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
Davis Daumler, University of Michigan

The Psychic Long Arm of Childhood: Psychological Stratification from Adolescence to Midlife
Christian Michael Smith, University of California, Merced

The Scarring Effects of Material Deprivation: Childhood Socioeconomic Position Affects Memory Performance at Age 50 and Over
Khatia Nadaraia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Reproductive Pathways: intragenerational occupational mobility trajectories of U.S. parents and their children
Shiva Rouhani, University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Jennie Brand, University of California, Los Angeles

Rogel Ballroom
11:00 AM 12:30 PM

Session 1.2 – Real Utopias

Inequality and Class Coalitions to Decommodify Housing
Jacob Carlson, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Kean University

What’s wrong with tuition-free 4 year public college?
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Equality Projects: Theorizing the Organizational Production of Equality in a Worker-run Business
Katherine Sobering, University of North Texas

If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come Your Significant Other is so Rich?
Marcos Picchio, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2210 ABC
11:00 AM 12:30 PM

Session 1.3 – School-to-Work

First generation students and the labor market after elite schooling
Paula Pinzón, María José Álvarez, Universidad de los Andes

How College Graduates from Different Class Backgrounds Receive Equal Pay
Jessi Streib, Duke University

A Little Help from My Friends?  Navigating the Tension between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search
Elena Ayala-Hurtado, Harvard University

Yesterday’s Model for Tomorrow’s Economy? The Effect of Firm-Based VET on Youth Unemployment and Wage Inequality in the Knowledge Economy
Patrick Emmenegger, Matthias Haslberger, University of St. Gallen

Pendleton
11:00 AM 12:30 PM

Session 1. 4 – Gender 1: Pay Gap

Gender task segregation and the gender pay gap
Dragana Stojmenovska, New York University; University of Amsterdam

Gendered wage effects of changes in job tasks: Evidence from Germany
Alexandra Wicht, University of Siegen/Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training; Nora Müller, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; Reinhard Pollak, University of Mannheim; Silke Anger, University of Bamberg

Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence
Alexandra Killewald, Nino José Cricco, Harvard University

Changing Work-family Life Courses and the Future Gender Pension Gap in Germany: A Machine Learning Approach
Linda Vecgaile, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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
Per Block, Linus Krug, University of Zurich

The Intergenerational Transmission of Relative-Income Advantages in the United States: Reassessing the Current View
Pablo Mitnik, University of Michigan

Multigenerational Perspective on Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility: The Case of Japan
Mugiyama Ryota, Gakushuin University; Aguru Ishibashi, Senshu University

The impacts of rigorously measured cultural and economic resources on grandchildren’s educational attainment: The case of Japan
Aguru Ishibashi, Senshu University

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?
Anette Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin

Does economic inequality erode beliefs about meritocracy?
Sven Ehmes, Goethe University Frankfurt

Immigrants’ Characteristics and the Legitimation of Economic Discrimination: Results from a Multifactorial Survey Experiment
Moshe Semyonov, Tel Aviv University; Anastasia Gorodzeisky, Tel Aviv University; Rebeca Raijman, University of Haifa; Thomas Hinz, University of Konstanz

2210 ABC
1:30 PM 3:00 PM

Session 2.3 – Wealth 1: Concepts

Class, Credit, and Contradictory Classifications
Rachel E. Dwyer, The Ohio State University; Elizabeth C. Martin, Cornell University

Should social insurance programs count as wealth? A future-oriented perspective
Robert Manduca, University of Michigan

Combatting Racial Wealth Gaps: Experimental Evidence about Correcting Misperceptions of Wealth Inequality and Encouraging Americans to Intervene
Nicole Yadon, Lauren Valentino, Sydney Sauer, Ohio State University

Wealth inequality and accumulation in later life in Japan
Sawako Shirahase, the University of Tokyo

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
Yun Zhou, University of Michigan

When Gender Norms Don’t Match Institutions: Her Earnings Share Change after First Birth in Korea
Hyo Joo Lee, Wonjeong Jeong, Cornell University

Career, Children, or Neither? Fathers’ Housework and Mothers’ Work-Family Decisions Following the First Birth
Ohjae Gowen, Harvard University

Unemployment and well-being: the role of the gender, partner, and gender norms
Olga Leshchenko, University of Konstanz; Jan Paul Heisig, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

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
Manuel Schechtl, City University of New York; Rourke O’Brien, Yale University

Demographic Pathways of Intergenerational Educational Reproduction: Evidence from China
Xiaowen Han, University of Minnesota

