Katy Morris
@katymorris.bsky.social
Interested in the social and political consequences of spatial inequality | Sociology postdoc @sofi.su.se | https://katymorris.owlstown.net/
Seven Sisters sunburn with @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @julianlimberg.bsky.social. Some surprisingly splashy moments 🥲
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Seven Sisters sunburn with @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @julianlimberg.bsky.social. Some surprisingly splashy moments 🥲
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New in @bjpols.bsky.social!
Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
December 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New in @bjpols.bsky.social!
Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN
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New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Luciakonsert yesterday; Nine Lessons and Carols today
Both stunningly lovely, but only the Anglicans have nailed congregational participation. Communal carolling for the wonder
Both stunningly lovely, but only the Anglicans have nailed congregational participation. Communal carolling for the wonder
December 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Luciakonsert yesterday; Nine Lessons and Carols today
Both stunningly lovely, but only the Anglicans have nailed congregational participation. Communal carolling for the wonder
Both stunningly lovely, but only the Anglicans have nailed congregational participation. Communal carolling for the wonder
Most excellent moose 😍
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Most excellent moose 😍
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quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sigtuna time!
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sigtuna time!
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
Reposted by Katy Morris
One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
Nearly a third of university 18-year-olds will live at home
According to figures from Ucas, a record 89,510 18-year-olds with university offers plan to live at home when they begin their studies this autumn
www.thetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
Nobel Week lights
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Nobel Week lights
🎉🎉🎉
Understanding Society Wave 15 is out today!
The latest wave of data can be accessed via the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. New content includes questions on pregnancies, guardians, and environmental identity.
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/12...
The latest wave of data can be accessed via the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. New content includes questions on pregnancies, guardians, and environmental identity.
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2025/12...
Understanding Society Wave 15 - Understanding Society
The latest wave of UKHLS is now available from the UK Data Service The latest wave of the UKHLS main survey is now available from the UK Data Service
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🎉🎉🎉
He traffics in memes and mince pies. Tack så mycket for the contraband @pengzell.bsky.social 💫
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
He traffics in memes and mince pies. Tack så mycket for the contraband @pengzell.bsky.social 💫
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Worth reading just for: "just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth".
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Worth reading just for: "just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth".
Someone alert the Italian ambassador 🇸🇪
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Someone alert the Italian ambassador 🇸🇪
Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge:
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Call for Participation: The ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge | LIVES Center
www.centre-lives.ch
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge:
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
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Just published my first article! 🎉
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
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We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
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Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background
Children with foreign-born parents attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) to a lower extent than native-background children in most European…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just published my first article! 🎉
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
1/3
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
1/3
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It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States
Between the early 1990s and 2015 the relationship between mental despair and age was hump-shaped in the United States: it rose in middle-age, then dec…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Some educational decisions are structurally embedded:
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Some educational decisions are structurally embedded:
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
The only surprise is that less than 80% of voting Swiss rejected a 50% inheritance tax on the estates of the super rich (CHF 50 million+) www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...
Le peuple et les cantons refusent massivement l'initiative pour l'avenir à 78% | RTS
Les "ultra-riches" ne seront pas plus taxés pour financer des mesures climatiques. Le peuple et les cantons ont refusé dimanche à 78,3% l'initiative populaire des Jeunes socialistes "Pour l'avenir" qu...
www.rts.ch
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The only surprise is that less than 80% of voting Swiss rejected a 50% inheritance tax on the estates of the super rich (CHF 50 million+) www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...
Many enjoyably strong and correct opinions on British Christmas food, including on roast potatoes as a birthright and Christmas pudding as a symbolic vehicle
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on.ft.com/4rxHAb4
The experts’ guide to the Christmas food and drink that really matters — and how to get it right
If you could only choose one festive treat, what would it be? Nigella Lawson, Jay Rayner, Jancis Robinson and more share their non-negotiables
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Many enjoyably strong and correct opinions on British Christmas food, including on roast potatoes as a birthright and Christmas pudding as a symbolic vehicle
on.ft.com/4rxHAb4
on.ft.com/4rxHAb4
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The British mind cannot comprehend… the Swedish commitment to perfect register data
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The British mind cannot comprehend… the Swedish commitment to perfect register data