Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."

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This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

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Lots more in the paper! Please do take a look 🙂 🧵: 5/5 www.nber.org/papers/w34769

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What about other factors? We find some evidence that physical strength matters, but little role for occupational sorting Conditional on other controls, taller people appear no more likely to work in higher paid sectors 🧵: 3/5

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As in Case and Paxson's seminal paper, cognition matters a lot. But how it's measured is important for capturing its role KLPS respondents completed 27 modules of cognitive questions Including only a Raven's score would have understated the role of cognition by ~1/2 🧵: 2/5

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