Joseph D. Wolfe
@wolfesociology.bsky.social
I study how social context and age interact to influence behavior and health. Associate prof at UAB.edu (views/opinions my own). For more info, see my website: WolfeSociology.com
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Twentieth-Century Change in the Educational Costs of Adolescent Childbearing1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 129, No 6
Although studies observe heterogeneity in the effects of adolescent childbearing on schooling, little is currently known about when this pattern emerged or how it changed across cohorts of women who l...
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Ever wonder what happens when the life course implications of a life event change dramatically?
Check out our new #AJS paper!
We test cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing. #causal
doi.org/10.1086/729819
Check out our new #AJS paper!
We test cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing. #causal
doi.org/10.1086/729819
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Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.
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Women with early unintended births have more unsecured debt at midlife than those without an unintended birth. New work with Mieke Beth Thomeer, @wolfesociology.bsky.social, and Shantay Williams is out in @demresjournal.bsky.social!
Long arm consequences of unintended childbearing in the US? Women with early unintended births report more unsecured debt at midlife. New research using the NLSY79. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@cliffordross.bsky.social
@cliffordross.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Women with early unintended births have more unsecured debt at midlife than those without an unintended birth. New work with Mieke Beth Thomeer, @wolfesociology.bsky.social, and Shantay Williams is out in @demresjournal.bsky.social!
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🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Apply - Interfolio
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September 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 Job! 🚨
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived).
Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655
Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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One year researcher position in Madrid with possible extension, pre or postdoc flexible
📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
www.dropbox.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
One year researcher position in Madrid with possible extension, pre or postdoc flexible
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I uploaded more participant interviews from my first wave of my #PSLF study.
Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W.
Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness).
These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior.
padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...
Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W.
Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness).
These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior.
padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...
Balancing Acts - Narratives from Student Loan Borrowers in Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Income Driven Repayment
Share your ideas and comment on others!
padlet.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I uploaded more participant interviews from my first wave of my #PSLF study.
Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W.
Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness).
These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior.
padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...
Jessica, Adam, and Nikki W.
Hear their stories along the major themes (e.g. suicidal ideation, Student Loan Pause, Forgiveness).
These stories are timely given recent changes and ED behavior.
padlet.com/dcllier6/bal...
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I'm seeing a lot of bad reporting today about these possible changes. Some outlets (not this one) are confusing ACIP and the vaccine compensation program, thinking that RFK can simply fire people and say that autism is now a compensable vaccine injury, for example. It's trickier than that! 🧵 1/x
RFK Jr. says he has a team working on changes to the vaccine injury compensation program
RFK Jr. wants to change federal programs that helps people injured by vaccines, though he may need Congress to do so.
www.statnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm seeing a lot of bad reporting today about these possible changes. Some outlets (not this one) are confusing ACIP and the vaccine compensation program, thinking that RFK can simply fire people and say that autism is now a compensable vaccine injury, for example. It's trickier than that! 🧵 1/x
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Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals www.congressweb.com/POPASSOC/4?f...
Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals
Dear PAA member,
As reported by the PAA Office of Government Affairs, (https://www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-web2/2025/06/18/fiscal-year-2026-deliberations-begin-raising-the-s) on May 30, ...
www.congressweb.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Tell Congress to Reject President Trump's Proposed FY 2026 Cuts to NIH and NSF and Review Agency Reorganization Proposals www.congressweb.com/POPASSOC/4?f...
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A month ago, my R01 grant was one of many terminated in the Trump administration’s purge.
Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton.
Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton.
Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
June 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A month ago, my R01 grant was one of many terminated in the Trump administration’s purge.
Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton.
Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Today, I was proud to sign my name alongside the many NIH employees who wrote the Bethesda declaration, including my amazing PO, Dr. Jenna Norton.
Add your name: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Excited to share that I am joining New Books Network as a Host for sociology! Have a great sociology book and want to talk about it on the podcast?? Shoot me an email: mrosino@molloy.edu or pitch your book here newbooksnetwork.com/authors
Pitch a Book - New Books Network
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April 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Excited to share that I am joining New Books Network as a Host for sociology! Have a great sociology book and want to talk about it on the podcast?? Shoot me an email: mrosino@molloy.edu or pitch your book here newbooksnetwork.com/authors
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This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy.
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is why I think it's so important and powerful for faculty and staff and leaders of colleges and universities to stand up for our work, our values, our students, and ultimately our democracy.
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
Faculty can do a lot:
1) write a campus letter to your leaders bit.ly/CampusLetters2025
2) (cont.)
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Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...).
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
March 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...).
