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Thomas A DiPrete, Faculty and Professor

Thomas A DiPrete

Short Description of Research Approach:

Faculty and Professor

Office Info
Office:	5622 Soc-Psych
Phone:	(919) 660 5612
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Fax:	(919) 660 5623
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Areas of Interest:

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

I received my B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. I studied sociology at Columbia where I earned my Ph.D. in 1978, and spent a year in Columbia's Mathematical Statistics department, earning an M.A. in 1975. I taught at the University of Chicago, was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences before coming to Duke in 1988. I have also been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, a visiting professor the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, a visiting professor at the Social Sciences Research Center Berlin, and a visiting professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, where I continue to have an affiliation as research professor. My main research interests concern social stratification and mobility, organizations and labor markets, demography, and quantitative methodology. I currently am the secretary/treasurer for the Research Committee 28 of the International Sociological Association, am a board member of the methodology section of the American Sociological Association, and serve on the publications committee of the ASA. In recent years I have taught Social Inequality , Methods of Social Research, Organizations and Management, Social Statistics II, Computers and Society, and various courses in the area of Social Stratification.

Selected Publications/Recent Research:

Representative Publications (More Publications)

2002 Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S. T. DiPrete. American Journal of Sociology , Vol. 108, No. 2 , 267-309
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/contents/v108n2.html

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 , Vol. 22,2003. , 439-477
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/prpr09_28_03.pdf

Preprint, 2003 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.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/unified021404.pdf

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 , Vol. 34 (forthcoming),2004.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/HBprop_042404.pdf

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 , Vol. 17, No. 3 , 233-254

2004 Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation T. DiPrete and Henriette Engelhardt. Sociological Methods and Research , Vol. 32, No. 4,2004. , 501-528
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/SMR082603.pdf

Preprint, 2003 Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion T. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/paa091803.pdf

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

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 , Vol. 31 , 175-196

2003 Do Changing Parental Resources Explain the Growing Female Advantage in U.S. Higher Education? Claudia Buchmann, T. DiPrete and Troy Powell. ,Preprint, 2003.

2004 "Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren (Causal Analysis via Matching Methods) Markus Gangl and T. DiPrete. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , Vol. forthcoming,2004.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/kmatch2.pdf

Preprint, 2003 What We have Learned: RC28's Contributions to Knowledge about Social Stratification Michael Hout and T. DiPrete.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/~tdiprete/web/Hout&DiPrete_July12.pdf

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Course Descriptions:

Duke University. Spring & Fall 2012

Organizations and Global Competitiveness(SOC 142) Syllabus
Globalization and Development(Soc 730S-03) Syllabus

Sociology
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