Dean of Social Science and Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi. I do research on gender, families, demography, sexualities. Citizen. Mindfulness meditator.
New York University Abu Dhabi
Joined December 2014
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NYU Abu Dhabi's sociologists are hosting RC28's spring meeting April 15-17, 2027. If your research is on inequalities, stratification, mobility, education, or demography, consider submitting an abstract by December 15, 2026. Info at our website: rc28-abudhabi.com/index.html
QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGISTS: Need advice! Emily Shafer and I are using what people typed into a text box on a survey as qualitative data. What should we do when quoting them in a Soc paper? Correct misspellings, typos, "bad grammar? Put it as they typed it? With or w/o "sic"?
A masterful and wonderful and sociologist has died: Ivan Szelenyi. He came from Hungary (once jailed for what he wrote), went to Australia, then worked at Wisconsin, UCLA, Yale, and then was the founding Dean of Social Science (the position I now hold) at NYU Abu Dhabi. RIP.
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Come work with us!!!
🚨Pre-doc hiring alert! The BIG Lab is recruiting 2 Research Associates to work on development economics projects related to structural transformation, education, gender, labor markets, and energy in low- and middle-income countries.
Apply by July 31st!
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Felix Busch, Wenhao Jiang, and I just published a piece in Social Forces asking what explains the increased wage gap between those in professional and managerial (PM) jobs vs all other jobs in the US. Standard link (you may share this link anywhere):
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Man Xu and I just published "Nonunion and Cohabiting First Births in the U.S.: Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Predict Nonunion Births for Men as Well as Women" in a new journal--Populations. mdpi.com/3042-4372/2/2/10
Has anyone left from JFK's Terminal 4 in recent days that can report on how long TSA waits are? Are Pre-Check lines shorter? I'm leaving Saturday night and trying to figure out how long I can stay at the No Kings March in NYC.
Love this guy and his straight-forward message that maybe you like me need to hear anytime!
The Compassionate Mind - In this short clip His Holiness the Dalai Lama explains why developing a compassionate mind is essential for inner peace and human happiness. When our thoughts are dominated by self-centered attitudes, fear, anger, jealousy, and distrust naturally arise. But when we cultivate genuine concern for the well-being of others, our hearts open and our minds become more transparent, honest, and peaceful. Video was originally recorded on November 19, 2010.
How does income, education, and occupation relate to whether Americans vote for Dem or Repub presidential candidates? What changed since 1980? Is it those toward the top or bottom that have changed most? Find out in my PNAS piece with Karyn Vilvig: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
My friend and coauthor, sociologist George Farkas, passed away last night of brain cancer. I remember our weekly meetings while we wrote Households, Employment, and Gender. We'd jog then work for hours. He taught me fixed effects. RIP my friend.
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Want to live longer? Welcome immigrants.
New study shows older adults in areas with more immigration have better health outcomes.
nber.org/papers/w34791A
Scholars of law: Come work with a smart, diverse, globally oriented faculty group on law at New York University Abu Dhabi, where I am Dean of Social Science. Faculty position is open rank. Apply here:apply.interfolio.com/174761
Senior economists: I'm dean to a smart group of research-active economists at NYU Abu Dhabi, in an exciting global city, Abu Dhabi. We have a senior tenured faculty position open--apply here t.e2ma.net/click/ye80vu/2xdh…
Political Scientists looking for Asst. Professorship: Come work with us at NYU Abu Dhabi! I'm dean to this friendly group of great comparative politics scholars in a truly cosmopolitcan city. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/173054
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The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4gwVO6Y
Man Xu and I just published this OA article in PRPR using NLSY97 to study how race and SES background (mom's education) affect which women have a birth, cohabitation, or marriage as their first family-forming event, and how early. link.springer.com/10.1007/s1…
Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site….
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I know it's a weird time to be posting new WPs, but I have a new one on TikTok and the 2024 US elections (arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831). In short, we find that the TikTok algorithm recommended Republican content much more than Dem content.
A short 🧵:
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This Christmas Eve, please donate to support the education of children displaced by war in Ukraine
Meet Anastasiia Bazir: from hiding from tanks at 10 to leading at KSE. Her village lies in ruins, but she’s rebuilding her future - and helping others to do the same 1/
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Professor of Computational Social Science, T/TT and open rank
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