Author: nconn2

Social Networks Everyday mobility data have become a central resource for studying neighborhoods, yet most research still treats mobility networks as collections of dyadic ties rather than complex systems with higher-order structure. This study investigates whether triadic closure operates causally in neighborhood mobility networks: when two neighborhoods (B and C) increasingly share a common destination …

Journal of Health and Social Behavior This study examines the relationship between early-life bilingualism and midlife cognitive health. Using data from the 1980, 1982, and 2021 waves of High School and Beyond: 1980 (N ≈ 13,980), we find that bilingual adults show higher midlife cognition scores, but the association weakens after adjusting for early-life academic …

Sage Journals In settler-colonial societies, indigenous children exhibit elevated risk of CPS involvement, but little is known about the comparative dynamics of indigenous disadvantage. We calculated the cumulative incidence of CPS involvement before age 18 years among indigenous and nonindigenous children in Australia and the United States in 2019. We applied period life-table methods to …

Summary Prior literature on fertility during war examines high-fertility settings using quantitative data on births collected mainly after fighting ends. In contrast, we analyze cognitive processes related to childbearing during wartime in Ukraine, where a full-scale war erupted in the context of long-standing low fertility. We conducted 22 in-depth, semi-structured virtual interviews and three focus …

Summary: Question: How can we obtain comparable measurement of cognitive functioning for people who took different cognitive tests? Findings: Our method uses the relationship between cognitive functioning and individual characteristics (like high school achievement) to make cognitive scores comparable. Importance: National studies of aging often rely on multiple methods of surveying participants, including face-to-face, phone, …

Cambridge University Press Summary Tens of thousands of mostly younger Black people went to rural Louisiana in 2007 to support the Jena 6, Black students who were overcharged after a school fight. We examine the construction of two narratives. The powerful Jena 6 narrative told how the conflict began when nooses were hung on the …

Sociological Focus Abstract The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States. A prosperous community before the massacre, over 1200 businesses and homes in the predominately Black Greenwood District of Tulsa were destroyed over 2 days in 1921. Systemically covered up and ignored for …