Dafna Gelbgiser

Dafna Gelbgiser

PhD · Faculty, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University

Publications

Published work

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Most of the papers are open access. If you cannot find a paper, please contact me.

  1. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Oded Mcdossi. "Diverging Pathways: First-Year College Courses and the Gender Gap in STEM Degree Attainment." In press, Social Forces. (Supplementary appendix available here.)
  2. Israeli, Noa, Dafna Gelbgiser, and Haya Stier (2025). "The Gendered Division of Paid Labor among Families of Children with Disabilities — A Comparative Approach." In press, European Societies.
  3. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Limor Gabay-Egozi (equal authorship) (2025). "The Gendered Value of Education in the 'College for All' Era and the Role of Literacy and Numeracy Skills." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 99: 101074. (Online appendix available here.)
  4. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Sigal Alon (2025). "Segregation, Choices, and Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Evidence From Revealed Choice Data." Demography 62(3): 1029–1058. (Supplementary appendix available here.)
  5. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Sigal Alon (2024). "Match Pathways and College Graduation: A Longitudinal and Multidimensional Framework for Academic Mismatch." Sociology of Education 97(3): 252–275. (Supplementary appendix available here.)
  6. Haupt, Andreas and Dafna Gelbgiser (equal authorship) (2024). "The Unequal Distribution of Cognitive Household Labor and the Mental Load." European Societies 26(3): 828–854.
  7. Gelbgiser, Dafna (2021). "Socioeconomic Segregation, Campus Social Context, and Disparities in Bachelor's Degree Attainment." Demography 58(3): 1039–1064. (Online appendix available here.)
  8. Weeden, Kim A., Dafna Gelbgiser, and Stephen L. Morgan (2020). "Pipeline Dreams: Occupational Plans and Gender Differences in STEM Major Persistence and Completion." Sociology of Education 93(4): 297–314.
  9. Gelbgiser, Dafna (2018). "College for All, Degrees for Few: For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Inequality in Degree Attainment." Social Forces 96(4): 1785–1824. (PDF available here.)
  10. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Kyle Albert (equal authorship) (2018). "Green for All? Gender Segregation and Emerging Green Fields of Study in US Higher Education." Social Problems 65(4): 564–583.
  11. Weeden, Kim A., Sarah Thébaud, and Dafna Gelbgiser (2017). "Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of US Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige." Sociological Science 4: 123–150. Featured in Inside Higher Ed and Science.
  12. Gelbgiser, Dafna and Sigal Alon (2016). "Math-Oriented Fields of Study and the Race Gap in Graduation Likelihoods at Elite Colleges." Social Science Research 58: 150–164. (Supplementary appendix here.)
  13. Morgan, Stephen L. and Dafna Gelbgiser (2014). "Mexican Ancestry, Immigrant Generation, and Educational Attainment in the United States." Sociological Science 1: 397–422.
  14. Morgan, Stephen L., Dafna Gelbgiser, and Kim A. Weeden (2013). "Feeding the Pipeline: Gender, Occupational Plans, and College Major Selection." Social Science Research 42: 989–1005.
  15. Alon, Sigal and Dafna Gelbgiser (2011). "The Female Advantage in College Academic Achievements and Horizontal Sex Segregation." Social Science Research 40: 107–119.

Other academic publications

  1. Hazzan, Orit and Dafna Gelbgiser (2023). "Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners." Communications of the ACM blog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
  2. Weeden, Kim A., Mary Newhart, and Dafna Gelbgiser (2018). "Occupational Segregation." In "State of the Union: The Poverty and Inequality Report," ed. Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, special issue, Pathways Magazine.
  3. Gelbgiser, Dafna (2016). "College for All, Degrees for Few: For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Inequality" (abridged 6-page version). Best Paper Proceedings of the 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.