Labor Market Transformation and Effectively Maintained Immobility in the United States
Lai Wei, Princeton University

Are There Health Costs to Upward Mobility? A Sequence Analysis of the Transition out of Higher Education and its link to Health Behavior
Miriam Siglreitmaier, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Vida Maralani, Cornell University

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
Anna Matysiak, Agnieszka Kasperska, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska, University of Warsaw

The Impact of College Degrees in Reducing COVID-Era Labor Market Racial Disparities
Nanum Jeon, Jennie E. Brand, University of California, Los Angeles

On the Impact of Digital Technologies on Skill (Mis-)Matches at the Workplace
Ana Santiago-Vela, Technical University of Braunschweig and Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

Prevalence and Poverty Penalties of Working in Non-teleworkable and Non-essential Occupations: Evidence from East and West Germany in 2019
Anette Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin; Emanuela Struffolino, University of Milan; Hannah Zagel, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

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
Alec Rhodes, Ohio State University

Families in the Red: How Bank Concentration Grows Debt Burden for Households
Bowei Hu, University of California, Los Angeles

Family life trajectory features and personal wealth of women and men in older age
Nicole Kapelle, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Carla Rowold, University of Oxford

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
Claudia Buchmann, Rachel E. Dwyer, Man Yao, The Ohio State University

Returns to Attitudes towards Mathematics: Differences by Gender and Outcome
Anne Clark, University of Notre Dame

From actual major preferences to major choices. An experimental intervention to understand the gender gap in STEM college majors
Andrea Canales, Universidad Catolica de Chile

Incongruence between Students’ and Teachers’ Concept of Merit: The Case of Selective High School in Japan
Fumiya Uchikoshi, Princeton University

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
Said Hassan, University of Oxford

Ranking up for STEM: The Influence of School Ranking on STEM Degrees. Does relative deprivation and gratification matter?
Iman Dadgar, Stockholm University; Roujman Shahbazian,University of Munich

Can Every School Be a Good School? Unranking and its implications for competitive school choice
Jacqueline Ho, Cornell University

Selective Schools as Frog Ponds: Heterogeneity of Math Course-Taking Pathways
Alejandro Schugurensky, Princeton University

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
Wouter Zwysen, University of Essex

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
Matthew Mendoza, University of Massachusetts Amherst

An Intersectional Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Young Adulthood: Changes across Birth Cohorts
Christine Percheski, Northwestern University

Labor Market Dynamics and Regional Fertility in Germany
Chen Luo, University of Warsaw

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
Andrea Pietrolucci, University of Trento; Jascha Dräger, University of Leipzig; Nora Müller, GESIS Institute; Marco Albertini, University of Bologna

Parental wealth and children’s income trajectories in the United States
Andrea Pietrolucci, University of Trento; Marco Albertini, University of Bologna

Housing Affordability, Parental Wealth, and the Transition to Homeownership
Joe LaBriola, University of Michigan

The Legacy of Advantage: Multigenerational Home Wealth Transmission
Catalina Anampa Castro, University of Michigan

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
Olga Leshchenko, Susanne Strauss, University of Konstanz

Asymmetric access to activation programs among couples in Germany and its consequences on women’s socioeconomic situation
Veronika Knize, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

His Job Loss, Her Response and the Role of Welfare Policies
Anna Matysiak, Anna Kurowska, Alina Maria Pavelea, University of Warsaw

Parents, Partners, and Professions: Reproduction and Mobility in a Cohort of College Women
Laura Hamilton, University of California, Merced; Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan

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
Pablo Geraldo Bastias, UCLA

Inside the Black Box of College Admissions: How Universities Screen and Why Variation Matters
Ruo-Fan Liu, Eric Hsienchen Chu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Expectations vs. Reality: an analysis of graduate school expectations and enrollment across two cohorts
Madeline Brighouse Glueck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Postsecondary Education, Language and Discrimination across Organizational Contexts. Evidence from Peru
Martin Santos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del 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
Jessie Himmelstern, Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota

The Demography of Job Instability: Inequalities in Expected Job Duration by Race, Sex, and Education in the Postindustrial U.S, 1997 – 2019
Michael Lachanski, University of Pennsylvania

Work-Hour Volatility and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers
Julie Cai, Marybeth Mattingly, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in Light of  Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Women and Men, Germany
Jessica Ordemann, Sandra Buchholz, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

2210 ABC
11:00 AM 12:30 PM

Session 5.3 – Spatial Inequality

The Impact of Zoning Regimes on Residential Segregation and Displacement
Matthew Mleczko, Matthew Desmond, Princeton University

