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Devah Pager

Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002. Interests: employment discrimination, racial inequality, social stratification, prisoner reentry.

Recent Activities

Pager's current research has involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market. Her book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago, 2007), investigates the racial and economic consequences of large scale imprisonment for contemporary U.S. labor markets. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and an NIH K01 (2006-2010). Her work has been featured recently in the New York Times and on the CNN documentary Black in America.

Recent Publications

Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment. American Sociological Review 74(5).

Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Naomi Sugie. 2009. "Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 623(May):195-213.

Pager, Devah and Diana Karafin. 2009. "Bayesian Bigot? Statistical Discrimination, Stereotypes, and Employer Decision-Making." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 621(January):70-93.

Pager, Devah. 2008. "The Republican Ideal? Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System in Contemporary France." Punishment and Society 10(4):375-400.

Pager, Devah and Hana Shepherd. 2008 "The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit and Consumer Markets." Annual Review of Sociology 34:181-209.

Pager, Devah. 2007. "The Use of Field Experiments for Studies of Employment Discrimination: Contributions, Critiques, and Directions for the Future." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 609: 104-133.

Pager, Devah. 2005. "Walking the Talk: What Employers Say Versus What They Do." American Sociological Review 70(3):355-380.

Pager, Devah. 2003. "The Mark of a Criminal Record." American Journal of Sociology 108(5): 937-975.