Dingeman Wiertz
dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
Dingeman Wiertz
@dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at UCL, interested in civic engagement, religion, ethnic integration, residential mobility, quant methods.

https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/67454-dingeman-wiertz
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Staff Working Paper 1147 by B Tracey (BoE) & N van Horen (BoE) shows FTB home purchases rose sharply after 2013 when the deposit requirement was reduced from 10% to 5% by HTB. Gains were concentrated among FTBs unlikely to have relied on family support. 🔗 www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...
Credit constraints and the redistribution of housing wealth
Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.
www.bankofengland.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Humbled to have received the biennial ‘Best Dissertation Award’ of the German Academy of Sociology at this year’s conference in Mainz! It was a pleasure to present a summary of my thesis. Grateful for all the support and guidance I received over the last years. #AkadSoz25 #sociology
October 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social!

Application deadline: 10 October.

Further details in the link below.
We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social.

It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre.

Deadline + link 👇
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Are you a UCL Sociologist? Apply to join UCL Sociology Network's Coordinating Group. Contribute to the Network’s wide-ranging programme of activities and share news of important sociological developments tinyurl.com/2ut5dttz
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉

His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝

Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...
Ozan Aksoy
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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A Dutch study explores a key barrier to social integration: strong in-group preferences. One hopeful exception: young people don’t have strong preferences for people of their own ethnicity when it comes to sports activities. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
September 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in.

More info 👇
New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️

The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶

In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes.

Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week.

Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️

We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social and Associate Member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations
Abstract. Civic organizations are often depicted as vehicles for social integration: Since they gather people around common interests and have relatively l
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August 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social.

It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre.

Deadline + link 👇
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Who remains single? Educational gradients in long-term singlehood across ethnic groups
doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
Paper in @jmfncfr.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social postdoc @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Associate Member Evelina Akimova and Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Shout out to my @sriucl.bsky.social colleague @ruettenauer.bsky.social who's doing an amazing job at bringing methods to the people

His recent output includes two handbook chapters (spatial + panel data), a DiD paper, and a treasure trove of teaching materials online: ruettenauer.github.io
July 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Is there a religious revival in England?

@sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3
Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report
In Anglican and Catholic churches, average weekly attendance is down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels.
theconversation.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
June 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hurray!
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Very exited to share the amazing 🚀line-up for our QSS and CLS Seminar series @sriucl.bsky.social🎓

Weekly talks on #SocialScience topics like #Inequality, #Protests, #Migration, #EducationalMobility, #Ethnicity, and #Eugenics 📊

Wednesdays, 1–2pm (hybrid). Register: forms.microsoft.com/e/fHEP73Jdmz
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Happy to share that this article is now published (after a long time)! It’s often claimed that welfare generosity attracts immigration. But looking at flows between 160 countries, I found little support. Other factors like GDP or democracy matter more. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Evidence for the welfare magnet hypothesis? A global examination using exponential random graph models
Abstract. The welfare magnet hypothesis states that welfare generosity in destination countries is a migration pull factor. However, supporting evidence is
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April 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🚨New article🔥

🗳️ What helped close the turnout gender gap after female enfranchisement?

▶️ We study a 1933 lottery that assigned newly enfranchised women as poll officers and its impact on their voting in 1936.

One of my favourite projects! 🎉 @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social
🚨🚨New Publication🚨🚨🥳
🗳 How does serving as a poll officer influence future turnout, particularly among women? In a recent article at @bjpols.bsky.social with @tonirodon.bsky.social, we explore this question. 🧵
Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Working For Democracy: Poll Officers and the Turnout Gender Gap - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
March 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology, to support the institute's strong research profile in sociology as well as the delivery of its new MSc in Sociology. Application deadline: 17 April. Further details in the link below.
Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can participation in volunteer activities reduce older people’s reliance on antidepressants? In a new study with HP Qvist & @jeevitha-q.bsky.social, we explore this, merging longitudinal survey data with register data on antidepressant prescriptions.

Link: tinyurl.com/3brw3fy3 @sriucl.bsky.social
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark
Antidepressant use among older adults has surged in recent years. This is concerning since antidepressants have serious side effects and limited effic…
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March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🚨Three more days to apply!🚨

Two full time PhD positions on economic inequalities, broadly defined 💸💰📈🎓
E13, 100%, 4+1 years in Heidelberg 🏰

adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
February 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM