Fabian T. Pfeffer

Fabian T. Pfeffer received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main research interests are the comparative study of social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. His current work focuses on wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, the institutional context of social mobility processes and educational inequality in the United States and other industrialized countries, and the transmission of inequality across multiple generations. He is also a Research Assistant Professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and serves as Co-Investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. He leads the Inequality Lab (www.theinequalitylab.com), a research and training laboratory that investigates the dynamics of social inequality and trains the next generation of inequality scholars.