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Asher Dvir-Djerassi (he/him or they/them) is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Public Policy, a Student Fellow at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID), and Co-Investigator on the Wealth and Mobility (WAM) Study. As a Population Center Trainee, he has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Asher came to the University of Michigan with an M.S. in data science from the City University of New York, a B.A. in economics from Hampshire College, and a year of graduate coursework in economics completed at Sciences Po–Paris. From 2014 to 2015, Asher served as a Fulbright Fellow in Bulgaria. Asher’s research primarily concerns income and wealth inequality. Thematically, Asher’s research is situated within fiscal sociology, stratification, comparative historical institutionalism, and comparative political economy.An

An ISR Next Generation scholar, Asher won a Marshall Weinberg fellowship for his 2021 project, “The Demographics of Wealth Stratification in America.”