Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Associate Chair, Department of Sociology and Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Biography
Fabian Pfeffer is Research Associate Professor in the Survey Research Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He is the founding director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) as well as Co-Investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). His research investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. Current work focuses and wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, on social mobility processes across multiple generations, and on the maintenance of inequality through education.
Projects
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations
How Accessible is the Top? The Changing Rigidity of High Incomes and Earnings
Stone Center for Inequality DynamicsFunded Research
- Building a New National Data Infrastructure for the Study of Wealth Inequality and Wealth Mobility
- Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 2017 – 2020
- Effects of Social Mobility on Individual Well-Being, Attitudes, and Behavior: Full and Partial Identification
- Family Dynamics, Fertility and Contraception, and Investments in Children across Generations
- Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations
- Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children across Generations
- Health and Well-being Over the Life Course and Across Multiple Generations
- Health, Wealth, and Time Use Over the Life Course and Across Generations
- Linking 1940 U.S. Census Data for Five Modern Surveys on Health and Aging
- PSID 2021-2024: Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life
- Studying Wealth in America (Phase I)
- Studying Wealth in America (Phase II)
- Transition to Adulthood within its Life Course & Intergenerational Family Context
Publications
- Yajuan Si, Steven G Heeringa, Johnson, David, Roderick J Little, Liu, Wenshuo, Fabian T Pfeffer, Trivellore E Raghunathan. 2023. Multiple Imputation with Massive Data: An Application to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 11(1):260-283.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Asher Lee Dvir-Djerassi. 2022. The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts. Socius 8
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus. 2021. The Wealth Inequality of Nations. American Sociological Review 86(4):567-602.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus. 2021. Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(3):28-49.
- Richard Rodems, Fabian T Pfeffer. 2021. Avoiding material hardship: The buffer function of wealth. Journal of European Social Policy 31(5):517-532.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Paula Fomby, Noura Elise Insolera. 2020. The Longitudinal Revolution: Sociological Research at the 50-Year Milestone of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Annual Review of Sociology 46:83-108.
- Florian R. Hertel, Fabian T Pfeffer. 2020. The Land of Opportunity? Trends in Social Mobility and Education in the United States. Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States :29-68.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Killewald, Alexandra . 2019. Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and Racial Inequality. Socius 5
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Elwert, Felix . 2019. The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias. Sociological Methods & Research
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Killewald, Alexandra . 2018. Generations of Advantage. Multigenerational Correlations in Family Wealth. Social Forces 96(14):1411-1442.
- Fabian T Pfeffer. 2018. Growing Wealth Gaps in Education. Demography 55(3):1033-1068.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Hällsten, Martin . 2017. Grand Advantage: Family Wealth and Grandchildren's Educational Achievement in Sweden. American Sociological Review 82(2):328-360.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Killewald, Alexandra . 2017. Wealth Inequality and Accumulation. Annual Review of Sociology 43:379-404.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Griffin, Jamie. 2017. Determinants of Wealth Fluctuation: Changes in Hard-To-Measure Economic Variables in a Panel Study. Methods, Data, and Analyses 11(1):87-108.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Prix, Irene . 2017. Does Donald need Uncle Scrooge? Extended family wealth and children's educational attainment in the United States. Social Inequality Across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation :112-135-Education;Poverty & Inequality;.
- Irene Prix, Fabian T Pfeffer. 2017. Does Donald need Uncle Scrooge? Extended family wealth and children’s educational attainment in the United States. Social Inequality Across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation :112-135-Education;Poverty & Inequality;.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Schoeni, Bob, Kennickell, Arthur , Andreski, Patricia . 2016. Measuring wealth and wealth inequality: Comparing two US surveys. Journal of economic and social measurement 41(2):103-120.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Schoeni, Bob. 2016. How Wealth Inequality Shapes Our Future. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(6):2-22.
- Fabian T Pfeffer. 2015. Equality and quality in education. A comparative study of 19 countries. Social science research 51:350-368.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Hertel, Florian R. 2015. How Has Educational Expansion Shaped Social Mobility Trends in the United States?. Social Forces 94(1):143-180.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Brand, J E, Goldrick-Rab, S . 2014. The Community College Effect Revisited: The Importance of Attending to Heterogeneity and Complex Counterfactuals. Sociological science 1:448-465.
- Fabian T Pfeffer. 2014. Multigenerational approaches to social mobility. A multifaceted research agenda. Inequality Across Multiple Generations 35:1-12.
- Falk,Emily, Luke Williamson Hyde, Colter Mitchell, Jessica Danielle Faul, Gonzalez,Richard D, Daniel P Keating, Kenneth M Langa, Frederick J Morrison, Megan E Patrick, Fabian T Pfeffer, Patricia A Reuter-Lorenz, Pamela Davis-Kean, Christopher Stephen Monk, John E Schulenberg, Heitzeg, M M, Martz, M E, Maslowsky, J , Noll, D C, Thomason, M E. 2013. What is a representative brain? Neuroscience meets population science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(44):17615-17622.
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Schoeni, Bob, Danziger, Sheldon H.. 2013. Wealth Disparities Before and After the Great Recession. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 650:98-123.
- Fabian T Pfeffer. 2011. Status attainment and wealth in the United States and Germany. Persistance, privilege and parenting. The comparative study of intergenerational mobility
- Fabian T Pfeffer, Goldrick-Rab, Sara . 2009. Beyond Access: Explaining Socioeconomic Differences in College Transfer. Sociology of Education 82(2):101-125.
- Fabian T Pfeffer. 2008. Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment and its Institutional Context. European Sociological Review 24(5):543-565.