Journal of International Migration and Integration Abstract: Using novel population data, this article examines the effect of classroom-level linguistic diversity on the English reading and listening scores of fifth-grade students in Italy. Previous European studies …
Publications
Socioeconomic Disadvantage Explains Neighborhood Racial Inequality in Opioid Mortality by Karl Vachuska and Michael Topping (2026)
Social Science and Medicine Abstract: The mortality burden imposed by the opioid crisis has only increased in recent years, with particularly high increases among Black Americans, who now die from overdoses at higher rates than …
Introduction: Sentencing in Uncertain Times by Ryan D. King and Michael T. Light (2026)
The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing explores one of the most consequential and contested decision-points in the criminal justice system: whether and how to punish those convicted of crimes. During …
Immigration Federalism and Noncitizen Punishment Inequality by Michael T. Light and Avery Warner
The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing Abstract: The devolution of immigration enforcement to local jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies is a defining feature of the contemporary criminal justice–immigration nexus. However, limited empirical work has examined county-level …
Reactionary Bricolage: Curtis Yarvin and Postliberalism by James Rosenberg (2026)
Theory, Culture and Society Abstract: As the authoritarian right advances in the United States, developing an accurate understanding of the constituent elements of its worldview is a task of great urgency. Toward this end, I …
How Do (Human) Child Welfare Workers Respond to Machine-Generated Risk Scores? by Martin Eiermann, Maria Fitzpatrick, Katharine Sadowski, and Christopher Wildeman (2026)
Sociological Science Abstract: Algorithmic risk scoring tools have been widely incorporated into governmental decision making, yet little is known about how human decision makers interact with machine-generated risk scores at the street level. We examined …
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States by Nicholas Mark, Ethan J. Raker, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa (2025)
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, …
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. …