The Effects of Social Mobility on Individuals: An Initial Sketch of a Positional Sociology
Posted: 5/28/2019 (CSDE Seminar Series)
This Friday, cosponsored with the West Coast Poverty Center, Fabian Pfeffer will present on a novel non-parametric bounding approach to partially identify the effects of social mobility. Researchers have long sought to estimate the effects of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility on a range of individual outcomes. However, the empirical study of mobility effects faces a fundamental methodological challenge: The linear dependency among social origins (O), destinations (D), and social mobility (M = D − O), prohibits the use of conventional statistical methods to estimate the unique contributions of the three variables to any given outcome.
Please visit the seminar page to reserve a time to meet with Professor Pfeffer.
Date: 05/31/2019
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: 121 Raitt Hall