The emotional climate of the home matters!

Welcome to #rc28 Spring Meeting in Turku, 20-22 May 2020! The theme is ”Accumulation and compensation of inequalities”, with confirmed keynotes by @ollikangas , Tom DiPrete, Fabrizio Bernardi, Michelle Jackson and Ariel Kalil. Submit yours 1.10.-29.11.2019 via rc28turku.utu.fi

And how great wouldn't it be if that $24K investment was shared equally! It's all in the design of parental leave policies .

Academia is a pyramid scheme for geeks

"Employment continues to be intertwined in distinctive ways to masculinity and femininity in the US. (..) It makes sense that unemployment too would have different meanings and result in different experiences for men and women."

#soctwitter trying to compile a reputation gut-check on journals for my grad publishing course, esp to help w status tiers, equivalencies across generalist and specialist journals, some newer journals (eg socius) etc. Take a few mins to help: allourideas.org/socpublishing

First day as Assistant Professor in Social Studies at RUC and I witnessed how 100 fifth semester students transformed a nebulous cloud of topics into concrete project ideas and formed groups - way to go!

⚠️HELP: We are looking for studies examining the interaction between socioeconomic status (SES) and polygenic indices for education/(non)cognitive skills on *educational outcomes* Know any? DM us, and re-post it! 🙏 @asta_b_lund and I are doing a GxSES meta-analysis!

Jackson & Zagame show that differences in #parenting consistently explain 20 % of the #achievementgap in UK over the last 4 decades #PAA2016

Xie Yu: Social mobility in China has declined, but it's not worse than in most Western countries #RC28SG

Good news for feminists: Egalitarian couples have just as much sex as traditionals says onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… #JoMF

Jennifer Glass's research on US parental unhappiness in the news: chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/par…

Parents use less corporal punishment now than 25 yrs ago say Ryan & collegues. Great #parenting news! medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/par…