Katy Morris
@katymorris.bsky.social
Interested in the social and political consequences of spatial inequality | Sociology postdoc @sofi.su.se | https://katymorris.owlstown.net/
Someone alert the Italian ambassador 🇸🇪
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Someone alert the Italian ambassador 🇸🇪
Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge:
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Call for Participation: The ‘Good Life’ Data Challenge | LIVES Center
www.centre-lives.ch
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Centre LIVES @unil.bsky.social is running the Good Life Data Challenge:
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
Using existing Swiss Household Panel data, can you predict the feeling of having lived a happy, meaningful, and interesting (psychologically rich) life in 🇨🇭?
These new items will be included in the next wave of SHP
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Just published my first article! 🎉
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
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We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
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Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background
Children with foreign-born parents attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) to a lower extent than native-background children in most European…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just published my first article! 🎉
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
1/3
We study inequalities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Sweden by immigrant background. Immigrant-background children enroll less often - but the pattern is different from the usual story about disadvantage and access.
1/3
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It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States
Between the early 1990s and 2015 the relationship between mental despair and age was hump-shaped in the United States: it rose in middle-age, then dec…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Some educational decisions are structurally embedded:
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Some educational decisions are structurally embedded:
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
"These patterns suggest many students view community college and employment as substitute options, enrolling in college when [local] job opportunities are scarce and entering the workforce when labor markets are strong"
The only surprise is that less than 80% of voting Swiss rejected a 50% inheritance tax on the estates of the super rich (CHF 50 million+) www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...
Le peuple et les cantons refusent massivement l'initiative pour l'avenir à 78% | RTS
Les "ultra-riches" ne seront pas plus taxés pour financer des mesures climatiques. Le peuple et les cantons ont refusé dimanche à 78,3% l'initiative populaire des Jeunes socialistes "Pour l'avenir" qu...
www.rts.ch
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The only surprise is that less than 80% of voting Swiss rejected a 50% inheritance tax on the estates of the super rich (CHF 50 million+) www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...
Many enjoyably strong and correct opinions on British Christmas food, including on roast potatoes as a birthright and Christmas pudding as a symbolic vehicle
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The experts’ guide to the Christmas food and drink that really matters — and how to get it right
If you could only choose one festive treat, what would it be? Nigella Lawson, Jay Rayner, Jancis Robinson and more share their non-negotiables
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Many enjoyably strong and correct opinions on British Christmas food, including on roast potatoes as a birthright and Christmas pudding as a symbolic vehicle
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The British mind cannot comprehend… the Swedish commitment to perfect register data
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The British mind cannot comprehend… the Swedish commitment to perfect register data
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Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com:
AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways
AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
From the always interesting AI Shift newsletter by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com:
AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways
AI is maximising job applications and word counts, in vicious circle of doom kind of ways
Mind-boggling that we've ended up here
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Mind-boggling that we've ended up here
Reposted by Katy Morris
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
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Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
Billed (by friends, not by the café) as the best bun in all of Sweden: it did not disappoint 😋
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Billed (by friends, not by the café) as the best bun in all of Sweden: it did not disappoint 😋
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The electoral outcome most strongly linked to deprivation is not any party’s vote share, but turnout. Across almost all indicators, turnout is markedly lower in more deprived areas, with only barriers to housing & services and quality in the living environment showing weaker correlations.
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The electoral outcome most strongly linked to deprivation is not any party’s vote share, but turnout. Across almost all indicators, turnout is markedly lower in more deprived areas, with only barriers to housing & services and quality in the living environment showing weaker correlations.
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NEW -
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NEW -
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos
"moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties"
- @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Back to Florence and @eui-eu.bsky.social to mark 10 years since me and a bunch of budding social scientists made our way to @eui-sps.bsky.social thinking: I wonder what this will be like?
Reader, it was wonderful
And not because of the scenery, although the scenery was obviously ridiculous
Reader, it was wonderful
And not because of the scenery, although the scenery was obviously ridiculous
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Back to Florence and @eui-eu.bsky.social to mark 10 years since me and a bunch of budding social scientists made our way to @eui-sps.bsky.social thinking: I wonder what this will be like?
Reader, it was wonderful
And not because of the scenery, although the scenery was obviously ridiculous
Reader, it was wonderful
And not because of the scenery, although the scenery was obviously ridiculous
Status reproduction in action!
Priced at just £180,000 + payroll taxes per year per child
"The child, who is just 1, is in an important stage of early development. Having started at age 5 with his older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal"
The poor kiddos
Priced at just £180,000 + payroll taxes per year per child
"The child, who is just 1, is in an important stage of early development. Having started at age 5 with his older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal"
The poor kiddos
There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs
Tutors International, United Kingdom
www.tes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Status reproduction in action!
Priced at just £180,000 + payroll taxes per year per child
"The child, who is just 1, is in an important stage of early development. Having started at age 5 with his older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal"
The poor kiddos
Priced at just £180,000 + payroll taxes per year per child
"The child, who is just 1, is in an important stage of early development. Having started at age 5 with his older brother, they felt that even this was too late to achieve their goal"
The poor kiddos
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Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12
Looking forward to joining the TCD Sociology gang later this afternoon to talk about the local labour market underpinnings of Brexit support @tcdsociology.bsky.social
🗣️Looking forward to our seminar later on from Katy Morris entitled "The Labour Market Link: Local occupational change and Brexit support". Should be a fascinating presentation and discussion.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Looking forward to joining the TCD Sociology gang later this afternoon to talk about the local labour market underpinnings of Brexit support @tcdsociology.bsky.social