Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan
Founding Director
The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID)
Fabian Pfeffer is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and research associate professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is the founding director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) as well as a co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). His research investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. Current work focuses on wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, social mobility processes across multiple generations, and the maintenance of inequality through education.
Areas of Expertise
Social Inequality
Wealth
Social Mobility
Cross-national Comparisons
Quantitative Methods
- Interview: How Housing Wealth Plays a Key Role in Inequality in Affluent Countries: an Interview with Fabian Pfeffer
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 35: The Wealth Inequality of Nations