Stratification Reading List Updated Spring 2017

General Theories

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. 2nd Revised & enlarged edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978.

Weber, Max. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Weber, Max, and Anthony Giddens. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. London ; New York: Routledge, 2001.

Durkheim, E. (1997). The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press.

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. The Forms of Capital. Pp. 241-258 in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, Ed. J. Richardson.

Bourdieu, P (1984). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Tilly, Charles. 1988. Durable Inequality. University of California Press.

Ridgeway, Cecilia. 1991. The Social Construction of Status Value: Gender and Other Nominal Characteristics. Social Forces 70(2):367-386.

Sewell, W. (1992). A theory of structure: Duality, agency, and transformation. The American Journal of Sociology, 98, 1–29

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 2011. Intro and Conclusion

Operationalizing Social Standing

Hauser, Robert M., and John Robert Warren. 1997. Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique. Sociological Methodology 27(1):177-298. Goldthorpe, John H. 2000. Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts. Chapter 10 in On Sociology: Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth. 2002. A Class Analysis for the Future? Comment on Grusky and Weeden: 'Decomposition without Death: A Research Agenda for a New Class Analysis'. Acta Sociologica 45(3):217-221. Lizardo, Omar. "Culture and stratification." Pp. 305-315 in John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-cheng Lo (Eds.) Handbook of Cultural Sociology. London: Routledge Wright, Erik Olin. 2005. Foundations of a Neo-Marxist Class Analysis. Chapter 1 in Approaches to Class Analysis, Ed. Erik Olin Wright. Weeden, Kim A., and David B. Grusky. 2012. The Three Worlds of Inequality. American Journal of Sociology 117(6):1723-1785.

Social Mobility and Immobility

Hout, Michael. 1983. Mobility Tables. Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, No. 31. Sage Publications. Breiger, Ronald. 1981. The Social Class Structure of Occupational Mobility. American Journal of Sociology 87:578-611. Hout, Michael. 1988. More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure. American Journal of Sociology 93(6):1358-1400. Beller, Emily. 2009. Bringing Intergenerational Social Mobility Research into the Twenty-First Century: Why Mothers Matter. American Sociological Review 74(4):507-528. Erikson, Robert and John H. Goldthorpe. 1992. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, Chapters 1 and 11. Breen, Richard. 2004. Social Mobility in Europe, Chapters 1-3. Beller, Emily, and Michael Hout. 2006. Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective. The Future of Children 16(2):19-36. Frye, Margaret. “Bright Futures in Malawi’s New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity.” AJS; American Journal of Sociology 117, no. 6 (May 1, 2012): 1565–1624.

Jonsson, Jan O., David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton. 2009. Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries. American Journal of Sociology 114(4):977-1036.

HOROWITZ, RUTH. “Barriers and Bridges to Class Mobility and Formation: Ethnographies of Stratification.” Sociological Methods & Research 25, no. 4 (May 1, 1997): 495–538.

MacLeod, Jay. 1987. Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Westview Press.

Güveli, Ayse, Ruud Luijkx, and Harry B. G. Ganzeboom. 2012. Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility of the Old and New Middle Classes in a Post-Industrial Society: Netherlands 1970– 2006. Social Science Research 41(2):224-241

Vaisey, S. (2010). What People Want: Rethinking Poverty, Culture, and Educational Attainment. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 629, 75–101.

Status Attainment

Blau, Peter M., and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure, Chapters 1, 4, 5, and 12.Sewell, William H., Archibald O. Haller, and Alejandro Portes. 1969. The Educational and Early Occupational Status Attainment Process. American Sociological Review 34(1):82--92. Kerckhoff, Alan C. 1976. The Status Attainment Process: Socialization or Allocation? Social Forces 55(2):368-381. Hauser, Robert M., Shu-Ling Tsai, and William H. Sewell. 1983. A Model of Stratification with Response Error in Social and Psychological Variables. Sociology of Education 56(1):20- 46. Liebow, E. (1967). Tally’s corner: A study of Negro street corner men. Boston: Little, Brown

Income and Wealth

Inequality

Lemieux, Thomas. 2006. Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill? American Economic Review 96(3):461-498. Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, and Christine Percheski. 2008. Inequality among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005. American Sociological Review 73(6):903-920. Wodtke, Geoffrey T. 2016. Social Class and Income Inequality in the United States: Ownership, Authority, and Personal Income Distribution from 1980 to 2010. American Journal of Sociology 121(5):1375-1415. Gottschalk, Peter, and Timothy M. Smeeding. 2000. Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries. Chapter 5 in Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume I. Piketty, Thomas, and Emmanuel Saez. 2006. The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective. American Economic Review 96(2):200-205.

