NEW ARTICLE by CREST Sociology's @abelaussant.bsky.social in Poetics: "What do culture vouchers really buy? Evidence from France's ‘pass Culture’ policy uses" OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

Show Post

Almost half of academics in the Netherlands are now foreigners. As in other sectors, only importing workers has allowed employment to increase. It's about time this gets recognized in national policy debates. alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/immigrants...

Show Post

Big universal child benefit in Poland shows small but real effect on birth rates (among low-income families) and big effects on child poverty.

Show Post

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Show Post

One of my pet peeves is looking for country level explanations for global trends. I am no expert but I don't think Norway doing X in 2022 or France changing policy Y in 2019 can explain these global declines across a diverse set of countries.

Show Post