Professor Richard Breen FBA

Sociology

Elected 1999

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1999
Sections: Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website: http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/richard-breen.html

Richard Breen is Professor of Sociology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He was previously William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department, at Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy (elected 1998), a Member of Academia Europaea (2002), and a Fellow the European Academy of Sociology (2015). His research interests are social stratification and inequality, the application of formal models in the social sciences, and quantitative methods.

Current post

Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

Nuffield College University of Oxford Professor of Sociology and Fellow

2015 -

Yale University Professor of Sociology

2007 -

Yale University Professor, Sociology Department

2007 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

2001 - 2006

European University Institute, Florence Professor of Sociology

1997 - 2001

Queen's University Belfast Professor of Sociology

1991 - 1997

Publications

Counterfactual Causal Analysis and Non-Linear Probability Models (with Kristian Bernt Karlson) in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Springer 2013

Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sample Selection Bias (with Seongsoo Choi and Anders Holm), Sociological Science 2015

Income Inequality and Education (with Inkwan Chung)

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Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Social, economic and geographic histories of Scotland, the UK, and Western Europe since the 18th century. Social economy of households and families

Professor George Brown FBA

Sociology

Professor Richard Breen FBA

Current post

Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

Nuffield College University of Oxford Professor of Sociology and Fellow

2015 -

Yale University Professor of Sociology

2007 -

Yale University Professor, Sociology Department

2007 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

2001 - 2006

European University Institute, Florence Professor of Sociology

1997 - 2001

Queen's University Belfast Professor of Sociology

1991 - 1997

Publications

Counterfactual Causal Analysis and Non-Linear Probability Models (with Kristian Bernt Karlson) in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Springer 2013

Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sample Selection Bias (with Seongsoo Choi and Anders Holm), Sociological Science 2015

Income Inequality and Education (with Inkwan Chung)

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Professor George Brown FBA

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Professor Richard Breen FBA

Current post

Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

Past appointments

Nuffield College University of Oxford Professor of Sociology and Fellow

2015 -

Yale University Professor of Sociology

2007 -

Yale University Professor, Sociology Department

2007 -

Nuffield College University of Oxford Official Fellow

2001 - 2006

European University Institute, Florence Professor of Sociology

1997 - 2001

Queen's University Belfast Professor of Sociology

1991 - 1997

Publications

Counterfactual Causal Analysis and Non-Linear Probability Models (with Kristian Bernt Karlson) in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Springer 2013

Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sample Selection Bias (with Seongsoo Choi and Anders Holm), Sociological Science 2015

Income Inequality and Education (with Inkwan Chung)

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Professor George Brown FBA

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Counterfactual Causal Analysis and Non-Linear Probability Models (with Kristian Bernt Karlson) in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Springer 2013

Heterogeneous Causal Effects and Sample Selection Bias (with Seongsoo Choi and Anders Holm), Sociological Science 2015

Income Inequality and Education (with Inkwan Chung)