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Biography
Thomas A. DiPrete, chair of the Department of Sociology, received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.A. in Mathematical Statistics and a Ph.D. in 1978 from Columbia. 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 moving to Duke in 1988. Since 2004 he has been a member of the faculty at Columbia. DiPrete has 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. He is currently a board member of the Research Committee 28 (Social Stratification) of the ISA and is the current chair of the methodology section of the American Sociological Association.Thomas DiPrete’s research interests include social stratification, demography, economic sociology, and quantitative methodology. Current and recent research projects include the comparative structure of inequality in European and American labor markets, the sources of variation and change in family structure in the U.S. and Europe, social polarization in the U.S. and its link with segregation in social networks along several potential dimensions of social cleavage, the causes of the widening gender gap in higher education in favor of women, and the role of social comparison and cumulative advantage processes in the trend toward rising inequality at the top of the earnings distribution.
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