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Vida Maralani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. Her research primarily focuses on social inequality, examining how families and individuals experience and transmit resources over time and across generations. She employs sophisticated quantitative methods, including formal demographic models, simulations, and semi-parametric methods, to understand the dynamic nature of social stratification. Maralani's work highlights the importance of education in shaping one's socioeconomic position, illustrating that education is intertwined with social statuses and family processes such as marriage and fertility. Her research contributes to the understanding of educational inequality and its impact across different life course stages and birth cohorts. Maralani is dedicated to exploring the complex interrelations of resources and life chances throughout the dynamics of social inequality.
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