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
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Friday is the Deadline for Scholarships! #freemoney
Scholarship applications the 2025 ICPSR Summer Program close Friday! $150k in scholarships available! Apply by February 28. For more details: https://buff.ly/4gWtmJX
#SumProg25 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #Edusky #Academicsky
#SumProg25 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #Edusky #Academicsky
February 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Friday is the Deadline for Scholarships! #freemoney
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There’s a lot going on I know, but I want to encourage SOC of Education scholars to submit their papers to the #ASA2025 conference portal - due 2/26! I’m a session organizer and we need more papers! @soceducation.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
There’s a lot going on I know, but I want to encourage SOC of Education scholars to submit their papers to the #ASA2025 conference portal - due 2/26! I’m a session organizer and we need more papers! @soceducation.bsky.social
Thank you @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ccfamilies.bsky.social for letting us chat about our recent #AJS!
Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)
Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)
What's the educational costs of teen births?
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Thank you @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ccfamilies.bsky.social for letting us chat about our recent #AJS!
Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)
Our paper studies cohort change in the educational costs of adolescent childbearing for women who lived during distinct periods of U.S. history in terms of gender equality (1/6)
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What's the educational costs of teen births?
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:17 PM
What's the educational costs of teen births?
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
@wolfesociology.bsky.social & Mieke Beth Thomeer tell us this week @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by
@thesocietypages.bsky.social
.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
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We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx
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December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
We are gearing up at the Survey Research Center at ISR at the University of Michigan--to review, rethink, and potentially create new ways to approach survey research at the representative population level. If you have written anything on this or have a favorite paper to share-send it my way. Thx
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Sending out decisions on manuscripts this morning.
From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones.
#sociology
From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones.
#sociology
November 26, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Sending out decisions on manuscripts this morning.
From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones.
#sociology
From the editor's perspective, rejections are super common, and so even if rejections are annoying from the author perspective, remember that most papers are rejected, even good ones.
#sociology
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My op-ed in @newsweek.com
"When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health."
www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...
"When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health."
www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...
RFK's Policies Sound Populist, But Indulge Elite Fantasies | Opinion
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking the Department of Health and Human Services with people who are poised to favor the health fantasies of the rich.
www.newsweek.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 PM
My op-ed in @newsweek.com
"When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health."
www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...
"When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health."
www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...
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Release 4 of the 2022 GSS, along with cumulative cross-sectional files, is now available. Includes interviewer characteristics, survey paradata, new calculations of occupational prestige, & new data on HH structure & relationship information.
gss.norc.org
#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉
gss.norc.org
#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉
GSS | NORC at the University of Chicago
gss.norc.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Release 4 of the 2022 GSS, along with cumulative cross-sectional files, is now available. Includes interviewer characteristics, survey paradata, new calculations of occupational prestige, & new data on HH structure & relationship information.
gss.norc.org
#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉
gss.norc.org
#sociology #sociosky #polisky #econsky 📈📉
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One thing Cecilia L. Ridgeway knows? That everyday status really does matter. Check out her new essay for Contexts!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 22, 2024 at 5:21 PM
One thing Cecilia L. Ridgeway knows? That everyday status really does matter. Check out her new essay for Contexts!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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🚨ATTENTION🚨
Applications are now open for our 2025 summer research experience for undergraduate (REU) program at the University of Mississippi, “Interdisciplinary Study of Race, Power, and the Politics of Place.”
olemiss.edu/departments/...
Applications are now open for our 2025 summer research experience for undergraduate (REU) program at the University of Mississippi, “Interdisciplinary Study of Race, Power, and the Politics of Place.”
olemiss.edu/departments/...
NSF REU Site: Interdisciplinary Study of the Politics of Place | Ole Miss
olemiss.edu
November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
🚨ATTENTION🚨
Applications are now open for our 2025 summer research experience for undergraduate (REU) program at the University of Mississippi, “Interdisciplinary Study of Race, Power, and the Politics of Place.”
olemiss.edu/departments/...
Applications are now open for our 2025 summer research experience for undergraduate (REU) program at the University of Mississippi, “Interdisciplinary Study of Race, Power, and the Politics of Place.”
olemiss.edu/departments/...
As red states begin attacking sociology, be sure to remind your Republican friends/family that Reagan was a sociology major. Not my favorite fun fact but 🤷♂️
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
November 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM
As red states begin attacking sociology, be sure to remind your Republican friends/family that Reagan was a sociology major. Not my favorite fun fact but 🤷♂️
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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ASA is pleased to announce the 2025 candidates for ASA officers and members of Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, & Publications Committee. Ballots will be sent on 4/16 to all members whose membership remains active 4/1-6/1.
Elections | American Sociological Association
2025 ASA Election
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November 20, 2024 at 6:31 PM
ASA is pleased to announce the 2025 candidates for ASA officers and members of Council, Committee on Committees, Nominating Committee, & Publications Committee. Ballots will be sent on 4/16 to all members whose membership remains active 4/1-6/1.
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I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR
November 12, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR