Elien Dalman
@eliendalman.bsky.social
I'm a postdoc at Lund and Stockholm University. Sociology, demography, or economic history. I study intergenerational persistence and social inequalities in the long run. I'm interested in almost anything.
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About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
About to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
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The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
Ice is ice, nanaa naanana
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ice is ice, nanaa naanana
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Latest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.
Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Latest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.
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Singlehood is accelerating across continents and different age cohorts. But not all those who remain single have chosen to do so
All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up
Social media, dating apps and political polarisation all play a part
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Singlehood is accelerating across continents and different age cohorts. But not all those who remain single have chosen to do so
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Allemaal stemmen, jongons! En vergeet niet: stem vooral op basis van wereld- en mensbeelden, ideologische grondslagen en partijprogramma's. Dan komt het goed.
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Allemaal stemmen, jongons! En vergeet niet: stem vooral op basis van wereld- en mensbeelden, ideologische grondslagen en partijprogramma's. Dan komt het goed.
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Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
#Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Stem!
Wat er ook gebeurt, ik heb vorige week mijn stem al uitgebracht. Slechts een kleine minderheid van de in het buitenland verblijvende staatsburgers stemt bij landelijke verkiezingen. Stem!
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Stem!
Any thoughts on data ethics? There's GPS tracking, mobile app usage, peers, etc.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Any thoughts on data ethics? There's GPS tracking, mobile app usage, peers, etc.
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With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with
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We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
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Women now earn 85% of what men do, up from 65% in the ‘80s.
ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s.
Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1
ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s.
Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1
September 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Women now earn 85% of what men do, up from 65% in the ‘80s.
ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s.
Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1
ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s.
Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1
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European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods.
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups
Social scientists identify two core functions of modern welfare states as redistribution across (a) socio-economic status groups (Robin Hood) and (b) ‘the lifecycle’ (the piggy bank). But what is the ...
journals.plos.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
European welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods.
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
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@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
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India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths
September 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths
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A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.
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@signesvallfors.bsky.social
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@signesvallfors.bsky.social
Researchers to explore how violent crime affects health - Department of Sociology
If I had five years and generous resources, what would I most like to do? That is what Signe Svallfors was thinking before deciding to apply for the ERC starting grant. The dream project would be to f...
www.su.se
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council.
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
www.su.se/department-o...
@signesvallfors.bsky.social
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Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....
Doktorand i sociologi
Sociologiska institutionen är en av Stockholms universitets största samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och rankas kontinuerligt bland de 50 bästa sociologiska institutionerna i världen. Mer info
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September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....
"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/...
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...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology:
AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Some cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology:
AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
AI/future of work (quant)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual)
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
www.aisnakeoil.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
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A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
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Something mathematicians and historians have in common: being among GPT's own top list of occupations to be replaced most by GPTs.
I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation.
They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question.
arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question.
arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
August 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Something mathematicians and historians have in common: being among GPT's own top list of occupations to be replaced most by GPTs.