Job opportunity: to reinforce and complement our expertise in the study of social inequality, Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (full time, tenure-track). Deadline March 11th. https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sciencespo.fr.osc/files/CRIS_poste_AP_2024_eng.pdf

"...A woman sued a man who claimed to ‘own’ her... A unique insight into the biography and everyday life of an urban slave in this period and the intertwining of domesticity, caste, religion and kinbuilding" - The Hustler and the Mooch: Slavery in Late Eighteenth-Century Bombay, Paper by Sukriti Issar https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144039X.2024.2302210

Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial - Paper by Carlo Barone, Denis Fougère, Karine Martel https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19345747.2023.2283475 - Books shared to read with the family

Joint meeting today at sciences Po with the World Inequality Lab & The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. +20 early-career researchers unraveled inequality and the environment degradation interplay https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/content/inequality-and-environment-symposium-early-career-researchers-0.html

"The World in Numbers: Inequality". Lucas Chancel presentation (30 min.), World Economic Forum 2024, 16 January, 15:00 CET. This session delves into the multiple dimensions of global inequality, its social and economic costs, and the policy choices to address these challenges. https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/the-world-in-numbers-inequality

Screen-time, cultural activities, sport, schoolwork... "Change and inequality in German teenagers’ typical time-use sequences between 1991 and 2013" -> preprint by @betthaeuser, M. Siglreitmaier & A. Fasang. Results provide new evidence corroborating existing theories of social stratification of children’s time use & increased time spent on screen activities. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/25dkj

Call for presentation: "Women in Times of Crisis: Rethinking the Extraordinary and the Everyday" - Online Conference (Alliance Columbia University, Sciences Po, Panthéon Sorbonne University) - Deadline: January 15th.
Climate change - global pandemic - conflicts - radicalization - demographic shocks (fertility, migrations...) - economic change (AI...)
www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...

"The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany", Paper by @betthaeuser, @natrinh, A. E. Fasang. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad073 Children whose mother always works evenings or Saturdays are substantially less likely to transition to the academic school track...

How ready were governments and the public to sacrifice thousands of lives to avoid economic collapse during the pandemic? "Understanding public attitudes during Covid‑19 in France with Polanyi and Gramsci: a political economy of an epidemiological and economic disaster", Paper by Emanuel Ferragina (et al.) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-023-00369-x

Interested in family sociology, demography as well as quantitative methods?
Join the CRIS at Sciences Po Paris. We're hiring 2 PhD students in sociology, economics, gerontology... Project "A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies" - Deadline 10 December. info : https://www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sciencespo.fr.osc/files/WIDOW_PhDs_13_112023.pdf

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