Schedule
Find the full program schedule below (updated May 24, 2023). You can also download a printer-friendly PDF.
Note: For attendees planning to attend ASA in Philadelphia, only the pre-conference workshops will take place on August 17, per the ASA website.
Monday, August 14, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
11:30 AM | 4:30 PM | Detroit Tour | Detroit |
5:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Walking Tour of SRO | Survey Research Operations |
6:00 PM | 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception | ISR Atrium |
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration & Coffee | Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Welcome + Keynote: Elizabeth Anderson | Rogel Ballroom |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | TBD |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.1 – Mobility 1: Childhood Conditions Inequality in Wealth Accumulation: Shifting Family Dynamics and the Intergenerational Consequences for Children The Psychic Long Arm of Childhood: Psychological Stratification from Adolescence to Midlife The Scarring Effects of Material Deprivation: Childhood Socioeconomic Position Affects Memory Performance at Age 50 and Over Reproductive Pathways: intragenerational occupational mobility trajectories of U.S. parents and their children |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.2 – Real Utopias Inequality and Class Coalitions to Decommodify Housing What’s wrong with tuition-free 4 year public college? Equality Projects: Theorizing the Organizational Production of Equality in a Worker-run Business If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come Your Significant Other is so Rich? |
2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.3 – School-to-Work First generation students and the labor market after elite schooling How College Graduates from Different Class Backgrounds Receive Equal Pay A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search Yesterday’s Model for Tomorrow’s Economy? The Effect of Firm-Based VET on Youth Unemployment and Wage Inequality in the Knowledge Economy |
Pendleton |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1. 4 – Gender 1: Pay Gap Gender task segregation and the gender pay gap Gendered wage effects of changes in job tasks: Evidence from Germany Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence Changing Work-family Life Courses and the Future Gender Pension Gap in Germany: A Machine Learning Approach |
Wolverine |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch | Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.1 – Mobility 2: Measurement and Debates Structural differences between upward and downward intergenerational micro-class mobility The Intergenerational Transmission of Relative-Income Advantages in the United States: Reassessing the Current View Multigenerational Perspective on Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility: The Case of Japan The impacts of rigorously measured cultural and economic resources on grandchildren’s educational attainment: The case of Japan |
Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.2 – Labor Market 1: Failure & Legitimization Coping with Failed Occupational Aspirations: Resignation, Internalization, Contestation, or Escape? Does economic inequality erode beliefs about meritocracy? Immigrants’ Characteristics and the Legitimation of Economic Discrimination: Results from a Multifactorial Survey Experiment |
2210 ABC |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.3 – Wealth 1: Concepts Class, Credit, and Contradictory Classifications Should social insurance programs count as wealth? A future-oriented perspective Combatting Racial Wealth Gaps: Experimental Evidence about Correcting Misperceptions of Wealth Inequality and Encouraging Americans to Intervene Wealth inequality and accumulation in later life in Japan |
Pendleton |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.4 – Gender 2: Norms How Experiences of Gender Inequality Shape Sex Preference Attitudes in Contemporary Urban China When Gender Norms Don’t Match Institutions: Her Earnings Share Change after First Birth in Korea Career, Children, or Neither? Fathers’ Housework and Mothers’ Work-Family Decisions Following the First Birth Unemployment and well-being: the role of the gender, partner, and gender norms |
Wolverine |
3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | TBD |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.1 – Mobility 3: Determinants & Effects Defund the Police? Local Government Spending and the Racial Mobility Gap Demographic Pathways of Intergenerational Educational Reproduction: Evidence from China Labor Market Transformation and Effectively Maintained Immobility in the United States Are There Health Costs to Upward Mobility? A Sequence Analysis of the Transition out of Higher Education and its link to Health Behavior |
Rogel Ballroom |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.2 – Labor Market 2: Changing Conditions Work from Home and Careers in the Post-Covid Context: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment The Impact of College Degrees in Reducing COVID-Era Labor Market Racial Disparities On the Impact of Digital Technologies on Skill (Mis-)Matches at the Workplace Prevalence and Poverty Penalties of Working in Non-teleworkable and Non-essential Occupations: Evidence from East and West Germany in 2019 |
2210 ABC |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.3 – Wealth 2: Determinants Labor Unions and Wealth Inequality in the United States, 1985-2016 Families in the Red: How Bank Concentration Grows Debt Burden for Households Family life trajectory features and personal wealth of women and men in older age |
Pendleton |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.4 – Gender 3: Education The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials 2008-2020: Trends, Sources and Implications Returns to Attitudes towards Mathematics: Differences by Gender and Outcome From actual major preferences to major choices. An experimental intervention to understand the gender gap in STEM college majors Incongruence between Students’ and Teachers’ Concept of Merit: The Case of Selective High School in Japan |
Wolverine |
5:30 PM | 7:30 PM | Poster Session | TBD |
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Late Registration & Coffee | Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 4.1 – Education 1: Schools & Teachers Better teachers, smarter kids? Estimating the causal impact of teacher qualifications on students’ academic performance Ranking up for STEM: The Influence of School Ranking on STEM Degrees. Does relative deprivation and gratification matter? Can Every School Be a Good School? Unranking and its implications for competitive school choice Selective Schools as Frog Ponds: Heterogeneity of Math Course-Taking Pathways |
Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 4.2 – Labor Market 3: Firms & Earnings Working apart: Educational polarisation driven by widening firm gaps and outsourcing Just born and feeling the (field’s) pressure: Earnings variation among new firm workers and inequality relative to old firm workers in the US, 1993-2018 An Intersectional Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Young Adulthood: Changes across Birth Cohorts Labor Market Dynamics and Regional Fertility in Germany |
2210 ABC |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 4.3 – Wealth 3: Intergenerational Perspectives Wealth gaps in children’s education A comparison across European countries and wealth components Parental wealth and children’s income trajectories in the United States Housing Affordability, Parental Wealth, and the Transition to Homeownership The Legacy of Advantage: Multigenerational Home Wealth Transmission |
Pendleton |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 4.4 – Gender 4: Institutions & Organizations Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: the role of gender and housework Asymmetric access to activation programs among couples in Germany and its consequences on women’s socioeconomic situation His Job Loss, Her Response and the Role of Welfare Policies Parents, Partners, and Professions: Reproduction and Mobility in a Cohort of College Women |
Wolverine |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | TBD |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 5.1 – Education 2: Higher Education “Secondary Effects” of Free College in Chile: High School Enrollment and Expectations Inside the Black Box of College Admissions: How Universities Screen and Why Variation Matters Expectations vs. Reality: an analysis of graduate school expectations and enrollment across two cohorts Postsecondary Education, Language and Discrimination across Organizational Contexts. Evidence from Peru |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 5.2 – Labor Market 4: Dynamics & Insecurity What are the Long Run Trends of Job Insecurity? A Longitudinal Analysis 1976-2019 The Demography of Job Instability: Inequalities in Expected Job Duration by Race, Sex, and Education in the Postindustrial U.S, 1997 – 2019 Work-Hour Volatility and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in Light of Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Women and Men, Germany |
2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 5.3 – Spatial Inequality The Impact of Zoning Regimes on Residential Segregation and Displacement Regional, Spatial and Nationwide Income Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Novel Neighborhood Inequality Data Mobility-based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Large-scale Mobile Device Data Neighborhood Organizational Resources: Aligning Measurement to Theory |
Pendleton |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 5.4 – Family 1: Family & Education Scholars of the Clan: How Extended Kin Shape Educational Attainment in the United States Family structure and the risk of early school leaving: the moderating role of institutional contexts in European countries Family income, parental death and children’s educational attainment: What money cannot buy The increasing educational differentiation of African birth timing |
Wolverine |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch | Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Harry Brighouse | Rogel Ballroom |
3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | TBD |
3:30 PM | 5:30 PM | Envisioning Equality Workshop | Liberty Annex |
6:30 PM | 9:00 PM | Conference Dinner | U-M Museum of Art |
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Coffee | Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 6.1 – Education 3: Supply & Demand Place-Based Education Investment: Promise Neighborhoods and Student Academic Outcomes Understanding the Patterns and Drivers of Dwindling Student Enrollments in Urban School Districts: Evidence from Los Angeles County Trends in the Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East Asia: Disaggregating Trends in the Supply and Demand of Education Education and Later Life Earnings |
Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 6.2 – Labor Market 5: Volatility & Dynamics Later and less? New Evidence on Occupational Maturity for Swedish Women and Men Family Income Volatility Among Chinese Children, 2010-2018 Immigrants‚ Earnings Mobility and Later-Life Health Ethnic Penalties and Career Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis of Early 20th Century Japanese Immigrants in the United States |
2210 ABC |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 6.3 – Policy Does Increasing State Minimum Wages Reduce Inequalities in Access to Financial Services? The Right to Work and American Poverty Do cash transfer programs reduce inequality in social distancing compliance during pandemic outbreaks? Individual- and aggregate-level evidence from Covid-19 in Brazil School Quality and the SES-learning gap: Evidence from School District Changes |
Pendleton |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 6.4 – Family 2: Costs & Premiums Can Couples’ Money Management Mitigate Wealth and Income Inequalities between Partners? A Comparison of East and West Germany Cohabitation Wealth Premium: Comparing France, Eastern, and Western Germany The Varying Costs of Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics’ Impact on Parents’ Wage Levels Scarring or Recovery? The Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Families in Israel |
Wolverine |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | TBD |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.1 – Education 4: Values of Education Lasting Effects of Temporary School Closures Is there a tradeoff between school effectiveness and equity? Mapping Parents’ Educational Values Do parents’ belief in meritocracy and critical reflection of social inequities affect children’s educational aspirations towards secondary school? |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.2 – Heterogeneity & Segregation Heterogeneity, consolidation, and intergroup friendships in adolescence: Revisiting Peter M. Blau’s structuralist theory Socioeconomic segregation in adolescent friendship networks: Prevalence and determinants of same- and cross-SES friendships in US high schools Ethnic Heterogeneity and Income Inequality Understanding Sexual Orientation and Occupational Segregation beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan |
2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.3 – Health Empty Seats at the Dinner Table: Black-White Disparities in Exposure to Household Member Deaths Socioeconomic Status and Mortality: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective The Spill-over Effects of Childhood Health on Siblings’ Educational Attainment Network Resources, Dynamics, and Health in Later Life |
Pendleton |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch To-go options will be provided |
Rogel Ballroom |