Vida Maralani
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Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vida Maralani (Ph.D. UCLA, 2006) works on a range of topics related to social stratification and demography. She studies educational stratification and inequality, intergenerational processes, social demography, and the pathways that link education and health. Her work examines the connections between education and demographic processes such as marriage, fertility, and mortality, especially with regards to the intergenerational effects of increases in women's education. She also studies why different subgroups acquire different levels of schooling, differences in age patterns of school entry and completion, and how educational inequalities persist or change. Another line of research examines the role that schooling plays in the production of health inequalities, and whether and how these pathways differ across groups.
Recent Publications and Working Papers
Articles
- V. Maralani. 2011. “From GED to College: Age Trajectories of Nontraditional Educational Paths”. American Educational Research Journal 48:1058-1090.
- V. Maralani. 2008. “The Changing Relationship Between Family Size and Educational Attainment over the Course of Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Indonesia”. Demography 45:693-717.
- V. Maralani. 2007. “The Transition to College from a Demographic Perspective: Past Findings and Future Possibilities”. Teachers College Record, 109:2287-2300.
- R. Mare and V. Maralani. 2006. “The Intergenerational Effects of Changes in Women's Educational Attainments”. American Sociological Review, 71:542-564.
- V. Maralani. “Black-White Differences in Educational Reproduction”. Revise and resubmit.
- V. Maralani. “Understanding the Links between Education and Smoking”. Under review.
- E. Berchick, W. Gallo, V. Maralani, and S. Kasl. “The Effect of Inequality on the Association between Involuntary Job Loss and Depressive Symptoms”. Under review
- V. Maralani. “An Unequal Start: The Alignment of Education and Smoking in Families of Origin”.
- V. Maralani and D. McKee. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking and Schooling”.
- V. Maralani and B. Ozcan. “The Demography of Wealth Inequality: Marriage, Fertility, and Black-White Differences in Wealth.”
- V. Maralani and R. Mare. “Demographic Pathways of Intergenerational Effects: Fertility, Mortality, Marriage and Women's Schooling in Indonesia”. CCPR Working Paper 019-05.
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate
- SOCY 118, Numbers and Society (Demography).
- SOCY 314, Inequality in America.
- SOCY 361, Demography Gender and Health.
Graduate
- SOCY 543, Demography Gender and Health.
- SOCY 558, Topics in Social Stratification.
- SOCY 580, Graduate Statistics I.
- SOCY 581, Graduate Statistics II.
- SOCY 595, Inequality & Life Course Workshop.