David B. Grusky

Biosketch

David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Faculty Director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, coeditor of Pathways Magazine, Chair of the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, and member of the Executive Council of the Stanford Public Policy Program. He earned his BA in Sociology at Reed College and his MS and PhD in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Presidential Young Investigator, and a former President of the Sociological Research Association.

Research Interests

Dr. Grusky examines the structure of poverty, social and economic mobility, and gender and racial inequality in late modernity. In recent papers, he’s reported on ongoing declines in social mobility, the rise of segregated forms of interaction, the rise of son-biased intergenerational mobility processes, and the growth of economic rent. He’s also evaluating ongoing interventions to reduce inequality via cash transfers, wealth transfers, employment assistance, and related predistributional programs. This research exploits his long-standing efforts to improve the country’s data infrastructure with new types of administrative data linkage, new types of network data, and new types of large-scale qualitative data.