Category: Publications

Demography Highlights

Nature Human Behaviour Abstract Why have incarceration rates and racial disparities fallen in the USA? Using data on recorded crimes, arrests and prison admissions from 2000 to 2019, we decompose declines in imprisonment by race and offence category. Whereas the rise of mass incarceration primarily reflected increased punitiveness in policing and case processing, recent declines …

Obesity Science & Practice ABSTRACT Background Including romantic partners as supports in behavioral weight management programs targeting index participants could yield spillover effects, but few studies have explored the effects on partners. Methods Dyads included an index participant with BMI ≥ 27 kg/m2 and a cohabitating partner with BMI ≥ 18 kg/m2 randomized to a participant‐only (N = 116) or partner‐assisted (N = 115) intervention. …

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Introduction Special Sessions at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) are, by nature, noteworthy because they address sociological issues of importance to the discipline or beyond, focusing on new areas of sociological work and/or timely topics. Although the content of these sessions is not always publication worthy, publication …

Gender & Society Abstract Empirical evidence from the labor market suggests that when an occupation is associated with women it is devalued, but without tight experimental control, these studies cannot establish that the relationship is causal. In a series of preregistered survey experiments, I test whether U.S. residents devalue three distinct occupations when they are …

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, …