Elien Dalman
I'm a postdoc at Lund and Stockholm University. Sociology, demography, or economic history. I study intergenerational persistence and social inequalities in the long run. I'm interested in almost anything.
- När barnafödandet minskar och bostadskostnader äter upp en allt större del av barnfamiljers inkomster, finns det alla skäl att värna Sveriges familjepolitik - i stället för att låta inflationen urholka den. www.dn.se/debatt/ni-un...
- Today, Dagens Nyheter publishes my debate article. I highlight the contrast between governmental concern on decreasing fertility on the one hand, and decreasing family benefits (due to inflation) in a context of rising costs of living on the other hand.
- The cost of living of families with children is more sensitive to costs for housing (and food), which have increased faster than overall inflation. Given decreased fertility, larger investments per child (child allowance,school,daycare) are possible without increasing overall expenditure on children
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View full threadTogether indicating that the rising cost of living is felt especially by families with young children, across the income distribution.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanLink for your reading pleasure. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ho...
- "Women who have changed their surname received more favourable [academic] evaluations compared to those who did not.[...academic] female participants favoured female academics who have changed [surname...] and this was mediated by higher perceived competence and commitment" doi.org/10.3390/socs...
- A study just out in ESR also suggests that women do not benefit professionally from keeping their own surname (in the German context): doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
- "Nobody like a Swede to respond to a yes or no question with: eh, kind of" (meaning: no!) Double Dutch - Teater Giljotin
- Reposted by Elien DalmanA thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Social policy and the SES gradient in fertility: "We find that local government spending cuts were associated with a 9.1 percent reduction in the probability of having a(nother) birth for women in the poorest households, but not for women in the middle or richest households" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
- And an interesting companion article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "...race and SES lines, define childbearing norms. Black women receive less approval if in low- versus high-SES positions, whereas White women receive similar levels of approval regardless of SES."
- Reposted by Elien DalmanAbout to kick off a peer review workshop with our brilliant @sriucl.bsky.social PhD students right now. Thanks to my colleague Alina Pelikh for hosting and I wish something like this was available when I started out.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanThe Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
- Reposted by Elien DalmanI wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
- Ice is ice, nanaa naanana
- Stockholm, as cold as ice
- Reposted by Elien Dalman1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanLatest installment in an extraordinarily interesting research program on inequality in Imperial China, one replete with insights on meritocracy, elite reproduction, and other topics with great current salience.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanSinglehood is accelerating across continents and different age cohorts. But not all those who remain single have chosen to do so
- Reposted by Elien DalmanAllemaal stemmen, jongons! En vergeet niet: stem vooral op basis van wereld- en mensbeelden, ideologische grondslagen en partijprogramma's. Dan komt het goed.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanOur paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇 Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
- #Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
- Stem!
- Any thoughts on data ethics? There's GPS tracking, mobile app usage, peers, etc.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- "We construct sleep and wake-up times from hourly app usage [...] For each student on each day, sleep onset is defined as the first hour within a three-hour window after 9 p.m. during which total app usage falls below 10% of the student’s average daily usage over the prior month." /Sleep well
- Reposted by Elien DalmanWith 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with
- Reposted by Elien DalmanWe just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
- Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970
- Reposted by Elien DalmanWomen now earn 85% of what men do, up from 65% in the ‘80s. ISR’s Sasha Killewald finds fewer children per family helped narrow the gap. But parenthood still impacts women’s pay more than men’s. Read more: myumi.ch/qZEp1
- Reposted by Elien DalmanEuropean welfare states are inter-age piggy banks, much more than they are rich-to-poor Robin Hoods. Understanding the cross-sectional operation of the piggy bank leads to a new focus on intercohort #sustainability & #fairness: the political economy of #generations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanOur #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIndia, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths
- Reposted by Elien DalmanA new research project about sexual and reproductive outcomes of violent crime in Mexico is recruiting two PhD students. The project is lead by Signe Svallfors who has received the five year starting grant from European Research Council. www.su.se/department-o... @signesvallfors.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elien DalmanPlease apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....
- "Put simply, regardless of whether they played by the rules by raising their hands or broke the rules by calling out or interrupting others in class, working-class children were less likely to be engaged with by their teachers." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- When you're only ever talking about the kids... www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanSome cool PhD studentships open at Stockholm Sociology: AI/future of work (quant) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Organized labor and care leave (quant/mixed) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Violence and sexual health in Mexico (quant/qual) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanFabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanA great new paper & full database on inter-generational mobility around the world by Encio Munoz and Roy van der Weide. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c... .
