Natasha Quadlin
Biography
Natasha Quadlin is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty fellow in the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. Her research examines social inequality in the contemporary United States, with an emphasis on topics such as (a) the social and economic dynamics of gender inequality, (b) inequality in access and returns to higher education, and (c) debt and the economics of higher education. She is particularly interested in using large-scale experiments and surveys to assess the mechanisms behind how inequalities unfold in social life.
Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 2017
M.S., Applied Statistics, Indiana University, 2014
M.A., Sociology, Indiana University, 2013
B.S., Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2009
Publications
Book
Quadlin, Natasha and Brian Powell. 2022. Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (Link)
Selected Articles
Quadlin, Natasha, Tom VanHeuvelen, and Caitlin Ahearn. 2023. “Higher Education and High-Wage Gender Inequality.” Social Science Research 112:102873.
Quadlin, Natasha, Nanum Jeon, Long Doan, and Brian Powell. 2022. “Untangling Perceptions of Atypical Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 84(4):1175–95.
Conwell, Jordan A. and Natasha Quadlin. 2022. “Race, Gender, Higher Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Baby Boomers at Mid-Life.” Social Forces 100(3):990–1024.
Roscigno, Vincent J., Jill E. Yavorsky, and Natasha Quadlin. 2021. “Gendered Dignity at Work.” American Journal of Sociology 127(2):562–620.
Quadlin, Natasha and Jordan A. Conwell. 2021. “Race, Gender, and Parental College Savings: Assessing Economic and Academic Factors.” Sociology of Education 94(1):20–42.
Quadlin, Natasha. 2020. “From Major Preferences to Major Choices: Gender and Logics of Major Choice.” Sociology of Education 93(2):91–109.
Quadlin, Natasha. 2019. “Sibling Achievement, Sibling Gender, and Beliefs about Parental Investment: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.” Social Forces 97(4):1603–30.
Quadlin, Natasha. 2018. “The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring.” American Sociological Review 83(2):331–60.
Quadlin, Natasha. 2017. “Funding Sources, Family Income, and Fields of Study in College.” Social Forces 96(1):91–120.
Awards & Grants
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2022-23
Doris Entwisle Early Career Award, ASA Section on Sociology of Education, 2021
Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), 2021
Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award, ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, 2019
Distinguished Article Award, ASA Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender, 2019
James Coleman Award for Best Article, ASA Section on Sociology of Education, 2019
Karl F. Schuessler Award for Graduate Research, Indiana University Department of Sociology, 2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Collaborators
Jordan Conwell, University of Texas at Austin
Long Doan, University of Maryland
Christina Ciocca Eller, Harvard University
Brian Powell, Indiana University
Vinnie Roscigno, Ohio State University
Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota
Jill Yavorsky, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
