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This paper is now live at Social Forces (@SF_Journal)! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-…
NEW: Black & low-inc students are disprop. in online 4yr programs, these progs. relate to worse grad & loan repayment outcomes, & the patterns exist at both for-profits AND nonprofits.
@amber_d_villa's, Laura Hamilton's, @CharlieEatonPhD's, and my paper: researchcghe.org/publication…
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A supplemental wealth-based Pell Grant is an exciting proposal to make higher education more affordable, accessible, and equitable.
Financial aid models primarily rely upon family income to determine a student's need -- an approach that overlooks differences in assets.
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Our new report with @HERE_Lab proposes a new Wealth-Based #PellGrant that could help close racial equity gaps in degree attainment & student loan borrowing rates and give more students a debt-free option. buff.ly/3zgrBaS
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In a new report, we show how a Wealth-Based Pell Grant could address racial wealth gaps and reduce student debt burdens. This intervention could have a particularly profound impact on students who face the double disadvantage of low income AND low wealth.
ticas.org/affordability-2/a-…
I'm very taken by this new Samuel Lucas paper where he applies EMI to health insurance. Finds EMI patterns re: *whether* one has insurance & *what kind*. Innovative, theoretically rich, & useful for discerning & confronting inequality. Work to look up to.
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Christian Michael Smith retweeted
We are pleased to announce that Meseret Hailu will join the Institute as an assistant professor on August 01. Dr. Hailu conducts mixed methods inquiries into student identity and educational opportunity and outcomes.
Welcome, Dr. Hailu!
Read more: bit.ly/3wFbLFw
Thanks, @McBeeIHE! So thrilled to be joining the community!
We are pleased to announce that Christian M. Smith joins MIHE as an asst prof on July 1. Dr. Smith brings an approachable style to both his student-centered instructional techniques and to his complex quantitative research. Welcome, Dr. Smith!
More: t.uga.edu/9Sl
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We are pleased to announce that @jennifer_blaney joins the Institute as an associate professor on July 1. Her impressive portfolio complements and expands our existing curricular offerings and research opportunities.
Welcome, Dr. Blaney!
More at: t.uga.edu/9S9
I am lucky to be joining the McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia this summer as an Assistant Professor. @McBeeIHE is a very special community where I am excited to teach, learn, and be. I'm filled with gratitude for all who helped me get here.
The @HERE_Lab is hiring a postdoc! Project on wealth & financial aid policy w/ Laura Hamilton & @CharlieEatonPhD. Firsthand, I can say HERE Lab postdocs get extremely supportive mentorship + a good balance of time on independent research & time on the lab's cutting-edge projects.
More info here: herelab.org/about. If you have any questions for someone who's done a postdoc at the Lab, please reach out (whether or not we've met before!)
Christian Michael Smith retweeted
The bigger problem is that so many people are in poverty, only earning $15k or $20k/year - less than the *difference* between working-class-origin people & privileged-origin people - while so many others are earning $500k/year or more.
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Have you ever suspected that you earn less in your fancy job because you're from a working-class family? The Class Ceiling showed how that worked in the UK; new article out today @SF_Journal with @SamFriedmanSoc shows there's ALSO a big class pay gap in the US. About $23k!
ALT title = Earnings in EGP I by Class Origin. dot-wing plots of estimated average annual earnings for people (in top jobs in the US) from 4 class origins - higher prof/mgr estimated earnings are a little over $120k; lower prof/mgr and intermediate origins both a little over $110k; routine/manual earnings a little under $100k.
"Since the 1980s, the wealth gap has widened again as capital gains have predominantly benefited white households, and convergence via income growth and savings has come to a halt."
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020,” by Derenoncourt (@EDerenoncourt), Kim (@ckim_econ), Kuhn (@kuhnmo), and Schularick (@Mschularick): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad044
Christian Michael Smith retweeted
We made it on the @nytimes app crossword puzzle!
ALT New York Times crossword puzzle. Prompt: first coed and racially integrated college in the south. Answer: Berea.
"U.S. poverty is (i) a huge share of the population, (ii) a perennial outlier among rich democracies, (iii) staggeringly high for certain groups, (iv) unexpectedly high for those who “play by the rules,” and (v) pervasive across various groups and places."
Poverty, not the poor | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
My new article just got released in Science Advances today. The article is open access. I try to both describe the nature of America's "systemically high poverty" and review explanations of it.
Christian Michael Smith retweeted
Don't leave your sociology behind a paywall. If you publish in the journals of the American Sociological Association, you can now post your final *accepted* versions on SocArXiv with no embargo. Policy: asanet.org/article-posting-p…
Christian Michael Smith retweeted
Y'all I just said that my first solo article could drop like any day now & baby that thing dropped ta-day! I'm shook & need to do those little article thread things but right now I just can't believe it. Grateful to @SSSP1org & so many for helping me realize this!
Christian Michael Smith retweeted
…and a total of three @UWSoc grads showing that Wisconsin is still the place to be for Sociology of Education! @NoahHirschl @SmithChristianM @AnnaRHaskins
If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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