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Markus Klein
@markusklein.bsky.social
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Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | https://schoolattendance.org/

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 7d
Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years.

Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In").

aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

Reposted by Gema Zamarro, Markus Klein

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 14d
Grade inflation in high schools harms students.

GPAs rose by about a quarter of a letter grade over the past decade, even among students with similar test scores.

This new working paper shows grade inflation lowers future test scores, high school graduation, college enrollment, and earnings.

Reposted by Markus Klein

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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 17d
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026

Reposted by Markus Klein

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Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social · 20d
At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers/Extended Abstracts | American Sociological Association
Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper/extended abstract to the ASA Annual Meeting. The call for submissions opens on November 3, 2025, and closes
www.asanet.org

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, David Lazer, Hugo Mercier , and 5 more

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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · 25d
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
www.stillinger.aau.dk

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill, Markus Klein

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Dec 16
Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️
#PsychSciSky #DevPsy
🧵👇

Reposted by John R. Hutchinson, Robin Celikates, Daniel S. Goldberg , and 2 more

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Nov 28
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ariadne Vromen, Markus Klein

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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · Nov 26
The fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
www.changingrealities.org

Reposted by Markus Klein

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · Nov 10
🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar
🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online

Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth
Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak
Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150

Open to researchers/students!

cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Maarten Vink, Markus Klein , and 4 more

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Nov 5
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 20 more

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Oct 30
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk

Reposted by Markus Klein

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Oct 15
This is brilliant!

formatmypaper.com
FormatMyPaper - The End of Manuscript Formatting
Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.
formatmypaper.com

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Methodological Innovations Journal @methodinnovations.bsky.social · Sep 29
Special Issue: Generative AI and Social Science Research. Deadline for full papers extended to 9th of January 2026
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com

Reposted by Patrick Präg

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Sep 15
📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach
Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre
academic.oup.com

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Samuel L. Perry , and 10 more

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Sep 11
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Markus Klein

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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · Sep 10
📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk

Reposted by Markus Klein, Toby Seddon

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Sep 9
A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, Markus Klein, Alison Park

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News from UK Research and Innovation @news.ukri.org · Sep 9
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org

Reposted by Markus Klein, Patrick Präg

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Elien Dalman @eliendalman.bsky.social · Sep 5
"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS
Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...
www.pnas.org

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell , and 59 more

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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DIW Berlin @diw.de · Aug 22
DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
Podcast-Zitat von DIW-Bildungsforscher Jascha Dräger: “Personen, die mehr Fehlzeiten in der Schule hatten, haben als Erwachsene im Durchschnitt geringere Bildungsabschlüsse und ein geringeres Einkommen.”

Reposted by Adam Gamoran, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Markus Klein , and 1 more

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Aug 21
A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025
School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...
journals.sagepub.com

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Aug 20
New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning

Reposted by Judith N. Shklar, Christopher J. Sullivan, Markus Klein , and 4 more

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Aug 18
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12
Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
School absence 'most damaging' in transition period
Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research
www.tes.com

Reposted by Frank van Tubergen, Markus Klein, Moris Triventi , and 1 more

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Moris Triventi @mtriventi.bsky.social · Oct 11
📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at @unimi on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education
RC28 - Conference
We invite all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference on March 25-27,
rc28milan2025.com

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Markus Klein

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Kristina Lindemann @kristinalindemann.bsky.social · Jul 16
🚨 Job alert!
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
jobs.ac.uk

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · Jul 14
Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
jaschadraeger.bsky.social Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · Jul 14
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Jascha Dräger @jaschadraeger.bsky.social · Jul 14
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Reposted by Adam Gamoran, Markus Klein

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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · Jun 16
New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism

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