- Something mathematicians and historians have in common: being among GPT's own top list of occupations to be replaced most by GPTs.
- I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation. They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- Reposted by Elien DalmanLook at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanDidn't even say what I'm talking about. This figure, which they ran in NYT and now appears in their book. They call it "The Spike," I call it x-axis abuse. Why not start it a million or a billion years ago?
- Reposted by Elien DalmanNew preprint 💥 In 2020, @ianlundberg.bsky.social wrote a fabulous paper showing that cousin correlations don’t have to imply extended family effects. I put that idea to the test using NLSY data—and he’s right! The patterns fit a dynamic first-order Markov model. #sociology osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
- Reposted by Elien DalmanA new rule-based linking method for historical Census records based on extra information, offering higher match rates and accuracy than earlier algorithms, from Abramitzky, Platt Boustan, Brookes Gray, Eriksson, Pérez, @hpostel.bsky.social, Rashid, and Simon nber.org/papers/w33999
- Reposted by Elien DalmanSupport for the welfare state, anyone?
- Reposted by Elien DalmanAls kinderen later instromen in de kinderopvang, zou de job van kinderbegeleider een pak werkbaarder worden en beter afgestemd op de huidige pedagogische tijdsgeest. 👉 www.sampol.be/2025/06/verl...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIs it a bad thing if young graduates lose their privileges? Ethically, not really. No group has a right to outperform the average. But practically, it might be econ.trib.al/bXMP0Ip
- Reposted by Elien DalmanA few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
- Reposted by Elien Dalman🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status! Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in @NatureComms - a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴 1/11 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIn the last year I have written 10 posts under the Population tag. Collect the whole set! 🧵 familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/populati...
- Nice mix of several historical roots to the question I ask myself when visiting the Netherlands (as a mother, which is an identity that doesn't define me as much when in Sweden). www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanAs many countries see the rise of a new "inheritocracy," estate, inheritance, and gift (EIG) taxes are declining. But there's a lot of variation across countries' EIG tax. Learn how to visualize data on the GC Wealth Project site (@stone-lis@bsky.social) 👇 wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanApply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞
- I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanI wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.
- There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump: Global economic stagnation underlies today’s disarray. (@abenanav.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
- Reposted by Elien Dalman1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanWe're just over a week out from the annual @popassocamerica.bsky.social conference, and some of the best academic service I do is organizing the group run. Meet in the lobby of the Washington Marriott Marquis at 6:30am on Saturday, 12 April. We'll do a loop of the mall www.strava.com/routes/33392...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanLund Population day is on May 8th
- Reposted by Elien DalmanI know it's a rough time to be talking science, but in case anyone wants some distraction, I wrote about the Tan et al (2024) analysis of heritability and polygenic indices for complex human behavior. Title: Is Tan et al The End of Social Science Genomics?
- Reposted by Elien DalmanThe ideology of Donald J. Trump branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-ideolo...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanChina reduced extreme poverty rapidly, but Indonesia hasn't been far behind
- Reposted by Elien DalmanForgot to add the link to the vacancy for a doctoral student working with Jeanne Cilliers. The topic is colonial-era investments in maternal healthcare and how these continue to shape health outcomes today: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanMy colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanI'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Everything I touch turns into null results. 🌟 Some nice ones coming up at PAA next week.
- Reposted by Elien DalmanMore on my take on causality, as explained during my discussion of Checchi’s keynote at @isa-rc28.bsky.social #rc28milano #rc28 #rc28milano25, see my blog open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIn every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽
- When is Hammarskjöld going to clean your office? Very happy to have this article from my PhD now published in RSSM, on surnames and social mobility: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... 🥳
- My findings suggest that surnames are not a proxy for parental occupational status, but each measures different aspects of intergenerational persistence - which partly overlap and partly complement each other. >
- Reposted by Elien DalmanIf you want a good life, inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working. That is dangerous for capitalism and society econ.st/3QDUfYu
- Reposted by Elien DalmanYou may like this, a blog I wrote about standardized testing. @durlauf.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf...
- Reposted by Elien DalmanHoe kunnen we Large Language Models (LLMs), de technologie die aan de basis staat van ChatGPT, gebruiken om historisch onderzoek te doen? @cblevins.bsky.social laat zien hoe LLMs kunnen helpen bij het transcriberen en interpreteren van historische bronnen. cblevins.github.io/posts/llm-pr...
