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Curriculum Vitae

Thomas A DiPrete

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Address and Phone Number

Office  
  Department of Sociology
Duke University
Box 90088
Durham, NC 27708-0088

(as of fall, 2004)
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
413 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
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  Phone: (919) 660 5612
Fax: (919) 660 5623
Email: tdiprete@soc.duke.edu
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Durham, NC 27705
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Fields of Specialization

    Social Stratification and Mobility, Work and Labor Markets, Organizations, Economic Sociology, Family, Demography, and Quantitative Methodology.

Education

Ph.D.Columbia University1978
M.Phil.Columbia University1975
M.A.Columbia University1975
B.S.Massachusetts Institute of Technology1972
Occupational History

    1992-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke University
    1992-Present Senior Research Fellow, Center for Demographic Studies
    1988-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
    1979-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
    1979-1982 Research Associate, National Opinion Research Center
    1978-1979 Research Associate, Center for the Social Sciences
Professional Activities
    Research Positions
    2003 (June-July) Guest Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center, Berlin).
    2000-2006 Research Professor, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung).
    2000-2002 Corresponding Member, "Unemployment, Labor-Force Participation, Educational Attainment, Childcare, and Fertility" Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    1999. Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Germany.
    1997. Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
    1996-1997. Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
    1995. Elected to Membership, Sociological Research Association.
    1995-1996 Member, Institute for Research on Poverty Research Working Group on “Problems of the Low-Income Population".
    1987 (spring). Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego.
    1984-1985. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA.
    1978. Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation National Needs.

    Editorial Services
    2002- Member, Editorial board, Demographic Research.
    1998- Member, Editorial Board, Social Inequality Series, Stanford University Press.
    1998-2001 Deputy Editor, Demography.
    1997-2003 Member, Editorial Board, Work and Occupations.
    1995-1997 Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology.
    1994-2000 Member, Editorial Board, European Sociological Review.
    1992-1994 Member, Editorial Board, American Sociological Review.
    1991-1993, 1993-95 Member, Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly.
    1989-93, 1993-1997 Member, Editorial Board, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
    1988-1991 Associate Editor, Contemporary Sociology.
    1984-1988 Consulting Editor, Sociological Quarterly.
    1980-1982 Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology.

    Advisory Services
    2004. , National Institutes of Health Review Panel (Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section).
    2001-2002. Member, Project Review Board, Triangle Census Research Data Center.
    2000. Member, Advisory Board, Israeli Longitudinal Study of Household Economic Dynamics.
    1999-2005. Member, Board of Overseers, Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
    1998. Guest Member, External Review Team for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
    1996-1997. Member, Weber Award Committee, Organizations, Occupations and Work Section, American Sociological Association.
    1995-1996. Member, Citicorp Research Database Advisory Group.
    1995-1996. Member, Dissertation Improvement Committee, National Science Foundation, Sociology Program.
    1989-1991. Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Panel, sociology program.
    1988. Member, Nominating Committee, Methodology section of the American Sociological Association.

