Schedule
Find the full program schedule below (updated August 14, 2023). You can also download a printer-friendly PDF.
Note: For attendees planning to attend ASA in Philadelphia, only the pre-conference workshops will take place on August 17, per the ASA website.
Monday, August 14, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
11:30 AM | 4:30 PM | Detroit Tour | Detroit |
5:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Walking Tour of SRO | Perry Building |
6:00 PM | 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception | ISR Atrium |
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration, Breakfast & Coffee | 2210 ABC |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Welcome + Keynote: Elizabeth Anderson | Rogel Ballroom |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | 2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.1 – Mobility 1: Childhood Conditions The Psychic Long Arm of Childhood: Psychological Stratification from Adolescence to Midlife The Scarring Effects of Material Deprivation: Childhood Socioeconomic Position Affects Memory Performance at Age 50 and Over Reproductive Pathways: intragenerational occupational mobility trajectories of U.S. parents and their children |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.2 – Real Utopias What’s wrong with tuition-free 4 year public college? Equality Projects: Theorizing the Organizational Production of Equality in a Worker-run Business If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come Your Significant Other is so Rich? |
Pendleton |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1.3 – School-to-Work How College Graduates from Different Class Backgrounds Receive Equal Pay A Little Help from My Friends? Navigating the Tension between Social Capital and Meritocracy in the Job Search Yesterday’s Model for Tomorrow’s Economy? The Effect of Firm-Based VET on Youth Unemployment and Wage Inequality in the Knowledge Economy |
Kuenzel |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 1. 4 – Gender 1: Pay Gap Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence Changing Work-family Life Courses and the Future Gender Pension Gap in Germany: A Machine Learning Approach |
Wolverine |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch | 2210 ABC / Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.1 – Mobility 2: Measurement and Debates The Intergenerational Transmission of Relative-Income Advantages in the United States: Reassessing the Current View Multigenerational Perspective on Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility: The Case of Japan The impacts of rigorously measured cultural and economic resources on grandchildren’s educational attainment: The case of Japan |
Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.2 – Labor Market 1: Occupation & Beliefs Immigrants’ Characteristics and the Legitimation of Economic Discrimination: Results from a Multifactorial Survey Experiment Coping with Failed Occupational Aspirations: Resignation, Internalization, Contestation, or Escape? The Varying Costs of Parenthood: Occupational Characteristics’ Impact on Parents’ Wage Levels |
Pendleton |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.3 – Wealth 1: Concepts Should social insurance programs count as wealth? A future-oriented perspective Combatting Racial Wealth Gaps: Experimental Evidence about Correcting Misperceptions of Wealth Inequality and Encouraging Americans to Intervene Wealth inequality and accumulation in later life in Japan |
Kuenzel |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM |
Session 2.4 – Gender 2: Norms When Gender Norms Don’t Match Institutions: Her Earnings Share Change after First Birth in Korea Career, Children, or Neither? Fathers’ Housework and Mothers’ Work-Family Decisions Following the First Birth Unemployment and well-being: the role of the gender, partner, and gender norms |
Wolverine |
3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | Rogel Ballroom |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.1 – Mobility 3: Determinants & Effects Labor Market Transformation and Effectively Maintained Immobility in the United States Are There Health Costs to Upward Mobility? A Sequence Analysis of the Transition out of Higher Education and its link to Health Behavior |
Rogel Ballroom |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.2 – Labor Market 2: Changing Conditions The Impact of College Degrees in Reducing COVID-Era Labor Market Racial Disparities Prevalence and Poverty Penalties of Working in Non-teleworkable and Non-essential Occupations: Evidence from East and West Germany in 2019 |
Pendleton |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.3 – Wealth 2: Determinants Families in the Red: How Bank Concentration Grows Debt Burden for Households Can Couples’ Money Management Mitigate Wealth and Income Inequalities between Partners? A Comparison of East and West Germany |
Kuenzel |
3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
Session 3.4 – Gender 3: Education Returns to Attitudes towards Mathematics: Differences by Gender and Outcome Incongruence between Students’ and Teachers’ Concept of Merit: The Case of Selective High School in Japan |
Wolverine |
5:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
Poster Session Intergenerational mobility considering family structure: how the mother’s social status moderates the effect of paternal absence Gender Differences in High School Science Performance: Spatial Abilities, Science Efficacy and Educational Expectations Satisfied with Less? Inequality Beliefs and Job Satisfaction in Low-rewards Jobs Effect of Educational Interruptions on Transition to Adulthood: Evidence from Japan Heterogeneity of Perceived Inequality as a Driver for an Equal World: Latent Structural Analysis in East Asian Societies Downward Mobility and Loneliness: Consequences of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Japan A Dual Disadvantage? COVID-19 and Socioeconomic Differences in Work and Retirement among Older Europeans The causal effect of changes in school management on student performance: the case of militarized schools in Goiás, Brazil Disparities in Patient’s Right to Dignified treatment: the case of Israel Evolution of Vocational Training in Japanese Higher Education and Its Implication for Gender Segregation Work and childbearing in the XXI century: when large work autonomy meets high job demands Underlying Mental Health Disadvantage: Social Integration and Motivation Mismatch of Asian International Students |
2210 ABC |
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Late Registration, Breakfst & Coffee | 2210 ABC |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 4.1 – Education 1: Schools & Teachers Session Chair: Jake Hays Better teachers, smarter kids? Estimating the causal impact of teacher qualifications on students’ academic performance Said Hassan, University of Oxford Ranking up for STEM: The Influence of School Ranking on STEM Degrees. Does relative deprivation and gratification matter? Can Every School Be a Good School? Unranking and its implications for competitive school choice Selective Schools as Frog Ponds: Heterogeneity of Math Course-Taking Pathways |
Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 4.2 – Labor Market 3: Firms & Earnings Session Chair: Pablo Mitnik Just born and feeling the (field’s) pressure: Earnings variation among new firm workers and inequality relative to old firm workers in the US, 1993-2018 Matthew Mendoza, University of Massachusetts Amherst An Intersectional Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Young Adulthood: Changes across Birth Cohorts Labor Market Dynamics and Regional Fertility in Germany |
Pendleton |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 4.3 – Wealth 3: Intergenerational Perspectives Session Chair: Davon Norris Parental wealth and children’s income trajectories in the United States Andrea Pietrolucci, University of Trento; Marco Albertini, University of Bologna Housing Affordability, Parental Wealth, and the Transition to Homeownership The Legacy of Advantage: Multigenerational Home Wealth Transmission |
Kuenzel |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 4.4 – Gender 4: Institutions & Organizations Session Chair: Robert Manduca Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: the role of gender and housework Olga Leshchenko, Susanne Strauss, University of Konstanz Asymmetric access to activation programs among couples in Germany and its consequences on women’s socioeconomic situation His Job Loss, Her Response and the Role of Welfare Policies Parents, Partners, and Professions: Reproduction and Mobility in a Cohort of College Women |
Wolverine |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | 2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 5.1 – Education 2: Higher Education Session Chair: Jake Hays Inside the Black Box of College Admissions: How Universities Screen and Why Variation Matters Ruo-Fan Liu, Eric Hsienchen Chu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Expectations vs. Reality: an analysis of graduate school expectations and enrollment across two cohorts Postsecondary Education, Language and Discrimination across Organizational Contexts. Evidence from Peru |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 5.2 – Labor Market 4: Dynamics & Insecurity Session Chair: Joe LaBriola What are the Long Run Trends of Job Insecurity? A Longitudinal Analysis 1976-2019 Jessie Himmelstern, Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota The Demography of Job Instability: Inequalities in Expected Job Duration by Race, Sex, and Education in the Postindustrial U.S, 1997 – 2019 Work-Hour Volatility and Racial Earnings Disparities Among U.S. Workers Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in Light of Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Women and Men, Germany |
Pendleton |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 5.3 – Spatial Inequality Session Chair: Pablo Mitnik The Impact of Zoning Regimes on Residential Segregation and Displacement Matthew Mleczko, Matthew Desmond, Princeton University Regional, Spatial and Nationwide Income Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Novel Neighborhood Inequality Data Mobility-based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Large-scale Mobile Device Data Neighborhood Organizational Resources: Aligning Measurement to Theory |
Kuenzel |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 5.4 – Family & Education Session Chair: Fabian Pfeffer Scholars of the Clan: How Extended Kin Shape Educational Attainment in the United States Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Northwestern University; Limor Gabay-Egozi, Bar-Ilan University Wealth gaps in children’s education A comparison across European countries and wealth components Do parents’ belief in meritocracy and critical reflection of social inequities affect children’s educational aspirations towards secondary school? |
Wolverine |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch | 2210 ABC / Rogel Ballroom |
1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Harry Brighouse | Rogel Ballroom |
3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | 2210 ABC |
3:30 PM | 5:30 PM | Envisioning Equality Workshop | Liberty Annex |
6:30 PM | 9:00 PM | Conference Dinner | U-M Museum of Art |
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Start Time | End Time | Event | Location |
8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast & Coffee | 2210 ABC |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 6.1 – Education 3: Supply & Demand Session Chair: Joe LaBriola Place-Based Education Investment: Promise Neighborhoods and Student Academic Outcomes Alexandra Cooperstock, Cornell UniversityUnderstanding the Patterns and Drivers of Dwindling Student Enrollments in Urban School Districts: Evidence from Los Angeles County Jared N. Schachner, Gary D. Painter, Ann Owens, University of Southern California Trends in the Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East Asia: Disaggregating Trends in the Supply and Demand of Education Education and Later Life Earnings |
Rogel Ballroom |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 6.2 – Labor Market 5: Volatility & Dynamics Session Chair: Robert Manduca Later and less? New Evidence on Occupational Maturity for Swedish Women and Men Erik Bihagen, Stockholm University; Roujman Shahbazian, University of Munich; Sara Kjellsson, Stockholm UniversityFamily Income Volatility Among Chinese Children, 2010-2018 Jiashu Xu, Renmin University of China; Airan Liu, Peking University, Ethnic Penalties and Career Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis of Early 20th Century Japanese Immigrants in the United States Scarring or Recovery? The Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Families in Israel |
Pendleton |
9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
Session 6.3 – Policy The Right to Work and American Poverty School Quality and the SES-learning gap: Evidence from School District Changes |
Kuenzel |
10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | 2210 ABC |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.1 – Education 4: Values of Education Is there a tradeoff between school effectiveness and equity? Mapping Parents’ Educational Values |
Rogel Ballroom |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.2 – Heterogeneity & Segregation Ethnic Heterogeneity and Income Inequality Understanding Sexual Orientation and Occupational Segregation beyond Western Societies: The Case of Japan |
Pendleton |
11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
Session 7.3 – Health The Spill-over Effects of Childhood Health on Siblings’ Educational Attainment Network Resources, Dynamics, and Health in Later Life |
Kuenzel |
12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch to-go | 2210 ABC |