Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Education, Demography, Social and Health Stratification (Inequality)
E-Mail:
vida.maralani@yale.edu
Background:
Vida Maralani studies educational inequality and social stratification. She studies both the mechanisms that create educational inequality and the effect of educational inequality on other aspects of social inequality such as the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. For example, her dissertation estimates the effects of increases in women’s schooling on the educational attainment of the next generation. She shows how intergenerational effects work both through individual level processes, and also through changes in family size and family structure that have compositional effects at the population level. In other work, she has examined why different subgroups acquire different levels of schooling, differences in age patterns of school entry and completion, and why educational inequalities persist or change. As a Health and Society Scholar, Vida will apply this expertise in education and social stratification to understanding the mechanisms that underlie health disparities by educational and socioeconomic status. Vida holds a MA in history and in sociology, and will complete a Ph.D. in sociology in June 2006 at UCLA. She has also worked as a public policy analyst in the fields of education, youth and poverty.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Vida Maralani's available publications in PubMed.
