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Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Luca Braghieri
Stanford University
2
Allison C. Morgan
University of Colorado Boulder
3
Ran Abramitzky
Stanford University
4
Satoshi Araki
University of Hong Kong
5
Dania V. Francis
University of Massachusetts Boston
6
Nathan Deutscher
Australian National University
7
Youngju Kim
Seoul National University
8
Philipp Ager
University of Mannheim
9
Paolo Acciari
Ministry of Economy and Finance
10
Benjamín Lira
Ibero American University

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy 1995–2016
Journal of the European Economic Association|2024
29 cit.
2
Assessing Profit Shifting Using Country-by-Country Reports: A Nonlinear Response to Tax Rate Differentials
National Tax Journal|2024
27 cit.
3
Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission
American Economic Review|2024
13 cit.
4
Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
The Journal of Economic History|2024
7 cit.
5
Assessing educational inequality in high participation systems: the role of educational expansion and skills diffusion in comparative perspective
Higher Education|2024
7 cit.
6
Flexibility loss and worker well-being: what happens to job satisfaction when workers lose their telework usage?
Socio-Economic Review|2024
6 cit.
7
Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020
American Economic Review Insights|2024
5 cit.
8
Gender inequality, well-being, and ill-being: A macro analysis of human and societal flourishing
Social Science & Medicine|2025
5 cit.
9
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction
RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences|2024
4 cit.
10
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
SSRN Electronic Journal|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jimmy Narang
University of California, Berkeley
2
Sonya R. Porter
United States Census Bureau
3
Edoardo Teso
Decision Sciences (United States)
4
Alexander I. Young
University of California, Los Angeles
5
Alexey Makarin
Northwestern University
6
Jared Schachner
University of Southern California
7
Hannu Lehti
University of Turku
8
Gregory Veramendi
Royal Holloway University of London
9
Sanni Jalonen
University of Turku
10
Hanol Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals
Nature Genetics|2022
689 cit.
2
Social Media and Mental Health
American Economic Review|2022
477 cit.
3
Conflict and Intergroup Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis
American Economic Review|2022
170 cit.
4
Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects
Nature Genetics|2022
120 cit.
5
Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Early Childhood Development
Demography|2022
31 cit.
6
What drives the performance of Chinese urban and rural secondary schools: A machine learning approach using PISA 2018
Cities|2022
29 cit.
7
Climate change, corruption, and business bribes in South Asia
Finance research letters|2022
21 cit.
8
Educational quality and disparities in income and growth across countries
Journal of Economic Growth|2024
20 cit.
9
Influence-Seeking in U.S. Corporate Elites’ Campaign Contribution Behavior
The Review of Economics and Statistics|2023
19 cit.
10
The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
17 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
James J. Heckman
Unknown
2
Donald J. Treiman
University of California, Los Angeles
3
John H. Goldthorpe
University of Oxford
4
Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University
5
Deepa Narayan
World Bank
6
Kjell G. Salvanes
Norwegian School of Economics
7
Lawrence M. Kahn
Georgia Institute of Technology
8
Emmanuel Saez
University of California, Berkeley
9
Ludger Woessmann
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
10
Nathaniel Hendren
Impact Technology Development (United States)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme
The Review of Economic Studies|1997
5.5k cit.
2
The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables and a Simple Estimator for Such Models
Annals of Economic and Social Measurement|1976
5.1k cit.
3
Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy
The World Bank Research Observer|2000
4.3k cit.
4
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
The Review of Economic Studies|1998
3.8k cit.
5
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2003
3.8k cit.
6
Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Science|2006
3.5k cit.
7
A standard international socio-economic index of occupational status
Social Science Research|1992
3.1k cit.
8
The Technology of Skill Formation
American Economic Review|2007
3k cit.
9
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Journal of Economic Literature|2017
2.9k cit.
10
Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States *
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2014
2.9k cit.

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