Occupational prestige is a core component of SES. But it is often overlooked in research because it is hard to measure. We wanted to fix that. This new pub presents an easy to use index, validity evidence, and analyses of what makes a job get seen as prestigious online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
The relationship between life outcomes and an individual’s standing in the social and economic hierarchy of society is an important topic across the social sciences. Foundational to this work is asses...
Nice!!
I have been looking for exactly this. Ended up using some other stuff as a proxy, but it's not too late for me to check this out! I'm so excited
@bradleyhughes.bsky.social !!!! Sanjay!!!! Magdalena and David!!!! You guys rock. Truly inspirational.
We want our work to make it easier for more researchers to measure occupational prestige. So we also made a resource website with Qualtrics code, scoring, and crosswalks to older prestige indices www.occupationalprestige.com/data/
A website to host occupational prestige data