#  Felix Veit Elwert 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Felix Elwert's Website](https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~felwert/causality/) 

 

 



 

 (Sociology, March 2007)  
*Thesis Title:* Cohabitation, Divorce, and the Trial Marriage Hypothesis  
*Committee:* Christopher Winship, Nicholas A. Christakis, Martin K. Whyte  
*Initial Placement:* Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison  
*Current Position:* [Romnes Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI](http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/show-person.php?person_id=388)

 My research advances the understanding of two interlocking areas of social inequality: First, I investigate the contextual drivers of inequality, including neighborhood, network, and family effects. Second, I analyze the demography of inequality. All of my work pursues a theory-driven approach to causal inference. I especially focus on problems of dynamic selection to understand how contexts and demography shape individual life chances, their distributions, and their transmission within and across generations.



 

 

 





 

 

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