Richard Breen
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Yale University
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William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE)
I joined the Yale Sociology faculty in January 2007. I was previously an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where I am still a Senior Research Fellow. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a member of Academia Europaea.
My research interests are social stratification and inequality, quantitative methods, and the application of formal models in the social sciences. Below you can find a list of my publications over the past five years. My earlier papers and books are listed on my complete cv. Most of these publications are available from the usual electronic journal providers, but if you have problems getting them, please contact me.
Recent Publications
Articles
- Breen, Richard (2010) “Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century” Social Forces Vol. 89, No. 2: 365-88.
- Breen, Richard (2010) “Social Mobility and Equality of Opportunity” The Economic and Social Review Vol. 41, No. 4: 413-28.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2010) “Mixture Models for Ordinal Data.” Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 3-24.
- Breen, Richard (with Leire Salazar) (2010) “Has increased women’s educational attainment led to greater earnings inequality in the UK? A multivariate decomposition analysis.” European Sociological Review Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 143-58.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller and Reinhard Pollak) (2010) “Long Term Trends in Educational Inequality in Europe: Class Inequalities and Gender Differences” European Sociological Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 31-48.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller and Reinhard Pollak) (2009) “Non-Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries.” American Journal of Sociology, 114 (5), pp. 1475-1521.
- Breen, Richard (2008) “Statistical Models of Association for Comparing Cross-Classifications.” Sociological Methods and Research, Vol.36, (4), pp.442-61.
- Breen, Richard (with Jan O. Jonsson) (2007) “Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth-Century Sweden,” American Journal of Sociology. 112 (6): 1775-1810.
- Breen, Richard (2006). ”Statistical models of social fluidity“. Sociological Theory and Methods 21 (2): 215-35.
Chapters
- Breen, Richard (2009). “Game Theory” in Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 619-38.
- Breen, Richard (2009). “Formal Theory in the Social Sciences” in Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock (eds.) Frontiers of Sociology, Leiden: Brill, pp. 209-31.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2007). “Social mobility and education: a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany” in Stefani Scherer, Reinhard Pollak, Gunnar Otte, Markus Gangl (eds.) From Origin to Destination: Trends and Mechanisms in Social Stratification Research pp. 102-124. Frankfurt/Main: Campus
- Breen, Richard (with Meir Yaish) (2006). “Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making,” in S. L. Morgan, D. B. Grusky, and G. S. Fields (eds.), Mobility and Inequality, pp. 232-58. Stanford: Stanford University Press.