Christopher Jencks

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Christopher Jencks

Sociology

#549

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#663

Historical Rank

#250

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Sandy Jencks is an American social scientist. Career Jencks is Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Emeritus. 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.

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Christopher Jencks's Published Works

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Published Works

Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (1972) (2033)
The Black-White Test Score Gap. (1998) (1630)
Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. (1981) (833)
Poverty and the Distribution of Material Hardship (1989) (608)
The Urban Underclass. (1992) (566)
Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods: How Much Does It Matter? (1989) (460)
What Is a Good Job? A New Measure of Labor-Market Success (1988) (316)
"Targeting Within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States" (1991) (244)
Income Segregation Between Schools and School Districts (2016) (243)
The Continuing American Dilemma: Race, Poverty, and Social Policy@@@Rethinking social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. (1992) (239)
The Wisconsin Model of Status Attainment: A National Replication with Improved Measures of Ability and Aspiration. (1983) (220)
The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the United States Since 1960 (2004) (211)
Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments (2008) (172)
Racial bias in testing. (1998) (151)
Effects of High Schools on Their Students (1975) (151)
Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? (2005) (141)
Inequality and mortality: long-run evidence from a panel of countries. (2007) (140)
How Much Do High School Students Learn (1985) (135)
Public Policy Research and The Truly Disadvantaged (1991) (105)
Health and Economic Inequality (2011) (98)
The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities. (2016) (96)
The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults (2003) (89)
Do Differences in School Quality Matter More Than We Thought? New Evidence on Educational Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century (2015) (84)
Changing Attitudes toward Premarital Sex: Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects (2003) (75)
School Accountability, Postsecondary Attainment, and Earnings (2013) (75)
The Effects of Family Background on Earnings (1976) (67)
Recent Trends in Economic Inequality in the United States: Income versus Expenditures versus Material Well-being (1993) (67)
American inequality and its consequences (2003) (64)
Does inequality matter (2002) (61)
The Role of the Environment in the Black-White Test Score Gap (1998) (54)
A Skeptic on Poverty@@@Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. (1992) (52)
Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats? (2009) (51)
On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman (1980) (39)
The Black-White Test Scope Gap: Why It Persists and What Can Be Done (1998) (38)
Inequality in Retrospect (1973) (27)
HOW CULTURE MATTERS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY: (2007) (26)
The Effects of Desegregation on Student Achievement: Some New Evidence from the Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey. (1975) (24)
Affirmative Action for Blacks (1985) (23)
Contextual explanations for numeracy and literacy skill disparities between native and foreign-born adults in western countries (2017) (19)
What is the underclass-and is it growing ? (2007) (17)
How Did the Social Policy Changes of the 1990s Affect Material Hardship Among Single Mothers? Evidence from the CPS Food Security Supplement (2004) (17)
Who Has Benefited from Economic Growth in the United States Since 1969? The Case of Children (2004) (17)
Latent variable models of status attainment (1979) (16)
Was Moynihan right? what happens to children of unmarried mothers (2015) (15)
Changes in Food Security After Welfare Reform: Can We Identify a Policy Effect? (2003) (14)
Structural Versus Individual Explanations of Inequality: Where Do we go from Here?@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. (1980) (13)
How Culture Matters for Poverty : Thickening our Understanding (2006) (13)
The Direct Effect of Taxes and Transfers on Changes in the U.S. Income Distribution, 1967–2015 (2020) (12)
CAN WE FIX THE FEDERAL POVERTY MEASURE SO IT PROVIDES RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT CHANGES IN CHILDREN'S LIVING CONDITIONS? (2004) (11)
Methodological Problems in Studying "Military Keynesianism" (1985) (11)
When Does Accountability Work? Texas System Had Mixed Effects on College Graduation Rates and Future Earnings. (2016) (9)
Income Inequality and Health: Strong Theories, Weaker Evidence (2016) (8)
The Effects of Family Background, Test Scores, Personality Traits and Education on Economic Success. (1977) (8)
Mind the Gap: Compositional, Cultural and Institutional Explanations for Numeracy Skills Disparities between Adult Immigrants and Natives in Western Countries (2014) (7)
The association of earnings with health in middle age: Do self-reported earnings for the previous year tell the whole story? (2010) (7)
Report of the New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (1973) (6)
Trends in School Economic Segregation, 1970 to 2010 (2014) (6)
Income Segregation between Schools and School Districts. CEPA Working Paper No. 16-04. (2016) (5)
Has Poverty Really Increased among Children since 1970? Working Papers. (1994) (5)
How has Rising Economic Inequality Affected Children's Educational Outcomes? (2010) (4)
Chapter Three. The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults (2009) (4)
Health and economic inequalities (2009) (3)
The Methodology of Inequality (1973) (3)
If Not Tests, Then What? (1989) (2)
Growing Inequality: It's Good for the Rich, but Is It Bad for the Poor? (2001) (2)
More Inequality: Christopher Jencks on the Paths to Success@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. (1980) (2)
Unpacking the Urban Poverty Problem@@@The Urban Underclass. (1992) (1)
Why Not Study the American "Overclass"?@@@The Urban Underclass. (1992) (1)
Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961–1999 (2018) (1)
Jencks Comment on Downey and Condron (2016) (1)
The Effects of Family Background, Test Scores, Personality Traits and Schooling on Economic Success. Volume III. Supplementary Appendices. (1977) (1)
On Society and Culture in America@@@On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman. (1981) (0)
HLE-511/Sociology 296a: Fall 2006 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy (2007) (0)
Session 4: New Policies (2001) (0)
The World of Homelessness according to Jencks@@@The Homeless (1996) (0)
Christopher Jencks Does inequality matter ? (0)
The Missing Link in the Process of Getting Ahead@@@Who Gets Ahead? The Determinants of Economic Success in America. (1980) (0)
Using financial incentives to encourage welfare recipients to become economically self-sufficient - commentary (2001) (0)
Exploring the Urban Underclass@@@The Urban Underclass (1992) (0)
The Impact of Family Socioeconomic Status on Children's Height and Adult Earnings (2004) (0)
HLE 512/Gov 2340/Soc 296b -- Spring 2003 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy Families, Neighborhoods, and the Welfare State (2003) (0)
Economic and Educational Change and the Decline in Black Marriages (1991) (0)
Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations (2014) (0)
Review of The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (1999) (0)
Inequality and Mortality: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries (2006) (0)
Editors' Summary (2011) (0)

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