Sociological Science

"I trace the historical politicization of 25 issue domains in the United States from 1980 to 2024 by examining the extent to which specific issues are discursively associated with ideological labels and partisan markers." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Terrence Ting-Yen Chen , "Tracing Politicization in the U.S. Public Sphere, 1980–2024" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

My university did a short interview with me about the findings in my new @sociologicalsci.bsky.social paper on widening gaps in parental spending in the U.S. and what it can tell us about children's opportunities and outcomes. source.colostate.edu/why-the-gap-...

Families in the top 10% spend 13x more on developmental activities than those in the bottom 25%, compared to 3x in 1980. "Even More Unequal Childhoods: 45 years of Widening Income Gaps in Parental Investments in the United States" now out at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.15195/v13... 🧵👇

NEW: Orestes P. Hastings, "Even More Unequal Childhoods: 45 Years of Widening Income Gaps in Parental Investments in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"Although young women still lag behind young men, particularly mothers, our findings show steady convergence and challenge the narrative of stalled progress." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Roujman Shahbazian, "No Stalled Revolution: The Closing Gender Gap in Early Careers in Europe and the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"It has become more difficult for developing countries to offset migratory losses with the spillovers from circulation." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Andrew C. Herman, Jens Peter Andersen, Mathias Wullum Nielsen, "Developing Countries Face Falling Circulation Rates and Rising Migration Losses in Science " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"Why do natural resources fuel ethnic conflict in some ethnic homelands but not others?" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Wali Reheman, "Ethnopolitical Exclusion and Resource Conflict." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"In the US, overwork migrated up the class structure, and its hourly wage association turned from penalty to premium...Neither is supported as a broad durable pattern [in China]." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Chen Ouyang, "Overwork Without Premium: The Persistent Class Gradient of Long Hours in China, 2006–2023." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"College-educated individuals seem to reject effort-based meritocracy while strongly supporting skill- and education-based meritocracy." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Joanne W. Golann, Karen Phelan Kozlowski, Kara Mitchell Brennan, "Social Class Differences in Parenting? Revisiting Classed Childrearing through a Video-Ethnography of Mealtime" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Yifan Shen, "Men’s Labor-Market Decline and the Rising Correlation between Spouses’ Earnings in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Hye Won Kwon, Jani Erola, "Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"We find that [wealth] stratification declined along several dimensions, with education being the main exception." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"Through simulations, stylized examples, and an empirical application, the article shows that explicitly defining the quantity of interest and selecting appropriate models is essential for valid interaction analysis." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"We extend the canonical mathematical framework to derive skill-specific return trajectories, incorporating two key parameters governing declines in (a) human capacity to learn and (b) skill relevance over the life course." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Jake Burchard, Lisa A. Keister, "Decoupling Inequality and Stratification in the American Wealth Distribution, 1989–2022" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Josep Serrano-Serrat, "Quantities of Interest for Interactions and the Pitfalls of Assuming Linear Treatment Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: João M. Souto-Maior, Mitchell L. Stevens, "Bending the Heckman Curve: Competing Declines in Learning Capacity and Skill Relevance Over the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[T]ypicality strongly predicts selection when goals and categories misalign but becomes irrelevant when they align well." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"[W]e found that the ideology-engagement association is significantly larger than the ideology-attention association." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: PhD Candidate Emma Williams-Baron & Prof. Aliya Saperstein use the NLSY79 to explore the best ways to operationalize race/ethnicity in the study of inequality in the labor market, health, and education. doi.org/10.15195/v13...

NEW: Alex Tyulyupo, Balázs Kovács, "Categorical Engagement and the Contingent Nature of Typicality Effects" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Christopher Barrie, Aybuke Atalay, Alia ElKattan, "Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein, "A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Beza Taddess, Luyin Zhang, Sam Trejo, "Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Teacher sorting and inequalities in student achievement: Unequal exposures and differential returns to teacher qualifications doi.org/10.15195/v13... Paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @saidhassan.bsky.social

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social on teacher sorting and the impact of teacher qualifications on student achievement. Read more here:

NEW: Tyler Woods, Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, "The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"Women who attended high school in metropolitan areas hold a clear BA advantage, but not women who attended nonmetropolitan high schools, where girls earn higher grades than boys yet attain bachelor’s degrees at similar rates." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

NEW: Said Hassan, "Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: April Sutton, Bernardo Mackenna, Bolun Zhang, Amanda Bosky, "The Exception to Women’s Advantage: How Rurality, Red Counties, and the Local Economy Shape Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"Using AI-generated photorealistic images, we systematically vary the tidiness of domestic spaces, room type, source of mess, socioeconomic status, and the gender and race/ethnicity of occupants" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"First-difference models reveal a consistent negative association between rising local wealth inequality and declining upward income mobility for children from low-income families, but no comparable association for their high-income peers." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"These findings demonstrate a novel configuration of labor market inequality, in which pay rose in low-wage jobs, but underlying inequality structures in the economy persisted." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"We find that considering how the child’s great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins shape care availability, and modeling their influence using more flexible models, provides small yet significant improvements in predictive ability" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger, "Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers, "Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Had a blast at the @sociologicalsci.bsky.social conference at @stanfordsoc.bsky.social last week, which allowed me to both gaze at Rodins & argue that sociologists should try to run our departments as if we believe scholarship on how to have equitable organizations.

NEW: Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas, "Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"I show that the seemingly innocuous decision to restrict analyses to data where different income groups’ policy support differs (i.e., a preference gap exists) introduced Simpson’s paradox" Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social