Just can across this brutal book review from 1995…

Helpful piece by Benjamin Elbers explaining the difference between the D and the H index in studying segregation: elbersb.de/public/posts... #Sociology

Fascinating findings from the Global Flourishing Study (www.nature.com/collections/...): no correlation whatsoever between GDP and human flourishing. Indonesia ranks highest, Japan lowest. Full table: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New publication! We assessed stakeholder perspectives on Ghana's Free Senior High School policy. Findings show that the policy increased access & reduced the financial burden on parents, but also had several unintended adverse impacts.
Full study (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper on secondary school fee abolition in Africa has been published in the Comparative Education Review! We document a steep rise in fee abolition policies in the last ~20 years and review their impact: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/....

Residential segregation and racial wealth gaps are important drivers of school segregation, but they cannot fully explain the observed patterns. 4/n

White children constitute only 4% of the student population, but most elite public and private schools are majority-White 3/n

The paper also highlights the important distinction between (de)segregation and diversity. Many (but not all) former White schools are racially diverse to varying degrees, but they are not representative of the population. 2/n

First week on the job at the University of Bristol, where I will be an associate professor in the School of Education! Excited to be here and start new collaborations. If you are in Bristol, or if you know people there that I should meet, please get in touch: rob.gruijters@bristol.ac.uk.

📝In this new study, Amy Liu & I look at inequalities in access to pre-primary school and positive parenting practices in China, and find substantial and persistent disparities by ethnicity, migration status, household wealth, and parental education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What about PISA 2022, which covered a more extensive set of socio-emotional skills? We have already replicated our analyses, with similar results:

Here are the main figures from the paper, which is based on an analysis of PISA 2018 data on 74 countries:

📈Our Segplot paper has now been published in RSSM! It introduces an intuitive way to visualize multi-group segregation between schools, neighbourhoods, or occupations. We also provide an R-package to create your own segplots🧑‍🎨. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Dowload the final version of our Segplot paper here: osf.io/preprints/so.... Also coming soon in RSSM! New version has the option to plot local segregation scores and an example of how to use segplot to illustrate within-between decompositions. See also cran.r-project.org/web/packages....

This is reflected in increasing wealth inequality within cohorts:

We also observe changes in the wealth returns to different works and family trajectories: for Millennials, middle-class trajectories are associated with more wealth

We find large cohort shifts in work and family trajectories, with a drop in the most prestigious careers

We used the NLSY79 and the NLSY97 to compare work-family trajectories (aged 18-35) and wealth outcomes at age 35 of late Baby Boomers (born 1957-64) and early Millennials (born 1980-84)

New in AJS! @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social, Anette Fasang & I investigate a hotly debated question: are Millennials worse off than their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers? We argue that this is a misleading question. Why? See ⬇️ or read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...