    Other Professional Services
    2004-. Co-Director, Duke University Program in Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS).
    2004. , National Institutes of Health Review Panel (Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section).
    2003. Chair, Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University.
    2003-2005. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Sociology, Duke University.
    2002-2004. Member, ASA Publications Committee.
    2002. Member, Organizing Committee for the 2003 annual meetings of the Population Association of America.
    2002-2006. Secretary/Treasurer, Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification) of the International Sociological Association.
    2002-2006. Board Member (elected), Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification) of the International Sociological Association.
    2002. Session Organizer (new methods of causal analysis), American Sociological Association.
    2001-2002. Session Organizer (demography of schooling), Population Association of America Meetings.
    2001. Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
    2000-2003. Elected Member, Council of the Section of Methodology of the American Sociological Association.
    2000. Chair, Program Committee, GSOEP, (German Socio-Economic Panel) 2000 International Conference, July 5-7 th . Berlin, Germany.
    2000-2001. Member, Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees, Duke University.
    1999-2002. Member, Master Plan Oversight Committee, Duke University.
    1999-2002. Chair, President's Advisory Committee on Resources, Duke University.
    1999-2002. Member, Business and Finance Committee, Board of Trustees, Duke University.
    1999-2001. Member, University Strategic Plan Steering Committee. Duke University.
    1999-2001. Member, Advisory Board. Center for Instructional Technology, Duke University.
    1999-2000. Member, Duke Arts and Sciences Computer Committee.
    1998. Guest Lecturer, Institute for the Training of European Statisticians of the European Union (TES Institute), Luxembourg.
    1998. Guest Member, External Review Team for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
    1999-2000. Session organizer (labor markets), ASA meetings.
    1998-99. Session organizer (labor markets), Population Association of America meetings.
    1998-1999. Member, Arts and Science Computing Committee, Duke University.
    1997-1999. Co-organizer, Winter Meeting of the American Sociological Association Methodology Section.
    1997-. Member, Management Committee, Center for European Studies, Duke University.
    1994-1996. Member, Information Technology Advisory Board, Duke University.
    1994-1996, 1998-1999. Member, President’s Advisory Committee on Resources.
    1995. Guest lecturer, ICPSR Summer School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    1995-1996. Member, Information Technology Advisory Committee, Duke University.
    1995-1996. Chair, Task force on Undergraduate Computing, Duke University.
    1992-1996. Member, Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, Duke University.
    1992-1994. Member, Faculty Compensation Committee, Duke University.
    1992-1995. Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Sociology, Duke University.
    1980-1983. Coordinator, University of Chicago M.A. Programs in the Social Sciences.

Professional Associations

    American Sociological Association (sections:organizations and occupations, methodology)
    Population Association of America
    International Sociological Association (research committee on stratification and mobility)
    American Statistical Association
    American Economic Association
Referee For
    American Sociological Review/ American Journal of Sociology/ Social Forces/ Administrative Science Quarterly/ Demography/ Journal of the American Statistical Association/ Sociological Methodology/ Sociological Methods and Research/ Sociological Quarterly/ European Sociological Review/ Acta Sociologica/ Journal of Management/ Journal of Human Resources/ Labour Economics/ Political Power and Social Theory/ Social Science Research/ Sociological Forum/ Research in Social Stratification and Mobility/ Work and Occupations/ Journal of Marriage and the Family/ Demographic Research/ Population Research and Policy Review/ Sociology of Education/ Ethnicity/ Ethnic and Racial Studies/ Social Science Journal/ American Journal of Education/ Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences/ Research on Aging/ Industrial and Corporate Change.

    National Science Foundation (Sociology program, Economics program, and Methodology, Measurement and Statistics program)/Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom/Israeli National Science Foundation/ Academia Sinica, Taiwan/Spencer Foundation/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation/Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research/Swiss National Science Foundation.

    Academic Press/ University of Chicago Press/ Cambridge University Press/ Columbia University Press/Princeton University Press/ Stanford University Press/ Blackwell Publishers/ University Press of New England/ Plenum Publishing Corp/ Westview Press.

Consultant For
    Kirkland & Ellis/ Miner, Barnhill, and Galland / Educational Testing Service/ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission/ U.S. Department of Justice/ Miller, Shakman, Nathan, & Hamilton/ New York City Board of Education/ Kinoy, Taren, Garraghty, and Potter/ South Suburban Housing Center/ California Rural Legal Assistance Corp./ Sidley & Austin/ Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago/ Futterman, & Howard/ Benassi and Benassi/ Meites and Frackman/ Seliger and Mikva/ McGehee, Boling, Whitmire, Olson, & Pepping/ Soule and Bradtke/ Margolis, Mallios, Davis, Rider, and Tomar/ Center for Constitutional Rights/ Piper Rudnik.
Books, Monograph, and Edited Volumes
    Proceedings of the GOSEP 2000 International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Users.. January, 2001. A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economic Research (Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung). Co-editor (with Elke Holst and Dean Lillard).

