Why Is Christopher Jencks Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Christopher Sandy Jencks is an American social scientist. Career Jencks is currently the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1954 and was president of the school's newspaper, the Exonian, as a senior. After Exeter, he received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard in 1958, followed by a M.Ed. in Harvard Graduate School of Education. During the year 1960-1961 he studied sociology at the London School of Economics. He has previously held positions at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Christopher Jencks's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 1750 2000 2250 Published Papers The Black-White Test Score Gap. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America The Academic Revolution. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America The Urban Underclass. Poverty and the Distribution of Material Hardship Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods: How Much Does It Matter? Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. What Is a Good Job? A New Measure of Labor-Market Success "Targeting Within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States" (239) The Wisconsin Model of Status Attainment: A National Replication with Improved Measures of Ability and Aspiration. Income Segregation Between Schools and School Districts The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the United States Since 1960 The Continuing American Dilemma: Race, Poverty, and Social Policy@@@Rethinking social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. The Academic Revolution Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to be Equal? Effects of High Schools on Their Students Racial bias in testing. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? How Much Do High School Students Learn Inequality and mortality: long-run evidence from a panel of countries. Public Policy Research and The Truly Disadvantaged (100) Health and Economic Inequality The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities. Do Differences in School Quality Matter More Than We Thought? New Evidence on Educational Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century Changing Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects A Skeptic on Poverty@@@Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. The Effects of Family Background on Earnings (67) American inequality and its consequences (63) School Accountability, Postsecondary Attainment, and Earnings Recent Trends in Economic Inequality in the United States: Income versus Expenditures versus Material Well-being Does inequality matter (58) The Role of the Environment in the Black-White Test Score Gap (53) The American Negro College The Viability of the American College. Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? The Academic Revolution. On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman Who Should Get in (37) Aptitude vs. Achievement: Should We Replace the SAT?. (36) The Black-White Test Scope Gap: Why It Persists and What Can Be Done The Schools and Equal Opportunity. (30) Giving Parents Money for Schooling: Education Vouchers. (28) Inequality in Retrospect HOW CULTURE MATTERS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY: (26) Should We Relabel the SAT...Or Replace It (23) Education Vouchers: A Proposal for Diversity and Choice. Affirmative Action for Blacks The Effects of Desegregation on Student Achievement: Some New Evidence from the Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey. Patterns of Residential Education: A Case Study of Harvard. Social Stratification and Higher Education Who Has Benefited from Economic Growth in the United States Since 1969? The Case of Children What is the underclass-and is it growing ? (19) How Did the Social Policy Changes of the 1990s Affect Material Hardship Among Single Mothers? Evidence from the CPS Food Security Supplement Latent variable models of status attainment Contextual explanations for numeracy and literacy skill disparities between native and foreign-born adults in western countries Structural Versus Individual Explanations of Inequality: Where Do we go from Here?@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. Was Moynihan right? what happens to children of unmarried mothers (14) Changes in Food Security After Welfare Reform: Can We Identify a Policy Effect? (14) How Culture Matters for Poverty : Thickening our Understanding (12) Methodological Problems in Studying "Military Keynesianism" Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? CAN WE FIX THE FEDERAL POVERTY MEASURE SO IT PROVIDES RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT CHANGES IN CHILDREN'S LIVING CONDITIONS? (11) Mind the Gap: Compositional, Cultural and Institutional Explanations for Numeracy Skills Disparities between Adult Immigrants and Natives in Western Countries Education Vouchers: Giving Parents Money to Pay for Schooling. (8) Income Inequality and Health: Strong Theories, Weaker Evidence The Effects of Family Background, Test Scores, Personality Traits and Education on Economic Success. (8) The War between the Generations School Accountability, Postsecondary Attainment and Earnings When Does Accountability Work? Texas System Had Mixed Effects on College Graduation Rates and Future Earnings. (7) Public Health Insurance? Report of the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education The Direct Effect of Taxes and Transfers on Changes in the U.S. Income Distribution, 1967–2015 Who Should Get in? Part II. (6) The association of earnings with health in middle age: Do self-reported earnings for the previous year tell the whole story? Trends in School Economic Segregation, 1970 to 2010 (6) Private Schools for Black Children. (5) Income Segregation between Schools and School Districts. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-04. (5) Has Poverty Really Increased among Children since 1970? Working Papers. (4) Giving Parents Money for Schooling. (4) Chapter Three. The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults If Not Tests, Then What? Health and economic inequalities (3) How has Rising Economic Inequality Affected Children's Educational Outcomes? (3) The Methodology of Inequality A Case Study in Vignette: San Francisco State College Growing Inequality: It's Good for the Rich, but Is It Bad for the Poor? The Limits of Sociology@@@Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America. Unpacking the Urban Poverty Problem@@@The Urban Underclass. Why Not Study the American "Overclass"?@@@The Urban Underclass. Education: Cultivating Greater Diversity. (1) The Effects of Family Background, Test Scores, Personality Traits and Schooling on Economic Success. Volume III. Supplementary Appendices. (1) Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961–1999 On Society and Culture in America@@@On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman. II The War between the Generations III Social Stratification and Mass Higher Education Economic and Educational Change and the Decline in Black Marriages (0) More Inequality: Christopher Jencks on the Paths to Success@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. IV Nationalism versus Localism VIII Protestant Denominations and Their Colleges Comments The Cult of Efficiency Volume Information VII Feminism, Masculinism, and Coeducation Using financial incentives to encourage welfare recipients to become economically self-sufficient - commentary (0) Rethinking the Benefits of Higher Education V The Professional Schools Jencks II: Paradigm Lost-and Found (0) Chapter Two. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? Comments and Discussion More About Jencks. (0) XI The Anti-University Colleges X Negroes and Their Colleges Jencks Comment on Downey and Condron HLE 512/Gov 2340/Soc 296b -- Spring 2003 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy Families, Neighborhoods, and the Welfare State (0) The encapsulating life raft system Education Vouchers: A Proposal for Diversity and Choice Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? XII Reforming the Graduate Schools A reappraisal of the most controversial document of our time. (0) The World of Homelessness according to Jencks@@@The Homeless VI Class Interests and the “Public-Private” Controversy I The Academic Revolution in Perspective The Missing Link in the Process of Getting Ahead@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. Exploring the Urban Underclass@@@The Urban Underclass The Impact of Family Socioeconomic Status on Children's Height and Adult Earnings (0) HLE-511/Sociology 296a: Fall 2006 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy (0) Session 4: New Policies (0) Christopher Jencks Does inequality matter ? (0) Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries Review of The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips IX Catholics and Their Colleges More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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