Social Forces Abstract: Child maltreatment and foster care placement are common, unequally distributed, and consequential for life-course outcomes. Yet, little is known about how foster care placements vary across children who experience different types and …
Publications
Perceived Spousal Similarity in Outlook on Life: Implications for Later-Life Well-Being by Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (2025)
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Abstract: Objectives People tend to choose marital partners who are similar to themselves, and spouses become increasingly similar in some respects due to shared life experiences. However, it is …
Is It Daddy Time Yet? Trends and Variation in Men’s Employment Hours around Childbirth: 1989-2020 by Anita Li (2025)
Demography Abstract: Scholars continue to debate the progress of the gender revolution. Some argue that the gender revolution is stalled, whereas others see an emerging second half marked by men’s increased involvement in the home. …
Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial Inequality Under the Law? by Michael Light and Avery Warner (2025)
American Journal of Sociology Abstract: We leverage the rollout of Secure Communities (S-Comm)—the largest effort in US history to integrate local criminal justice authorities into immigration enforcement—to examine whether immigration enforcement exacerbates racial disparities in …
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era? by Chloe Grace Hart (2025)
Social Problems 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 …
What’s the TEE: Metrics of temperature Extremes in Europe NUTS Regions (1980-2024) by Sara R. Ronnkvist, Zoé Haskell-Craig, Abbie Robinson, Risto Conte Keivabu, Mathew E. Hauer, Domenico Bovienzo, and Emilio Zagheni (2025)
Scientific Data Abstract: We generate datasets quantifying extreme temperature exposure in Europe using a variety of metrics at two sub-national spatial scales (NUTS 2 and NUTS 3) and three temporal scales (daily, extreme temperature wave, …
U.S. Women’s and Men’s Experience of Complex Parenthood by Paula Fomby, Marcia J. Carlson, and Ariane Ophir (2025)
Book chapter in Advances of Social Demography This chapter describes complex parenthood experiences for men and women in the contemporary United States.
A Faithful Force: Catholics as Pillars of the Conservative Movement by Emily Burke (2025)
Journal of Religion and Society Abstract: The story of the rise and transformation of the American conservative movement largely characterizes the Religious Right as established, comprised, and led by evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Through highlighting …
Confederate Reckoning and Resignifying Racism in Brazil: Local Memory Politics and Anti-Racist Movement Strategies by Katherine Jensen (2025)
Ethnic and Racial Studies Abstract: Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and Americana, in São …
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality by Yue Qin (2025)
Work, Employment, and Society Abstract: Drawing on Bourdieu’s theories of field and capital, this article proposes the concept of security capital for a better understanding of precarity in the field of work. Three indicators are …