University of Wisconsin–Madison
Economics of Education Review (2026) Authors: Soobin Kim, Michael J. Culbertson, Eric Grodsky, Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren Abstract: We document the role of premarket human capital in explaining racial and ethnic income disparities in labor market outcomes for individuals from their late 20s to mid-50s. Using comprehensive measures of the human capital students possess …
Neurology (2025) Authors: Adam M. Brickman, Chandra Muller, John Robert Warren, Eric Grodsky, Soobin Kim, Michael J. Culbertson, Bharat Thyagarajan, Jennifer J. Manly Abstract: IMPORTANCE The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults. Past studies that compared plasma AD biomarker concentrations …
Educational Policy (2023) Authors: Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Elizabeth Vaade, Bo McCready, Eric Camburn, Dominique Bradley Abstract: State and national school accountability policies situate preventing chronic absenteeism on par with meeting state standardized test benchmarks. We question relying on school attendance as both a component of accountability policies and a means of enhancing equity in schools. …
Children and Society (2023) Authors: Annaliese Grant, Eric Grodsky, Maria Velazquez, Helen Rose Miesner, Elizabeth E. Blair, Lyn Macgregor Abstract: Research on adolescent responsibilities outside of school rarely considers how schools and teachers mitigate the adverse consequences of those responsibilities on academic outcomes. We seek to understand when, and for whom, teachers and administrators accommodate students’ out-of-school …
American Journal of Education (2023) Authors: Helen Rose Miesner, Elizabeth E. Blair, Chiara C. Packard, Lyn Macgregor, Eric Grodsky Abstract: This study examines how resources and organizational decisions within seven geographically diverse elementary schools shape instructional coordination for Tier 2 interventions within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework. This work is part of a larger, multiple-case study examining …
Social Science & Medicine (2025) Authors: Hyeyun Jeong, Jiahui Xu, John Robert Warren, Liying Luo, Eric Grodsky, Chandra Muller Abstract: Does intergenerational occupational mobility impact health and well-being net of occupational origins and destinations? Are the net effects of mobility homogeneous across demographic subgroups? Using data from High School and Beyond cohort (HS&B:80) and two …
Alzheimer’s and Dementia (2025) Authors: Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, Adam M. Brickman, Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Michael J. Culbertson, John Robert Warren Abstract: INTRODUCTION Educational attainment is associated with midlife cognitive functioning. However, degree attainment is the culmination of complex and unequal processes involving students’ backgrounds, the opportunities that schools provide them, and their …
Socius (2024) Authors: Douglas B. Downey, Benjamin Gibbs, Eric Grodsky Abstract: Several theoretical traditions posit that individual skills (or human capital) have become stronger predictors of life outcomes over time. To date, however, significant limitations have hindered a confident empirical assessment of this important idea. Using six nationally representative datasets, the authors find surprisingly little …