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Markus Klein
@markusklein.bsky.social

Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. https://markusklein.co.uk/

Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | https://schoolattendance.org/

Education 37%
Political science 30%

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🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar
🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online

Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth
Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak
Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150

Open to researchers/students!

cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
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The value of public R&D
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Special Issue: Generative AI and Social Science Research. Deadline for full papers extended to 9th of January 2026
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📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach
Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre
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We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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A very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
"Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Preschool teachers provide fewer participation opportunities to working-class students than those from more privileged backgrounds | PNAS
Social class disparities exist from the earliest stages of education. Research has suggested that class-based differences in factors such as social...
www.pnas.org

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DIW Berlin @diw.de · Aug 22
DIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025
School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...
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New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
#Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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Missing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
School absence 'most damaging' in transition period
Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research
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📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at @unimi on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education
RC28 - Conference
We invite all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference on March 25-27,
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🚨 Job alert!
Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027
📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R
🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025
jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨
We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
New WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism

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The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package.
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cdgd: Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities
The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>&gt;. This pac...
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We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
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The widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession.

New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.

New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧?

👩‍🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️
💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men
🎲 Random assignment? No change

osf.io/preprints/so...
New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography!
🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.
Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment | Demography | Duke University Press
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This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.
Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read
🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy!

This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people.

Apply by 21st May ⤵️
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Head of Research & Policy - The Sutton Trust
Do you have a deep interest in issues of educational equity, social mobility and increasing opportunity? Apply to be our Head of Research &amp; Policy!
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Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...