Cristobal Young

Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, specializing in economic sociology, social stratification, and quantitative methodology. His research examines social policies that address income inequality—such as elite taxation and unemployment insurance—and develops methodological tools for more robust empirical results.

He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich (Stanford University Press), which explores the social consequences of elite taxation, and Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Erin Cumberworth), which advances tools for systematically exploring how research findings depend on modeling choices. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times, and has earned the Granovetter Prize for the best article in economic sociology.

His research also explores the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, the expansion of consumerist logics in medicine, and inequality in social capital. His work has been published in leading journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces. Young earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and previously taught at Stanford. He contributes regularly to public discussions through op-eds in outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.