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Rense Nieuwenhuis
@rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
Sociologist at SOFI, interested in families, social policy, and poverty & inequality.

Joint coordinator of the rEUsilience project (www.reusilience.eu)
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mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

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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It was a great pleasure to discuss and examine @katriaaltonen.bsky.social ’s excellent dissertation “Austerity, health payments and economic well-being” at the University of Turku. Supervisors: @janierola.net and @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social

Congratulations, Katri!
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database

New paper by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social and myself, in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I don’t think the #smurfs have a particularly good track record on gender equality, but hey: if they can try it, so can we all!

#smurfetteprincie
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
En route to Brussels, to attend the FutuRes final conference tomorrow . I will bring a discussion based on @reusilience.bsky.social research.

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Final stakeholder conference of the FutuRes project | FutuRes
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November 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
How symbolic, that upon submission of our multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to R / CRAN, the automated checks trip over Evelyn Kitagawa’s name, while the two men are just fine.

More soon (hopefully), with @thaning.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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🚨Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition working paper out!

Extending KBO decomposition for more than two groups by relating group prevalence and estimated coefficients to the sample average - as well as other juicy meth discussions 😎

Joint work together with @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social
mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

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:

osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

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:

osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"Fragmentation of social policies remain a key explanation of gender inequality".

Mara Yerkes in her keynote at "Breaking silos, building futures.
Policy innovations for integrated family and child support"

@odiseehogeschool.bsky.social @cofaceeu.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"To a child seeking help, labels on the doors mean nothing. To them, it matters how the health/social workers are as a person."

Maria Kaisa Aula (Welfare area of Central Finland) on the importance of trust in welfare provision.

@cofaceeu.bsky.social @odiseehogeschool.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This new publication of ours, with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social is a fun one, I think.

"Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy”
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September 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....
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September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy

New paper in @actasociologica.bsky.social with Mara Yerkes, Lovisa Backman and @jstrigen.bsky.social

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September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
@abrarbawati.bsky.social presenting @reusilience.bsky.social results from ongoing work titled “From Origin to Destination: How Migration Shapes the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Europe”.

#espanet
August 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Mary Daly from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social presenting key insights from the @reusilience.bsky.social book “Families, Welfare States and Resilience” at #ESPAnet

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August 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic

New paper by @jstrigen.bsky.social, @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social, @minnavangerven.bsky.social Zamzam Elmi and Aino Salmi.

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August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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So pleased with the feedback & recommendations. In this new work, I am exploring whether the childcare gap matters for maternal employment from a macro perspective using country-year panel data. Early findings suggest it matters for the intensity of employment rather than the overall choice of it.
@merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social presenting novel @reusilience.bsky.social data and analyses on the childcare gap.
August 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Toon Van Havere gave such a great presentation that I forgot to take a picture. In the @reusilience.bsky.social project, he bravely ventures into policy interplays and context specificity of childcare out-of-pocket costs and child-contingent benefits: osf.io/preprints/so...
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@merveuzunalioglu.bsky.social presenting novel @reusilience.bsky.social data and analyses on the childcare gap.
August 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Getting an #ESPAnet conference off the ground is no small feat - thanks to the organizing team!
August 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Memories of a much-needed summer holiday
August 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Our new paper about the Families in Households Typology (FHT) is finally out!

Codes (in Stata) are currently available for EU-SILC, ESS, EQLS and HBS and can be downloaded here: zenodo.org/records/1585...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM