What drives the growth of private wealth? Has inequality increased? How does tax policy shape wealth across generations? Now published in Nature-Scientific Data: the data descriptor of the GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse by @stone-lis.bsky.social & Roma Tre University
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
Looking for accessible, high-quality, carefully-documented data on wealth #inequalities, levels, composition, and trends? Explore the GC Wealth Project. The extensive data can be visualized and/or downloaded. @stone-lis.bsky.social
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An intersection that counts: Gender studies & economic sociology.
In the new issue of "economic sociology. perspectives and conversations", editor Jeanne Lazarus and contributors show how attention to gender reveals economic dynamics that often remain invisible within mainstream economic sociology.
Bien des jeunes adultes aspirent à la propriété, mais bon nombre voient leur rêve s’écrouler, faute d’un patrimoine familial suffisant pour les soutenir. Quelles sont les solutions ?
À lire dans notre édition d’avril 2026 : https://bit.ly/46FWrHw
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When cohabitation becomes a true alternative to marriage, the economic sorting that marriage historically produced can weaken considerably, and its link with broader patterns of wealth inequality shifts. Comments and feedback are very welcome. Feel free to share! #familysociology #wealthInequality
These findings stress that marriage's wealth advantages are not hardwired into the institution itself. They are shaped by cultural and institutional contexts.
Consistent across gender: These patterns appear to hold for both men and women, pointing to broad cultural change in how partnership forms relate to economic outcomes.
Reduced marriage premiums: Marriage itself generates smaller wealth gains in Quebec, particularly for men, suggesting that the economic advantages of marriage may erode when alternative union forms gain equal social standing.
Weakened wealth-marriage selection: This shift appears driven primarily by a weakened association between wealth and marriage entry in Quebec. When marriage is no longer the cultural default, financial resources matter less for who ends up marrying.
Key findings ➡️ Narrowing wealth gaps: The marriage-cohabitation wealth gap declined substantially in French-speaking #Quebec since the 1990s, while remaining stable elsewhere. By 2019, the gap had in fact essentially disappeared in French Quebec.
I use #Canada as a comparative case. I contrast French-speaking Québec, where cohabitation has become a legitimate alternative to marriage for long-term unions, with other provinces and Québec's anglophones, where cohabitation diffused primarily as a longer transitional stage towards marriage.
I argue that whether cohabitation erodes marriage’s historical wealth advantage (or leaves it unchanged) depends on how and why it spreads: as a long-term alternative to marriage, a longer transitional stage, or a response to economic insecurity.
🧵 New paper out! Married couples have long been wealthier, on average, than cohabiting couples. But does this still hold as unmarried cohabitation becomes increasingly common? Find out in my latest paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social available in #OA: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Over the moon to announce OVERINVESTED, my new book baby due January 20, 2026, with a starred Publishers Weekly review. “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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5/5 It may still be too early for the effects of Québec’s policies on wealth gaps to be fully observable. We need research to keep tracking interprovincial trends going forward. More importantly, Canada needs individual-level data to better understand and address enduring gender wealth gaps.
4/5 Did the family policy implemented in Québec in the 2000s improve wealth gaps? The evidence is mixed. Non-pension wealth gaps declined more in Québec than in several other provinces, but Ontario experienced similar improvements, suggesting that other factors may also have been at play.
3/5 Women consistently possess less wealth than men. However, this gap has narrowed significantly over time in the domain of workplace pension wealth.
2/5 We know relatively little about gender wealth gaps in Canada because wealth data are primarily collected at the household level, which conceals within-family inequalities. To address this issue, we used a machine learning approach to estimate individual-level wealth for men and women.
1/5 Is there a gender wealth gap in Canada? In my latest paper with Mamadou Diallo and @dianapenaruiz.bsky.social, we provide some answers. We also compare gender wealth gaps across provinces and over time to assess whether Québec’s adoption of a family policy reduced these gaps. rdcu.be/eOvwS 🧵
The AxPo Observatory on Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po is offering a 2-year postdoctoral position focusing on socioeconomic polarization and fragmentation.
Ph.Ds in sociology, economics, political science, and related fields are encouraged to apply.
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đź“Ł Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology.
👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a...
👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a...
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Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.
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New paper: @katjamoe.bsky.social, @claraoverweg.bsky.social and @apweiland.bsky.social study the motherhood penalty in net wealth and public pension wealth in Germany
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