Regional, Spatial and Nationwide Income Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Novel Neighborhood Inequality Data
Franziska Disslbacher, University Roma Tre; Mathias Moser, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Mobility-based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Large-scale Mobile Device Data
Yongjun Zhang, State University of New York; Siwei Cheng, New York University

Neighborhood Organizational Resources: Aligning Measurement to Theory
Nicholas DiRago, University of California, Los Angeles

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
Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Northwestern University

Family structure and the risk of early school leaving: the moderating role of institutional contexts in European countries
Kristina Lindemann, Goethe University Frankfurt

Family income, parental death and children’s educational attainment: What money cannot buy
Yael Navon, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel; Carmel Blank, Ruppin Academic Center; Yossi Shavit, Tel Aviv University

The increasing educational differentiation of African birth timing
Margaret Frye, University of Michigan; Sara Lopus, California Polytechnic State University

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
Alexandra Cooperstock, Cornell University

Understanding the Patterns and Drivers of Dwindling Student Enrollments in Urban School Districts: Evidence from Los Angeles County
Jared N. Schachner, Gary D. Painter, Ann Owens, University of Southern California

Trends in the Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East Asia: Disaggregating Trends in the Supply and Demand of Education
Hiroshi Ishida, University of Tokyo; Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania; Kuo-Hsien Su, National Taiwan University

Education and Later Life Earnings
Janet Wang, University of Michigan

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
Erik Bihagen, Stockholm University; Roujman Shahbazian, University of Munich; Sara Kjellsson, Stockholm University

Family Income Volatility Among Chinese Children, 2010-2018
Jiashu Xu, Renmin University of China; Airan Liu, Peking University,

Immigrants‚ Earnings Mobility and Later-Life Health
Leafia Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ethnic Penalties and Career Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis of Early 20th Century Japanese Immigrants in the United States
Tate Kihara, Brown University

2210 ABC
9:00 AM 10:30 AM

Session 6.3 – Policy

Does Increasing State Minimum Wages Reduce Inequalities in Access to Financial Services?
Megan Bea, Lauri Luosta, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Right to Work and American Poverty
Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota

Do cash transfer programs reduce inequality in social distancing compliance during pandemic outbreaks? Individual- and aggregate-level evidence from Covid-19 in Brazil
Rogério Barbosa et al., State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ – Brazil)

School Quality and the SES-learning gap: Evidence from School District Changes
Said Hassan, Richard Breen, University of Oxford

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
Agnieszka Althaber, Kathrin Leuze, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Cohabitation Wealth Premium: Comparing France, Eastern, and Western Germany
Nicolas Fremeaux, Université Paris; Nicole Kapelle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Philipp M. Lersch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & DIW; Marion Leturcq, Institut national d’études démographiques

The Varying Costs of Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics’ Impact on Parents’ Wage Levels
So Yun Park, Jungmyung Kim, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Scarring or Recovery? The Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Families in Israel
Efrat Herzberg-Druker, Meir Yaish, Tel-Aviv University

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
Per Engzell, University College London

Is there a tradeoff between school effectiveness and equity?
Paul Yoo, Paul Hanselman, University of California, Irvine

Mapping Parents’ Educational Values
Jens-Peter Thomsen, The Danish Center for Social Science Research; Asta Breinholt, Roskilde University

Do parents’ belief in meritocracy and critical reflection of social inequities affect children’s educational aspirations towards secondary school?
Frederick de Moll, Bielefeld University; Miriam Schwarzenthal, University of Wuppertal

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
Georg Lorenz, University of Leipzig; Camilla Rjosk, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Clemens Kroneberg, University of Cologne

Socioeconomic segregation in adolescent friendship networks: Prevalence and determinants of same- and cross-SES friendships in US high schools
Benjamin Rosche, Cornell University

Ethnic Heterogeneity and Income Inequality
Masoud Movahed, University of Pennsylvania

Understanding Sexual Orientation and Occupational Segregation beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan
Daiki Hiramori, Hosei University

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
Angela Dixon, Emory University

Socioeconomic Status and Mortality: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective
Alexander Adames, Jingying He, Xi Song, Irma Elo, University of Pennsylvania

The Spill-over Effects of Childhood Health on Siblings’ Educational Attainment
Han Liu, University at Albany

Network Resources, Dynamics, and Health in Later Life
Nan Feng, Cornell University; Benjamin Cornwell, Cornell University; Qiuju Guo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Pendleton
12:30 PM 1:30 PM Lunch
To-go options will be provided
Rogel Ballroom