Fischer, C. S., Hout, M., Jankowski, M. S., Lucas, S. R., Swidler, A., & Voss, K. (1996). Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth . Princeton, NJ : Princton University Press.

Mobility

Mazumder, Bhashkar. 2005. Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data. The Review of Economics and Statistics 87(2):235-255. Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez and Nicholas Turner. 2014. Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility. American Economic Review 104(5):141-147 Charles, Kerwin Kofi, and Eric Hurst. 2003. The Correlation of Wealth across Generations. Journal of Political Economy 111(6):1155-1182.

Labor Markets

Markets and Human Capital

Becker, Gary S. 1962. Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis. Journal of Political Economy 70(5):9-49. Goldin, Claudia Dale, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2008. The Race between Education and Technology, Chapters 1-3, 8-9. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Liu, Yujia, and David B. Grusky. 2013. The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution. American Journal of Sociology 118(5):1330-1374. Rivera, Lauren A. 2012. Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms. American Sociological Review 77(6):999-1022.

Structural Approaches and Market Imperfections

Sørensen, Aage B., and Arne L. Kalleberg. 1981. An Outline of a Theory of the Matching of Persons to Jobs. Pp. 49-74 in Sociological perspectives on labor markets. Eliason, Scott R. 1995. An Extension of the Sørensen-Kalleberg Theory of the Labor Market Matching and Attainment Processes. American Sociological Review 60(2):247-271. Sørensen, Aage. 1996. The Structural Basis of Social Inequality. American Journal of Sociology 101(5):1333-1365. Weeden, Kim A. 2002. Why Do Some Occupations Pay More than Others? Social Closure and Earnings Inequality in the United States. American Journal of Sociology 108(1):55-101. Mouw, Ted, and Arne L. Kalleberg. 2010. Occupations and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the United States, 1980s to 2000s. American Sociological Review 75(3):402-43 DiPrete, Thomas A., Gregory M. Eirich, and Matthew Pittinsky. 2010. Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay. American Journal of Sociology 115(6):1671-1712. Volscho, Thomas W., and Nathan J. Kelly. 2012. The Rise of the Super-Rich: Power Resources, Taxes, Financial Markets, and the Dynamics of the Top 1 Percent, 1949 to 2008. American Sociological Review 77(5):679-699. Lin, Ken-Hou, and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. 2013. Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970-2008. American Journal of Sociology 118(5):1284-1329.

Labor Market Institutions and the Welfare State

Western, Bruce, and Jake Rosenfeld. 2011. Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality. American Sociological Review 76(4):513-537. Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton University Press. Pp. 18-34. Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. 1996. International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces. Journal of Political Economy 104(4):791- 837. DiPrete, Thomas A., Paul M. de Graaf, Ruud Luijkx, Michael Tahlin and Hans‐ Peter Blossfeld. 1997. Collectivist versus Individualist Mobility Regimes? Structural Change and Job Mobility in Four Countries. American Journal of Sociology 103(2):318-358. DiPrete, Thomas A. 2002. Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the United States. American Journal of Sociology 108(2):267-309. Moller, Stephanie, et al. 2003. Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. American Sociological Review 68(1):22-51. Kerrissey, Jasmine. 2015. Collective Labor Rights and Income Inequality. American Sociological Review 80(3):626-653. Hays, Sharon. 2003. Flat broke with children: Women in the age of welfare reform. Oxford University Press. Sallaz, Jeffrey J. 2004. Manufacturing concessions: Attritionary outsourcing at General Motor’s Lordstown, USA assembly plant. Work, Employment, and Society 18(4):687-708. Wacquant, Loïc. 2009. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Duke University Press.

