University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: March 2023

Spillover Effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on Older Siblings Beyond the Mother-Infant Dyad by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, & Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2023)

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Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of maternal exposure to Wisconsin Medicaid’s Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) program during pregnancy with a younger sibling on the preventive care …

Chiara Packard Awarded the 2023 SSSP Law & Society Division Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Competition Award

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Chiara Packard’s paper “Prosecution for Services: How Access to Services through the Criminal Legal System Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions,” was selected as the award winner for the 2023 SSSP Law & Society Division Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Competition. Congratulations, Chiara!

Sociology Colloquium: From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Blackness, Latindad, and Minority Linked Fate with Jennifer Jones, U Illinois-Chicago

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Presenter: Jennifer Jones (U Illinois, Chicago) Title: From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Blackness, Latindad, and Minority Linked Fate Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Time: 2:30-4:00pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science Building

Graduate Student Abigail Letak Awarded Capstone PhD Teaching Award

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2022-23 Teaching Assistant Award winners demonstrate educational excellence Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. Abigail was awarded one of 5 Capstone PhD Teaching Awards for this academic year. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range …

Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Spring Panel: Immigration in the New South: Latinxs, Asian Americans, and African Americans

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Presenter: Perla Guerrero (U Maryland) and Jennifer Joines (U Illinois, Chicago) Title: Immigration in the New South: Latinxs, Asian Americans, and African Americans Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 Time: 4:00pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science Building  

Sociology Colloquium: Marital Dynamics and Health in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Unions: A Dyadic Longitudinal Approach with Prof. Debra J. Umberson from UT Austin

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Presenter: Prof. Debra J. Umberson from UT Austin Title: Marital Dynamics and Health in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Unions: A Dyadic Longitudinal Approach Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Time: 12:15 – 2:00 pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science Building

Max Besbris awarded Eastern Sociological Society Early Career Public Sociology Award

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Congratulations to Max Besbris for receiving the Eastern Sociological Society Early Career Public Sociology Award. This award recognizes sociologists who have done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research. From ESS – “Meaningful public work here includes high profile public dissemination, such as Op-Eds or public media appearances, but especially …

Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)

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European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students’ ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested experimentally. We executed a …