Markus Klein
Sociologist, Strathclyde Institute of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Social Stratification | Educational Inequality | Child Development | schoolattendance.org
- Reposted by Markus KleinPrivate after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years. Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In"). aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...
- Reposted by Markus KleinGrade inflation in high schools harms students. GPAs rose by about a quarter of a letter grade over the past decade, even among students with similar test scores. This new working paper shows grade inflation lowers future test scores, high school graduation, college enrollment, and earnings.
- Reposted by Markus KleinWe're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
- Reposted by Markus KleinAt this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
- Reposted by Markus KleinOur Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
- Reposted by Markus KleinOur paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇
- ☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1
- Reposted by Markus KleinGerman academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
- Reposted by Markus KleinThe fight to end child poverty goes on. But today we must celebrate. It will make a real, lasting difference to families the breadth of the UK and I’m so grateful to everyone in @changingrealities.bsky.social & @cpaguk.bsky.social who have advocated tirelessly for its full abolition
- Reposted by Markus Kleinsee this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare
- Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
- Reposted by Markus Klein🌍 EAPS Child & Adolescent Development Autumn Seminar 🗓 Nov 17 | 14:00–15:00 CET |Online Theme: Climate Change, Inequalities & Youth Speakers: @mariarubiocab.bsky.social & Raya Muttarak Zoom link: unil.zoom.us/j/99171418150 Open to researchers/students! cc: @eaps.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social
- Reposted by Markus KleinGovernment has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Reposted by Markus KleinThis is brilliant! formatmypaper.com
- Reposted by Markus Klein📣Do you have experience of using Generative AI in your social science research? Or critical thoughts about the use of Generative AI? Consider contributing an article to our special issue!
- Special Issue: Generative AI and Social Science Research. Deadline for full papers extended to 9th of January 2026 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
- 📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWe're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
- Reposted by Markus Klein📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
- Reposted by Markus KleinA very significant day for us as our new birth cohort study is announced, the first for quarter of a century. Big congratulations to colleagues in our @clscohorts.bsky.social for all their hard work in getting this off the ground!
- UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Markus KleinRadical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Markus Klein"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/...
- Reposted by Markus KleinDIW-Bildungsforscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social hat anhand englischer Schuldaten erforscht, wie Fehlzeiten und Bildungserfolg zusammenhängen. Die Studie zeigt: Insbesondere Fehltage zwischen 6. und 10. Klasse wirken sich negativ auf die Abschlussnote aus. Zum Podcast: t.co/CrH1HsDStz
- Reposted by Markus KleinA new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
- New DIW report based on our recent study "Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing?" published in the American Educational Research Journal. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #Education #Research #StudentAbsences #Learning
- Je häufiger Schüler*innen im Unterricht fehlen, desto schlechter fällt Ihre Abschlussnote aus. Das zeigt eine neue DIW-Studie anhand von Schuldaten aus England, wo Fehlzeiten und schulische Leistungen detailliert erfasst werden.🧵(1/4) www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... @uofglasgow.bsky.social
- Reposted by Markus KleinSoon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
- Reposted by Markus KleinMissing school in the transitional years is much more damaging to academic achievement than absence in the middle years of primary, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social research shows
- Reposted by Markus Klein🚨 Job alert! Join our DFG-funded project on educational inequality & instability for families at @morayhouse.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh 📍 Research Associate/Postdoc | Fixed-term to June 2027 📊 Longitudinal data | Stata/R 🗓️ Apply by 4 Aug 2025 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX731/research-associate
- Latest article from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project: pupil absences particularly harmful during school transition years; unauthorized and authorized absences equally harmful in any year ⬇️
- 🚨 New paper out in the American Educational Research Journal (w/ @markusklein.bsky.social & @esosu.bsky.social) 🚨 We analyzed whether pupil absences in different school-years are equally harmful for achievement at the end of compulsory schooling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
- Reposted by Markus KleinNew WP from @tomdee.bsky.social on the impacts of local immigration raids on students --> increased absenteeism edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1202
- Reposted by Markus KleinThe cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWe are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
- Reposted by Markus KleinThe widely repeated and entirely false claim that teacher experience “doesn’t matter much” after two years did lasting damage to the profession. New report summing up teacher experience, working conditions & retention lit.