Education

Social Background and Schooling

Mare, Robert D. 1981. Change and Stability in Educational Stratification. American Sociological Review 46(1):72-87. Cameron, Stephen V., and James J. Heckman. 1998. Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males. Journal of Political Economy 106(2):262-333. Raftery, Adrian E., and Michael Hout. 1993. Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform, and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-75. Sociology of Education 66(1):41- 62. Breen, Richard, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller and Reinhard Pollak. 2009. Nonpersistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries. American Journal of Sociology 114(5):1475-1521. Rauscher, Emily. 2016. Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth- Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws. American Journal of Sociology 121(6):1697- 1761. Breen, Richard, and John H. Goldthorpe. 1997. Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory. Rationality and Society 9(3):275-305. Bailey, Martha J., and Susan M. Dynarksi 2011. Inequality in Postsecondary Education. Chapter 6 in Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances, Ed. Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane. Alon, Sigal. 2009. The Evolution of Class Inequality in Higher Education: Competition, Exclusion, and Adaptation. American Sociological Review 74(5):731-755.

Effects of Schooling

Card, David. 2001. Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems. Econometrica 69(5):1127-1160. Brand, Jennie E., and Yu Xie. 2010. Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education. American Sociological Review 75(2):273-302. Collins, Randall. 1979. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. Academic Press. Jaeger, David A., and Marianne E. Page. 1996. Degrees Matter: New Evidence on Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education. The Review of Economics and Statistics 78(4):733- 740. Downey, Douglas B., Paul T. von Hippel, and Beckett A. Broh. 2004. Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year. American Sociological Review 69(5):613-635. Lucas, Samuel R. 2001. Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects. American Journal of Sociology 106(6):1642- 1690. Kerckhoff, Alan C. 2001. Education and Social Stratification Processes in Comparative Perspective. Sociology of Education 74:3-18. Willis, Paul. 1977. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. Columbia University Press.

Khan, Shamus. 2010. Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School. Princeton University Press.

Skills and Inequality

Farkas, George. 2003. Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits and Behaviors in Stratification Processes. Annual Review of Sociology 29:541-562. Heckman, James J., Jora Stixrud and Sergio Urzua. 2006. The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior. Journal of Labor Economics 24(3):411-482. Heckman, James J. 2006. Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children. Science 312(5782):1900-1902. Reardon, Sean F. 2011. The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Explanations. Chapter 5 in Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances, Ed. Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane.

Families and Inequality

Family Formation and Structure

McLanahan, Sara. 2004. Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition. Demography 41(4):607-627. Biblarz, Timothy J., and Adrian E. Raftery. 1999. Family Structure, Educational Attainment, and Socioeconomic Success: Rethinking the "Pathology of Matriarchy." American Journal of Sociology 105(2):321-365. Fomby, Paula, and Andrew Cherlin. 2007. Family Instability and Child Well-Being. American Sociological Review 72(2):181-204. Schwartz, Christine R., and Robert D. Mare. 2005. Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage from 1940 to 2003. Demography 42(4):621-646. Breen, Richard, and Leire Salazar. 2011. Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the United States. American Journal of Sociology 117(3):808-843. Furstenberg, Jr., Frank F. 2003. Teenage Childbearing as a Public Issue and Private Concern. Annual Review of Sociology 29:23-29. Edin, Kathryn, and Maria Kefalas. 2011. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. University of California Press.

Parenting and Childrearing

Becker, Gary S., and Nigel Tomes. 1986. Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families. Journal of Labor Economics 4(3):S1-S39. Mayer, Susan E. 1996. What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances, Chapters 1 and 9. Harvard University Press. Kohn, Melvin L. 1963. Social Class and Parent-Child Relationships: An Interpretation. American Journal of Sociology 68(4):471-480. Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Chapters 1, 2, and 12. University of California Press. Jæger, Mads Meier, and Richard Breen. 2016. A Dynamic Model of Cultural Reproduction. American Journal of Sociology 121(4):1079-1115.

Social Networks and Social Capital

Coleman, James S. 1988. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology 94:S95-S120. Granovetter, Mark. 1973. The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology 78(6):1360-1380. Granovetter, Mark. 1974. Getting a Job. University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1-2. Granovetter, Mark. 2005. The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(1):33–50. Petersen, Trond, Ishak Saporta, and Marc-David L. Seidel. 2000. Offering a Job: Meritocracy and Social Networks. American Journal of Sociology 106(3):763-816. Mouw, Ted. 2003. Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter? American Sociological Review 68: 868-898. Bian, Yanjie, Ronald Breiger, Joseph Galaskiewicz, and Deborah Davis. 2005. Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China. Social Forces 83(4):1443-1468. Fernandez, Roberto M., and Roman V. Galperin. 2012. The Causal Status of Social Capital in Labor Markets. MIT Sloan Research Paper. Small, Mario L. 2009. Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press

Neighborhoods

Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. Assessing "Neighborhood Effects": Social Processes and New Directions in Research. Annual Review of Sociology 28:443-478. Harding, David J. 2003. Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenage Pregnancy. American Journal of Sociology 109(3):676-719. Wodtke, Geoffrey, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert. 2011. Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective: The Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation. American Sociological Review 76(5):713-736. Ludwig, Jens, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. 2008. What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment? American Journal of Sociology 114(1):144-188.

