Aleksei Opacic

Ph.D. Student
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
aopacic@g.harvard.edu

CV

Welcome! I am a PhD student in the Sociology department at Harvard, where I work on topics in educational and workplace inequality, as well as on intergenerational mobility more broadly.

 

Publications

  1. Bloome, Deirdre, and Aleksei Opacic. Absolute Income Mobility Obscures Marginalized Children’s Disadvantages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (25). [Abstract]
  2. Evans, Geoffrey, and Aleksei Opacic. How Social Class Influences Political Choices Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology, eds. Danny Osborne and Chris G. Sibley. Cambridge University Press. pp. 382-398. [Abstract]

 

Journal articles under review

  1. Opacic, Aleksei, Lai Wei and Xiang Zhou. Disparity Analysis: A Tale of Two Approaches. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (JRSSA) [Abstract]
  2. Zhou, Xiang, and Aleksei Opacic. Marginal Interventional Effects. Reject & Resubmit at Statistical Science [Abstract]  
  3. Opacic, Aleksei. Monotonic Path-Specific Effects: Application to Estimating Educational Returns. [Abstract]

 

Working papers

  1. Blackwell, Matthew, Ruofan Ma and Aleksei Opacic. Assumption Smuggling in Intermediate Outcome Tests of Causal Mechanisms. [Abstract]  
  2. Opacic, Aleksei. Mothers and Mobility: a Re-examination of (Trends in) Intergenerational Mobility in the UK [Abstract]  
  3. Opacic, Aleksei. Does Higher Education Tend Towards Egalitarianism? Evidence from a Population Transitions Model [Abstract]