    The Bureaucratic Labor Market: The Case of the Federal Civil Service. 1989, New York: Plenum Press

    Discipline, Order and Student Behavior in American High Schools. 1982, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office

Papers and Chapters
    2004. "Assessing Bias in the Estimation of Causal Effects: Rosenbaum Bounds on Matching Estimators and Instrumental Variables Estimation with Imperfect Instruments." (T. DiPrete and Markus Gangl). Sociological Methodology 34 (forthcoming).

    2004. "Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation" (T. DiPrete and Henriette Engelhardt). Sociological Methods and Research 32(4): 501-528.

    2004. ""Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren (Causal Analysis via Matching Methods)" (Markus Gangl and T. DiPrete). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie forthcoming.

    2003. "Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rates?" (T. DiPrete, S. Philip Morgan, Henriette Engelhardt, and Hana Pacalova). Population Research and Policy Review 22: 439-477.

    2003. "Do Cross-National Differences in Household Standard-of-Living Mobility Parallel Cross-National Differences in Occupational Mobility? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden, and the USA." Current Sociology 51: 483-498 .

    2003. "Trajectoires de niveau de vie des ménages et trajectoires de mobilité professionnelle: les écarts entre pays vont-ils dans le même sens?" Sociologie et Sociétés 35(1): 49-64.

    2003. "Wohlfahrtsstaat und Lebenslaufrisiken: Ein Plädoyer für eine erweiterte Mobilitätsanalyse." (The Welfare State and Life Course Risks: A Plea for a Broadened Approach to Mobility Analysis). In Mehr Risiken-Mehr Ungleichheit? Abbau von Wohlfahrsstaate, Flexibilisierung von Arbeit und die Folgen: 257-290, edited by Walter Müller und Stefani Scherer, Frankfurt: Campus.

    2002. "Internal Labor Markets and Earnings Trajectories in the Post-Fordist Economy:An Analysis of Recent Trends" (T. DiPrete, Eric Maurin and Dominique Goux). Social Science Research 31: 175-196.

    2002. "Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S." (T. DiPrete). American Journal of Sociology 108(2): 267-309.

    2001. "Institutional Determinants of Employment Chances: The Structure of Unemployment in France and Sweden." (T. DiPrete, Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin, and Michael Tåhlin). European Sociological Review 17(3): 233-254.

    2001. "Losers and Winners: the Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men." (Patricia A. McManus and T. DiPrete). American Sociological Review 66: 246-268.

    2001. "The Welfare State, the Labor Market, and the Stability of Family Income: A Comparison of the U.S. and Germany." (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). EurAmerica 30(4): 1-46.

    2001. "Corporate and Environmental Influences on the Outcomes of Personnel Practices: A Cross-National Comparison of U.S. and German Branch Offices of a Multinational Bank" (Vanessa Tinsley and T. DiPrete). Sociological Forum 16: 31-54.

    2000. "Market, Family, and State Sources of Income Stability in Germany and the U.S." (Patricia A. McManus and T. DiPrete). Social Science Research 29: 405-440.

    2000. "Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: A Comparison of Household Income Dynamics in the U.S. and Germany" (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). American Sociological Review 65: 343-370.

    2000. "Social Mobility." The Encyclopedia of Sociology: Revised Edition , New York: MacMillan.

    1999. "The Sensitivity of Family Income to Changes in Family Structure and Job Change in the U. S. and Germany" (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research) 68(2): 171-176.

    1997. "Collectivist vs. Individualist Mobility Regimes? How Welfare State and Labor Market Structure Condition the Mobility Effects of Structural Change in Four Countries" (T. DiPrete, Paul de Graaf, Ruud Luijkx, Michael Tåhlin, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld). American Journal of Sociology 103(2): 318-358.

