Kristian Bernt Karlson

Kristian Bernt Karlson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on intergenerational mobility, educational stratification, and quantitative methods. Karlson has made influential contributions to the study of how family background shapes educational and economic outcomes over the life course, and he is widely known for developing the “Karlson–Holm–Breen” method for decomposing effects in nonlinear probability models. His current ERC-funded research examines social class mobility through the lens of sibling similarities. He has published in leading journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Methodology, and Social Forces, and has received major awards such as the Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement in Sociology and the ASA Leo Goodman Award for contributions to sociological methodology. He is currently Deputy Editor of Sociological Science and formerly Associate Editor of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.