Cornell University's Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) is devoted to understanding patterns, causes, and consequences of social and economic inequalities of many different forms. It supports cutting-edge research on inequality, trains undergraduate and graduate students, encourages the exchange of ideas among researchers, and disseminates research findings to a broader public.

CSI is based in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences and has over 100 faculty affiliates in other departments within the College and across campus. CSI’s affiliates study and teach courses on a range of topics, including educational attainment and school-to-work transitions; inequalities in wages, income, wealth, health, and civic engagement; poverty and anti-poverty policy; intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity; residential segregation and spatial differences in attainment; inequalities by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and identity, religion, age, disability status, and other social differences; the politics of inequality and the inequality of politics; and the relationship between global political, economic, and environmental changes and inequality.

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Benjamin Cornwell

Professor

Publications

The following is a list of some recent publications. A complete list is available here.

Weeden, Kim, and Benjamin Cornwell. 2020. “The Small World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus.” Sociological Science.

Carr, Deborah, Shelley Correll, Robert Crosnoe, Jeremy Freese, Mary Waters, Benjamin Cornwell, and Elizabeth Boyle. 2017. The Art and Science of Social Research. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Cornwell, Benjamin, Alyssa Goldman, and Edward O. Laumann. 2020. “Homeostasis Revisited: Patterns of Maintenance and Restoration in the Social Connections of Older Adults.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Cornwell, Benjamin, Jonathan Gershuny, and Oriel Sullivan. 2019. “The Social Structure of Time: Emerging Trends and New Directions.” Annual Review of Sociology 45:301-320.

Cornwell, Benjamin. 2015. Social Sequence Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Klarman Hall
342 Uris Hall
btc49@cornell.edu
607/255-1697

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Kendra Bischoff

Associate Professor

Publications

Bischoff, Kendra and Emily Sandusky. 2023. "Local Economic Segregation and Opinions about Income Integration in Schools." City and Community.

Bischoff, Kendra, Ann Owens, Sean F. Reardon, and Joseph B. Townsend. 2022. "Comment on Logan et al.: "The Uptick in Income Segregation," American Journal of Sociology 127:1664-1674.

Atteberry, Allison, Kendra Bischoff, and Ann Owens. 2021. "Identifying Progress Toward Ethnoracial Achievement Equity across U.S. School Districts: A New Approach." Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 14:410-441.

Bischoff, Kendra and Laura Tach. 2020. “School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods." Sociological Science 7:75-99.
*IPUMS Spatial Research Article Award

Bischoff, Kendra and Ann Owens. 2019. "The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990-2014." Demography 56:1635-1664.

Reardon, Sean, Kendra Bischoff, Ann Owens, and Joseph B. Townsend. 2018. “Has Income Segregation Really Increased? Bias and Bias-Correction in Sample-Based Segregation Estimates.” Demography 55:2129-2160.

Bischoff, Kendra and Laura Tach. 2018. “The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice.” City and Community 17(3):675-701.

Bischoff, Kendra. 2016. “The Civic Effects of Schools: Theory and Empirics.” Theory and Research in Education 14(1):91-106.

Reardon, Sean and Kendra Bischoff. 2016. “The Continuing Increase in Income Segregation, 2007-12.” Stanford University: Center for Education Policy Analysis.

Bischoff, Kendra and Sean Reardon. 2014. “Residential Segregation by Income, 1970-2009.” Pp. 208-233 in Diversity and Disparities: America Enters a New Century, edited by John Logan. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Bischoff, Kendra and Kenneth Shores. 2014. “The Role of Social Science in Action-Guiding Philosophy: The Case of Educational Equity.” Theory and Research in Education 12(2):131-150.

Reardon, Sean and Kendra Bischoff. 2011. “Income Inequality and Income Segregation.” American Journal of Sociology 116(4):1092-1153.

  • Abridged version prepared for: Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 4th Edition, edited by David B. Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2014.

Reardon, Sean, Chad Farrell, Stephen Matthews, David O’Sullivan, Kendra Bischoff, and Glenn Firebaugh. 2009. “Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000.” Social Science Research 38(1):55-70.

Bischoff, Kendra. 2008. “School District Fragmentation and Racial Residential Segregation: How do Boundaries Matter?” Urban Affairs Review 44(2):182-217.

Public Engagement Publications

Bischoff, Kendra. 2016. “Policy Brief: The Geography of Economic Inequality.” Washington, DC: Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Reardon, Sean and Kendra Bischoff. 2014. “No Neighborhood is an Island.” The Dream  Revisited Series. New York University: The Furman Center.

Bischoff, Kendra and Sean Reardon. 2012. “No Middle Ground.” Boston Review, May/June.

Klarman Hall
323 Uris Hall
kbischoff@cornell.edu

Education

B.A. Pomona College

Ph.D. Stanford University

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