Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (DSS)

Dr. Gordey Yastrebov

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• social inequality and mobility
• demography
• mathematical modeling
• statistical methods in social sciences

Curriculum vitae

• 2005 BA in Economics, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow, Russia)
• 2007 MA in Economic Sociology, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow, Russia)
• 2011 Candidate in Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
• 2007-2014 Intern researcher, National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow, Russia)
• 2019 PhD in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Thesis: "The Demographic Echo of War and Social Mobility"
• 2018-2020 Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, University of Bamberg
• since 2020 Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, University of Cologne

Ausgewählte Publikationen

• Yastrebov, G., Trinidad, A., & Leopold, T. (2025) “A Bounding Approach to Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: A Demonstration Using Public Crime Concerns in Germany”, Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-025-09633-7
• Yastrebov, G. & Wittemann, V. (2024) “Reconstructing Prospective Intergenerational Educational Mobility in 12 Countries”, Demography. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11463595
• Yastrebov, G. (2023) “Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality: A Comment on the Formal Model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger” European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac041
• Yastrebov, G. (2022) “Revisiting the Historical Trend of Educational Stratification in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100662
• Yastrebov, G., Kosyakova, Y. & Kurakin, D. (2018) “Slipping Past the Test: Heterogeneous Effects of Social Background in the Context of Inconsistent Selection Mechanisms in Higher Education.” Sociology of Education. 91(3): 224-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040718779087 -9