Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics

Squad!!!

We also gotta shoutout the baller women up and down the ISR org chart like the trinity running our @umichstonecid.bsky.social: our fearless leader Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social , Melissa Bora keeping everything humming, and Nicole Bonomini broadcasting us to the world!

Congratulations to our own @zhenghaowen.bsky.social! 🥳#AcademicSky

Tuesday! We're excited to join @um-src.bsky.social for our own Faculty Affiliate @spattersearch.bsky.social's talk! ⬇️

A funeral assistance fund for homicide victims in Philly would be great, but hopefully it avoids the problems of state compensation programs and their strict eligibility criteria.

See "Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Among Homicide Survivors in the United States" in Race and Justice:

Quote from Lan Deng, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, advocating for zoning reform to diversify housing and help young households and first-time homebuyers.

Our own Stone Center Faculty Affiliate of @um-taubmancollege.bsky.social Lan Deng was quoted in in a Detroit @freep.com article exploring why rent costs are rising across Michigan’s mid-size cities. #HousingAffordability #RealEstate #AcademicSky

Read the story: myumi.ch/qZ7zE

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Justice after trauma? Race, red tape keep sexual assault victims from compensation Bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities restrict access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault, deepen justice system inequities and compound trauma.

Overview of new study by @jeremylevine.bsky.social & Sam Dickman about systemic failures for sexual assault victims. ‘Our findings suggest that policies requiring police verification and cooperation, as well as extensive documentation, prevent survivors from accessing compensation,’ noted Levine.

Bronze statue of Lady Justice holding a scale and sword on a wooden surface.

The absence of police verification of a crime is the primary reason for rejection, representing 34.4% of disapproved requests—which account for roughly 8 out of every 100 applicants. #AcademicSky #AmericanJournalofPublicHealth #PublicationAlert (2/2)

Learn more in the full story: myumi.ch/rA9pV

Announcement of new publication on racial disparities in victim compensation claim approvals for adult sexual assault survivors in 18 US states, published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities restrict access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault, deepen justice system inequities, and compound trauma, according to a new study published by our own @jeremylevine.bsky.social and co-author Sam Dickman in the AJPH (🧵1/2).

Bright announcement for ICPSR Summer Program scholarships with a March 1 application deadline and over $400K available.

Scholarship applications the 2026 ICPSR Summer Program close Sunday! Over $400k in scholarships available! Apply by March 1. For more details: myumi.ch/ICPSRscholarships

#SumProg26 #ICPSR #QuantitativeMethods #ScholarshipOpportunities #GraduateStudies #DataScienceEducation #ResearchTraining

Graphic on a dark blue background with the ISR logo at top left, a yellow silhouette map of Denmark on the left with a dark blue silhouette of an adult lifting a child, and large yellow text on the right that reads Denmark policies offset about 80% of the motherhood earnings penalty with the 80% circled in red; along the bottom are three labeled icons reading Child Allowances (stacked coins with a person symbol), Paid Leave (calendar with a check mark), and Subsidized Child Care (house with a baby stroller).

Denmark shows how policy can reduce the motherhood earnings penalty.

ISR researcher @sashakillewald.bsky.social finds paid leave, child allowances, and subsidized child care offset about 80% of mothers’ earnings losses.

Event flyer featuring “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation.” Scheduled for Tuesday, February 17 from 10:30 am to 12 pm at ISR 6050, 426 Thompson Street. The speaker is Ségal Le Guern Herry. A prompt to learn more directs to inequality.umich.edu.

We’re looking forward to hosting #economist Ségal Le Guern Herry tomorrow at 10:30 am EST! He will be in Ann Arbor as he presents, “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” at #Umich. Join us at @umisr.bsky.social.

Get the details & RSVP: myumi.ch/mRQpN
#AcademicSky #EconSky

Promotional graphic for a CID speaker series event with details about the speaker and event.

Join the @umichstonecid.bsky.social for Ségal Le Guern Herry (@amse-aixmarseille.fr): Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation
Tuesday, February 17, 10:30am-12:00pm EDT
RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/VVmqe
6050 ISR-Thompson

Event flyer from the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan, featuring “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation.” Scheduled for Tuesday, February 17 from 10:30 am to 12 pm at ISR 6050, 426 Thompson Street. The speaker is Ségal Le Guern Herry, PhD, Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille School of Economics. A prompt to learn more directs to inequality.umich.edu.

