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Richard Breen

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Richard Breen is Professor of Sociology and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.  His research interests are inequality, intergenerational mobility, and quantitative methods.   His recent publications have appeared in Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, and European Sociological Review.  Together with Walter Müller he edited Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States (Stanford University Press, 2020).  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.