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Citations
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5769
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David L. Featherman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their academic career is recognized through various honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Orville Gilbert Brim

  • Opportunity and Change

    David L. Featherman;Robert Mason Hauser

  • Socioeconomic background and achievement

    Otis Dudley Duncan;David L. Featherman;Beverly Duncan

  • The Process of Stratification: Trends and Analyses

    Robert Mason Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • A revised socioeconomic index of occupational status

    Gillian Stevens;David L Featherman

  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: Findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on successful aging

    Lisa F. Berkman;Teresa E. Seeman;Marilyn Albert;Dan Blazer

  • Assumptions of social mobility research in the U.S.: The case of occupational status☆

    David L Featherman;F Lancaster Jones;Robert M Hauser

  • Equality of Schooling: Trends and Prospects.

    Robert M. Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • Sexual Inequalities and Socioeconomic Achievement in the U.S., 1962-1973.

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • Intraindividual variability in perceived control in an older sample: the MacArthur successful aging studies.

    Dara R. Eizenman;John R. Nesselroade;David L. Featherman;John W. Rowe

  • Ontogenesis and sociogenesis: Problematics for theory and research about development and socialization across the lifespan.

    David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner

  • Response Errors of Black and Nonblack Males in Models of the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

    William T. Bielby;Robert M. Hauser;David L. Featherman

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 10

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner

  • Changes in the Socioeconomic Stratification of the Races, 1962-73.

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • Prestige or Socioeconomic Scales in the Study of Occupational Achievement

    David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

  • The Socioeconomic Achievement of White Religio-Ethnic Subgroups: Social and Psychological Explanations

    David L. Featherman

  • Introduction: Late Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood

    Lonnie R. Sherrod;Robert J. Haggerty;David L. Featherman

  • 7 – A Revised Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status: Application in Analysis of Sex Differences in Attainment1

    David L. Featherman;Gillian Stevens

  • How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01

    Michael Traugott;Ted Brader;Deborah Coral;Richard Curtin

  • Social self-efficacy and short-term variability in social relationships: the MacArthur successful aging studies.

    Frieder R. Lang;David L. Featherman;John R. Nesselroade

  • Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life@@@Schooling and Achievement in American Society

    David H. Kamens;Samuel Bowles;Herbert Gintis;William H. Sewell

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 11

    David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Marion Perlmutter

  • Opportunity and Change.

    Gary D. Sandefur;David L. Featherman;Robert M. Hauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
John R. Nesselroade
John R. Nesselroade University of Virginia
Otis Dudley Duncan
Otis Dudley Duncan University of Arizona
Karl Ulrich Mayer
Karl Ulrich Mayer Max Planck Society
Dennis P. Hogan
Dennis P. Hogan Brown University
Robert L. Kahn
Robert L. Kahn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William H. Sewell
William H. Sewell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Deborah A. Phillips
Deborah A. Phillips Georgetown University
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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