Katya Baldina
@katyalex666.bsky.social
IU Bloomington Sociology Ph.D. student;
Demography, intergenerational transmission processes, health inequality, and quantitative methods
Yonsei University 🇰🇷 alum
https://sites.google.com/view/katebaldina/
Demography, intergenerational transmission processes, health inequality, and quantitative methods
Yonsei University 🇰🇷 alum
https://sites.google.com/view/katebaldina/
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Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
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🎆 What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
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October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎆 What We Have (Recently) Learned: RC28’s Contributions Over the Last Two Decades
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
New Working Paper in the APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2508
By Jennie E. Brand, PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park, & Michelle Jackson
@jenniebrand.bsky.social @mivich.bsky.social
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
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At the blog, I wrote about two very interesting recent methods articles - Inference to the Best Explanation and External/Construct Validity.
Very thoughtful pushback against the ascendancy of the credibility revolution.
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
Hope you enjoy!
Very thoughtful pushback against the ascendancy of the credibility revolution.
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
Hope you enjoy!
Inequality Readers. Generally, My Best Guess
IBE, in y.
asocial.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
At the blog, I wrote about two very interesting recent methods articles - Inference to the Best Explanation and External/Construct Validity.
Very thoughtful pushback against the ascendancy of the credibility revolution.
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
Hope you enjoy!
Very thoughtful pushback against the ascendancy of the credibility revolution.
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
Hope you enjoy!
Reposted by Katya Baldina
Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality
Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha
academic.oup.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
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First single-author pub out in SSM!
It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️
OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/5
It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️
OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/5
The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study
Body weight in adolescence and adulthood may result from the interplay between individuals’ genetic characteristics and the social context in which th…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
First single-author pub out in SSM!
It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️
OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/5
It shows a mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequality: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity & overweight, while low-SES environments trigger it 🌍🧬⚖️
OA:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/5
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Cash in hand has helped moms in Flint, and led to health improvements for babies. PSC's Luke Shaefer and Sumit Agarwal discuss on @npr.org ⬇️
www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...
www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...
Study: cash aid to Flint moms lowers evictions, postpartum depression
New research by the organizers of Rx Kids, a universal cash aid program for new moms and babies in Flint, found families in the program were less likely to be evicted or report postpartum depression.
www.michiganpublic.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Cash in hand has helped moms in Flint, and led to health improvements for babies. PSC's Luke Shaefer and Sumit Agarwal discuss on @npr.org ⬇️
www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...
www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...
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A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
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openknowledge.worldbank.org
August 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide.
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openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
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"When I take off my chef’s hat and put on my sociologist’s hat, I can’t say I’m surprised at [Oz's] comments. The US has a long history of food shaming, particularly the food choices of people who are poor."
Thanks to @msnbc.com for letting me say: LET US EAT CAKE!
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Thanks to @msnbc.com for letting me say: LET US EAT CAKE!
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Don’t let Dr. Oz shame you into avoiding carrot cake
The U.S. has a long history of judging food choices, especially those of the poor.
www.msnbc.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"When I take off my chef’s hat and put on my sociologist’s hat, I can’t say I’m surprised at [Oz's] comments. The US has a long history of food shaming, particularly the food choices of people who are poor."
Thanks to @msnbc.com for letting me say: LET US EAT CAKE!
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Thanks to @msnbc.com for letting me say: LET US EAT CAKE!
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures?
We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.
We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:
We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.
We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:
July 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures?
We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.
We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:
We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.
We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:
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“Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income”: With @umpsid & mediation techniques, @davebrady72 et al find "adult income is a key mediator in the...r’ship btw childhood income & mature adult health.” @priceschool.usc.edu
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
May 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income”: With @umpsid & mediation techniques, @davebrady72 et al find "adult income is a key mediator in the...r’ship btw childhood income & mature adult health.” @priceschool.usc.edu
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
May 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.
🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797
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Wrote about four great recent studies that look at the link between SES and health /wellbeing outcomes:
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
No SES mortality gradient in the monastery
OK Boomers, no so ok Millennials
Poverty kills
Job insecurity makes grey divorce
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
No SES mortality gradient in the monastery
OK Boomers, no so ok Millennials
Poverty kills
Job insecurity makes grey divorce
April 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Wrote about four great recent studies that look at the link between SES and health /wellbeing outcomes:
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
No SES mortality gradient in the monastery
OK Boomers, no so ok Millennials
Poverty kills
Job insecurity makes grey divorce
asocial.substack.com/p/mondays-go...
No SES mortality gradient in the monastery
OK Boomers, no so ok Millennials
Poverty kills
Job insecurity makes grey divorce
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I have seen a lot of prejudice and resistance against the inclusion of polygenetic scores (PGI) and PGIxSES in social stratification research. Using PGI is seen as antithetic to the core idea of sociology and even as politically dangerous 1/3
Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR!
