Thomas A. DiPrete

Thomas A. DiPrete is Giddings Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, co-director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, and a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center at Columbia University. 

DiPrete’s research interests include social stratification, demography, education, economic sociology, and quantitative methodology. His recent and ongoing projects include the study of gender differences in educational performance, educational attainment, and fields of study, the determinants of college persistence and dropout in the U.S., a comparative study of how educational expansion and the structure of linkages between education and the labor market contribute to earnings inequality in several industrialized countries, and the study of how social comparison processes affect the compensation of corporate executives. His research and writing on labor markets, job advancement, gender, welfare institutions, and unemployment underscore his scholarly engagement in topics of acute policy concern.

DiPrete holds a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.