Published work
Peer-Reviewed Journals
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, In press. (The online appendix is available here)
Gelbgiser Dafna and Sigal Alon (2025). “Segregation, Choices, and Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Evidence From Revealed Choice Data” Demography 62 (3): 1029–1058.
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
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
Dafna Gelbgiser (2021). "Socioeconomic Segregation, Campus Social Context, and Disparities in Bachelor's Degree Attainment", Demography, 58(3), 1039-1064. (View the Online Appendix Available here)
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.
Gelbgiser, Dafna (2018). “College for All, Degrees for Few: For-Profit Colleges and Socioeconomic Inequality in Degree Attainment.” Social Forces 96(4): 1785–1824
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.
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.
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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. See the Supplementry Appendix here
Morgan, Stephen L. and Dafna Gelbgiser (2014). "Mexican Ancestry, Immigrant Generation, and Educational Attainment in the United States." Sociological Science 1:397-422.
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
Alon, Sigal, and Dafna Gelbgiser (2011). "The Female Advantage in College Academic Achievements and Horizontal Sex Segregation." Social science research 40: 107-119.
Additional Academic Publications
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
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.
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. (https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.317)