Francesca Mele

LIFE Fellow from 2023 to 2025, University of Zurich

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in August 2025

Individual Characteristics Underlying Social Stratification Processes: Evidence From Three Large-Scale Panel Studies

(Advisors: Kaspar Burger & Ingrid Schoon)

Selected Publications

Burger, K., Mele, F., Kirkpatrick Johnson, M., Mortimer, J., & Han, X. (2025). The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity. Social Forces, 104(1), 320–340. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf016

Schoon, I., Mele, F., & Burger, K. (2025). Academic agency and educational attainment: The intersection of SES, ethnicity and sex. Learning and Individual Differences, 120, Article 102689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102689

Mele, F., Buchmann, M., & Burger, K. (2023). Making it to the academic path in a tracked education system: The interplay of individual agency and social origin in early educational transitions. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52, 2620–2635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01846-y