The Annals of Applied Statistics Abstract: We introduce a new nonparametric causal decomposition approach that identifies the mechanisms by which a treatment variable contributes to a group-based outcome disparity. Our approach distinguishes three mechanisms: group …
Publications
Consequences of expanded vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality: The case of Japanese higher education by Uchikoshi Fumiya, Kohei Toyonaga, and Erika Teramoto (2025)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Abstract: In this paper, we integrate two bodies of literature on higher education—horizontal stratification and gender segregation—to generate new insights into the consequences of the increase in vocationally oriented …
Intrapartum Care Experiences Associated with Postpartum Visit Attendance by Fiona Weeks, Rebecca Myerson, Ronald Gangnon, Jennifer Dykema, Candi Cornelius, and Tiffany Green (2025)
Birth Abstract: Introduction The postpartum visit is an important opportunity to prevent pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality; however, about 1 in 10 birthing people do not attend this visit. Intrapartum care experiences are an understudied factor …
Education and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from the High School and Beyond Cohort by Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, Adam M. Brickman, Jennifer J. Manly, Koit Hung, Michael J. Culbertson and John Robert Warren (2025)
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 …
Economic Complexity and Divergent Population Growth by Race and Rurality by Clayton Adamson, Katherine J. Curtis, and Sara Peters (2025)
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 …
Horace Kallen’s Expanding Vision of Cultural Pluralism: Nationality, Race, and Democracy on the World Stage, 1918–39 by Chad Alan Goldberg (2024)
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 …
Cities and Their Neighbors: Examining Rural-Urban Polarization on A Local Scale by Benny Witkovsky (2025)
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 …
Language capital and grade repetition: evidence from nationally-representative survey data in India by Anirudh Tagat and Bijoyetri Samaddar (2025)
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 …
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West by John Canfield (2024)
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 …
The Significance of Name-Based Racial Composition in Analyzing Neighborhood Disparities by by Karl Vachuska (2024)
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 …