Sociologist at UNED (Madrid) working on educational inequalities, social mobility and social demography, EiC of ESR.
https://www.fabriziobernardi.net
Fabrizio Bernardi
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Working at home, listening to a cassette from the PhD time, using my old cassette recorder, great playing list, you can copy it for your playlist on Spotify, note Livi Bacci's book on the left...really vintage afternoon
Can we foster serendipity in our research?
I have written a short post on this:
www.fabriziobernardi.net/rolling-the-...
Inspired by the work of the great historian C. Ginzburg (and to a less extent by the Dice Man)
📝Why do Americans avoid cross-partisan dating?
New paper w/ Shannon Taflinger in ESR
We test 3 mechanisms:
•perceived similarity in values & lifestyle
•character judgments
•fear of social disapproval
➡️All matter, similarity leads
And: Dem women penalize out-partisans most
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
🔓New #OpenAccess at ESR
Do people avoid dating political opponents because of politics itself?
#ShannonTaflinger @hudde.bsky.social suggest otherwise! Political affiliation is used as a proxy for non-political characteristics: similarity, character, and social approval!
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag020
just fit an OLS on a binary outcome.
Why do some students leave school early?
🔥 New #OpenAccess at ESR
Lynn L J van Vugt, Rolf van der Velden & @Mark_Levels find that parental early cognitive skills have the strongest contribution (18%) immediately followed by household income (14%)!
More at: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag018
🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies.
In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵
🔉New Dondena Decode Episode is out!
🎙️ In this episode, Nicoletta Balbo (@bocconi.bsky.social) interviews @fabriberna.bsky.social (UNED Madrid) on the role of luck in shaping social inequality and life chances.
🎧 Episode available here:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
New article at ESR!
Where refugees are first placed matters in the long run
With Swedish register data & refugee placement policy as exogenous treatment #M_Dahlberg #S_Kohl #M_Valeyatheepillay show that initial neighborhood contexts shape future residential integration
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf034
Video
Tomorrow in Madrid!
GEPS/UNED Inequality and Social Demography seminar
Arnout van de Rijt (EUI) “What Drives the Matthew Effect in Science Funding: Money or Status?”
Jorge Cavodeassi Room, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, Madrid
May 7 (7:00–8:30 pm)
Followed as usual by some drinks
In different articles and interviews, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, a founder of the field of micro-history and author of fundamental books such as The Cheese and the Worms, explains that chance ... R...