    1997. "Structural Change, Labor Market Turbulence, and Labor Market Outcomes." (T. DiPrete and K. Lynn Nonnemaker). American Sociological Review 62: 386-404.

    1997. "Income Components and the Stability of Family Income in Western Germany and the U.S." (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research) 66(1): 102-110.

    1996. "Institutions, Technical Change, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the United States and Germany" (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). American Journal of Sociology 102: 34-79.

    1996. "Education, Earnings Gain and Earnings Loss in Loosely and Tightly Structured Labor Markets: A Comparison of the United States and Germany" (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). Generating Social Stratification: Toward a New Generation of Research , edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

    1996. "Socioeconomic Change and Occupational Location for Successive Cohorts of American Male and Female Workers." (T. DiPrete and Jerry Forristal). Social Science Research 24: 390-438.

    1994. "Multilevel Analysis: Methods and Substance" (T. DiPrete and Jerry Forristal). Annual Review of Sociology 24: 331-57.

    1993. "Discrimination, Choice, and Group Inequality: A Discussion of How Allocative and Choice-Based Processes Complicate the Standard Decomposition." Social Science Research 22: 415-440.

    1993. "Tenure, Mobility, and Incumbency: Comparing Observed Patterns of Earnings with Predictions from an Elaborated Theory of Occupational and Firm Labor Markets" (T. DiPrete and Patricia A. McManus). Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 12: 45-82.

    1993. "Industrial Restructuring and the Mobility Response of American Workers in the 1980s." American Sociological Review 58: 74-96.

    1991. "Occupational Linkages and Job Mobility within and across Organizations." (T. DiPrete and Margaret L. Krecker). Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 10: 91-131.

    1990. "Structure and Trend in the Process of Stratification for American Men and Women" (T. DiPrete and David B. Grusky). American Journal of Sociology 96: 107-143.

    1990. "Adding Covariates to Loglinear Models for the Study of Social Mobility." American Sociological Review 55: 757-773.

    1990. "The Multilevel Analysis of Trends with Repeated Cross-Sectional Data" (T. DiPrete and David B. Grusky). Sociological Methodology : 337-368.

    1990. "Is There a Nonspurious Link between the Market Power and the Wage Structure of Firms? Some Plausible Mechanisms." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 9: 283-306.

    1990. "Recent Trends in the Process of Stratification" (David B. Grusky and T. DiPrete). Demography 27: 617-638.

    1988. "The Upgrading and Downgrading of Occupations: Status Redefinition vs. Deskilling as Alternative Theories of Change." Social Forces 66: 725-746.

    1988. "Gender and Promotion in Segmented Job Ladder Systems" (T. DiPrete and Whitman T. Soule). American Sociological Review 53: 26-39.

    1987. "Horizontal and Vertical Mobility in Organizations." Administrative Science Quarterly 32: 422-444.

    1987. "The Professionalization of Administration and Equal Employment Opportunity in the U.S. Federal Government." American Journal of Sociology 93: 119-140.

    1986. "The Organization of Career Lines: Equal Employment Opportunity and Status Advancement in a Federal Bureaucracy" (T. DiPrete and Whitman T. Soule). American Sociological Review 51: 295-309.

    1984. "Analyzing Labor Force Transitions with Panel Data." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 3: 61-76.

    1981. "Unemployment over the Life Cycle: Racial Differences and the Effect of Changing Economic Conditions," American Journal of Sociology 87: 286-307.

    1979. "The Decline in Confidence in America: The Prime Factor" (Amitai Etzioni and T. DiPrete). Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 15: 520-526.

Papers/Volumes in Progress or Under Review
    Similarity and Difference: The Structure of Inequality across Western Europe (A Special Issue of Work and Occupations) (T. DiPrete, guest editor).

    The Perceived Costs of Children and Fertility Intentions: A Comparison of Western and Eastern Germany (T. DiPrete and Henriette Engelhardt).

    Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theory and Evidence.

    Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in Europe and the U.S. (T. DiPrete, Eric Maurin, Dominique Goux, and Amelie Quesnell-Vallee).

    What We have Learned: RC28's Contributions to Knowledge about Social Stratification (Michael Hout and T. DiPrete).

    Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion (T. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann).

    Is This a Great Country? Upward Mobility and the Chance for Riches in Contemporary America

    Do Changing Parental Resources Explain the Growing Female Advantage in U.S. Higher Education? (Claudia Buchmann, T. DiPrete and Troy Powell).

Grants Awarded (excluding internal university grant)
    2003/10/01. Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation $. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Co-Principal Investigator.

    2001/07/01. “Family Policies, Child Costs, and Low Fertility.” $. National Institute of Child Health and Development #1 R03 HD41035-01. Principal Investigator.

    1999/07/01. “The Post-Fordist Economy and its Impact on Labor: An Assessment of Two Predictions in France and the U.S.” $. A component of Grant UNC-Duke European Union Center Grant #5-49672.

    1998/07/01. “Establishment Dynamics, Job Mobility, and Unemployment.” $. European Union, administered by DG 1 (Directorate General 1, External Relations: Commercial Policy and Relations with North America, The Far East, Australia and New Zealand).

    1996/07/01. “The Welfare State, the Labor Market, and Life Course Turbulence in Family Income: A Comparison of the United States and Germany.” $. National Science Foundation SBR 96-31944. Principal Investigator.

    1995/07/01. “The Impact of Corporate Culture and National Environment on Personnel Practices: A Cross-National Comparison of Citicorp Branch Offices.” $. Citicorp Behavioral Sciences Research Council. $14,200. Principal Investigator.

    1994/07/01. “Structural Change, Institutional Mediation, and Social Mobility in Advanced Capitalist Societies.” $. National Science Foundation. (SBR 9411509). Principal Investigator.

    1993/07/01. “Structural Change and Job Mobility in the Federal Government of Germany and the U.S.” $. The Humboldt Foundation Principal Investigator. (Principal Investigator with Hans-Peter Blossfeld).

    1992/07/01. “Tenure, Mobility and Incumbency: Testing an Elaborated Theory of Occupational and Firm Internal Labor Markets.” $. National Science Foundation Grant SES92-09159. Principal Investigator.

    1992/07/01. "Industrial Restructuring and the Career Adjustment of Workers in theU.S., Germany and the Netherlands." $. Josiah Charles Trent Foundation Principal Investigator.

    1990/07/01. "The Rates and Outcomes of Job Mobility, 1973-1987." $. National Science Foundation Grant SES90-12619. Principal Investigator.

    1990/07/01. "The Rates and Outcomes of Job Mobility, 1973-1987." $. National Science Foundation Grant SES90-12619. Principal Investigator.

    1983/07/01. "Job Mobility and Labor Market Structure in the Public Sector." $. National Science Foundation Grant SES-8308896. Principal Investigator.

    1982/07/01. "Education, Status Boundaries and Job Mobility in a Bureaucracy." $. Spencer Foundation. Principal Investigator.

    1981/07/01. "The Structure of the School and the Response of the Student." $. Spencer Foundation. Principal Investigator.

    1978/07/01. "Unemployment and Unstable Work Careers: A Study of the Effects of Early Work Experience on Future Employment Prospects for Young Men." $. U.S. Department of Labor Grant. Principal Investigator.

    1977/07/01. “The Economic Responsiveness of the U.S. Labor Force: A Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Supply” $. U.S. Department of Labor Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Principal Investigator.

Selected Presentations and unpublished reports
    Insecure Employment Relationships in Flexilble and Regulated Labor Markets: Trend, Distribution and Consequences in the United States and France. December, 2003. Nuffield College, Oxford.

    The Emerging Female Advantage in Higher Education 2003. University of Mannheim, 07/22/2003, and New York University (Plenary Session of the RC28 Summer Meeting) 08/23/2003.

