Richard Breen : Annual Report 2002-2003

Richard Breen (Official Fellow) has continued his collaboration with Ruud Luijkx (University of Tilburg) on the analysis of social mobility in Europe during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Much of his other work during 2002-03 has been related to social mobility and to addressing problems and issues that have come to light in the course of this comparative research. A paper has been written for a collection on contemporary approaches to class analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright, and problems of measurement error in dynamic categorical data have been explored in a paper co-authored with his EUI PhD student, Pasi Moisio. He has continued to work with Janne Jonsson (Swedish Institute for Social Research) on the analysis of social mobility from both a cohort and period perspective. Together with Meir Yaish (University of Haifa) he wrote a paper testing the Breen-Goldthorpe model of educational inequality which was presented at the annual RC28 conference in New York in August 2003. During the past year he has also presented papers at the Juan March Institute, Madrid and at the Universities of Essex and Reading. Two more of his EUI students successfully defended their doctorates during 2002-3: three remain. He continues as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Juan March Institute, Madrid. He was appointed an ad hoc member of the Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, and he agreed to serve on the ESRC's mid-term review of the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre.

Publications

(with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) 'Bayesian Learning and Gender Segregation', Journal of Labor Economics, 20, 2002.

(with John H Goldthorpe) 'Merit, Mobility and Method: Another reply to Saunders', The British Journal of Sociology, 53, 2002.