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Geronimus: Stress makes black women 7.5 years older in biological age than white counterparts
Frey rethinks trends in Millennial mass urganization
Shaefer on new UN report about America's failing safety net
Highlights
Seefeldt promoted to associate professor of social work, associate professor of public policy
Martha Bailey elected to the Board of Officers of the Society of Labor Economists
Charlie Brown elected to the Board of Officers of the Society of Labor Economists
More PSC brown bags, Fall 2018
Fabian T. Pfeffer
Funded Research:
Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 2017 - 2020 (NSF)
Health, Wealth, and Time Use Over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Transition to Adulthood within its Life Course & Intergenerational Family Context (NICHD)
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations (NICHD)
Linking 1940 U.S. Census Data for Five Modern Surveys on Health and Aging (NIA)
How Accessible is the Top? The Changing Rigidity of High Incomes and Earnings (Russell Sage Foundation)
Asset Poverty in Canada over Time and in Comparison to the United States (SSHRC)
PSID, CDS, and TA: Data Enhancements and User Training, Support, and Outreach (NICHD)
How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why? Intergenerational Correlations in Family Wealth and their Sources. (Russell Sage Foundation)
Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Social Stratification and social mobility; sociology of education; comparative sociology; labor market and welfare state research; quantitative methods
Select Publications
Journal Articles
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Alexandra Achen Killewald. Forthcoming. "Generations of Advantage. Multigenerational Correlations in Family Wealth." Social Forces. DOI. Abstract.
Pfeffer, Fabian T. 2018. "Growing Wealth Gaps in Education." Demography, 55(3): 1033-1068. DOI. Abstract.
Hällsten, Martin, and Fabian T. Pfeffer. 2017. "Grand Advantage: Family Wealth and Grandchildren's Educational Achievement in Sweden." American Sociological Review, 82(2): 328-360. DOI. Abstract.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Jamie Griffin. 2017. "Determinants of Wealth Fluctuation: Changes in Hard-To-Measure Economic Variables in a Panel Study." methods, data, analyses, 11(1): 87-108. PMCID: PMC5351882. DOI. Abstract.
Killewald, Alexandra Achen, Fabian T. Pfeffer, and Jared Schachner. 2017. "Wealth Inequality and Accumulation." Annual Review of Sociology, 43: 379-404. DOI. Abstract.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Robert F. Schoeni. 2016. "How Wealth Inequality Shapes Our Future." RSF, 2(6): 2-22. DOI.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., Robert F. Schoeni, A. Kennickell, and P. Andreski. 2016. "Measuring wealth and wealth inequality: Comparing two US surveys." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 41(2): 103-120. PMCID: PMC5145259. DOI. Abstract.
Current PSC Trainees:
Elizabeth Burland, Davis Daumler, Giovanni Roman Torres, Brittany Vasquez.