Lab Study in Berlin/Madrid on School Meritocracy:
Effort🔨(🧠objective cognitive effort / 👩‍🏫teacher-perceived effort) → + grades & inequality. Net of IQ, High-SES👨‍🎓 + effort & GPA returns when lazy. Low-SES👨‍🎓 - effort; + GPA returns if hardworking. WP👇 Effort-Project econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:fir:ec...

Teacher bias or unobserved ability? @ssreditorial.bsky.social paper w/ @marespadafor.bsky.social Test score error & omitted behavior = 🐘 in the (class)room to identify SES discrimination. Still, beyond "true ability", well-off (low-performing) kids get higher teacher ratings: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

New @florenceups.bsky.social WP 📄🔨! Italian panel tax data shows a positive 💸 income-first-child 👶 link for both men and women within couples. This finding challenges traditional gender roles 🚻 but warns of the (rising) economic stratification of parenthood 👇
labdisia.disia.unifi.it/wp_disia/202...

Happy to present our work @psalasr.bsky.social on the level, trends & mechanisms of unfair educational inequality in Spain in such a high-level workshop/session. We formalise Roemer's normative theory with machine learning, identifying types of ascribed circumstances underlying unequal opportunity.

New paper in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social We run a factorial experiment on a large sample of (future) teachers to causally test for discrimination/bias in academic evaluations by student-ascribed status (sex, class, ethnicity, cultural capital), net of ability sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

A low genetic 🧬 propensity for (non)cognitive skills is less consequential for educational outcomes 🎓 among high-SES students. A twin study 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 with molecular data (children-parents) we just published in RSSM by a great interdisciplinary team of sociologists and psychologists 👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

An elephant in the classroom? Teachers assign -6% Z-GPA & -5% acad. track advice to low-SES pupils than equally skilled, well-off peers. IV design shows 40% teacher bias overestimation by ability measurement error:
@florenceups.bsky.social 📄WP with @marespadafor.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/unifi-disia

We all have biases, and merit evaluators in the educational system are no exception. In a large experiment on 20 Faculties of Education, we identify biased assessments of (future) teachers by student's gender, class, ethnic origin, and cultural capital 👇
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Class death ⚰️? Most economists dismiss class, while sociologists overlook wealth in class analysis. Still, big occupational classes fairly capture high/rising wealth inequality trends in Europe. Yet, class measures need sharpening beyond labour market attachment 👇
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Looking forward to showing the findings of our factorial experiment on teacher-biased assessments by student gender, SES, ethnicity, & cultural capital (with @irenepaneda.bsky.social, L. Salazar & J. Castaño) at the great EUI-CLIC Seminar Series @clic.bsky.social c.bsky.social next week in Florence!

[SAVE THE DATE] The 4th session of the 2023-24 #DIGCLASS seminar series on "A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty will take place next January 23rd, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇
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The 3rd session of the 2023-2024 DIGCLASS seminar series on "lifestyle distinction(s) and inequality" by Mads Meier Jæger will take place next Tuesday, December 19th, from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET) in an open-access online format. More info here 👇
joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digclass/dig...