David Grusky’s research addresses the changing structure of late-industrial inequality and addresses topics including the role of rent-seeking and market failure in explaining the takeoff in income inequality, the amount of economic and social mobility in the U.S. and other high-inequality countries, the role of essentialism in explaining the persistence of extreme gender inequality, the forces behind recent changes in the amount of face-to-face and online cross-class contact, and the decline of big social classes. He is also involved in projects to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring poverty, inequality, and mobility by exploiting administrative and other forms of “big data” more aggressively.
Research Interests
- Inequality, poverty and mobility
- Sociology of sex and gender
- Quantitative methods