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A new essay in The Conversation summarizes my recent work with Daniel Schneider on family structure and parenting. (Sept 2019)
“Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments in Children” published in the American Sociological Review has been awarded the ASA Family Section Article of the Year. (June 2019)
In higher inequality places, it costs more to live in areas with good schools. Adam Goldstein and I show this (and more) in our new paper “Buying In: Positional Competition, Schools, Income Inequality, and Housing Consumption in Sociological Science. (May 2019)
My new paper “Who Feels It? Income Inequality, Relative Deprivation, and Financial Satisfaction in U.S. States, 1973–2012” has now been published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. (Feb 2019)
Research from “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments in Children” was described in a New York Times article on “The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting”. (Dec 2018)
I am a co-winner with Daniel Schneider of the Tobin Project 2018 Prize for Exemplary Work on Inequality and Decision Making. (Oct 2018)
My work with Daniel Schneider is being supported with a US 2050 Grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation to explore how family structure and class shape parental investments in children. (Aug 2018)
“Income Inequality and Household Labor” published in Social Forces has been awarded the ASA Family Section Article of the Year. (Aug 2018)
My new paper “Less Equal, Less Trusting? Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Effects of Income Inequality on Trust in U.S. States, 1973–2012” is now available at Social Science Research. (June 2018)
My new paper “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments in Children”, co-authored with Daniel Schneider and Joe LaBriola, is now available at the American Sociological Review. (May 2018)
Does rising income inequality mean the rich outsource more housework? Daniel Schneider and I find “Yes” in our new Social Forces paper, “Income Inequality and Household Labor”. (Oct 2017)
My paper “Keeping up with the Joneses: How Households Fared in the Era of High Income Inequality and the Housing Price Bubble, 1999–2007”, co-authored with Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein, has been published in Socius. (Aug 2017)
I’ve moved! Having recently completed my PhD, I am now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. Go Rams! (Jul 2017)
My paper “Reliability of the Core Items in the General Social Survey: Estimates from the Three-Wave Panels, 2006–2014”, co-authored with Mike Hout, has been published in Sociological Science. (Nov 2016)
My work received student paper awards from the ASA sections on Social Psychology (profile in section newsletter [pdf]) and the Sociology of Religion. (Aug 2016)
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