The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social!
Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes.
doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292
Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵
What drives the growth of private wealth? Has inequality increased? How does tax policy shape wealth across generations? Now published in Nature-Scientific Data: the data descriptor of the GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse by @stone-lis.bsky.social & Roma Tre University
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Others claim that cities have the mysterious virtue of enhancing workers’ productivity. In this Nature Cities paper, our COIN team offers a simpler explanation. These cities are 'financial cities', where top earnings are inflated by rents in the financial labor market www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets!
With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social.
Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26
Using our data from wid.world, @lemonde.fr shows where members of the Lecornu government sit in France’s income and wealth distribution.
Almost all are in the top 10% for income and wealth, a reminder of how political representation maps onto inequality. ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US.
It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration.
Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
One of my favorite PhD thesis chapters is now published in @pnas.org
Using cohort mortality data from 12 countries, I find no evidence that the rate of aging has slowed down. Longevity gains seem more consistent with a later onset of aging.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)