Shay O'Brien Wins 2025 Socio-Economic Review Best Paper Prize

Congratulations to Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Shay O'Brien, who is a co-winner of the 2025 Socio-Economic Review (SER) Best Paper Prize for "The Family Web: Multigenerational Class Persistence in Elite Populations," which appeared in Volume 22, Issue 1 of Socio-Economic Review. The prize jury described the paper as "remarkable for its excellent empirical and theoretical contributions to the field of the sociology of elites," and lauded Shay's research for allowing readers to "clearly grasp the mechanisms of elite reproduction in the long-run, building on a very impressive collection of original data revealing that the continuity of the elite must be understood as webs rather than dynasties, and developing a theoretical perspective that will enlighten the sociology of elites in the case of the USA and beyond."