Kim Weeden

About

Kim Weeden is the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of the Social Sciences and the Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. from Stanford University obtained in 1999. Her research focuses on inequality in advanced industrial societies and how it evolves over time. She studies social mobility and persistence across generations, cohort and life cycle changes in occupational sex segregation, the social structure of college course enrollments, and the relationship between family wage gaps and gender wage gaps. Additionally, she investigates young adults' occupational plans and educational decisions. Kim Weeden is actively involved in open science and open access publishing. She is a co-founder and former Deputy Editor of Sociological Science and serves on the Board of the Society for Sociological Science. She also chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the General Social Survey, which provides high-quality data about American life for social scientists, journalists, policymakers, and government officials.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social Science
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Public relations
• Social psychology
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2020 · 5046 citations

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• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

  2020 · 661 citations

  The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behavior with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on…

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• The Small-World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus

  Sociological Science · 2020 · 187 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, many universities shifted to online instruction and now face the question of whether and how to resume in-person instruction. This article uses transcript data from a medium-sized American university to describe three enrollment networks that connect students through classes and in the process create social conditions for the spread of infectious disease: a university-wide network, an undergraduate-only network, and a liberal arts college network. All…

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• Occupational Closure and Wage Inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom

  European Sociological Review · 2014-12-19 · 171 citations

  articleSenior author

  Rent-based accounts of inequality argue that institutionalized barriers to the access to labour market positions create artificial restrictions on the supply of labour and, in turn, generate wages for workers in protected positions in excess of the wages they would receive in a competitive labour market. In this article, we extend this argument to the comparative context, and elaborate a rent-based explanation of between-occupation wage inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom. We test it wi…

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• Long Work Hours, Part-Time Work, and Trends in the Gender Gap in Pay, the Motherhood Wage Penalty, and the Fatherhood Wage Premium

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2016-08-01 · 131 citations

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  We assess how changes in the social organization and compensation of work hours over the last three decades are associated with changes in wage differentials among mothers, fathers, childless women, and childless men. We find that large differences between gender and parental status groups in long work hours (fifty or more per week), coupled with sharply rising hourly wages for long work hours, contributed to rising gender gaps in wages (especially among parents), motherhood wage penalties, and…

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Frequent coauthors

• David B. Grusky

  Stanford University

  15 shared

• Stephen L. Morgan

  Johns Hopkins University

  7 shared

• Thijs Bol

  6 shared

• Katherine Baicker

  6 shared

• James N. Druckman

  University of Rochester

  5 shared

• Shinobu Kitayama

  5 shared

• Sander van der Linden

  University of Cambridge

  5 shared

• Naomi Ellemers

  5 shared

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