I am a Professor of Sociology at Washington University-St. Louis.  I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2007.   The central focus of my research is on the causes of economic inequality in the U.S. and other post-industrial economies.  I am primarily interested in the determinants of wages and salaries, and how these vary across time and place. 

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Books:

• You're Paid What You're Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy now available for order.
  
• New research brief with Shengwei Sun and Patrick Denice,  "On the Books, Off the Record: Examining the Effectiveness of Pay Secrecy Laws in the U.S."  Institute for Women's Policy Research Policy Brief #C494.  January 2021.
• Published "There's Still a Taboo on Discussing Salaries. But Millennials are Breaking It," Washington Post, September 6, 2020.
• Published "Welcome to the Jungle, Again," American Prospect, May 17, 2020.
• Quoted in David Leonhardt's column, "Why I'm Rooting for the G.M. Strikers," The New York Times, September 17, 2019.
• What Unions No Longer Do featured in Caleb Crain's story "State of the Unions," The New Yorker, August 26, 2019.
• Testified before the Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the U.S. House of Representatives, “Protecting Workers’ Right to Organize: The Need for Labor Law Reform,”  March 26, 2019.