Claudia Traini

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Office: University of Potsdam, Campus Golm, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, Room: Haus 24/1.66, 14476 Potsdam
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E-Mail:claudia.traini(at)uni-potsdam.de
Phone: 0331 977-2421
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Pillar 2: Education and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course

Field: Sociology

Research Interests: Sociology of Education, Social Stratification and Inequality
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Stratification of Education Systems. Upsides and Downsides

The main research question of my dissertation is why do countries show different patterns in the associations of the OED triangle? Comparative literature analyzing social inequality in educational attainment (OE) and educational gradient in occupational attainment (ED) has already considered how these patterns are related to the Stratification of education systems, while such an argument has been mostly disregarded considering the mediating role of education in the intergenerational transmission of occupational attainment (OE).
Additionally, previous studies investigating the effect of Stratification on OE and ED associations mainly suffer from three pitfalls. First, they lack a clear and detailed definition of what stratification means. Second, the macro-level effect of stratification on micro-level outcomes has not been entirely clarified. Third, empirical analyses reveal weak relationships between theoretical concepts and empirical indicants.
I address the abovementioned shortcomings identifying which country-level characteristics must be accounted for in explaining micro-level effects of Stratification, and improving the operationalization of theoretically derived characteristics.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

01/10/2008 - 24/03/2011
Master's degree in Sociology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

01/09/2005 - 16/07/2008
Bachelor's degree in Sociology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Review work:

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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// PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters:P. Trivellatio, M. Triventi, and C. Traini (2016). Private higher education in Italy, in: M. Shah and S. Nair (eds.), A Global Perspective on Higher Education, Elsevier 2016.

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2017
Summer meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Socil Stratification and Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association. Presentation: "Stratification of education systems A Replication of Bol and Van de Werfhorst's (2013) analyses". New York/USA. August 8 - 10 2017.

ECSR Spring School on the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status and inequality: patterns and mechanisms. Presentation: "Stratification of education systems A Replication of Bol and Van de Werfhorst's (2013) analyses". Turin/Italy. March 13 - 17 2017.

2016
Summer meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Socil Stratification and Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association. Presentation: "Stratification of education system. Towards a shared definition". Bern/Switzerland. August 29 - 31 2016.

2015
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, European Sociological Association. Presentation: "Stratification of education system". Prague/Czech. August 25 - 28 2015.

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// EXPERIENCE

Training

Current Position

Research Assistand and Lecturer at the University of Potsdam

Previous Position

Research Assistant in LIFETRACK ‘Life Course Dynamics of Educational Tracking’ (http://lifetrack.eu/) at Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories LIfBi (Germany)

2017
ECSR (European Consortium of Sociological Research) Spring School on the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status and inequality: patterns and mechanisms. March 13 - 17.

2013
ECSR (European Consortium of Sociological Research) Spring School on the Analysis of Educational Inequalities. March 18 - 23.

5th Irvapp (Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies) Winter School in Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies. February 18 - 23.

2012
45th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, course Multilevel Analysis with Applications, Prof. Kelvin Jones. June 23 - August 3.

45th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, course Maximum Likelihood and Limited Dependent Variable Models, Prof. Randy Stevenson. August 6 - 17.

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