Christina Ciocca Eller
Biographic Data
| ID | 281791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Ciocca Eller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina Ciocca |
| FAMILY NAME | Eller |
| SIGNATURE | ELLER C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9202-2236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who Is Anybody to Judge?” Educational Resistance through Recognition
The United States is a “schooled society”: one where formal education is viewed as a primary conduit between American cultural ideals and people's moral worth and social value. Sociologists of education have described resistance against this dominant model through disinvestment from school, particularly among some students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Yet it remains unclear if “school-invested” students also enact resistance a…
Underemployed and Penalized
How does education-occupation mismatch shape racial/ethnic labor market inequality among highly educated workers? Bridging the literatures on racial/ethnic discrimination and labor market signaling, we propose a new concept, "racialized signaling," to explain inequality in the college-to-work transition, operationalized through education-occupation mismatch. We then use longitudinal data to examine the labor market consequences of racialized sign…
Intermediate Educational Transitions, Alignment, and Inequality in U.S. Higher Education
Substantial social stratification research conceptualizes education as a series of standard transitions from one stage to the next, such as from high school to college. Yet less research examines mandatory transitions within each educational stage, which we call “intermediate educational transitions.” In this article, we examine a crucial intermediate transition in U.S. higher education, shifting from an undeclared to a declared major by major de…
What Makes a Quality College? Reexamining the Equalizing Potential of Higher Education in the United States
Substantial stratification research examines the equalizing potential of American higher education. Much of this research focuses on college “quality,” proxied empirically by admissions selectivity or test-score excellence. However, the author argues that these proxies create a limited understanding of college quality: one misaligned with colleges’ equalizing potential. Extending the “school quality” literature and building on stratification and …
Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States
In this article, we compare how racial inequalities are shaped by school-to-work transitions among bachelor’s degree (BA) holders in Brazil and the United States. Our findings reveal how distinct paths linking higher education and the job market can drive similar patterns of Black–White earnings gaps. While the distribution across fields of study matters more for racial earnings inequality in Brazil, differential returns to the same field and occ…
School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes
A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the structural effects of linkage strength between…
The Paradox of Persistence
Bachelor's degree (BA) completion is lower among black students than among white students. In this study, we use data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, together with regression-based analytical techniques, to identify the primary sources of the BA completion gap. We find that black students' lower academic and socioeconomic resources are the biggest drivers of the gap. However, w…
School-to-Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France
A new research agenda is proposed for assessing the strength of linkages between educational credentials, including fields of study, and occupational positions. The authors argue that a theoretically fruitful conception of linkage strength requires a focus on granular structure as well as the macroinstitutional characteristics of pathways between education and the labor market. Building on recent advances in the study of multigroup segregation, t…
School-to-Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France
A new research agenda is proposed for assessing the strength of linkages between educational credentials, including fields of study, and occupational positions. The authors argue that a theoretically fruitful conception of linkage strength requires a focus on granular structure as well as the macroinstitutional characteristics of pathways between education and the labor market. Building on recent advances in the study of multigroup segregation, t…
School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes
A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the structural effects of linkage strength between…
The Paradox of Persistence
Bachelor's degree (BA) completion is lower among black students than among white students. In this study, we use data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, together with regression-based analytical techniques, to identify the primary sources of the BA completion gap. We find that black students' lower academic and socioeconomic resources are the biggest drivers of the gap. However, w…
Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States
In this article, we compare how racial inequalities are shaped by school-to-work transitions among bachelor’s degree (BA) holders in Brazil and the United States. Our findings reveal how distinct paths linking higher education and the job market can drive similar patterns of Black–White earnings gaps. While the distribution across fields of study matters more for racial earnings inequality in Brazil, differential returns to the same field and occ…
What Makes a Quality College? Reexamining the Equalizing Potential of Higher Education in the United States
Substantial stratification research examines the equalizing potential of American higher education. Much of this research focuses on college “quality,” proxied empirically by admissions selectivity or test-score excellence. However, the author argues that these proxies create a limited understanding of college quality: one misaligned with colleges’ equalizing potential. Extending the “school quality” literature and building on stratification and …
Underemployed and Penalized
How does education-occupation mismatch shape racial/ethnic labor market inequality among highly educated workers? Bridging the literatures on racial/ethnic discrimination and labor market signaling, we propose a new concept, "racialized signaling," to explain inequality in the college-to-work transition, operationalized through education-occupation mismatch. We then use longitudinal data to examine the labor market consequences of racialized sign…
School-to-Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France
A new research agenda is proposed for assessing the strength of linkages between educational credentials, including fields of study, and occupational positions. The authors argue that a theoretically fruitful conception of linkage strength requires a focus on granular structure as well as the macroinstitutional characteristics of pathways between education and the labor market. Building on recent advances in the study of multigroup segregation, t…
The Paradox of Persistence
Bachelor's degree (BA) completion is lower among black students than among white students. In this study, we use data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, together with regression-based analytical techniques, to identify the primary sources of the BA completion gap. We find that black students' lower academic and socioeconomic resources are the biggest drivers of the gap. However, w…
School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes
A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the structural effects of linkage strength between…
Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States
In this article, we compare how racial inequalities are shaped by school-to-work transitions among bachelor’s degree (BA) holders in Brazil and the United States. Our findings reveal how distinct paths linking higher education and the job market can drive similar patterns of Black–White earnings gaps. While the distribution across fields of study matters more for racial earnings inequality in Brazil, differential returns to the same field and occ…
What Makes a Quality College? Reexamining the Equalizing Potential of Higher Education in the United States
Substantial stratification research examines the equalizing potential of American higher education. Much of this research focuses on college “quality,” proxied empirically by admissions selectivity or test-score excellence. However, the author argues that these proxies create a limited understanding of college quality: one misaligned with colleges’ equalizing potential. Extending the “school quality” literature and building on stratification and …
Intermediate Educational Transitions, Alignment, and Inequality in U.S. Higher Education
Substantial social stratification research conceptualizes education as a series of standard transitions from one stage to the next, such as from high school to college. Yet less research examines mandatory transitions within each educational stage, which we call “intermediate educational transitions.” In this article, we examine a crucial intermediate transition in U.S. higher education, shifting from an undeclared to a declared major by major de…
Underemployed and Penalized
How does education-occupation mismatch shape racial/ethnic labor market inequality among highly educated workers? Bridging the literatures on racial/ethnic discrimination and labor market signaling, we propose a new concept, "racialized signaling," to explain inequality in the college-to-work transition, operationalized through education-occupation mismatch. We then use longitudinal data to examine the labor market consequences of racialized sign…
Who Is Anybody to Judge?” Educational Resistance through Recognition
The United States is a “schooled society”: one where formal education is viewed as a primary conduit between American cultural ideals and people's moral worth and social value. Sociologists of education have described resistance against this dominant model through disinvestment from school, particularly among some students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Yet it remains unclear if “school-invested” students also enact resistance a…
Demographic economics (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology of Education (3 works)