Past Events

"When Does Gender Trump Flexibility? Workplace Flexibility and Domestic Task Assignment" Does workplace flexibility reshape expectations about who should perform household and childcare tasks within different-gender couples? Organizations have adopted...

"Who Gets to Use Their College Skills? Skill-Job Alignment and Earnings Inequality Among College Graduates" College graduates who follow common major-to-occupation pathways - for example, engineering majors who become engineers - receive substantial...

"Constructing Compromise: Regional Coalition-Building, Local Developmental Politics, and BART Extensions after 1999" Wealthier cities, especially with politically active business elites, are generally expected to build new infrastructure while poorer...

" Challenging the Specter of Motherhood in Academia: Universalistic Tenure Clock Extensions and Faculty Diversity " Leroy Gonsalves, Kwan Woo Kim, Gal Deutsch, Alexandra Kalev, and Frank Dobbin The “specter of motherhood” continues to hinder women’s...

"Survival: Empirical Poems on Work, Welfare, and Entrepreneurship" Monica C. Bell is a sociologist and legal scholar who writes about inequality, violence, safety, and racial justice. At Radcliffe, she will complete a book manuscript that punctuates...

"Fissuring and Control: Franchising and Surveillance in Fast Food" Workplace surveillance is widely recognized as central to firms’ ability to coordinate production, yet theories diverge on why monitoring intensifies—whether to safeguard transactions...

"Does the future of work mean less work? Evidence from company four day week trials" The debate about the “Future of Work” has largely been dominated by discussion of technology on the one hand, and impacts on the availability of jobs and wages on the...

"Discretion Under Pressure: How Superintendents Allocate Educational Resources" In the United States, local bureaucrats often make resource allocation decisions, but their decisions are constrained by state and federal policies which provide external...

"Organizational Tacitness and Gendered Risks: Cultural Matching Reexamined" (with Zehra Yildirim) Cultural matching is central to explanations of labor market stratification, yet far less is known about its organizational and gendered consequences beyond...