I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. I am also affiliated with the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.

Broadly speaking, my research spans social stratification, policy analysis, and quantitative methods. I am interested in understanding how long-term inequalities are reproduced across social groups, and the factors that can mitigate these disparities. Using a wide array of quantitative methods and cross-national datasets, my research has focused on topics such as gender inequality in lifetime earnings, the impact of conditional cash transfers on socioeconomic indicators, policy and housing affordability, and methodological issue in inequality measurement.

My current projects extend my work on cumulative inequalities in several directions. One line of research analyzes racial gaps in lifetime economic outcomes—such as household income and labor earnings—across successive generations of men and women. A second stream of work examines how first family formation transitions (e.g., first marriage; first childbirth) alter household income and health trajectories. A third investigates how the relationship between earnings and wealth accumulation has changed across generations. Taken together, this work highlights how labor market attachment, family formation, and institutional contexts interact to produce cumulative inequality over the life course.

Contact Information: juliana.decastrogalvao@nuffield.ox.ac.uk 

For more details, you can find my most updated CV HERE

To learn more about me as a higher education lecturer go HERE (including tips on pedagogy).