Sánchez-Jankowski, M. (2008). Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Small, Mario Luis. “Four Reasons to Abandon the Idea of ‘The Ghetto.’” City & Community 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 389–98. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00271_8.x.

Venkatesh, S. A. (2002). American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Gender Inequality

Education

Buchmann, Claudia, and Thomas A. DiPrete. 2006. The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement. American Sociological Review 71(4):515-541. Charles, Maria, and Karen Bradley. 2009. Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries. American Journal of Sociology 114(4):924-976.

Labor Force Participation

Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade. 1973. Demographic Influence on Female Employment and the Status of Women. American Journal of Sociology 78(4):946-961. Mincer, Jacob, and Solomon Polachek. 1974. Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women. Pp. 397-431 in Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital, Ed. Theodore W. Schultz. Goldin, Claudia, and Cecilia Rouse. 2000. Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians. American Economic Review 90(4):715-741. Goldin, Claudia. 2006. The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family. American Economic Review 96(2):1-21. Hochschild, Arlie. The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home. Revised edition. New York, N.Y: Penguin Books, 2012.

Percheski, Christine. 2008. Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women's Employment Rates from 1960 to 2005. American Sociological Review 73(3):497-517.

Occupational Segregation, Comparable Worth, Devaluation

Roth, Louise Marie. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street. Princeton University Press, 2011.

Steinberg, Ronnie J. 1990. Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth. Work and Occupations 17(4):449-482. Kilbourne, Barbara Stanek, Paula England, George Farkas, Kurt Beron and Dorothea Weir. 1994. Returns to Skill, Compensating Differentials, and Gender Bias: Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Wages of White Women and Men. American Journal of Sociology 100(3):689-719. Petersen, Trond, and Laurie A. Morgan. 1995. Separate and Unequal: Occupation-Establishment Sex Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap. American Journal of Sociology 101(2):329- 365. Tam, Tony. 1997. Sex Segregation and Occupational Gender Inequality in the United States: Devaluation or Specialized Training? American Journal of Sociology 102(6):1652-1692. Tomaskovic-Devey, Don, and Sheryl Skaggs. 2002. Sex Segregation, Labor Process Organization, and Gender Earnings Inequality. American Journal of Sociology 108(1):102-128. Charles, Maria, and David B. Grusky. 2004. Occupational ghettos: The worldwide segregation of women and men. Chapters 1 and 9. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Correll, Shelley J. 2004. Constraints into Preferences: Gender, Status, and Emerging Career Aspirations. American Sociological Review 69(1):93-113. Cech, Erin A. 2013. The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation. American Journal of Sociology 119(3):747-789.

Wage Inequality and the Motherhood Penalty

Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2016. The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations. NBER Working Paper No. 21913. Budig, Michelle J., and Paula England. 2001. The Wage Penalty for Motherhood. American Sociological Review 66(2):204-225. Correll, Shelley J., Stephen Benard, and In Paik. 2007. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? American Journal of Sociology 112:1297-1338. Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2003. Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap. Journal of Labor Economics 21(1):106-144. Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov. 2005. Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries. American Sociological Review 70:949-967.

Race

Race and Class, Segregation, and Incarceration

Wilson, William Julius. 1978. The Declining Significance of Race, Chapters 1 and 7. Featherman, David L., and Robert M. Hauser. 1976. Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73. American Journal of Sociology 82(3):621-651. Wilson, William Julius. 1996. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. Vintage. Introduction and chapters 1-5. Pattillo, Mary. 1999. Black Picket Fences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Carter, Prudence L. 2005. Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lamont, Michèle. 2000. The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Harvard University Press. Reardon, Sean F., and Kendra Bischoff. 2011. Income Inequality and Income Segregation. American Journal of Sociology 116(4):1092-1153. Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1997. Black wealth, white wealth: A new perspective on racial inequality. Routledge. Killewald, Alexandra. 2013. Return to Being Black, Living in the Red: A Race Gap in Wealth That Goes Beyond Social Origins. Demography 50(4):1177-1195. Western, Bruce. 2002. The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality. American Sociological Review 67(4):526-546. Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. 2005. Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration. American Journal of Sociology 111:553-578.

