The Quantitative Study of Educational and Social Inequality

The goal of this course is to introduce students to a set of methods for studying the structural forces that shape patterns of educational and social inequality. The course begins with a focus on methods of measuring inequality along a number of dimensions. Next it addresses methods for studying unequal access to resources and opportunity. In the third section, the course introduces a general statistical model of the processes that shape inequality, and demonstrates how it can be used to study structural inequality.