Steven Alvarado
Sociology
Associate Professor, Sociology
- Sociology of Education
- Race & Ethnicity
- Urban Inequality & Urban Sociology
- Health, Immigration and Quantitative Methods
- Inequality
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MSN
The Challenge of Generational Wealth
April 18, 2025
Steven Alvarado, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in Latino studies, cited segregation and underfunded schools as key factors that “inhibit, or at least delay, the accumulation of economic stability and or wealth” among Latinos.
NPR
Study: No matter the economic upbringing, Black families likely to experience similar economic outcome
Audio
July 24, 2023
On Monday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Steven Alvarado, an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, talked with show host Rose Scott about the report and research and why change must start with the labor market.
phys.org
Black families growing up on either side of the tracks have same economic outcomes, says study
June 27, 2023
Expanding on the relatively short-term and single-generation body of research, University of Notre Dame assistant professor of sociology Steven Alvarado used 35 years' worth of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from 1979 to 2014 to study what happened when multiple generations of Black, white and Latino families lived on one side of the tracks versus the other.