Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePeter Catron is assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on the socioeconomic mobility of immigrants who arrived at the turn of the 20th century.Georg Rilinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago. His research interests are located at the intersection of economic sociology and the sociology of knowledge. Currently, he tries to better understand the conceptual, technical, and regulatory limits of market design and oversight.Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. The principal investigator of the Eviction Lab, he conducts research on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.Nathan Wilmers is assistant professor of work and organizations at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He researches wage and earnings inequality, economic sociology, and the sociology of labor.Donald J. Treiman is Distinguished Research professor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, and faculty associate of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. He is a long-time student of social mobility and social inequality, mainly from a cross-national perspective, but he has become increasingly focused on China.Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he is on the faculty of the Department of Sociology. He is also a senior fellow in Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.Sean F. Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and is professor (by courtesy) of sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and in applied statistical methods for educational research.Demetra Kalogrides is a research associate at the Center for Education Policy Analysis in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She studies gaps in academic achievement by race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, school segregation, and teacher labor markets.Kenneth Shores is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and, beginning fall 2018, will be assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.Bernhard Reinsberg is a research associate at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Zurich and an M.A. in comparative and international studies at ETH Zurich.Alexander Kentikelenis is assistant professor of sociology and political economy at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. He has published extensively on global governance issues and on the social and political consequences of austerity.Thomas Stubbs is a lecturer in international relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research examines the socioeconomic effects of structural adjustment in low-income countries.Lawrence King is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was previously at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on the transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe, focusing on privatization and foreign investment, and more recently has investigated a diverse set of topics in the political economy of public health. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 124, Number 4January 2019 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/703227 © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.