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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congrats on a great first PAA presentation, @martingaedecke.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉, presenting our paper with @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social on conceptualizing & testing new sequence-analysis-based measures for children's family life's and their consequences on their educational outcomes in FE designs! #PAA2025

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Feb 6

How and why did the impact of widowhood on depressive symptoms vary across Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic? Take a look at our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social!

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Feb 4

In “Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic & Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood,” a widowhood penalty applied only to those who lost their spouse during periods of stringent restrictions. @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Jan 28

Just published by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social & @tibaier.bsky.social "Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education" [open access] An integrative study combining sociology, demography, and genetics—based on molecular data doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study focuses on the extent to which parental divorce and separation during childhood affect children's chances to realize genetic influences on educational attainment. Background W...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Dec 6

🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website.
Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs.
Please share.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · Dec 6

Mal wieder herausragender Datenjournalismus bei @zeit.de :
www.zeit.de/politik/2024...
Übrigens gibt es zu fast jeder hier untersuchten Grenze auch akademische Studien (kleiner Thread):

Phantomgrenzen: Wo die alten deutschen Grenzen sichtbar werden

Preußen und das deutsche Kaiserreich beeinflussen noch immer, wie Menschen heute in der EU wählen. Absurd, oder? Wir zeigen erstmals fünf Phantomgrenzen Europas.

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Dec 2

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Economic vulnerability and life course-sensitive social policies

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Dec 2

A nice discussion on economic vulnerability and life course-sensitive social policies by Anette Fasang featuring collaborative research with myself, @robgruijters.bsky.social, @emstruffolino.bsky.social and @hannahzagel.bsky.social.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · Nov 25

This guide for integrating generative AI into your research is extremely useful. It is written for economists, but really of use to anyone doing science imo www.nber.org/papers/w3319...

Generative AI for Economic Research: LLMs Learn to Collaborate and Reason

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Nov 25

It's Monday, so I wrote about four interesting new sociology papers.

- Firms and the motherhood penalty
- FMLA and women's managerial representation
- Fertility decline and gender pay gap
- Class network and attitudes

asocial.substack.com/p/four-good-...

Four Good Reads - Monday - November 25

Firm sorting, parental leave, fertility decline and pay gaps, social network class composition

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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Changes in Household Wealth Over the Process of Widowhood Across 11 European Countries - Paper by @nicolekapelle.bsky.social & @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social -> academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... [open access]

Changes in Household Wealth Over the Process of Widowhood Across European Countries

AbstractObjectives. Widowhood has been shown to decrease surviving spouses’ economic well-being. However, previous research has focused mostly on income-re

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to be back at @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social as an associate professor for the first work day of the WIDOW ERC project. Thanks to all my mentors and 5 anonymous tenure letter writers!

Bonne rentrée !

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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Aug 26

This study demonstrated that even within European countries with the strongest welfare states, widowhood remains a considerable risk for surviving spouses’ economic wellbeing. New Working Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @ajriekhoff.bsky.social & @kturek.bsky.social > www.netspar.nl/en/publicati...

The Economic Consequences of Widowhood during Retirement: A Comparative Study on Survivor Benefits - Netspar

Widowhood entails not only profound grief, but also severe economic consequences. The challenges surrounding widowhood are becoming increasingly urgent, and many pension systems require more sustainab...

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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · Jun 25

Unwohlsein

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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Jun 24

The life course approach: an interdisciplinary paradigm in family research often too abstract to guide hypotheses on family life variation. New Paper by @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social @robgruijters.bsky.social & Anette Fasang -> a life course theoretical framework with case studies doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social groups (social loca...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Jun 24

Great theory paper by Fasang,
@robgruijters.bsky.social, and @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social from a field where I least expected it onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A theoretical framework for analyzing family life courses. Figure 1 re-organizes and extends core principles of the life course paradigm by specifying
(1) possible interacting relationships between predictors and (2) family life course outcomes on
different levels of analysis. We distinguish the macro, meso, and micro levels, which broadly
resonate with the core principles of time and place, linked lives, and agency in Elder et al.
(2003) and the dimension of “levels” in the life course cube (Bernardi et al., 2019).

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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jun 20

📣 JFR's Impact Factor has again increased since last year and now sits at 2.9 according to the 2024 Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics. #JFamRes #openaccess #OpenScience #sociology #demography

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ich freue mich das gemeinsame Forschungsprojekt mit @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social und Martin Gädecke zu Familienkomplexitäten aus der Perspektive von Kindern und deren Folgen vorzustellen.

Vielen Dank für die Einladung! 😊

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Florian Schulz @flociologist.bsky.social · Jun 13

@crowold.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #sociology #demography

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Jun 17

Millennials' average wealth is now higher than that of previous generations at the same age, but it is also more unequally distributed. Check out our new contribution to
inequality.org (with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social): inequality.org/research/gen...

Millennials’ Wealth Is Finally Growing — But So Is Inequality

The relatively impressive financial state of Millennials as a whole is buoyed by the few that are wildly wealthy while the majority struggle.

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Emanuela Struffolino @emstruffolino.bsky.social · Jun 10

Reminder! Still time to register for a 20-hour online workshop on “Sequenc Aanalysis in the Social Sciences”, July 22, 2024 – July 26, 2024 (9:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (US) at the 2024 @ICPSRSummer, with myself and @raabm.bsky.social! Full program here icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/su...

Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research | Home

The ICPSR Summer Program offers introductory to advanced courses in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis. We train students, faculty, and researchers.

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Aart-Jan Riekhoff @ajriekhoff.bsky.social · Feb 15

In our new OA research report, @apolvinen.bsky.social , Satu Nivalainen, @susankuivalainen.bsky.social and I look at how people combine work and retirement in the Finnish pension system with a flexible old-age retirement age and how this is related to their income 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/work...

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Feb 1

Write me if you have any questions or want to chat about the position !

Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Jan 31

Sciences Po Paris is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Sociology, affiliated to the CRIS. Inequality / stratification on comparative perspectives. Many subjects welcome: education, health, minorities, justice, AI, environment, labor market...
Job description: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

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Centre for Research on social InequalitieS @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social · Jan 31

Sciences Po Paris is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Sociology, affiliated to the CRIS. Inequality / stratification on comparative perspectives. Many subjects welcome: education, health, minorities, justice, AI, environment, labor market...
Job description: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

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Zachary Van Winkle @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social · Feb 1

Très intéressant 😉

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Antonino Polizzi @polizzan.bsky.social · Jan 17

What’s the best way to analyze #lifeexpectancy stagnation in the US? 🤔 In PNAS, @drjenndowd.bsky.social & I share our thoughts on a recent paper by Abrams, Myrskylä & Mehta. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318276121
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Figure 1 from Polizzi/Dowd (2024), showing rates of mortality improvement in 2000-2009 and 2010-2019 for females and males in five high-income countries.

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Jan Heisig @jpheisig.bsky.social · Jan 11

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨

We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ

Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (f/m/x) / ID 242

The research units Skill Formation and Labor Markets (Director: Professor Heike Solga) and Health and Inequality (Head: Professor Jan Paul Heisig) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) are...

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