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Fabian T Pfeffer
Faculty Associate; Training Faculty
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Associate Chair, Department of Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Associate Chair, Department of Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Research Interests:
Fabian Pfeffer is Research Associate Professor in the Survey Research Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He is the founding director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) as well as Co-Investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). His research investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. Current work focuses and wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, on social mobility processes across multiple generations, and on the maintenance of inequality through education.
Select Publications
- Si,Yajuan, Heeringa,Steven G, Johnson, David, Little,Roderick J, Liu, Wenshuo, Fabian T Pfeffer, Raghunathan,Trivellore E. 2023. Multiple Imputation with Massive Data: An Application to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 11(1):260-283.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Dvir-Djerassi,Asher. 2022. The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts. Socius 8
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Nora Waitkus. 2021. The Wealth Inequality of Nations. American Sociological Review 86(4):567-602.
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Nora Waitkus. 2021. Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(3):28-49.
- Richard Rodems, Pfeffer,Fabian T. 2021. Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth. Journal of European Social Policy 31(5):517-532.
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Fomby,Paula, Noura Insolera. 2020. The Longitudinal Revolution: Sociological Research at the 50-Year Milestone of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Annual Review of Sociology 46:83-108.
- Florian R. Hertel, Pfeffer,Fabian T. 2020. The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States. Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States :29-68.
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Killewald, Alexandra . 2019. Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and Racial Inequality. Socius 5
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Elwert, Felix . 2019. The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias. Sociological Methods & Research
- Pfeffer,Fabian T, Killewald, Alexandra . 2018. Generations of Advantage. Multigenerational Correlations in Family Wealth. Social Forces 96(14):1411-1442.