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#VocationalEducationAndTraining #VET

In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Subjective assessments of culture or 'fit' often have an enormous class bias.

New paper showing how personal interviews often allow employers to discriminate against minorities.

soumitrashukla.github.io/research.html

This is a good time to share my starter pack filled with researchers in the areas of Stratification, Education, and Labor Market. Mostly sociology, a little on the economics side because that's who I know. Feel free to share; any omissions are accidents.

go.bsky.app/PeigPc9

I created this list a couple of days ago based on some people I know about but there has been a ton of new arrivals--please let me know who else to include. Also, this is an interdisciplinary list! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSky #Demography

go.bsky.app/T667spi

as an experiment, I posted the same post to twitter and bluesky.

here is the time series of engagements (sum of comments, reposts, likes) from the two platforms.

Note that I have 39K followers on twitter and 7K here, so engagement per follower here is more than 10 times higher here on bluesky.

Here are a few lists of sociologists in no particular order. Slant towards German and quantitative sociologists. #socsky
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In a new article in Nature Scientific Reports I find that male PhD students are almost twice as likely than female PhD students to obtain a cum laude distinction for their dissertation. A cum laude is very rare, and only awarded to 5% of Dutch PhD students.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Are boys more disadvantaged in academic achievement and behaviour problems when raised in adverse family circumstances?

We find this variation in gender differences by maternal education but not by family structure: shorturl.at/gzIK9

Glad this is out now in Socius after 5 rejections 😌

#Sociology

Happy to announce paper just out in Social Forces, looking at the impact of various social ties in a multiplex on major choice in college, finding that "spending time with" ties is esp important, relative to friends, study partners, or esteemed peers.

In the latest issue of the SGAB Transfer, I had the pleasure of publishing an updated and extended summary of my article "Naïve or Persistent Optimism?" on the development of vocational aspirations.

transfer.vet/platz-fuer-b...
(available in Deutsch, Français & Italiano)

Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood?

A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Important new work out in the European Sociological Review. This study is immediately an essential reference in the field of LGBTQ+ education research. Congrats and thank you to the authors!

academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Riesige Glückwünsche an Claudia Goldin zum diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften! Worum geht es bei ihrer Forschung? Ein paar Eindrücke aus ihrer Forschung zum Arbeitsmarkt (auf deutsch).

Newish paper with Haowen Zheng (1st author): gender differences in field of study account for about 36% of the segregation of male and female college graduates across occupations.

Implies that 64% is unrelated to field, get-women-in-STEM programs not a panacea.

read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

When men can work flexibly, they do more childcare, & this increases women's earnings.

2 new papers show gender divisions of labour dont reflect inherent preferences, but can change with tech!

draliceevans.substack.com/p/job-flexib...