
Elena Pojman
@elenapojman
phd candidate in sociology & demography @psusoccrim | texas ex 🤘🏻
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http://elenapojman.com 10-10-2020 13:15:30
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In our latest AJS paper, we show that life courses differ across four EU countries only for disadvantaged groups, likely due to varying welfare states and responsibilities of state, market, and family. Collaboration with A. Fasang, Aleksi Karhula (@aleksikarhula.bsky.social), zafer buyukkececi, and S.B. Andrade.

In Germany, public childcare ⬇️ child maltreatment --> ⬇️ from cases initiated bc of neglect & parental overburden (as well as abuse), suggesting substitution of inadequate childcare is a main channel Malte Sandner Thomsen & Libertad González in The Economic Journal doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea…




Even if all hostilities were to cease immediately, we estimate it would take over 50 years of uninterrupted peace to reduce the proportion of bereaved individuals in the Palestinian population to a quarter of current levels. New article w/ Enrique Acosta 👇 theconversation.com/the-political-…

A new analysis of Norwegian registries finds an association between family transitions and wealth differences over the life course, shedding light on the role of family structures and dynamics in reproducing social inequalities. Great work by Bettina Hünteler, @theresanutz, @JoWoern!



Saying bye bye to this site by sharing my last American Sociological Review pub, w amazing colab Ioana Marinescu! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/000312…


“The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes”: In a study of the PA Marcellus Shale economy, Molly A. Martin Tiffany Green is now tiffanylgreen.bsky.social & A Chapman find that a $1K gain in mean income correlates w/ a 1.5-pp drop in low birth weight. UPenn Prevention Research Center ow.ly/eVqQ50UlL46


In addition to the inanity of blanket-banning research on these topics, if they're really doing this via string matching, they're also going to throw out econometrics ("biased" estimators), biology (blood-brain "barrier") and a whole bunch of math (Jensen's "inequality") 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️



Inspired by truly interdisciplinary work, my solo work is out Soc Sci & Medicine, where I composed a novel longitudinal dataset on state policy and culture re LGB individuals. Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual a... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…



“Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults": Maike van damme, Diego Alburez & @andres9986 use survey data & demog models to calculate sizes of kinship types--"downward, lateral, upward & total"-- and compare the strengths of each approach. CED Barcelona MPIDR ow.ly/YomA50W0tEC
