Third Nuffield - ICS Lecture: Tom DiPrete (University of Madison-Wisconsin), May 13, 10.15 hours, Het Kasteel, Groningen

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Sociology Tom DiPrete will deliver the third Nuffield - ICS Lecture, titled

Peer Group Ties and Executive Compensation Networks

Date:       May 13, 10.15 - 11.00 hours

Location: Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, 9718 EP Groningen

Abstract

Biographical Information: (see http://cupop.columbia.edu/people/thomas-diprete)

Past Research:  Professor DiPrete has published widely on the evolution and career impact of internal labor markets, the institutional determinants of trends in the process of status attainment, and the comparative study of how labor market structure and state social welfare policies have mediated the impact of macroeconomic change on the character of work careers in the U.S. and many countries of western Europe. A second theme in his research concerns the socioeconomic life course and how it is affected by welfare state policies, labor market structure, and family dynamics. His work demonstrates that the interdependence of men and women on each other’s earnings has grown in the U.S. to such an extent that the median male now suffers a decline in his standard of living following a union dissolution, even though children are still much more likely to live in the household of their mother following a break-up. Finally, his research finds that the national structure of labor markets and welfare states affects fertility rates; his research found considerable evidence that fertility rates are sensitive to perceived non-monetary costs of childbearing and some evidence that monetary costs also matter, though these costs appear to be driven more by cross-national variation in the ability of women to combine work and childrearing and in the generosity of childbirth-related social welfare benefits than by differences in wage structures. DiPrete’s life course research has been based on secondary analysis of administrative data, repeated cross-sectional survey data, and numerous panel surveys for the U.S. and Europe, has been funded by NSF and by NIH, and has been published repeatedly in the leading general and specialized sociology journals. His expertise concerning the development and testing of cross-national (multilevel) models for family dynamics has played an important role in the Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation project (he is a co-principal investigator on the NICHD contract). He has also published important contributions to methodology, including early applications of partial likelihood methods to the analysis of socioeconomic dynamics, the application of stereotype ordered regression models and multilevel models to the study of social mobility, and most recently, the development of methods for assessing the potential bias when estimating instrumental variables regression with imperfect instruments.