Sociological Science Abstract Schools routinely employ seating charts to influence educational outcomes. Dependable evidence for the causal effects of seating charts on students’ achievement levels and inequality, however, is scarce. We executed a large pre-registered …
Month: October 2023
Making BIPOC Lives Matter: A Qualitative Analysis of Managerial Resistance to Racial Exclusions in US Homeless Systems by Garrett L. Grainger & Erin Gaede (2023)
Housing, Theory, & Society Abstract: The way racial disparities get re/produced or challenged by homeless systems is an underexplored subject in housing studies. This paper advances scholarship on that topic by examining how homeless system …
Peeking under the Hood of Job Stress: How Men and Women’s Stress Levels Vary by Typologies of Job Quality and Family Composition by Grace Venechuk (2023)
Journal of Health and Social Behavior Abstract: Changes to work and family norms and polices over the last several decades have reshaped both the job quality and the nature of job and family formation in …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2024: Transcription Assistant for Interviews About Sexual Harassment and Flirtation
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 136) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: How have large societal shifts …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2024: Cultural Scripts About Flirtation in American Media
Term: Spring 2024 (Soc 320, Section 036) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: Flirtation – expressing romantic or …
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations by Felix Elwert, Tamás Keller, and Andreas Kotsadam (2023)
American Journal of Sociology Abstract: Contact theory predicts that interethnic exposure reduces antiminority discrimination. By contrast, conflict theory predicts that interethnic exposure worsens discrimination. Received scope conditions, however, are vague and do not properly differentiate …
Are Neighborhood Effects Explained by Differences in School Quality? by Geoffrey T. Wodtke, Ugur Yildirim, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert (2023)
American Journal of Sociology Abstract: It is widely hypothesized that neighborhood effects on academic achievement are explained by differences in the quality of schools attended by resident children. The authors evaluate this hypothesis using data …
Internal Displacement and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Ukraine in 2018 by Brienna Perelli-Harris, Jane Zavisca, Nataliia Levchuk, & Theodore P Gerber (2023)
Social Forces Abstract: Ukraine is currently experiencing the largest human displacement crisis in the world. However, armed conflict that started in 2014 had already displaced nearly 1.8 million people in Ukraine, resulting in the largest …
Effect of ADHD medication on risk of injuries: a preference-based instrumental variable analysis by Tarjei Widding‑Havneraas, Felix Elwert, Simen Markussen et al. (2023)
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Abstract: ADHD is associated with an increased risk of injury. Causal evidence for effects of pharmacological treatment on injuries is scarce. We estimated effects of ADHD medication on injuries using …
Katherine Jensen interview by Mother Jones “What the United States Can Learn From Brazil About Asylum”
Katherine Jensen was interviewed by Mother Jones following the publication of her book The Color of Asylym: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil. From Mother Jones: “Drawing from 15 months of fieldwork and …