University of Wisconsin-Madison
Demography, Volume 59, Issue 6, December 2022 Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a large toll on population health and well-being. We examine the consequences of prenatal exposure for infant health, through which the pandemic may have lasting intergenerational effects. We examine multiple pathways by which the pandemic shaped birth outcomes and socioeconomic disparities in …
Journal of Health Economics, Volume 86, December 2022 Abstract: A growing body of research explores the long-run effects of social programs and welfare spending. However, evidence linking welfare support in early life with longevity is limited. We add to this literature by evaluating the effect of in-utero and early-life exposure to the largest increases in …
In an age when over two million people are incarcerated in the United States alone, the wide-reaching impact of prisons in our society is impossible to deny, and the paradoxical relationship between prisons and health has never been more controversial. Prisons are charged at the same time with being punitive and therapeutic, with denying freedom …
Extreme weather is increasing in scale and severity as global warming worsens. While poorer communities are typically most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, even well-resourced communities are increasingly vulnerable as climate-related storms intensify. Yet little is known about how middle-class communities are responding to these storms and the resulting damage. In Soaking …
“This paper draws on interviews with first-generation (FG) college students in their first year attending two distinct public colleges (a rural state university and an urban flagship) to show how these students framed college in terms of place, how different place frames shaped students’ college choices and experiences, and how place served as a proxy …
On Tuesday, June 28, 6:00pm at Leopold’s Books Bar Caffè, Doug Maynard, Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, will discuss his just published co-authored book “Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis.” Maynard will read or discuss three select passages ideas from the book, and then encourage questions or comments after each …
In collaboration with Department of Sociology graduate students Chloe Haimson and Jienian Zhang and investigators at the UW–Madison’s Carbone Center, Associate Professor John Eason’s research on racial disparities in cancer treatment and survival has found that non-Hispanic Black patients in Wisconsin were half as likely as white patients to get any treatment for pancreatic cancer …
Sociology Ph.D. student Masoud Movahed wrote an intellectual biography of his former advisor, the late Erik Olin Wright published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Read it here.
A virtual book launch event will be held January 28, 4:15 – 5:15pm CST, for Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, a new book from University of Wisconsin Press, edited by Professor Chad Alan Goldberg. The event will feature a short introduction to the book by Goldberg, brief remarks by the contributors, and an …
A special issue of Politics & Society has been published in honor of former faculty member, Erik Olin Wright, who served on the editorial board of the journal from 1976 until his death in January of 2019. Wright was particularly devoted to this journal. Several of the contributions to this issue, including one by UW–Madison …