Research

Published work

My master's thesis, published in Research is Social Stratification and Mobility looks at intergenerational stratification in graduate enrollment across two cohorts of college graduates who attended college in the 1990s and 2000s. I find that across cohorts, the parent education gradient may have reduced for Master’s and MBAs, has remained stable for professional degrees, and may have increased for PhDs. This work highlights graduate study as an important mechanism preserving intergenerational advantages. You can read it here.

Dissertation

My dissertation is composed of three related papers, each addressing different facets of two major trends in education over the last half century: the rise of women, and rising graduate degrees. These papers explore change across cohorts in the links between degrees and occupations, the alignment of students' early employment and graduate enrollment, and the contribution of graduate study to the gender wage gap.

Works in Progress

I have a number of other projects including :

A paper on graduate expectations and attainment across cohorts (presented at RC28 and Midwest Sociology of Education 2023)
A paper with Eric Grodsky, Ang Yu, and Felix Elwert decomposing differences in the compensatory effect of college on early mortality by first generation status
A project on the growth of troubling Master's degrees with Christian Smith
A research practice partnership with UW Madison Housing including a project on roommate peer effects
A paper with Jake Wertz about the influence of graduate school rankings on the earnings of MBAs, Lawyers, and Physicians.

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