NEW: Paula Fomby, Patricia van Hissenhoven Flórez, "Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s College Attainment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"We find that progress claims featured more prominently and fervently during moments when the department had reason to believe its legitimacy was threatened."

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NEW: Tony Cheng, Johann Koehler, "Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[J]ob-level variation in skill content constitutes an independent source of wage inequality—one that is obscured by analyses at the occupational level."

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NEW: Marie Labussière, Thijs Bol, "Are Occupations “Bundles of Skills”? Identifying Latent Skill Profiles in the Labor Market Using Topic Modeling" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"From 1910 onwards, the gender gap in occupational status at marriage declined. Around 1940, the gap turned around in favor of women."

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"[T]he explicit and mutually understood nature of team jargon reduces ambiguity, thereby facilitating language development and minimizing misunderstandings that could otherwise hinder coordination."

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NEW: Wiebke Schulz, Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, "Socio-Economic Advancement and Long-Term Trends in the Gender Gap in Early Career Occupational Status in France 1860–1960." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Ray E. Reagans, Ronald S. Burt, Donald D. Liu, "Jargonization, Language Development, and Team Performance" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[T]he contrast between All-Star and All-NBA awards provides the theoretical traction needed to distinguish objective bias from culturally endogenous status mechanisms in cumulative status advantage."

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"[W]e affirm the presence of cumulative status bias in NBA Awards."

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Only in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social can we see such extensive discussions between two teams of authors on the symbolic versus skill-based theories of (superstar) rewards. ❤️

NEW: Peter McMahan, Eran Shor, "The Cultural and Symbolic Foundations of Status Hierarchies: A Rejoinder to Biegert, Kühhirt, and Van Lanker." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Thomas Biegert, Michael Kühhirt, Wim Van Lancker, "There Is Cumulative Status Bias and Status Entrenchment in NBA Awards: Comment on McMahan and Shor (2024)." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"From 2022 to 2024, Texas transported more than 100,000 migrants from the U.S.–Mexico border...increased Trump’s vote share by more than three percentage points."

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Stone CID announces a new article titled “Is College Really ‘the’ Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection,” featured in the March 3 issue of Sociological Science. Includes authors’ names and publication details, with a portrait framed in yellow.

In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.

NEW: William Scarborough, Ronald Kwon, David Brady, "The Effect of the Texas Migrant Busing Program on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories."

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Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Article: Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection | Sociological Science | Posted March 3, 2026

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social!

We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer!

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This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >

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NEW: Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson, "Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[R]eligious researchers find less evidence for the secularization thesis, whereas secular scholars find more."

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"This article develops and applies a stochastic two-sided matching model to analyze marriage patterns in the United States"

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NEW: Yuan Cheng, John K. Dagsvik, Xuehui Han, Zhiyang Jia , "Force of Attraction and Partner Availability in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Two-Sided Matching Model" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
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NEW: Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx, The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

"[T]he main drivers of place-based disparities in achievement lie outside of elementary schools."

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