Demography Abstract: Increasing evidence links exposure to extreme weather events in utero with adverse health outcomes at birth, including lower birth weight. This research, however, often faces data limitations because natural disasters may be localized, …
Publications
Not Your Mom, Teacher: How Parenting Logics Shaped School Enrollment Decisions in the Context of Covid-19 by Kaitlyn A. Orick and Jessica Calarco (2026)
The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education Abstract: By summer 2020, some US parents—disproportionately affluent, highly educated, White parents—were calling for schools to reopen, despite the continued …
Out-of-Home-Care Rates among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Countries With Histories of Settler Colonialism by Martin Eiermann, Mikkeline Munk Nielsen, Christopher Wildeman, and Peter Fallesen (2025)
Child Maltreatment Abstract: Indigenous children in settler-colonial societies have historically been exposed to frequent family separation; yet contemporary family separation through out-of-home-care (OOHC) remains understudied. We analyzed annual OOHC rates among indigenous and non-indigenous children …
Building a Broken Wall: Small Cities, Nonpartisanship, and Polarization by Benny Witkovsky (2025)
Theory and Social Inquiry Abstract: Nonpartisanship has been a core element of U.S. local governments for over a century. Today, these institutions face a new challenge as polarization has grown more intense, intimate, and ideological. …
Curtis Yarvin: Postliberalism with Computational Characteristics by James Rosenberg (2025)
IWMPost “As the authoritarian right advances in the United States, developing an accurate understanding of its worldview is a task of some urgency. One way of doing so is by considering the writings of one …
Effects of the President’s Party on Infant Health Across Racial & Ethnic Groups in the United States by Florencia Torche and Tamkinat Rauf (2025)
Socius Abstract: This visualization extends previous research reporting a positive effect of prenatal exposure of Democratic presidencies on the health outcomes of Black and White infants in the United States between 1971 and 2018. Using …
“The Hamster Wheel Is on Fire”: How the Pandemic Amplified Inequality in the Academy by Catherine Albiston, Tonya L. Brito, Cathy Hu, and Daniela Campos Ugaz (2025)
Gender, Work & Organization Abstract: Institutional practices often recreate inequalities within organizations, especially in times of crisis like the COVID pandemic. Although early pandemic research expressed alarm that increased caregiving demands were reducing women’s research …
Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods by Karl Vachuska and Meghann Norden-Bright (2025)
Social Science Research Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between neighborhood mobility patterns and political polarization in the United States, with a focus on the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Using everyday mobility data from …
Economic Abuse, Compared to Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse, Is Minimized More, Victims Are Blamed More, and Victims Are Provided with Less Legal Advice by Alice Nuo-Yi Wang, Niwako Yamawaki, Yuki Nohagi, Rachel Umphress, Jane Green, and Catalina Valdez (2025)
Psychology Abstract: Economic Abuse (EA) is an understudied phenomenon experienced by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victims. The purpose of this study was to examine how participants minimized IPV, blamed IPV victims, and offered legal advice …
The Outsized Impact of Behavioral Causes of Death on Longevity in the United States: Comparing Total and per Death Years of Life Lost by Glenn Firebaugh and Michael T. Light (2025)
Socius Abstract: How significant are behavioral causes of death—suicide, homicide, accidental poisoning, and traffic accidents—in determining how long Americans live? By “determining,” the authors mean limiting or reducing, as they are looking at factors (causes …