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Kat Chzhen

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Sociologist at Trinity College Dublin researching social inequalities in children's education and mental health using (mainly) birth cohort studies. Formerly UNICEF, Nuffield College, University of York


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My new piece in the Conversation in which we argue that the UK two child limit policy is cruel, regressive and should be abolished.

theconversation.com/the-uks-two-...

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So excited to be part of this new Horizon Europe project on educational inequalities!

www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-e...

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Our new report shows who is at risk of being left behind in the NetZero transition in the UK.

Project funded by the Nuffield Foundation and led by the Institute for Community Studies.

www.youngfoundation.org/our-work/pub...

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My new open access paper, based on HBAI data, shows that the UK two-child limit led to income losses for large families and increases in child poverty.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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There is still time to apply for this post!

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Thrilled to have this paper out!

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Just got this delivered, can’t wait to read it!

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Such awesome analysis, thanks for the thread! But why do full professors leave at all?

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Katie Spoon's avatar Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social
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1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

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Kat Chzhen 's avatar Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social
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Congratulations on the launch of the report, Alina!!!

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Alice Evans's avatar Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social
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Until the 1970s, American books rarely used the term discrimination, in reference to women.

Sexism was rampant but not even conceptualised. What changed?

In this substack, I discuss Goldin’s new paper, “Why Women Won”

open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...

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Yay! Incredibly deserved. Important to note that Claudia's work extended far beyond women in the labor market. Also pioneered the empirical revolution in labor economics more generally, and did important work on inequality — her Great Compression paper had a profound influence

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