Sabino Kornrich

Postdoctoral Fellow


Sabino Kornrich received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington. His dissertation research examined household outsourcing - spending on services which replace household labour - and how spending changed over the last part of the twentieth century. While popular reports suggest a tremendous expansion in spending on services which replace household labour, his research finds stability.

His current research expands this work to examine changes in spending more broadly, and asks how increasing income inequality in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s influenced spending. In particular, this research examines whether increasing income inequality drives up spending among the middle class on luxury goods, housing, or lifestyle goods through processes of bidding, emulation, or the expansion of the importance of "lifestyle."

In addition to research on consumption, he is interested in gender, the family, race, and inequality. He has published several articles on black-white labor market inequality in the American Journal of Sociology and Work and Occupations. He is also currently working on other research on the pathways to and consequences of egalitarianism in marriage.

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