Stephen L. Morgan

Stephen L. Morgan
Born
United States
Alma materHarvard University (A.B., M.A., Ph.D.)
Oxford University (M.Phil.)
Known forSociological Methodology
Education
Causality
Social stratification
Policy Evaluation
Counterfactuals
AwardsBloomberg Distinguished Professorships (2014)
Leo Goodman Award (2013)
Robert A. & Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Education
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Stephen Lawrence Morgan (born 1971) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Johns Hopkins School of Education. A quantitative methodologist, he is known for his contributions to quantitative methods in sociology as applied to research on schools, particularly in models for educational attainment, improving the study of causal relationships, and his empirical research focusing on social inequality and education in the United States.