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics
Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
April 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have seen a lot of prejudice and resistance against the inclusion of polygenetic scores (PGI) and PGIxSES in social stratification research. Using PGI is seen as antithetic to the core idea of sociology and even as politically dangerous 1/3
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Join us this Friday (3/28) to hear PhD student Soocheol Cho present his talk titled, “Perceptions of Remote Workers During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” We'll meet for WiSIU in SISR 100 at 12pm.
March 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Join us this Friday (3/28) to hear PhD student Soocheol Cho present his talk titled, “Perceptions of Remote Workers During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” We'll meet for WiSIU in SISR 100 at 12pm.
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“Does Despair in Young Adulthood Predict Mortality?”: @iliyagutin.bsky.social & L Gaydosh find that the deaths of despair hypothesis "continues to have merit in explaining suicide & substance use-related mortality.” @maxwellsu.bsky.social @uncpopcenter.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
March 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Does Despair in Young Adulthood Predict Mortality?”: @iliyagutin.bsky.social & L Gaydosh find that the deaths of despair hypothesis "continues to have merit in explaining suicide & substance use-related mortality.” @maxwellsu.bsky.social @uncpopcenter.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Students in the top 1% of the income distribution are highly isolated in affluent school enclaves.
💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile.
💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles.
💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.
💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile.
💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles.
💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.
February 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Students in the top 1% of the income distribution are highly isolated in affluent school enclaves.
💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile.
💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles.
💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.
💥6%💥 of these top 1% percentile kids’ peers are ALSO in the top income percentile.
💥20%💥 are in the top 5 income percentiles.
💥Nearly 50%💥come from the top 20 income percentiles.
Reposted by Katya Baldina
📢 New blog post 📢 by @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social: Why are working class applicants less likely to be hired?
📢 New blog post 📢
💼Why are working class applicants less likely to be hired?
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...
Following on from our @nuffieldfoundation.org report today’s blog post focuses on why working class young people (yp) are less likely to be offered jobs than their more advantaged peers
💼Why are working class applicants less likely to be hired?
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0...
Following on from our @nuffieldfoundation.org report today’s blog post focuses on why working class young people (yp) are less likely to be offered jobs than their more advantaged peers
March 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢 New blog post 📢 by @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social: Why are working class applicants less likely to be hired?
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New Publication alert! Congratulations to Student Associate Abigail Kappelman whose article, “Black/White disparities in low birth weight across maternal trajectories of social mobility in South Carolina,” was published this month in Social Science and Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Black/White disparities in low birth weight across maternal trajectories of social mobility in South Carolina
Persistent racial disparities in low birth weight (LBW) in the United States may be better understood through the adoption of a life course perspectiv…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New Publication alert! Congratulations to Student Associate Abigail Kappelman whose article, “Black/White disparities in low birth weight across maternal trajectories of social mobility in South Carolina,” was published this month in Social Science and Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.
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#MedSky
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#MedSky
February 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%.
Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages.
Links below.
Reposted by Katya Baldina
NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables."
sociologicalscience.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables."
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I had this conversation w colleagues the other day, who struggled to find the value of academic research in this historical moment. (I get it.)
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I had this conversation w colleagues the other day, who struggled to find the value of academic research in this historical moment. (I get it.)
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
But look, if our work and writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try to stop us from doing it. They simply wouldn’t care.
But they do.
Because it matters.
Reposted by Katya Baldina
Jason Fletcher: Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality: Extending Barker www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgiB...
Jason Fletcher: Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality: Extending Barker
Jason M Fletcher will present “Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality: Extending Barker” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2023-2024 Interdiscipl...
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November 13, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Jason Fletcher: Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality: Extending Barker www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgiB...
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You can watch many of our Friday interdisciplinary research seminars on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCPy...
Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
For over five decades, researchers at the Carolina Population Center, located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have pioneered data collection and research techniques that move popul...
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November 13, 2023 at 3:47 PM
You can watch many of our Friday interdisciplinary research seminars on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCPy...
Reposted by Katya Baldina
Crisis? What Crisis? Sociology's Slow Progress Toward Scientific Transparency
Sociology's epistemic & methodological fragmentation (+ ASA) preclude top-down initiatives, but weak core also sets stage for rapid, if delayed, diffusion across quant soc networks.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...
Sociology's epistemic & methodological fragmentation (+ ASA) preclude top-down initiatives, but weak core also sets stage for rapid, if delayed, diffusion across quant soc networks.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...
October 29, 2023 at 1:17 PM
Crisis? What Crisis? Sociology's Slow Progress Toward Scientific Transparency
Sociology's epistemic & methodological fragmentation (+ ASA) preclude top-down initiatives, but weak core also sets stage for rapid, if delayed, diffusion across quant soc networks.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...
Sociology's epistemic & methodological fragmentation (+ ASA) preclude top-down initiatives, but weak core also sets stage for rapid, if delayed, diffusion across quant soc networks.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...