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: https://t.co/lMq4Xb0dL5

For a non-paywalled version, see

Great piece by @jpinsk on the recent increase in American Millennials' wealth - with a quote from our AJS paper!

We’re looking for a lecturer in quantitative social science including sociology, economics, policy, etc. Big data folks are especially welcome. Happy to answer questions

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology! We are seeking a candidate with expertise in #quantitative methods, economic sociology, the sociology of work, organisations or employment, and digital or platform economies. Apply by 23 September ➡️ https://t.co/92OzJGrYur

Philipp Lersch (DIW Berlin) is hiring for an ERC-funded project on wealth accumulation. PhD Student: https://t.co/LE5lH2PMJa Postdoc: https://t.co/aygVlNT85N Deadline for applications is 30 August 2024.

Looking for a postdoc for 2025-26? Don’t miss your chance!

📢Apply to the Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality -a research incubator, where participants work on a paper to be published. All disciplines welcome! feat.@DariaTisch @f_disslbacher @schmitt_laila @FabianPfeffer &more 🚨Deadline 31 Aug 2024

The sentences handed to the five @JustStop_Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy.

This op-ed lives up to the hype in my TL Claim: Chinese industrial policy flattens supply curves -- creating, e.g., a "Cambrian explosion" of EV firms --while in the West we cheer on our tech monopolies, confusing corporate profits with consumer surplus. https://t.co/WUp0TvbNYK

Check out the official report by @BritishCouncil I’ve been honoured to contribute to with colleagues based in African and UK Universities. @EduRes_Mitchell @SOEBristol https://t.co/wLPNpodslR

New! In Brief: @elenavanstee (@SociologyatPenn, @HarvardSoc) covers new research into whether Millennials really are faring worse economically than Boomers at the same ages from @RobGruijters1, @EvaFasang, and @ZJVanWinkle in AJS: https://t.co/fCQT1tn4sA

Maybe it can be a life (course) boat for your research project? #SocTwitter

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

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

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

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

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): https://t.co/gSEpiw6Lf9 Brief summary ⬇️

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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): https://t.co/UIdvrpzkAB