Frontiers in Public Health Background: Individuals’ sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood characteristics, health, and disparities across socio-demographic groups. Methods: Using 2014–2016 data from …
Publications
Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte by Mosi Ifatunji (2024)
Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought Abstract: This chapter reviews the personal biography, intellectual contributions, and academic leadership of Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte.
Manufacturing January 6: How Republican County Parties Mobilized Anger to Promote #StopTheSteal by Sadie Dempsey, Jianing Li, Benny Witkovsky, Yiming Wang, Lew Friedland, Mike Wagner, and Dhavan Shah (2024)
Politics and Society Abstract: The #StopTheStealMovement, which culminated in the January 6 attack, was part of a coordinated, months-long campaign to convince the public that the 2020 election was stolen through fraud and that Donald …
Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences by Tamkinat Rauf and Jeremy Freese (2024)
Social Psychology Quarterly Abstract: Despite a steep rise in income inequality over the past five decades, Americans’ preferences for redistribution have remained stagnant. Previous research suggests that redistributive preferences are rooted in stable institutional and …
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Charges and Convictions in Mid and Late Adolescence by a Hoppe Blaabæk, Daniel Juhász Vigild, Felix Elwert, Peter Fallesen, and Lars H. Andersen (2024)
JAMA Pediatrics Abstract: Importance Childhood exposure to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is common. Individuals with a childhood history of mTBI experience more frequent criminal justice involvement in mid to late adolescence and adulthood. No study …
Eight Decades of Educational Assortative Mating: A Research Note by Noah Hirschl, Christine R. Schwartz, and Elia Boschetti (2024)
Demography Abstract: Recent social and economic trends in the United States, including increasing economic inequality, women’s growing educational advantage, and the rise of online dating, have ambiguous implications for patterns of educational homogamy. In this …
Uncertainty and Fertility in Ukraine on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion: The Impact of Armed Conflict and Economic Crisis by Brienna Perelli-Harris, Theodore Gerber, and Yuliya Hilevych (2024)
European Journal of Population Abstract: While uncertainty has been a key explanation for very low fertility throughout Europe, few studies have analysed how macro-level uncertainty trickles down to shape how people think about having children. …
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts by Nicholas D. E. Mark (2024)
Social Science Research Abstract: Black-White disparities in low birth weight (LBW) rise with maternal age. Why? The “weathering hypothesis” holds that the increasing disparity is due to the accumulation of adverse exposures leading to accelerated …
Pandemic Housing: The Role of Landlords, Social Networks, and Social Policy in Mitigating Housing Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Max Besbris, Sadie Dempsey, Brian McCabe, and Eva Rosen (2024)
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Abstract: This article uses a subsample of low-income American Voices Project respondents who rent their homes to examine how households coped with housing insecurity at the onset …
Increased homicide played a key role in driving Black-White disparities in life expectancy among men during the COVID-19 pandemic by Michael Light and Karl Vachuska (2024)
PLOS ONE Abstract: Disparities in life expectancy between Black and White Americans increased substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the same period, the US experienced the largest increase in homicide on record. Yet, little research …