Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower
levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over the past several …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

We did not realize it at the time, but we were observing a new cohort of students being swept
up onto the party pathway that defines a swath of undergraduate social life at this university …

Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most
ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults …

Numerous studies document that higher education is associated with a reduced likelihood of
depression. The protective effects of higher education, however, are known to vary across …

Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower
levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree …

Research Summary We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N=
3,197) to consider the heterogeneous effects of maternal incarceration on 9‐year‐old …

A growing literature has documented the mostly deleterious intergenerational
consequences of paternal incarceration, but less research has considered heterogeneity in …

In this review, we integrate three bodies of scholarship—education stratification research,
political-historical sociology of higher education, and sociological theories of race and …