Sociologist at SOFI, interested in families, social policy, and poverty & inequality.
Joint coordinator of the rEUsilience project (www.reusilience.eu)
Always wanted to do a KBO decomposition with more than 2 groups? @thaning.bsky.social and I present a multi-group generalization that overcomes this limitation, while providing a number of methodological advantages:
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Congratulations, Katri!
Reposted by Rense Nieuwenhuis
New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
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#smurfetteprincie
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More soon (hopefully), with @thaning.bsky.social
Mara Yerkes in her keynote at "Breaking silos, building futures.
Policy innovations for integrated family and child support"
@odiseehogeschool.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social
Maria Kaisa Aula (Welfare area of Central Finland) on the importance of trust in welfare provision.
@cofaceeu.bsky.social @odiseehogeschool.bsky.social
Reposted by Naomi Klein, Charlie Beckett, Lesley A. Hall , and 13 more Naomi Klein, Charlie Beckett, Lesley A. Hall, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane, Michael W. Kraus, Silvia Secchi, Victor Galaz, Scott A. Imberman, Michael H. Whitworth, Sarah Roberts, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Richard M. Carpiano, Jon Dean, Daxton R. Stewart, David Darmofal
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Countries known for extensive provision of ECEC were overrepresented. This means that the evidence base for the revision of the Barcelona targets might be the weakest for those countries that might be furthest away from achieving them.
Reform studies focus on individual-level outcomes, which facilitates causal inference but overlooks higher-order outcomes and thus the relationship between ECEC and important societal developments.
Many studies in the ECEC reform database examined the immediate and short-term effects of policy changes. Only a few reform studies included in the database have examined how long it takes for implemented policy reforms to have an effect.
Yet, reform studies are silent on the degree of cross-country inequality in ECEC use. Consequently, which aspects of ECEC policy lead to an increase or decrease in inequality in ECEC use remains unknown.
Focusing on excluding ‘confounding’, reform studies generally focus on a single country, and are less able to explain how to increase effectiveness depends on its interplay with other institutional and structural conditions.
We kept wondering: “What are we missing?”.
So, we reflected on five blindspots:
The report has interesting findings, we think, and demonstrated again how important the accessibility, affordability and quality of childcare policies are.
"Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy”
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New paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social
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#espanet
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Reposted by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ivana Dobrotić
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social @ivanadobrotic.bsky.social @margaleon.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social @thaning.bsky.social
New paper by @jstrigen.bsky.social, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social Zamzam Elmi and Aino Salmi.
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