Category: Publications

Which Grandparents? Multigenerational Education Associations by Grandparent Gender and Paternal versus Maternal Side by Anita Li (July 2023)

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Socius Abstract: A growing body of research focuses on multigenerational mobility, but few studies show how grandparents’ gender and gender-specific lineage (paternal vs. maternal side) are differentially associated with the process of status transmissions across generations. This article uses data from the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2018 (N = 15,623) to examine gender and gender-specific lineage differences …

Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California by Michael T. Light, Jason P. Robey, & Jungmyung Kim (July 2023)

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American Journal of Sociology Abstract: Immigration enforcement is increasingly dependent on local criminal justice authorities, yet basic questions on the criminal case processing of non-US citizens (documented or undocumented) in state and local jurisdictions remain unanswered. Leveraging uniquely rich case information on all felony arrests in California and Texas between 2006 and 2018, this article …

A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment by Jason P. Robey, Michael Massoglia, & Michael T. Light (July 2023)

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Demography Abstract: Mass incarceration fundamentally altered the life course for a generation of American men, but sustained declines in imprisonment in recent years raise questions about how incarceration is shaping current generations. This study makes three primary contributions to a fuller understanding of the contemporary landscape of incarceration in the United States. First, we assess …

Lifetime years married held steady for men with a BA degree since 1960 but dropped to lowest level since 1880 for men without a BA by Christine Schwartz, Rodrigo González-Velastín, & Anita Li (July 2023)

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PNAS Abstract: Trends in life expectancy and marriage patterns work together to determine expected lifetime years married. In 1880, adult life expectancy was short and marriages were more likely to end by death than divorce. Since then, although there have been substantial life expectancy gains in adulthood, marriage has been increasingly delayed or forgone and …

Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race by Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron P. Jones, Tiffany S. Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, & Dorothy Farrar Edwards (May 2023)

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Field Methods, Online First Abstract: Ethnoracial identity refers to the racial and ethnic categories that people use to classify themselves and others. How it is measured in surveys has implications for understanding inequalities. Yet how people self-identify may not conform to the categories standardized survey questions use to measure ethnicity and race, leading to potential …

Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing by Max Besbris & Gary Alan Fine (2023)

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Theory & Society, May 2023 Abstract: Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves five core elements: mirroring, identifying, coordinating, timing, and surmounting. Specifically, planning depends on (1) a realization of likely responses of others, (2) a recognition of …

Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar by Kristina Fullerton Rico (2023)

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Social Problems, May 2023 Abstract: In the past four decades, the United States has created a population of long-term unauthorized immigrants. As this population ages, issues of death and dying are increasingly salient. Though we know much about how families maintain close bonds despite geographic distance, death and dying remain undertheorized in transnational family scholarship. …

Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era? by Chloe Grace Hart (2023)

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Social Problems, April 2023 Abstract:  Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how comprehensive these shifts in public opinion have been remains unclear. I hypothesize that women who experience workplace sexual harassment are judged against the archetype of an idealized target of sexual …

Spillover Effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on Older Siblings Beyond the Mother-Infant Dyad by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, & Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2023)

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Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of maternal exposure to Wisconsin Medicaid’s Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) program during pregnancy with a younger sibling on the preventive care …

Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)

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European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students’ ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested experimentally. We executed a …