• Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
  

Books:

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2005. On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Christopher Winship. 2007. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The book will be released in August of 2007, but a pre-print of the Table of Contents and First Chapter is available now.)

Edited Volumes:

• Kalleberg, Arne L., Stephen L. Morgan, John F. Myles, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld, eds. 2004. Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms: Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sørensen. Published as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 21. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

• Morgan, Stephen L, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds. 2006. Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• Morgan, Stephen L. 1996. " Trends in Black-White Differences in Educational Expectations, 1980-1992." Sociology of Education 69:308-319.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and William R. Morgan. 1998. " Education and Earnings in Nigeria, 1974-1992." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 19:3-26.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 1998. "Adolescent Educational Expectations: Rationalized, Fantasized, or Both?" Rationality and Society 10:131-62.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sørensen. 1999. " Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman's Social Capital Explanation of School Effects." American Sociological Review 64:661-681. See also the Supplementary appendix for the paper.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sørensen. 1999. " Theory, Measurement, and Specification Issues in Models of Network Effects on Learning." American Sociological Review 64:649-700.

• Winship, Christopher and Stephen L. Morgan. 1999. " The Estimation of Causal Effects from Observational Data." Annual Review of Sociology 25:659-706.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2000. " Social Capital, Capital Goods, and the Producation of Learning" Journal of Socio-Economics 29:591-5.

• Sørensen, Aage B. and Stephen L. Morgan. 2000. " School Effects: Theoretical and Methodological Issues." Pp. 137-160 in Maureen T Hallinan, ed., Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2001. " Counterfactuals, Causal Effect Heterogeneity, and the Catholic School Effect on Learning." Sociology of Education 74: 341-374.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2002. " Modeling Preparatory Commitment and Non-Repeatable Decisions: Information Processing, Preference Formation, and Educational Attainment." Rationality and Society 14:387-429.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and William R. Morgan. 2004. " Educational Pathways into the Evolving Labor Market of West Africa." Research in Sociology of Education 14:225-45.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Jal D. Mehta. 2004. " Beyond the Laboratory: Evaluating the Survey Evidence for the the Disidentification Explanation of Black-White Differences in Achievement?" Sociology of Education 77:82-101.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2004. " Invited review of Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Evidence by Judea Pearl." Sociological Methods & Research. 32:411-6.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2004. " Methodologist as Arbitrator: Five Models for Black-White Differences in the Causal Effect of Expectations on Attainment." Sociological Methods & Research. 33:3-53.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Mark W. McKerrow. 2004. " Social Class, Rent Destruction, and the Earnings of Black and White Men, 1982-2000." Reserach in Social Stratification and Mobility 21:215-51 (Chapter in special volume entitled Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms - Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sørensen, edited by Arne L. Kalleberg, Stephen L. Morgan, John F. Myles, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld . See also the Supplementary appendix for the paper.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2006. " Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility." Pp. 3-20 in Morgan, Stephen L, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Young-Mi Kim. 2006. " Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States." Pp. 165-94 in Morgan, Stephen L, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stanford: Stanford University Press. See also the Supplementary appendix for the paper.

• Morgan, Stephen L. 2006. "Expectations and Aspirations." In George Ritzer, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Mark W. McKerrow. 2006. " Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education." In Ron Saunders, ed., Skills and Knowledge for Canada's Future: Seven Perspectives ? Towards an Integrated Approach to Human Capital Development. Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks, Inc.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and David J. Harding. 2006. " Matching Estimators of Causal Effects: Prospects and Pitfalls in Theory and Practice." Sociological Methods and Research 35:3-60.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and Youngjoo Cha. 2007. " Rent and the Evolution of Inequality in Late Industrial United States." American Behavioral Scientist 50:677-701. See also the Supplementary appendix for the paper.

• Morgan, Stephen L. "Stratification." Forthcoming in Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, eds., The Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

• Morgan, Stephen L. and John C. Scott. " Wealth Inequality and the Prospects for Increasing Intergenerational Transfers." Forthcoming in Social Science Research. See also Appendix A with additional results and Appendix S with details of the sample and data.