Discrimination and Labor Market Disparities

Blank, Rebecca M., Marilyn Dabady, and Constance F. Citro. 2004. Measuring Racial Discrimination, Executive Summary (Pp. 1-14). National Academies Press. Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review 94(4):991-1013. Kirschenman Joleen, Neckerman Kathryn M.. “‘We'd Love to Hire Them, But …’: The Meaning of Race for Employers.” In The Urban Underclass, ed. Jencks C., Peterson P.. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991 Pager, Devah. 2009. Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment. American Sociological Review 74(5):777-799. Neal, Derek A., and William R. Johnson. 1996. The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-White Wage Differences. Journal of Political Economy 104(5):869-895. Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Melvin Thomas, and Kecia Johnson. 2005. Race and the Accumulation of Human Capital across the Career: A Theoretical Model and Fixed- Effects Application. American Journal of Sociology 111: 58-89. Moore, Thomas S. 2010. The Locus of Racial Disadvantage in the Labor Market. American Journal of Sociology 116(3):909-942.

Immigration

Assimilation and Incorporation

Portes, Alejandro, and Min Zhou. 1993. The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 530(1):74-96. Alba, Richard, and Victor Nee. 1997. Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration. International Migration Review 31:826-874. Feliciano, Cynthia. 2005. Educational selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind? Demography 42(1):131-152. Restifo, Salvatore J., Vincent J. Roscigno, and Zhenchao Qian. 2013. Segmented Assimilation, Split Labor Markets, and Racial/Ethnic Inequality: The Case of Early-Twentieth-Century New York. American Sociological Review 78(5):897-924. Wimmer, Andreas. 2009. Herder's Heritage and the Boundary-Making Approach: Studying Ethnicity in Immigrant Societies. Sociological Theory 27(3):244-270. John Logan, Richard Alba, and Brian Stults. 2003. Enclaves and Entrepreneurs: Assessing the Payoff for Immigrants and Minorities. International Migration Review 37: 344-88. Jiménez, Tomás R. 2008. Mexican Immigrant Replenishment and the Continuing Significance of Ethnicity and Race. American Journal of Sociology 113: 1527-1567.

Immigration and Labor Markets

Card, David. 2001. Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration. Journal of Labor Economics 19(1):22-64. Borjas, George J. 2003. The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4):1335-1374. Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P., and Giovanni Peri. 2012. Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages. Journal of the European Economic Association 10(1):152-197. Pais, Jeremy. 2013. The Effects of U.S. Immigration on the Career Trajectories of Native Workers, 1979–2004. American Journal of Sociology 119(1):35-74. van Tubergen, Frank, Ineke Maas, and Henk Flap. 2004. The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants in 18 Western Societies: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects. American Sociological Review 69(5):704-727.

Inequality over the Lifecourse

Background Effects and Linking Mechanisms

Abramson, Corey M. 2015. The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years. Harvard University Press. Luftey, Karen, and Jeremy Freese. 2005. Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Routine Clinic Visit for Diabetes. American Journal of Sociology 110(5):1326-1372. Smith, James P. 2007. “The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life Course” Journal of Human Resources 42:739-64. Link, Bruce G., and Jo Phelan. 1995. Social Conditions as Fundamental Cause of Disease. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:80-94 Miech, Richard, Fred Pampel, Jinyoung Kim, and Richard G. Rogers. 2011. The Enduring Association between Education and Mortality: The Role of Widening and Narrowing Disparities. American Sociological Review 76(6):913-934.

Health and Inequality

Umberson, D., Crosnoe, R., & Reczek, C. (2010). Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across Life Course. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 139–157.

Elder, G. H., Johnson, M. K., & Crosnoe, R. (2003). The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory. In J. T. Mortimer & M. J. Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the Life Course. New York: Springer.

Palloni, Alberto. 2006. Reproducing inequalities: Luck, wallets, and the enduring effects of childhood health. Demography 43(4):587-615. Haas, Steven A. 2006. Health Selection and the Process of Social Stratification: The Effect of Childhood Health on Socioeconomic Attainment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47(4):339-354. Smith, James P. 2009. The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes. The Review of Economics and Statistics 91(3):478-489.

Willson, A. E., & Shuey, K. M. (2007). Cumulative Advantage Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health. American Journal of Sociology, 112(6), 1886–1924.