U.S. Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century E&I Cluster Workshop, November 11, 12:00, MCNB 367 Please join us for a talk by Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern and Paul Mohnen, Penn, who will discuss their paper, “U.S. Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth… Continue Reading
Book Panel: Study Gods, by Yi-Lin Chiang Time: November 3, 2022 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Zoom Panelists: Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan; Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania; Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University; Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University Description: Randall Collins will summarize this interesting, new… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Demography and Sociology doctoral student Kai Feng! His paper, “Unequal Duties and Unequal Retirement: Decomposing the Women’s Labor Force Decline in Post-Reform China,” won the 2022 ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course Graduate Student Paper Award,… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Ellen Bryer, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, who has published a paper in Sociological Forum: “My Debt? Our Debt? Ambiguity and Advantage in Family Financial Assistance for Graduate School?” Full citation: Bryer, E. (2022), My Debt? Our Debt? Ambiguity and… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Penn GSE and Penn Sociology joint student Joyce Kim! She has been designated a 2022 WISE Emerging Leader and a 2022-2024 Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellow at the Netter Center.
Congratulations to sociology doctoral student Elena van Stee! Her paper, “Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis,” has been published in Sociology Compass! Full citation: van Stee, E. G. (2022). Parenting young adults across social class: A review and… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Olivia Hu and Alex Adames, who have been awarded a grant from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration for their project, “The Causal Effect of Educational Attainment and Prestige on Romantic and Sexual Desirability… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Peter Harvey, who has been named as a Harvard Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow!
Congratulations to (Sukie) Xiuqi Yang and Kai Feng, PhD students in Sociology and Demography, who will be 2022 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Fellows. Their proposal seeks to explore the impact of climate change on children’s educational outcomes across… Continue Reading
Hannum, Emily, Xiaoying Liu, and Fan Wang. 2021. “Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative.” Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #11.