Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥

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24 Nov 2025

Very happy informing y'all that I won the 2025 Distinguished Publication Prize of the European Academy of Sociology, for my ASR paper of last year. #EAS. My paper is here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... . The link to EAS: www.european-academy-sociology.eu/publication-...

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Per Engzell

@pengzell.bsky.social

4 postdoc openings at the University of Milan with @brunoarpino.bsky.social on aging, digital technologies, and social relationships. Open to PhD holders in sociology, demography, pol sci among others. sites.google.com/site/brunoar...

Glad to say that my paper “Time Discounting, Relative Risk Aversion, and Educational Inequalities” was accepted for publication in the ESR. It’s part of a special issue as a tribute to the work of Richard Breen, who retired in the past year. More will follow about the paper.

#My9albums

pressreader.comSue Halpern | The New York Review of BooksThe Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán. Avid Reader, 339 pp., $30.00 Chances are you already know some random things about the Silicon Valley technolog...

The Nerd Reich, good title. pressreader.com/article/2815...

This week we had @tymofiibrik.bsky.social visiting the @eui-eu.bsky.social, Rector of the #Kyiv School of Economics, as part of our Widening Programme. We organized two main events:

(1) a seminar on Ukrainian scholarship in Ukraine and at the EUI. Tymofii showed the position of the KSE, and the relevant skills that are taught for the war situation. Including teaching statistics to soldiers! There were also two presentations by Ukrainian scholars working at the EUI, >

Max Weber fellow and art historian Polina Baitsym and PhD researcher from our SPS dept Yurii Kondratyk. (2) Tymofii gave a sociology seminar, using 30 years of data from Ukraine on trust and engagement. Thanks Tymofii for being with us. And good luck and strength back in Kyiv.

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

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Tobias Rüttenauer

@ruettenauer.bsky.social

Have we abandoned #TWFE too quickly?😮 New in #Sociological #Methodology w/ @aksoyundan.bsky.social We compare TWFE event studies vs dynamic #DID estimators. Results suggest a more nuanced picture than "never use TWFE" and clarify when different estimators perform well 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0081...

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Jake Grumbach

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

zolang Den Haag blijft steggelen over #box3, hier nog maar eens een figuur van @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al: de totale belastingdruk per inkomensgroep. Zie hoe de lijn negatief is in Nederland; hogere inkomensgroepen betalen minder belasting (alle belastingen tezamen). >

taxobservatory.worldtaxobservatory.world

De rijkste groep betaalt minder belasting dan in de VS. De data komen uit het Tax Evasion Report. taxobservatory.world//www-site/up... @sheilas.bsky.social

Short visit to Amsterdam ❤️. Of course with a short meetup with my daughter

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Ludger Woessmann

@woessmann.bsky.social

📢New working paper:🚨 “Integrated vs. Separated Schooling for Refugee Children: Long-Term Effects on Education and Assimilation” w/ @caterinapavese.bsky.social and @meulensimon.bsky.social 👉 Does direct integration into native schools or temporary placement in separate schools … 1/5

sup.sorbonne-universite.frBoudon Reexamined | SUPretour

This looks like a very interesting volume on the work of Raymond Boudon. Open access. sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/ph...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi

@tabouchadi.bsky.social

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

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Per Engzell

@pengzell.bsky.social

The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...

eui.euMax Weber Programme for Postdoctoral StudiesMaking a Difference in Global Academia

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Population Studies Center

@pennpsc.bsky.social

Join us (online or in-person) on 9/25 for the Education & Inequality Workshop with @hermwerf.bsky.social sharing his insights on Politics & Intergenerational Social Mobility MORE INFO & ZOOM REGISTRATION https://bit.ly/4xZZVQQ

23 Sept

Watching US tv, I saw a TV priest offering the evidence for the existence of the devil: “if you see the world we live in, it’s certainly not god!”

journals.sagepub.comYesterday’s model for tomorrow’s economy? Dual VET and wage inequality in the knowledge economy - Patrick Emmenegger, Matthias Haslberger, 2026Dual vocational education and training (VET) is said to have positive economic effects. However, recent contributions suggest that the rise of the knowledge eco...

18 Sept

Important new paper on the dual VET system and wage inequality. Wage inequality, especially at the bottom of the distribution, is lower in societies with stronger dual VET systems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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18 Sept

This fits our general optimistic interpretation of strong vocational education and training systems, also in today's knowledge economies. Strong linkage between school-based skills and types of employment does not harm; on the contrary. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

15 Sept

Jee, Springer I get multiple review requests PER DAY from your journals. Am I in some sort of database? My theory is that they bombard the ones who at least reply (even if negative) to their requests (suggest them/us to editors). I am doing my service but we all know there is a limit.

ft.pressreader.comWe are setting up a generation to fail at school | Financial Times EuropeWhen the OECD’s Pisa study of teenage reading, mathematics and science abilities around the world showed a marked drop in 2022, many hoped this was a short-term hit from pandemic learning di...

12 Sept

What can we learn from England? Strong central guidance, accountability, and using evidence-based methods. #PISA #turningthepisatide @jburnmurdoch.ft.com in ft.pressreader.com/article/2817...

9 Sept

“Engeland koos, zeker sinds de hervormingen die vanaf ongeveer 2010 werden ingezet, veel nadrukkelijker voor vakinhoud, kennis, een duidelijker nationaal curriculum, systematische phonics, externe toetsing en vrij expliciete verwachtingen over wat leerlingen moeten kennen.”

