Thomas DiPrete
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
- Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality
- Organizer, Wealth and Inequality Seminar Series
Research
Thomas DiPrete received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He studied sociology at Columbia where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978, and spent a year in Columbia's Mathematical Statistics department, earning an M.A. in 1975. Professor DiPrete taught at the University of Chicago, was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences before coming to Duke in 1988. He has also been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, a visiting professor the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, a visiting professor at the Social Sciences Research Center Berlin, and a visiting professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, where he continues to have an affiliation as research professor. His main research interests concern social stratification and mobility, organizations and labor markets, demography, and quantitative methodology. Professor DiPrete is currently the secretary/treasurer for the Research Committee 28 of the International Sociological Association, a board member of the methodology section of the American Sociological Association, and serves on the publications committee of the ASA. In recent years, Tom has taught Social Inequality, Methods of Social Research, Organizations and Management, Social Statistics II, Computers and Society, and various courses in the area of Social Stratification.
Selected Work
- An Introduction to "European Labor Markets: Inequality, Governance, and Change." A Special Issue of *Work and Occupations (2004).
- Is This a Great Country? Upward Mobility and the Chance for Riches in Contemporary America. (2004).
- Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion. with Claudia Buchmann (2004).
- "Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation." with Henriette Engelhardt. Sociological Methods and Research, vol. 32 no. 4 (2004), pp. 501-528.
- "Assessing Bias in the Estimation of Causal Effects: Rosenbaum Bounds on Matching Estimators and Instrumental Variables Estimation with Imperfect Instruments." with Markus Gangl. Sociological Methodology, vol. 34 (2004).
- Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in Europe and the U.S. with Eric Maurin, Dominique Goux, and Amelie Quesnell-Vallee (2004).
- "Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren (Causal Analysis via Matching Methods)."with Markus Gangl. KÖlner Zeitschrift fÜr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (2004)
See Also
- Research grant: Design and Analysis of "How many X's do you know" Surveys for the Study of Polarization in Social Networks?
- Working papers by Thomas DiPrete