- New preprint w/ Fabian Kratz: How do different education equalization strategies affect socioeconomic disparities in labor market outcomes in 🇬🇧? 👩🎓 Equalizing higher education attainment? ⬇️ 💰 Equalizing returns? ⬇️ for women; ⬆️ for men 🎲 Random assignment? No change osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Markus KleinNew paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.
- Reposted by Markus KleinThis depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.
- Reposted by Markus Kleinchrist, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read
- Reposted by Markus Klein🚨 We're looking for a Head of Research & Policy! This is a key role in our integrated Communications, Research and Policy team, and it's a great opportunity to play a meaningful part in effecting change for disadvantaged young people. Apply by 21st May ⤵️ recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5909323...
- Have you ever wondered how parenting activities are influenced by work-related tasks? I'm looking into this question in a new preprint with Katherin Barg (University Bristol): osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Markus Klein📢 Join Professor @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social for a public seminar on 'Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education' on 19 May. Register to attend in-person ➡️ forms.office.com/e/wzS0F1UJiL Or join us online ➡️ bit.ly/4lSItbo #Edusky #Seminar
- Reposted by Markus Klein*The BREATHE project is hiring* BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France. We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...
- Reposted by Markus KleinFor once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Markus Klein⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️ School absences hurt achievement, but the impact isn’t equal. Lower SES students suffer more from sickness-related absences, widening the achievement gap, according to this article. #AchievementGap #TBT journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Markus KleinNew preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇
- "In this article, we introduce causal-graphical normalizing flows (cGNFs), a novel approach to causal inference that leverages deep neural networks to empirically evaluate theories represented as DAGs." 🧐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Markus KleinCome and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...
- Reposted by Markus KleinThis. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
- 🚨Using linked school admin & Census data for Scotland, we show that truancy and sickness absences in secondary school reduce further/higher ed chances; sickness absences raises NEET risk. Achievement mediates some effects, but health & behaviour seems also key. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Markus KleinThe core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.
- The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWhat’s the relationship between education and social mobility? We are holding a public lecture in Edinburgh on this topic with expert Richard Breen. 22 April - register free to watch in person or online www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWe are launching the second call for participants in our international conference, "Is Memory Enough in the 21st Century?". It will take place from June 30 to July 2, 2025. This time, we invite teachers, educators, and researchers to apply. Details & registration: www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/ne...
- Reposted by Markus KleinAnomalies & data problems are found in the Hungarian EU SILC income data from around year 2017. It is very likely that the data was manipulated to decrease the poverty rate. Annamaria Tatrai and Andras Gabos conducted a very thorough investigation of the issue: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/01/e...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWie Kinder in der Schule abschneiden, hängt stark von der sozialen Herkunft ab. Das hat DIW-Forscher @jaschadraeger.bsky.social untersucht. Besonders die Bildung der Eltern wirkt sich auf die Kompetenzen der Kinder aus. Gerade in Deutschland ist dieser Zusammenhang groß. www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....
- Reposted by Markus Klein📣 Are you an Understanding Society (UKHLS) user in Scotland? New Scottish UKHLS User Group - Meeting Online 2nd May @kateohara.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social Opportunity to network with local users, discuss data and statistical data analysis. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1235734377...
- Reposted by Markus KleinWe're hiring! 📢 Lecturer in Sociology position now open. We seek a scholar with a strong foundation in sociology, a record of high-profile contributions, and the ability to engage students and colleagues across diverse methodological approaches.
- Reposted by Markus KleinOn Monday, 3/31 at 12 PM ET, HEP authors @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social and @jeremylsinger.bsky.social will give a free, virtual talk on their new book, RETHINKING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM. This event is hosted by the Monroe C. Gutman Library and moderated by @ehutt.bsky.social. bit.ly/4k1uuyI
- Reposted by Markus Klein🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨: ▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc. ▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern. ▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies ▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
- Reposted by Markus KleinSkipping small amounts of school can hurt GCSE results 📚 New research shows authorised school absences, even for health reasons, can significantly impact exam success. Research by @strath-ioe.bsky.social & @diw.de 👏 Read tinyurl.com/yp3dbspr #Attendance #GCSEs #School @dfedigital.bsky.social
- Reposted by Markus KleinHas anybody checked if our own UK Universities Superannuation Scheme holds shares in these tech companies?
- 💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
- Reposted by Markus KleinGreat news from the UK that a new Birth Cohort is being commissioned. They have led the world on providing information on their population across the lifespan. www.linkedin.com/posts/stian-...
