Kaspar Burger is currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Kaspar conducts research and teaches courses at the intersection of sociology of education, educational psychology, and children's rights studies. Dr. Burger is working with Dr. Jeylan Mortimer on research which he recently presented at a Life Course Demography, Aging, and Health Workshop under the title "Self-Esteem, Economic Self-Efficacy and Status Attainment: Evidence from a Panel Study of Three Generations." This work is part of a larger research project called “Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-Level Determinants of Educational Inequalities: An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Dr. Burger also has a forthcoming article, “The socio-spatial dimension of educational inequality: A comparative European analysis” in Studies in Educational Evaluation. To learn more about his work, visit his profiles on ResearchGate and Scopus.