Richard Breen
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Department of Sociology
Yale University
Yale University
Office Location :
140 Prospect Street
Phone :
+1-203-432-3324
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+1-203-432-6976
Email : richard.breen@yale.edu
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Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE)
I joined the Yale Sociology faculty in January 2007. I was previously an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where I am still a Senior Research Fellow. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a member of Academia Europaea.
My research interests are social stratification and inequality, quantitative methods, and the application of formal models in the social sciences. Below you can find a list of my publications over the past five years. My earlier papers and books are listed on my complete cv. Most of these publications are available from the usual electronic journal providers, but if you have problems getting them, please contact me.
Recent Publications
Books
- Breen, Richard (ed.) (2004). Social Mobility in Europe. Oxford University Press.
Chapters
- Breen, Richard (2009). “Game Theory” in Peter Hedström and Peter Bearman (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 619-38.
- Breen, Richard (2009). “Formal Theory in the Social Sciences” in Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock (eds.) Frontiers of Sociology, Leiden: Brill, pp. 209-31.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2007). “Social mobility and education: a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain and Germany” in Stefani Scherer, Reinhard Pollak, Gunnar Otte, Markus Gangl (eds.) From Origin to Destination: Trends and Mechanisms in Social Stratification Research pp. 102-124. Frankfurt/Main: Campus
- Breen, Richard (with Meir Yaish) (2006). “Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making,” in S. L. Morgan, D. B. Grusky, and G. S. Fields (eds.), Mobility and Inequality, pp. 232-58. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Foundations of Class Analysis in the Weberian Tradition,” in E. O. Wright (ed.), Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, pp. 31-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Why Did Class Inequalities in Educational Attainment Remain Unchanged over Much of the Twentieth Century?” in A. F. Heath, J. Ermisch and D. Gallie (eds.), Understanding Social Change: Proceedings of the British Academy, pp. 55-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2004). “The Comparative Study of Social Mobility,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 1-16. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (2004). “Statistical Methods of Mobility Research,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 17-36. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2004). “Social Mobility in Europe between 1970 and 2000,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 37-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx) (2004). “Conclusions,” in R. Breen (ed.), Social Mobility in Europe, pp. 383-410. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Articles
- Breen, Richard (with Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller and Reinhard Pollak) (2009) “Non-Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries.” American Journal of Sociology, 114 (5), pp. 1475-1521.
- Breen, Richard (2008) “Statistical Models of Association for Comparing Cross-Classifications.” Sociological Methods and Research, Vol.36, (4), pp.442-61.
- Breen, Richard (with Jan O. Jonsson) (2007) “Explaining Change in Social Fluidity: Educational Equalization and Educational Expansion in Twentieth-Century Sweden,” American Journal of Sociology. 112 (6): 1775-1810.
- Breen, Richard (2006). ”Statistical models of social fluidity“. Sociological Theory and Methods 21 (2): 215-35.
- Breen, Richard (with Jan O. Jonsson) (2005). “Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility,” Annual Review of Sociology, 31: 223-244.
- Breen, Richard (2005). “Explaining Cross-national Variation in Youth Unemployment: Market and Institutional Factors,” European Sociological Review, 21 (2): 125-134.
- Breen, Richard (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) (2005). “Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation,” Review of Development Economics, 9 (3): 380-398.
- Breen, Richard (with Lynn Prince Cooke) (2005). “The Persistence of the Gendered Division of Domestic Labour,” European Sociological Review, 21 (1): 43-57.
- Breen, Richard (with Pasi Moisio) (2004). “Poverty Dynamics Corrected for Measurement Error,” Journal of Economic Inequality, 2 (3): 171-191.