Pedro De Bruyckere@thebandb.bsky.social

Engeland bleef relatief stabiel in PISA, terwijl andere delen van het VK terrein verloren. Heeft hun verschillende onderwijsbeleid daar iets mee te maken? Misschien, maar belofte maakt schuld: een uitgebreidere analyse! wp.me/prJwm-e97

platform-investico.nlOnderwijsmarkt gijzelt leesonderwijs | Investico OnderzoeksjournalistenOp de vrije markt van lespakettenmakers, tussenhandelaren en onderwijsadviseurs controleert vrijwel niemand wat basisschoolleerlingen leren; leerkrachten raken verdwaald in een woud van lesmethoden.

9 Sept

Het Nederlandse leesonderwijs is gegijzeld door de onderwijsmarkt. At investico www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/...

En taalvaardigheid wordt alleen maar belangrijker met AI. Ik chat me een ongeluk met Claude.

Die laatste verkiezingen, is het daar over onderwijs gegaan? Met die stevig dalende #PISA trend, al lange tijd gaande maar nu helemaal neerwaarts, zou je denken dat lange termijn politiek het hier liever over zou hebben dan over migratie. Man man man.

Ik zou liever hebben dat die trends weer opwaarts remigreren.

It was only two #PISA rounds ago that the Dutch minister of education said: but social skills are at least as important as literacy and math. While *some* change is observed, the Dutch political landscape is not able to address the declining performance in basic skills. >

School boards are too autonomous. Lumpsum financing is disastrous. Reading instruction is too technical, not substantive enough (just read!). Scientists say it. The Education Council says it. And politics? They don’t care because asylum seekers. It’s a shame.

And to reduce the lumpsum financing of school boards has even been a goal that VVD and PRO share! Is it the only topic on which they *could* agree?? But then nothing.

onderwijsraad.nlLees! Een oproep tot een leesoffensief | OnderwijsraadNederlandse jongeren lezen steeds minder vaak  en met steeds minder plezier. Doordat zij minder tijd besteden aan het lezen van langere teksten of boeken gaat hun leesvaardigheid achteruit. Dat heeft ...

Herhaling van zetten. www.onderwijsraad.nl/documenten/2...

volkskrant.nlEn nog gaat alarmbel niet af over dramatisch leesniveauDuitsland was in shock toen de jeugd slecht bleek te lezen. Hier reageert men lauw op PISA-scores.

Herhaling van zetten. #PISA. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

hermwerf.substack.comOnderwijsongelijkheid: zorgwekkende trends in NederlandHet in de verkiezingscampagne genegeerde thema onderwijs nader geduid

Herhaling van zetten.

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥@hermwerf.bsky.social

De verkiezingen gaan er niet over, maar het onderwijs vertoont zorgwekkende trends ten aanzien van leerprestaties en ongelijkheid. Mijn nieuwe post. hermwerf.substack.com/p/onderwijso...

Herhaling van zetten.

Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥@hermwerf.bsky.social

Zet de scholen weer op 1. Opiniestuk n.a.v. PISA resultaten, met groot aantal collega’s: Wat in Londen kan en in Scandinavië, kan hier ook: de scholen weer op nr. 1 | Gedeeld artikel van de Volkskrant digitalekrant.volkskrant.nl/volkskrant/2...

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The #PISA decline since 2015 is striking. The Netherlands shows one of the largest negative trends. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

The #PISA decline since 2015 is striking. The Netherlands shows one of the largest negative trends. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

One day in the 2000s, economists calculated that the declining #PISA-scores will lead to a sizeable loss in economic growth. I was then teaching 19-year olds who had been in a PISA cohort and said: c’mon folks we need you.

Must have been early 2010s

6 Sept

For those of you who are curious about the new #PISA results coming out this week, you may also be interested in the comparative results of the @learnineq.bsky.social project, that will also soon be published online (pre peer-review, just like the Pisa reports 🤪). Studying educational transitions.

volkskrant.nlBestaat het recht op islamofobie? Deze twee boeken overlappen enorm, en spreken elkaar volkomen tegenJournalisten Gerry van der List en Lotfi El Hamidi beschrijven dezelfde gebeurtenissen en citeren uit dezelfde bronnen, en trekken totaal verschillende conclusies.

6 Sept

Mooi gebalanceerde bespreking van twee boeken over de islam in het westen, van Gerry van der List en Lofti el Hamidi (geschreven door Joost de Vries). Met een heldere conclusie over de grootste bedreiging voor de Verlichtingsidealen vandaag de dag. @volkskrant.nl www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/besta...

4 Sept

From 21-25 September I’ll be in the NYC area, giving talks at Princeton (23 Sept), Columbia (24 Sept) and Penn (25 Sept). Happy to meet for a coffee.

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Universität Konstanz

@uni-konstanz.de

2 Sept

How does social background shape educational success? In the latest #UniKonstanz In_equality Podcast, @mbusemeyer.bsky.social & Gabi Spilker @excinequality.bsky.social discuss early tracking, standardized tests and equal opportunity with sociologist @hermwerf.bsky.social. https://t1p.de/bt6j0

2 Sept

Here a podcast in which I was interviewed by Gabi Spilker and Marius Busemeyer, from the Konstanz inequality cluster.

Universität Konstanz@uni-konstanz.de