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Hur vanligt är det att transpersoner är föräldrar?

Ny svensk studie ger för första gången en större bild av transpersoners föräldraskap.

👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New ESR article on apprenticeship dropout and social inequality 👇

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

Last chance to apply for our Postdoc in Sociology at SOFI!
Deadline: 13 April 2026
Read more and apply: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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LNU-visualiseringar

Nu kan du göra egna analyser av Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU). Skapa diagram, följ förändringar över tid och ladda ner data direkt. Ett värdefullt verktyg och ett enkelt sätt att arbeta med en av Sveriges viktigaste datakällor om levnadsförhållanden.

levnadsnivaundersokningen.se

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.

Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?

Apply by 13 April 2026.

More information and application:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#postdoc #sociology

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Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

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This is a (very) short thread on a recent paper with the great Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta on “Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills” (forthcoming at ‪@jpube.bsky.social)! (1/7)

@ucleconomics.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social‬ @sofi.su.se ‪@clscohorts.bsky.social

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Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren appointed as Associate Professor - Swedish Institute for Social Research Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren is an economist who earned her PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014. She has been a researcher at SOFI since 2017, and her work focuses on applied microecon...

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Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren has been appointed as Associate Professor (Docent) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI).🎉

Congratulations!

9 months ago 6 1 1 0
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Final conference of rEUsilience and this is (parts of) the wonderful crew - here w/ miami vice flair. Thx for a great journey!
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @abrarbawati.bsky.social @amatysiak.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social and analog 📷 by great @merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social

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Congratulations, Marie-Pascale!

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Allison holding her dissertation, smiling.

Allison holding her dissertation, smiling.

Congratulations to our doctoral student @allisongeerts.bsky.social in successfully defending her thesis! Geerts' research explores how lesbian couples in the Netherlands navigate the transition to parenthood.

Read her thesis here: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

#Research #Sociology #PhD

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Gendered processes in education: Exploring early sources of differing educational trajectories

Read her dissertation here: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

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Tünde speaking at her dissertation defense, seated behind a table, holding a microphone, with a bouquet of flowers visible in the corner.

Tünde speaking at her dissertation defense, seated behind a table, holding a microphone, with a bouquet of flowers visible in the corner.

🎉 Big congrats to Tünde Lénárd, who successfully defended her dissertation last Friday!

Here’s an action shot from the event.

#DissertationDefense #AcademicWin

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Promising Sameness?: Lesbian Couples in Sweden at the Transition to Motherhood

Read her dissertation ”Promising Sameness? Lesbian Couples in Sweden at the Transition to Motherhood” here.

su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

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Photo of Madeleine in lecture hall 9, holding her dissertation.

Photo of Madeleine in lecture hall 9, holding her dissertation.

Right now, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch is defending her dissertation in Lecture Hall 9 at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

Wishing her all the best!

#DissertationDefense #PhD #SOFI #Sociology

10 months ago 4 0 1 0
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Fattiga familjer berättar: Så lever vi - Syre Att ha ett arbete hjälper inte alltid mot fattigdom. Nästan var tolfte familj med somalisk bakgrund lever i fattigdom trots att båda föräldrarna jobbar, visar ny forskning.

Fattige familjer berättar: Så lever vi

Interview in @syre-tidningen.bsky.social about the situation of low resource families in Sweden, based on @reusilience.bsky.social research with Lovisa Backman, and on research by @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social

tidningensyre.se/2025/26-maj-...

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10 months ago 5 3 0 0

So great having you here! And what fantastic photos – it takes skill to make our fluorescent lighting look this good! 😄

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Placing Families at the Centre of Social Policy for a Resilient Europe
Placing Families at the Centre of Social Policy for a Resilient Europe YouTube video by rEUsilience

Check out the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKC...

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European Initiative Calls for Enhanced Family Support Systems - Swedish Institute for Social Research Today, May 15th, marking the International Day of Families, the European research project rEUsilience presents new insights and recommendations aimed at enhancing family resilience in Europe. The proj...

On this International Day of Families, it’s time to rethink family policy in Europe. Read more about the @reusilience.bsky.social research project and its findings 👇

#sociology #research #FamilyPolicy

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Cassandra Engeman appointed Associate Professor - Swedish Institute for Social Research Cassandra Engeman, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at Stockholm University

@cassandraengeman.bsky.social, PhD in Sociology, has been appointed Associate Professor (docent) at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social.

www.su.se/swedish-inst...

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Alessandro Toppeta (@sofi.su.se) shows that more school isn't always better: in Sweden, teens randomly tested after holidays show stronger non-cognitive skills, especially those from wealthier families. More breaks may boost development, but they risk widening inequality.

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Nytt nummer av nyhetsbrevet: Läs om hållbart mode om hur vi kan klä oss snyggt utan att förstöra planeten, om maskrosen - kungen av betongdjungeln, forskning om det lönar sig att plugga, om vad som hände i Sverige när freden kom 8 maj 1945 #BertBolinLecture mm
Läs o prenumerera: www.su.se/nyhetsbrev

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Education, Inequality, and Labor Market Outcomes: Patterns and Trends in Educational and Socioeconomic Transformations

Read Xu's dissertation here: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

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Xu shows, among other things, that the economic return on higher education is no longer increasing as clearly as before, and that this calls for fresh thinking around education and labor market policy.

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Xu in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall, holding a printed copy of her dissertation. She wears a headset microphone and stands next to a bouquet of fresh flowers, a stack of dissertations, and some notebooks.

Xu in front of a blackboard in a lecture hall, holding a printed copy of her dissertation. She wears a headset microphone and stands next to a bouquet of fresh flowers, a stack of dissertations, and some notebooks.

Last Friday, our PhD candidate Xiaojie Xu defended her dissertation in sociology – congratulations, Xiaojie! 🎉

Her dissertation explores how the impact of education on jobs, income, and social mobility has shifted since the late 20th century.

Great work, Xiaojie!
#PhD #education #sociology

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From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition - Institute for International Economic Studies From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition - Institute for International Economic Studies

From voter to candidate: how a second election sparks political ambition. New research by IIES' graduate student Mattias Folkestad & IIES/ @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social alumna @chloen.bsky.social @sofi.su.se accepted for publication at European Journal of Political Economy www.su.se/institute-fo...

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Terrific dissertation defense by Xiaojie Xu at @sofi.su.se today and proud supervisor moment for me.

Thanks @hermwerf.bsky.social for doing us the honors!

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Read more about SOFI's brand new doctor's research here:
www.su.se/swedish-inst...

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Essays on the Links Between Vertical and Horizontal Social Stratification, Political Attitudes, and Radical Right Support: Evidence from Sweden and Europe

Read the dissertation here:

su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

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