    Do Changing Parental Resources Explain the Growing Female Advantage in U.S. Higher Education? 2003. University of Tokyo (RC28 winter meeting)03/01/2003.

    Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Influence Fertility Behavior? 2002, 2003. Department of Sociology, Yale University (11/20/2002), PAA meetings in Minneapolis MN (5/2/2003), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany (6/23/2003), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (7/8/2003).

    Unemployment Insurance and Scar Effects of Unemployment: A Causal Analysis using Propensity Score and IV Matching Methods (with Markus Gangl) 2002. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

    Contingent Work Arrangements in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Comparison of the U.S. and France 2002, 2003. Presented at Worcester College, Oxford at the April, 2002 meeting of the RC28 (Social Stratification) of the ISA, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum fuer Sozialforschung, Berlin (7/17/2003).

    “’Positional Capital’ as a Mechanism for Earnings Inequality: Theory and Evidence.” 2002. Presented January, 2002 at the University of California, Berkeley, in February, 2002 at the University of Chicago, in April, 2002 at Cornell University, and in July, 2002 at an RC28 plenary session at the ISA World Congress in Brisbane, Australia.

    Critical Perspectives on the Recommendations of the Commission for Improvement of the Informational Infrastructure for the Scientific Community and the Official Statistical Agencies of the Federal Republic of Germany 2001. “Ways for a Better Informational Infrastructure" Conference in Berlin 9/20/2001.

    “Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.” 2001. Presented at a plenary session of the Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta. April, 2001), and at a plenary session of the research committee 28 (social stratification) of the International Sociological Association (Mannheim, Germany. April, 2001).

    “Losers and Winners: the Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men.” 2001. Invited presentation in the Inequality and Social Justice Colloquium, University of California, Davis. February, 2001.

    “Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation.” 2000. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association in August, 2000.

    Internal Labor Markets and Earnings Trajectories in the Post-Fordist Economy 2000. Presented in the session on “Changing of the Welfare State and Impact on Life Course Outcomes” at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association in August, 2000.

    Within-Firm Wage Trajectories in the Post-Fordist Economy: A Comparative Trend Analysis. 1999. Invited Presentation at a Thematic Session on “The Process of Social Stratification”at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association in August, 1999. Also presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, in October, 1999, and at the Humboldt University, Berlin, in December, 1999.

    Family Stability, Labor Market Activity, and the Dynamics of Household Income 1999. Presented in the Social Inequality Seminar, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, September 1998, at the Center for European Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, in June, 1999, and at the World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, Canada.

    “Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: A Comparison of Household Income Dynamics in the U.S. and Germany.” 2000. Keynote address at the GOSEP 2000 International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Users, July 5-7, 2000 in Berlin, Germany. Also presented at the Mannheim Center for European Research, November, 1999.

    “Academic Staff in the U.S.” 1999. Invited presentation for an international hearing on “Academic Staff in Comparative Perspective” organized by the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat, Referat Lehre, Studium, Wissenchaftlicher Nachwuchs), Bonn Germany, September 21, 1999.

    “Does Divorce Hurt Men’s Standard of Living?” 1999. Presented at the 1999 Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America in New York City. March, 1999.

    “The Theory of Cumulative Advantage: New Specifications and Tests.” 1999. Presented at the 4th Annual Winter Meetings of the American Sociological Association Methodology Section. Durham, NC, March, 1999.

    “The Age Structure of Unemployment in France and Sweden.” 1998. Presented in the Sociology colloquium series, Indiana University, October, 1998.

    Establishment Dynamics and Job Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of the Age-Mobility Relationship in France and Sweden using Linked Employer-Employee Data 1998. Presented at the International Symposium on Linked Employer-Employee Data, Washington D.C., May 22, 1998, at the TES Institute in Luxembourg, June 1998, and in the department colloquium series, Indiana University, Dept. of Sociology, October 1998.

