Merit is a blackmail
The heading picture of this entry, “Il merito e’ un ricatto!” (“Merit is a blackmai!l”), is a writing on a wall in a street close to the University area in … Read more
UNED | Madrid
The heading picture of this entry, “Il merito e’ un ricatto!” (“Merit is a blackmai!l”), is a writing on a wall in a street close to the University area in … Read more
In a paper recently published on European Sociological Review together with Marco Cozzani and Moris Triventi we analyse how prenatal stress affects prematurity and low birth weight and how this … Read more
Some variants of rational choice theory (i.e. intentional choice, theory of planned behaviour) are highly influential in social stratification research and social demography. But how do emotions affect our behaviour? … Read more
Caveat: I have read War and Peace during the first lockdown last spring (march 2020). This entry is not based on a systematic study of War and Peace and its … Read more
Some years we (Luis Garrido and I) published an article (here the link) where we analyze the possible appearance and formation of a new working class of unskilled service workers or, … Read more
In recent paper we (Carlos Gil and I) investigate how social origins provide an advantage in labour markets outcomes (income and quality of the occupation) among subject with the same … Read more
Ilze Plavgo and I have written a background paper for the 2019 UNDP Human Development Report. In our paper we examine the potential of education to act as the ‘great equalizer’ … Read more
Data on socio-economic status of patients and deaths with COVID-19 are not systematically collected and are still very rare. Evidence of a higher risk of dying from COVID-19 for individuals of low social … Read more
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also kwon as the frequency bias) is the phenomenon where something you recently learned or paid attention to suddenly appears ‘everywhere’. In my case patterns of compensatory advantage (CA) … Read more