Contributors

Silke Anger, Professor, Head of Research Department ‘Education, Training, and Employment Over the Life Course’, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany. Cordula Artelt, Professor for Longitudinal Educational Research, University of and Director, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Germany. Birgit Becker, Professor of (Empirical Educational Research), Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Dominik Becker, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Germany. Rolf Becker, Professor of Sociology of Education and Director of the Department of Sociology of Education, University of Bern, Switzerland. Fabrizio Bernardi, Professor in Sociology, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Italy. David B. Bills, Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa, USA. Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld, Research Fellow, DFG priority programme 1646 ‘Education as a Lifelong Process. Analyzing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)’, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Full Professor and Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Pia Nicoletta Blossfeld, Dr, Assistant Professor, Institute for Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany. Camilla Borgna, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy. Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Dr, Research Fellow, Research Unit ‘Skill Formation and Labor Markets’, WZB Berlin Center, Germany. Sandra Buchholz, Professor of Quantitative Life Course Research, Head of Research Area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hanover, Germany. Martina Dieckhoff, Professor, Department of Methodology, Interdisciplinary Institute of Environmental, Social and Human Sciences, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. Jörg Dollmann, Dr, Research Fellow, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), , Germany.

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Robert Erikson, Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Michael Gebel, Professor and Chair of Sociology, especially Methods of Empirical Social Research, Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Andreas Hadjar, Professor in Sociology of Education, Institute of Education and Society, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Eric A. Hanushek, Professor, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA. Guido Heineck, Professor, Department of , University of Bamberg, Germany. Steffen Hillmert, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Germany. Anne Christine Holtmann, Dr, Research Fellow, Research Unit ‘Skill Formation and Labor Markets’, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany. Christian Imdorf, Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. Marita Jacob, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology and Social , , Germany. Corinna Kleinert, Professor of Sociology (Longitudinal Education Research), University of Bamberg, Head of Department ‘Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education’, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Germany. Irena Kogan, Professor of Sociology (Societal Comparisons), University of Mannheim, Germany. Irene Kriesi, Professor, Department of Research and Development, Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET), Zollikofen, Switzerland. Cornelia Kristen, Professor of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany. Clemens M. Lechner, Dr, Head of Team ‘Scale Development and Documentation’, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Department Survey Design and Methodology, Mannheim, Germany. Volker Müller-Benedict, Professor of Sociology, Department of Central Methodology, Interdisciplinary Institute of Environmental, Social and Human Sciences, Europa- Universität Flensburg, Germany. Bernhard Nauck, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Martin Neugebauer, Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. Lisa Pfahl, Professor of Educational Science (Disability Studies), Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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Justin J.W. Powell, Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education & Society, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Manfred Prenzel, Professor, Head of Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna, Austria. Beatrice Rammstedt, Professor of Psychological Assessment, Survey Design and Methodology, University of Mannheim, Vice-President of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Head of Research Department ‘Survey Design and Methodology’, Mannheim, Germany. David Reimer, Professor with Special Responsibilities, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Christine Sälzer, Professor and Chair of Pedagogy, Institute of Educational Science, , Germany. Thorsten Schneider, Professor of Sociology (Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Societies), Institute of Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany. Jan Skopek, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland. Heike Solga, Professor of Sociology at Freie Universitaet Berlin and Director of the Research Unit ‘Skill Formation and Labor Markets’, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany. Volker Stocké, Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Kassel, Germany (deceased on 22 August 2017). Jens-Peter Thomsen, PhD, Senior Researcher, VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark. Moris Triventi, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy. Sabine Weinert, Full Professor and Chair of Developmental Psychology, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany. Felix Weiss, Assistant Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Ludger Woessmann, Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Munich, Director, ifo Center for the Economics of Education, Germany. Christoph Zangger, Dr, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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