paper was part of my dissertation at Cornell Dept of Sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-1…
I'm humbled & honored that my Social Forces article on immigrants' economic integration in later life has won the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship ASA Pop Section this year. Many thanks to everyone that read & commented on this piece! ☺️ academic.oup.com/sf/article/102…
📢Postdoctoral fellow opportunity🚀 We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) for the research unit Global Sociology, led by Yasemin Soysal. Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) 🗓️Apply until July 7, 2024. 👉wzb.eu/en/jobs/resear… #soctwitter
An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% SD GPA & -5% track choice advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. Our IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error UPS Florence WP with Mar Cañizares Espadafor 👇tinyurl.com/unifi-disia
🆕 🆕🔓paper by Claudia Brunori at Population and Development Review. An approach to study immigrants' mental health trajectories in destination countries, distentangling compositional differences from variation with age and with residence duration. 👉doi.org/10.1111/padr.1…
Great to see the first chapter of my PhD published in the Journal of Public Economics (Journal of Public Economics, open access) “Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors” with nadineketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
In this new article (with I.Cabib, Francisca Bogolasky & R.Valente), we show that residential trajectories since early life underlie health inequalities among older adults in Chile. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Universidad de Chile Universidad Católica de Chile LIFELONGMOVE Project European Research Council (ERC)
La baja propensión genética a las habilidades (no)cognitivas afecta - al logro educativo de los estudiantes de clase alta. Un estudio de gemelos interdisciplinar entre sociólogos (Gaia Ghirardi Carlos J. Gil Bernardi) y psicólogas (Perline Demange Dr Elsje van Bergen)👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm…
Check out our new paper (with Risto Conte Joshua Wilde) on the effect of heat on fertility. doi.org/10.1080/003247…
New paper in Sociological Science! 🧑🏫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) and cultural capital, net of ability👇sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-2…
How do we measure the outcomes of migration? Based on IPUMS International, I provide a new perspective to this question, exploring how Bolivian-origin youth in Argentina fare in education relative to their peers in Bolivia and native Argentines doi.org/10.1080/014198… Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Ethnic and Racial Studies
Does grassroots mobilization against the far right help or hurt the movement electorally? Francesco Colombo, Foteini-Maria Vassou, Elias Dinas, Alessandro Ferrara, and Fabrizio Bernardi explore this in Sardinia, where local groups mobilized against the far right in the 2020 Italian elections.
Schooling does not help migrants’ integration 🇩🇪. More in our recent Soc. of Education article