Tuesday, we welcome #economist Ségal Le Guern Herry to #Umich as he presents, “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation.” Join us February 17 at @umisr.bsky.social. #AcademicSky

RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/mRQpN

Check it out @asanews.bsky.social #ASA2026 attendees!

Did you miss Monica's presentation on Tuesday? Catch the recording on YouTube: youtu.be/RYFlbsPPHxc

Really excited to present work on tax base fragmentation at @umisr.bsky.social tomorrow! Come check it out!

Announcement for ICPSR Live Demo: Data Fair Edition on February 10, 2026, from 3 to 4 p.m. ET with registration link provided.

🔔 Join us for the "ICPSR Live Demo: Data Fair Edition" today at #LoveData26! 📊

🗓️ Tuesday, February 10, 2026
🕛 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET
🔗 Register at myumi.ch/kPW59

#ICPSRDataFair

Research ethics ? (please send resources!): I'm writing about publicly available court cases from 1970s describing gender-based violence (SA, DV). Victims' names are listed. Citations for the cases is "In Re [victim name]..." Ok to name victims in text? Feels violating, but maybe I'm overthinking.

Event announcement for a CID Speaker Series talk on problem-solving sociology and American populism with Monica Prasad.

Tomorrow at 10:30 am EST! Monica Prasad joins @umichstonecid.bsky.social as she presents “Solving the Biggest Problems: Problem-Solving Sociology and American Populism.” #AcademicSky #Sociology

Get the details to join us at @umisr.bsky.social and save your seat: myumi.ch/kPEMp

Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.

Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.

ICYMI: our own Stone Center Director @sashakillewald.bsky.social explores the costly ‘motherhood penalty’ and how one country is erasing it. Learn more in her article from the@us.theconversation.com:

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Yet *another* paper from this project: "Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Program Claim Approvals for Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault: 18 US States, 2015–2023," forth. in the American Journal of Public Health with more A+ coauthors. Open access 🔗: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

So excited for our own #UmichSociology @robertmanduca.bsky.social's talk next week. 🥳 Get the deets: events.umich.edu/event/136463

Event announcement for a CID Speaker Series talk on problem-solving sociology and American populism with Monica Prasad.

Up next @umichstonecid.bsky.social! We’re excited to host Monica Prasad as she presents “Solving the Biggest Problems: Problem-Solving Sociology and American Populism.” #AcademicSky #Sociology

Get the details to join us at @umisr.bsky.social and save your seat: myumi.ch/kPEMp

Proud to share *another* paper from this project, with a group go amazing coauthors: "Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Among Homicide Survivors in the United States", forthcoming in Race and Justice. Link below 👇: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Abstract Front-line workers mediate law on the books and law in action, translating higher-level laws into local policy. One important mediating institution is the police. Whereas most research analyzes how the law empowers police to label certain denizens “criminals” – both within and outside criminal legal contexts – this article demonstrates how policing also affects who is recognized as an innocent crime victim. Synthesizing existing scholarship, I theorize three paths through which police can affect legal recognition of crime victims: criminalization, minimization, and legal estrangement. I then test the extent to which these processes affect victims’ access to public benefits provided under victim compensation law. Drawing on never-before-analyzed administrative data from 18 U.S. states (N = 768,382), I find police account for more than half of all victim benefits denials. These denials are racialized and gendered: Police are significantly more likely to criminalize and be estranged from Black male victims and significantly more likely to minimize the injuries of Black female victims. Additional qualitative data suggest police systematically perceive Black men as not truly innocent and Black survivors of gender-based violence as not truly victims. These findings advance our understanding of the expansive role of police in society as well as the porous boundary between social provision and social control.

Figure 6. Predicted probability of “failure to cooperate” denials.

Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share the findings from Therese Christensen's and my article! In a nutshell: living in Denmark doesn't prevent you from experiencing a motherhood earnings penalty, but it does give you access to government benefits that help offset those financial losses.

A quote states that Denmark’s child care and parental leave policies eliminate 80% of the motherhood penalty for working moms. Includes a link to learn more, and features illustrations of diverse professional women, along with the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics logo.

(2/2) She worked with Danish sociologist Therese Christensen to answer this question for moms in Denmark. Their findings were published in European Sociological Review: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

#AcademicSky

Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms Two researchers found that Danish government benefits do not fully offset moms’ lost earnings. But they do help offset lost income for working women with kids.

#Umich @umichstonecid.bsky.social Director @sashakillewald.bsky.social asks, “Can government programs that provide financial support to parents offset the motherhood penalty in earnings?” Learn more in the article in the @us.theconversation.com 🧵 (1/2) #SocialInequality

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