Richard Breen
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Yale University
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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. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a member of Academia Europaea. I serve as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Juan March Institute, Madrid and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung.
My research interests are social stratification and inequality, 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
Books
- Breen, Richard (ed.) (2004). Social Mobility in Europe. Oxford University Press.
Chapters
- 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.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Foundations of Class Analysis in the Weberian Tradition,” in E. O. Wright (ed.), Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, pp. 31-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Why Did Class Inequalities in Educational Attainment Remain Unchanged over Much of the Twentieth Century?” in A. F. Heath, J. Ermisch and D. Gallie (eds.), Understanding Social Change: Proceedings of the British Academy, pp. 55-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2004). “The Comparative Study of Social Mobility,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 1-16. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2004). “Statistical Methods of Mobility Research,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 17-36. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2004). “Social Mobility in Europe between 1970 and 2000,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 37-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2004). “Conclusions,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 383-410. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Articles
- Breen, Richard (with Jan O. Jonsson) (2005). “Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility,” Annual Review of Sociology, 31: 223-244.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Explaining Cross-national Variation in Youth Unemployment: Market and Institutional Factors,” European Sociological Review, 21 (2): 125-134.
- Breen, Richard (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) (2005). “Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation,” Review of Development Economics, 9 (3): 380-398.
- Breen, Richard (with Lynn Prince Cooke) (2005). “The Persistence of the Gendered Division of Domestic Labour,” European Sociological Review, 21 (1): 43-57.
- Breen, Richard (with Pasi Moisio) (2004). “Poverty Dynamics Corrected for Measurement Error,” Journal of Economic Inequality, 2 (3): 171-191.
- Breen, Richard (2003). “Is Northern Ireland an Educational Meritocracy?” Sociology, 37 (4): 657-676.
- Breen, Richard (with John H. Goldthorpe) (2002). “Merit, Mobility and Method: Another Reply to Saunders,” The British Journal of Sociology, 53 (4): 575-582.
- Breen, Richard (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) (2002). “Bayesian Learning and Gender Segregation,” Journal of Labor Economics, 20 (2): 899-922.
- Breen, Richard (with Marlis Buchmann) (2002). “Institutional Variation and the Position of Young People: A Comparative Perspective,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 580: 288-305.