David B. Grusky

About

David B. Grusky is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. He serves as the Faculty Director of the Center on Poverty & Inequality and is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) as well as a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Program on Poverty and Inequality (PHS). His research focuses on inequality, poverty, and mobility, utilizing quantitative methods to explore these areas. He is involved in promoting and supporting the Department of Sociology at Stanford, contributing to research questions, centers, and highlights related to social inequality.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Geography
• Economics
• Computer Science
• Econometrics
• Demographic economics
• Demography
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Biology

Selected publications

• Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening

  Nature · 2020 · 1624 citations

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• Human mobility networks reveal increased segregation in large cities

  Nature · 2023 · 122 citations

  . Here we develop a measure of exposure segregation that captures the socioeconomic diversity of these everyday encounters. Using mobile phone mobility data to represent 1.6 billion real-world exposures among 9.6 million people in the United States, we measure exposure segregation across 382 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and 2,829 counties. We find that exposure segregation is 67% higher in the ten largest MSAs than in small MSAs with fewer than 100,000 residents. This means that, contra…

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• The Rise of Opportunity Markets: How Did It Happen & What Can We Do?

  Daedalus · 2019-06-28 · 48 citations

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  We describe the rise of “opportunity markets” that allow well-off parents to buy opportunity for their children. Although parents cannot directly buy a middle-class outcome for their children, they can buy opportunity indirectly through advantaged access to the schools, neighborhoods, and information that create merit and raise the probability of a middle-class outcome. The rise of opportunity markets happened so gradually that the country has seemingly forgotten that opportunity was not always…

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• Social Differentiation And Social Inequality

  2019-07-11 · 36 citations

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• Social Stratification, Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Second Edition

  2019-09-05 · 34 citations

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  This book assembles classic and contemporary articles representing the major sociological approaches to understanding social inequality. Although there are various competing texts covering issues of social inequality, this book is the only comprehensive source of classic and contemporary articles that have defined and redefined the contours of the field. The introductory articles in each section of the book provide examples of the major research traditions in the field, while the concluding essa…

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Frequent coauthors

• Christopher Wimer

  Columbia University

  17 shared

• Pablo A. Mitnik

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  16 shared

• Kim A. Weeden

  15 shared

• Tobias Raffel

  14 shared

• Geoffrey Samuels

  11 shared

• Jure Leskovec

  Stanford University

  9 shared

• Roland Berger

  9 shared

• Jan Ö. Jönsson

  University of Oxford

  8 shared

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