Rob Gruijters
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Sociologist, Associate Prof. @SOEBristol, University of Bristol. Interested in education and inequality in the global South. Also on @robgruijters.bsky.social
Bristol, England
Joined March 2017
Our paper on secondary school fee abolition in Africa has been published in @CERJournal! We document a steep rise in fee abolition policies in the last ~20 years and review their impact:
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Great piece by @jpinsk on the recent increase in American Millennials' wealth - with a quote from our AJS paper!
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It wasn’t the avocado toast. Soaring home prices and smart investments have helped change the narrative for a generation once mocked for being perpetually behind.
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RT @pengzell: We’re looking for a lecturer in quantitative social science including sociology, economics, policy, etc. Big data folks are e….
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RT @LSEsociology: We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology!. We are seeking a candidate with expertise in #quantitative methods, e….
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RT @pengzell: Philipp Lersch (DIW Berlin) is hiring for an ERC-funded project on wealth accumulation. PhD Student: .
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RT @NhatAnTrinh: 📢Apply to the Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality -a research incubator, where participants work on a paper….
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SPRING SCHOOL ON PERCEPTIONS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY
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RT @GeorgeMonbiot: The sentences handed to the five @JustStop_Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison f….
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Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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RT @JustinSandefur: This op-ed lives up to the hype in my TL. Claim: Chinese industrial policy flattens supply curves -- creating, e.g., a….
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RT @ArtemioCortez_: Check out the official report by @BritishCouncil I’ve been honoured to contribute to with colleagues based in African a….
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RT @contextsmag: New! In Brief: @elenavanstee (@SociologyatPenn, @HarvardSoc) covers new research into whether Millennials really are farin….
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We demonstrate the utility of the proposed framework with a qualitative case study on the effect of education on women's family life courses in Senegal and a quantitative case study on family change across generations in the US. 5/n
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Our approach builds on and extends Elder's famous 'core principles of the life course approach', which are too generic to generate concrete research hypotheses. 4/n.
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Our framework distinguishes between family life course outcomes at the individual level (timing, sequencing etc.), the relational level (couples or social networks), and the population level (typologies, standardization, stratification) 3/n.
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We use Coleman's boat (or bathtub) model to depict the main drivers of life course variation at the macro (structural), meso (relational), and micro (individual) level, and the processes that connect them (preconditioning, reinforcing, etc.) 2/n
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Introducing the LIFE COURSE BOAT: A new theoretical framework for understanding variation in family lives over time, between social groups, and between contexts. Newly published in @JMF_NCFR (w Anette Fasang & @ZJVanWinkle): Brief summary ⬇️
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RT @cheriepolo: If you are in the UK, register to vote! - You have until 11.59 tonight. Young people, students an….
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Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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💵📈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 @inequalityorg (with @ZJVanWinkle @NicoleKapelle):.
inequality.org
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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