Against the “myth of the broke Millennial”...
Life Course Trajectories and Wealth Accumulation in the United States: Comparing Late Baby Boomers and Early Millennials. Paper here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726445
Press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007774
A widening wealth gap is a fundamental moral and political challenge that will shape the future of the United States.
"Bold Climate Fixes Won’t Wreck Middle Class Retirement Plans."
Inequality ensures that feared financial losses moving away from fossil fuels will fall most heavily on the wealthy, and not on the poor and middle class - Lucas Chancel & Gregor Semieniuk https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bold-climate-fixes-wont-wreck-middle-class-retirement-plans/
"Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit" New paper by Laura Silva et al.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2023.2277279
Our findings highlight the multifaceted role of personality traits as a driver of heterogeneous effects on political behaviour.
Social Policy as a field of study: "The 'Two Lives' of Esping-Andersen and Its Contradictions: Gender Equality, Employment and Redistribution in Contemporary Social Policy studies", Working Paper by Emanuele Ferragina https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/37hy6/
Just Published in Open Access: "Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces", Matthew Soener, Olivier Godechot & Mirna Safi. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12969 - Increasing shares of women and migrants in French workplaces have distributional effects but in specific and sometimes diverging ways.
"Direct Political Action of Corporate Elites and the Wealthiest Capitalist Families in the US and Germany" - CRIS Working Papers - Lukas Arndt. Lobbying & party donations by super-rich group analyzed https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04228251
Just Published: "Diverging pathways: the effects of initial legal status on immigrant socioeconomic and residential outcomes in France" - Tianjian Lai, Haley McAvay & Mirna Safi #stratification #refugees #immigrants #inequality https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcad047/7285674?searchresult=1&login=true [open access]
People interact more closely when a face mask is worn... Increasing the risk of contagion? New paper by Martin Aranguren et al., based on in situ (streets of Paris) and in laboratory experiments. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad161 (Open Access) #sociology #health #bayesian
"A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies" - An innovative approach to estimate the risk of widowhood as well as the mental health and economic vulnerabilities of spousal loss. https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content/social-demography-widowhood-across-ageing-societies.html - New project funded by #ERC Starting Grant - Investigator @VanWinkleZachary
Social reproduction & work: Emanuele Ferragina & Edoardo Magalini investigate stratification in maternal employment and childcare use along class, contractual, and gender lines across six countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and five family policy models. https://academic.oup.com/sp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sp/jxad021/7236026
New paper from Laura Silva, Franco Bonomi Bezzo et al. They examines drivers of prejudicial attitudes among adults in the UK, focusing on the interaction between ethnic out-group size and personality traits. Authors observe a tendency towards polarisation in prejudicial attitudes between low-/high-agreeableness residents as their neighbourhoods become more diverse. #sociology #ethnicity #neighbourhood #relationship https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X23000741
Just published by Gabriel Otero, Quentin Ramond et al., "The damages of stigma, the benefits of prestige: Examining the consequences of perceived residential reputations on neighbourhood attachment", in Santiago (Chile) #sociability #inequality https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980231186141
2 new LIEPP Method Briefs (by Denis Fougère & Nicolas Jacquemet):
- The regression discontinuity https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04103359v1
- Difference-in-differences https://hal.science/hal-04102943
#econometry #evaluation #statistics
"Disability, Gender, or Something Else? Identity-Based Interpretations of Inequalities Over the Life Course in France". Chapter by Célia Bouchet & Mathéa Boudinet. #sociology Abstract here: https://hal.science/hal-04172405 - Paper: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-354720230000014004
"Shared book reading and social inequalities in education: results from a field experiment". Presentation by Carlo Barone, Denis Fougère & Clément Pin, IDEE Seminar, Nov. 2022, 60'. #sociology #inequality #LanguageSkills https://www.idee-education.org/s%C3%A9minaires-idee-shared-book-reading-and-social-inequalities-in-education
To tackle climate change, we need to cut our carbon footprints. But it's very hard to live on little carbon if the products, society and infrastructure around you are all high-emitting... Trails: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230504-the-people-living-ultra-low-carbon-lifestyles #climate #LifeStyle
LIEPP Methods Brief n°35 - "Macro Comparisons" by Emanuele Ferragina https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04159313v1/file/METHOD-35-Ferragina.pdf #MixedMethods #WelfareState #Policy #Evaluation