    How Changes in Family Composition and Labor Market Activity Affect Family Income: A Comparison of Market and Welfare State Effects in the U.S. and Germany 1998. presented at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics in Paris, June 1998, at the TES Institute in Luxembourg, June 1998.

    A Multivariate Probit Model for the Study of Censored Multi-Outcome Job Mobility 1998. presented at the April 1998 winter meetings of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association.

    “Collectivist vs. Individualist Mobility Regimes? How Structural Change and Individual Resources Affect Job Mobility in Four Countries” 1997. Presented at the August, 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, N.Y. and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, October, 1997, Wassenaar, the Netherlands.

    Comparative Aspects of Stratification Research 1997. presented at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, the Netherlands.

    Market, Family, and State Sources of Income Stability in Germany and the U.S. 1997. presented at the Department of Sociology, Bremen University, June, 1997.

    “The Labor Market, The Welfare State, and the Stability of Family Income: A Comparison of the U.S. and Germany.” June, 1997 Presented at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. January 16, 1996, at the February 1996 meeting of the IRP Conference, “Problems of the Low-Income Population.” Madison, Wisconsin, at the DIW SOEP-User’s Conference, July 1996 in Berlin, at the RC28 Conferenc.

    “The Gendering of Social Mobility.” 1996. Presented at the April, 1996 meetings of the Southern Sociological Association at a special session honoring the work of Rachel Rosenfeld.

    “Structural Change and Career Mobility in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United State” (with Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Paul de Graaf, and Ruud Luijkx) July 1994 Presented at the RC 28 spring meeting, University of Zurich, May 25, 1995, Zurich, Switzerland, and at the World Congress of Sociology, July 1994, Bielefeld, Germany.

    “Work Institutions, Class, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the US and Germany” (coauthored with P.A. McManus) 1993. Presented at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research of the University of Mannheim, Germany, December 13, 1993.

    “Job Change, Occupational Mobility and Earnings Change for Manual Workers in the United States and Western Germany” (with Patricia A. McManus). August 10, 1993 Presented at the First User’s Conference of the German Socio-Economic Panel in Berlin on June 8, 1993, and at the 1993 summer meetings of the Research Committee on Stratification of the International Sociological Association at Duke University on August 1.

    “Social Change and the Occupational Location of Successive Cohorts of American Workers.” April 22, 1993 Presented October 21, 1992 at the Work and Organizations Research Center of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and presented April 22, 1993 at the Carolina Population Center of UNC.

    "Tenure, Mobility and Incumbency: Comparing Observed Patterns of Earnings with Predictions from an Elaborated Theory of Occupational and Firm Labor Markets" 1992 Presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

    Industrial Restructuring, Organizational Labor Markets, and the Mobility Response of American Workers in the 1980s" 1991 Paper presented at the Institute for Research on Poverty 1991 Summer Research Workshop, held in Madison, Wisconsin, and also at the 1991 summer meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Assoc.

    "Occupations and the Organization of Work." 1991 Invited paper presented at the 1991annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society in "Organizations and Structures," one of three plenary sessions on special 21st century themes.

    "Occupational Linkages and Job Mobility within and across Organizations". 1991 Paper to be presented at the 1991 annual meetings of the Population Association of America.

    "Adding Covariates to Loglinear Models for the Study of Social Mobility." 1990 Paper presented at the 1990 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "Reciprocal Effects between the Wage Structure and the Market Power of Firms." 1989 Paper presented at the August, 1989 meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "The Causes and Consequences of Short-Term Occupational Mobility" (with Margaret L. Krecker) 1989 Paper presented at the 1989 meetings of the Social Stratification Commit-tee of the International Sociological Association at Stanford, California..

    "The Multilevel Analysis of Trends with Repeated Cross-Sectional Data" August, 1988 Presented at the August, 1988 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "Recent Trends in the Process of Stratification" 1988 Presented at the August, 1988 meetings of the Social Stratification Research Committee of the International Sociological Association in Madison, Wisconsin.

