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Charles Bellemare, Sabine Kröger and Dorothea Kübler of Berlin's Social Science Research Center WZB will organize a workshop on "Econometric analysis of experimental data". The workshop will be held in Berlin on August 18 and 19 and aims at promoting the use of sophisticated econometric techniques to analyze experimental data. About a dozen presentations are expected.

The study of entrepreneurship is divorced from mainstream sociological understandings of labor markets and inequality: students of entrepreneurship have a poor understanding of how the structure of the attainment process shapes entrepreneurship, and students of labor market processes have a limited understanding of the drivers of entrepreneurial choice. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework linking entrepreneurial entry to structural features of the attainment process, embedding entrepreneurship in the structure of inequality in labor markets.

How do resources that reside in social networks of parents affect adolescents’ educational attainment? We draw a controversy in the sociology of education about whether and how parental networks benefit educational attainment. We explore the effect of informal network closure among parents as well as parents’ participation in institutionalized school activities. Previous findings are inconclusive.