Rourke O’Brien
Associate Prof of Sociology @ Yale
public finance, economic mobility, household finance, health, demography, public policy
- Reposted by Rourke O’Brien🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienYale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienI never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world. Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
- Reposted by Rourke O’Brien⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky @stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Rourke O’Brien**Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienThanks @glebeda.bsky.social for pulling this list together! Consider this a bat signal for population health scientists everywhere... let's GOOOOO. go.bsky.app/FP7rYaJat://did:plc:4r3zfvxeyievvptisjcwop5w/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lgarpwv3jc24
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienThe GC Wealth Project - an invaluable source for data and research on wealth and wealth-related policies - continues to grow. Check out the latest expansion and update! @stone-lis.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social 👇👇👇
- The GC Wealth Project has launched an updated version of its data warehouse! Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods. Discover all the updates: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienChild poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- "Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility" New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology #demography #econsky
- Prior research finds government spending to be a key driver of place-based differences in the economic mobility outcomes of low-income children. In this study we ask, net of the spending level does the FISCAL CENTRALIZATION of state and local governments shape the spatial patterning of mobility?
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- Before you start into the well-deserved holiday break, may I submit a possible entry for your New Year's resolution: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5... Come and work with us in Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Applications are due January 15th.
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienThrilled to announce that I am joining UNC-Chapel Hill this fall as Assistant Professor of Public Policy! Many thanks to @stone-lis.bsky.social and everyone who helped me get there.
- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienNow online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Rourke O’BrienQuick look at the UK inheritance tax discussion using the wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/EIG/ In 2021, the UK raised 0,78% of total tax revenue from inheritance and gifts vs 1,65% in France (in the 1960s, the UK collected over 2,66%!). The UK annually collects about $12 Billion less than France. #EconSky
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- Reposted by Rourke O’Brien'Fiscal Impoverishment in Rich Democracies', joint work with @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, now published in @sfjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... We invert standard analyses of welfare state policy and poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but creation. #Polisky #EconSky #Sociology
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