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Maarten L. Buis University of Konstanz, Germany
Maarten L. Buis is the lecturer of statistics for the social sciences at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He has published several articles introducing and applying new methods on problems of social stratification and educational inequality. He has also written numerous programs implementing such methods in Stata. These include programs for models dealing with proportions. His research has focused primarily on the effect of family background on their offspring’s educational attainment and how that interacts with demographic processes. These demographic processes can be short term (e.g., family background depends on the composition of the family) or long term (e.g., how the fact that higher educated parents tend to get fewer children affects the long-term educational composition in a country). In addition, he has worked on how tracking in an educational system, and in particular the possibility to move between tracks after the initial assignment, influences educational inequality.