    "Structure and Trend in the Process of Stratification for American Men and Women." March, 1988 Presented at the Workshop of the Committee on Demographic Training, March, 1988..

    "Horizontal and Vertical Mobility in Organizations." March, 1988 Presented at the Eastern Sociological Association meetings, March, 1988..

    "Sex Segregation, Promotion Tournaments, and the Advancement of Women in the Federal Government" (with Whitman Soule) 1986 Presented at the 1986 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "The Upgrading and Downgrading of Occupations: The Case of Government Clerks." 1986 Presented at the 1986 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "The Upgrading and Downgrading of Occupations." February, 1986 Presented to the Industrial Relations Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. February, 1986.

    "Status Boundaries, Labor Markets and the Structure of Mobility in the Public Sector." (with Whitman Soule) 1983 Presented at the 1983 meetings of the American Sociological Association.

    "Socialization and Status as Distinguishable Sources of Educational Success: An Alternative to the Accumulation Perspective on the Early Socioeconomic Career" (with Harry Gallaher) 1982 Presented at the 1982 annual meetings of the American Psychological Association.

    "Occupational Prestige and Social Stratification" (with Donald J. Treiman) 1974 Presented at the 1974 MSSB Seminar on Measurement and Models in Comparative Stratification and Mobility Research.

    "Preliminary Report on a Survey of Educational Services for Hispanic Pupils with English Language Difficulty, Conducted in the New York City Schools, May 1974. (with Donald J. Treiman and Kermit Terrell) May 1974 A Center for Policy Research Report..

    "Second Report on a Survey of Educational Services for Hispanic Pupils with English Language Difficulty, Conducted in the New York City Schools, May 1974" May 1974 (with Donald J. Treiman and Kermit Terrell).

Book Reviews
    At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor-Market Performance in International Perspective by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn Work and Occupations, forthcoming.

    On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment a Thing of the Past? edited by David Neumark. 2000 New York: Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Administrative Science Quarterly, (forthcoming).

    Kollektiv und Eigensinn: Lebensverläufe in der DDR und danach by Johannes Huinink, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Martin Diewald, Heika Solga, Annemette Sørensen, and Heike Trappe. 1995 Berlin: Akademie Verlag European Sociological Review.

    The Employment Relationship: Causes and Consequences of Modern Personnel Administration by William P. Bridges and Wayne J. Villemez New York: Plenum Press American Journal of Sociology, (Sept).

    The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, by Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe Oxford: Clarendon Press Contemporary Sociology.

    The NORC General Social Survey by James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Contemporary Sociology.

    Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach by Theresa J. Devine and Nicholas M. Kiefer Contemporary Sociology.

    Social Mobility and Social Structure edited by Ronald L. Breiger Contemporary Sociology.

    Frederick Taylor and the Public Administration Community: A Reevaluation by Hindy Lauer Schacter Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

    Distribution-Free Tests, by H.R. Neave and P.L. Worthington Contemporary Sociology.

    The Impact of Service Industries on Underemployment in Metropolitan Economies by Robert G. Sheets, Stephen Nord, and John J. Phelps Contemporary Sociology.

    Pathways in the Workplace: The Effects of Gender and Race on Access to Organiza-tional Resources, by Jon Miller American Journal of Sociology, 92:1564-1565.

    The Culture of Policy Deliberations by Robert Bell Contemporary Sociology.

    The Structural Determinants of Unemployment: Vulnerability and Power in Market Relations by Paul G. Schervish American Journal of Sociology.

    Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain by John H. Goldthorpe Contemporary Sociology.

    Education and Jobs by Eli Ginzberg American Journal of Sociology.

    Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 4 Contemporary Sociology.

Personal Information
    Birthdate and place: July 30, 1950; Providence, Rhode Island.
    Family Status: Married, three children.

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