A Special Issue of “Research in Social Stratification and Mobility” Features Career of Founder and Former CCPR Director Robert Mare

The June 2023 issue of “Research in Social Stratification and Mobility” celebrates Professor Robert Mare’s career.

This issue contains contributions by CCPR (California Center for Population Research) alumni and affiliates, such as:

• CCPR Alumna Christine Schwartz,  “Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating.”
• CCPR Alumna Xi Song, “Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.”
• CCPR Affiliate Jennie Brand and Yu Xie, “The legacy of Robert D. Mare.”
• CCPR Alumna Elizabeth E. Bruch, “Robert Mare’s Legacy in Neighborhood Research.”
• CCPR Alumnus Benjamin F. Jarvis , “Assortative Mating, Residential Choice, and Ethnic Segregation.”
• CCPR Alumna Vida Maralani, “Rob Mare’s Legacy: The Demography of Inequality and Social Mobility.”

Professor Robert D. Mare was a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the Founder and the CCPR Director from 1998 to 2004 and the CDE Director from 1989 to 1994. He passed away on February 1st, 2021.