A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read.
Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
"Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive
Machine Learning Approach"
Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Could be updated, but to a close approximation they used to stop 50-100 people a day for speeding/red lights/DWI suspicion etc. Then they just decided not to do that from about June 2020.
“Effect of the Great Recession on U.S. Fertility”: Using a cohort discontinuity design, Wu, @nickdemark.bsky.social & Hill show “strong & credibly causal evidence” that the GR altered fertility behavior, esp. for the youngest cohorts (relative declines of 7-30%). read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Erin Ice (University of Texas at Austin) is a recipient of the 2026 Dissertation Award, for “My Mother’s Keeper: The Singularity of Caregiving in the U.S.,” completed at @umich.edu. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
In “Dynamic Contributions of Chronic Diseases,” Hui Zheng found half of the ↑ gap in activity limitations was assoc w/ ↑ disability probabilities “linked to mental illness, lung diseases & musculoskeletal conditions” among those w/o a college degree. @utoronto.ca read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
UPDATE + we get to celebrate a win:
Yesterday the U.S. House PASSED the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would make it easier for workers to secure a first union contract without unnecessary delay. 🎉
Ed Cornelius (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) is a recipient of the 2026 Dissertation Award, for “Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field,” completed at @utoronto.ca. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
Some remarks and evidence on the interesting report of the Onderwijsraad (Education Council) on standardized testing. Standardized testing in the Dutch educational system >
open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
Update: The U.S. House passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act on June 9. Over the last five years, workers have won unions in several high-profile campaigns, including Amazon workers in Staten Island ...
Far too often, employers refuse to bargain in good faith w/ workers when they win a union, significantly delaying a first contract.
Today, the U.S. House could pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which would make it easier for workers to secure a first union contract w/o unnecessary delay. 1/4
