Inequalities: Research from the 3 NYUs

The first conference gathering sociologists and demographers from NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYUShanghai features research presentations about multiple types of inequalities. Topics include reducing wealth disparities, employment discrimination, class identification, assessing change in occupations’ prestige with machine learning, pay differences by education within occupations, skill and the evolution of jobs, class and race differences in forming families via cohabitation or birth, fertility intentions, text analyses to tap class differences in parenting, marital homogamy and intermarriage, and cohort approaches to causal inference.

• Paula England, Dean of Social Science, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD; Professor of Sociology, Silver Professor of Arts and Science, NYU