How welfare regimes decide the way a shock becomes inequality, across OECD countries and two decades of crisis.
My research is comparative and longitudinal. It follows inequality through the Great Recession and the pandemic, joining sociological theory to computational and mixed-methods analysis, and holds throughout to methodological transparency, public relevance, and a clear account of where structural inequality can be changed.
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Inequality in crisis
Welfare-regime comparisons of inequality during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 period, across OECD countries.
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Gender and the pandemic labor market
Gender and labor-market inequality before and after the pandemic, a comparative analysis across 174 countries.
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Fertility and social policy
Global fertility decline, demographic transitions, and the social policy responses that follow, read cross-nationally.
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Capacity and the minority-serving institution
Capacity building and institutional support for minority-serving institutions.
The birth lottery, the champagne-glass distribution, and two decades of divergence, as a model you can run. The Inequality Lab
The comparative projects rest on multilevel and panel models, structural equation modeling, and time-series analysis of shocks, with careful measurement across countries and survey waves. Alongside the models I read policy and institutional documents, conduct focus groups and key-informant interviews, and integrate the two, so that the numbers and the accounts behind them are read together.
Simpson's paradox, the ecological fallacy, and the garden of forking paths, worked through by hand. The Methods Lab
The Structure of Social Inquiry
Research Design, Evidence, and Explanation · Forthcoming
A book-length argument about how social scientists move from a question to a credible explanation. Design, evidence, and inference are treated as one connected craft, not a toolbox of separate techniques.
Reproducible workflows, quantitative code, and analysis templates supporting my cross-national and longitudinal research. View repository