Guillermina Jasso New York University, USA
Guillermina Jasso (PhD, Johns Hopkins, 1974) is Silver Professor of Arts and Science and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She works on basic sociobehavioral theory, fairness, migration, status, inequality, probability distributions, mathematical methods for theoretical analysis, and factorial survey methods for empirical analysis. Contributions to inequality research include mathematical links between overall inequality and subgroup inequality and between input inequality and outcome inequality, plus a new theorem linking the goodness or badness of a thing (such as income or taxes) with the goodness or badness of its inequality. Contributions to justice research include a formula for the magnitude of injustice associated with given departures from perfect justice, a formula for decomposing overall injustice into injustice due to poverty and injustice due to inequality, and estimates of observer-specific just rewards, just reward functions, and just gender gaps. Contributions to statistics and theoretical methods include two new families of probability distributions. Contributions to basic theory include derivation of many testable predictions, including novel predictions, for diverse topical domains, together with unification of theories of fairness, status, and power. Contributions to migration research include estimates of emigration, the family-reunification multiplier, and the proportion of new legal immigrants with unauthorized experience, as well as designing and directing the New Immigrant Survey, the first nationally-representative longitudinal study of new legal immigrants in the United States.
Jasso won the 2015 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Distinguished Career Award and the 2022 James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Award, given, respectively, by the Methodology Section and the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
