#  Aleksei Opacic 

 

 



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(Sociology)  
*Ph.D. Date:* May 2027 (Expected)  
*Dissertation Title:* College-to-Work(place) Linkages and the Returns to Education  
*Dissertation Committee:* Xiang Zhou (Chair), Christina Ciocca Eller, Christopher Winship, and Nathan Wilmers (MIT Sloan)  
*Research Interests:* Economic Sociology, Economic and educational Inequality, Organizations, Quantitative and Computational Methods  
*Aleksei Opacic's website:* <https://alekseiopacic.github.io/>

My research examines how organizations distribute opportunity across schooling and work and the implications for social stratification. My projects have studied: how colleges channel students into firms and jobs; how mismatch between skills and workplace tasks generates earnings inequality; how employers evaluate and recruit talent; and how alternative college admissions policies would affect mobility. To make these processes visible, I build novel administrative data linkages (often through collaborations with state agencies and firms), construct my own sources of textual data, and use a range of computational tools, including natural language processing and machine learning. I have also developed causal inference methods to isolate the role of organizations in the stratification process and workplace inequality more broadly.



 

 

 





 

 

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