Category: Publications

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Abstract: INTRODUCTION Educational attainment is associated with midlife cognitive functioning. However, degree attainment is the culmination of complex and unequal processes involving students’ backgrounds, the opportunities that schools provide them, and their performance within those schools─all of which may also shape midlife cognition. What do educational gradients in midlife cognition look like using a …

Spatial Demography Abstract: Economic complexity (EC) measures the diversification and domestic comparative advantage of industry in an economy. Originally applied to studies of global economic development, dominant frameworks suggest the extent of a place’s economic capabilities underlies its economic and population growth potential, and ascribe to the universalistic notion that economic growth generates population growth. …

American Jewish History First paragraph: From the early 1880s until the outbreak of the Great War, twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States. Most of them came from southern and eastern Europe rather than the northern and western European sources to which Americans were accustomed, and Jews made up a sizable portion of these …

Urban Affairs Review Abstract: In recent years, the rural–urban divide has become one of the defining features of American partisan politics. Usually conceptualized as a regional phenomenon, discussions of the rural–urban divide often overlook geographic polarization on the local scale and its impact on cities, urban governance, and urban problems. This research note draws attention …

Education Economics Abstract: This paper studies the links between discrepancies in the language spoken at home and the medium of instruction at school and grade repetition using nationally representative sample surveys in India. Our sample consists of more than 100,000 students attending educational institutions. Using a fixed effects regression model, we find that language discrepancy …

Rural Sociology Abstract: In North Central Montana, a land-based conflict centered on the environmental organization American Prairie sparked the formation of the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the American Prairie Reserve” Facebook page, attracting posts and comments from ranchers and members of the area’s agriculture-dependent communities. Despite Montana’s rapid amenity migration and rural gentrification, this region …

Socius – featured article Abstract: Contemporary sociological research emphasizes the need to analyze inequality beyond nominal categories. Although research has grown in this regard at the individual level, little research has pursued this approach with neighborhoods. This article explores how names can serve as a measure of the perceived typicality associated with race and how …

The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality Introduction: In the contemporary social sciences, qualitative data, by which we here refer specifically to evidence gathered from participant observation and in-depth interviewing, have a peculiar status. Across many substantive fields – inequality, poverty, education, organizations, immigration, health, crime, and more – scholars doing quantitative research actively rely …

Social Stratification and Mobility Abstract: Graduate study has rapidly expanded since the late 1990s, with women overtaking men in their enrollment in all levels of graduate degree. Once thought to be a relatively meritocratic space, due to increasing selection as educational transitions move into higher degrees, more recent research on graduate education has shown it …

Social Science and Medicine Abstract: Policymakers and researchers have posited intrapartum care as a potential mediator of racial inequities in perinatal outcomes. However, few studies have measured patient-centered quality of intrapartum care or explored differences by race. To address this gap, we developed a survey supplement using cognitive interviewing and administered it to a probability-based …