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Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008–2016

Feb 25, 2022

Hana Brown, Ankit Rastogi & I published this paper in Sociological Perspectives recently. The full paper is here. If you need access, just let me know. We show that The standard finding about a steep class gradient in voting does not really apply to Black...

The Class Ceiling in the US

Nov 9, 2020

This is a work in progress with Sam Friedman. The short version is, there is a class-origin pay gap in top occupations in the US, and it is actually larger than the one in the UK (about $30k/year). Here is the PDF.