University of Wisconsin-Madison
IWMPost “As the authoritarian right advances in the United States, developing an accurate understanding of its worldview is a task of some urgency. One way of doing so is by considering the writings of one of its leading intellectuals: Curtis Yarvin.”
Socius Abstract: This visualization extends previous research reporting a positive effect of prenatal exposure of Democratic presidencies on the health outcomes of Black and White infants in the United States between 1971 and 2018. Using detailed information on race and ethnicity and new data for 2019 to 2024, the authors disaggregate birth outcome rates for …
Gender, Work & Organization Abstract: Institutional practices often recreate inequalities within organizations, especially in times of crisis like the COVID pandemic. Although early pandemic research expressed alarm that increased caregiving demands were reducing women’s research productivity, it paid less attention to changing work demands. By contrast, this article examines whether pandemic changes in academic work …
Social Science Research Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between neighborhood mobility patterns and political polarization in the United States, with a focus on the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Using everyday mobility data from SafeGraph and election results at the census block group level, we examine how neighborhood disadvantage, measured both residentially and via …
Psychology Abstract: Economic Abuse (EA) is an understudied phenomenon experienced by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victims. The purpose of this study was to examine how participants minimized IPV, blamed IPV victims, and offered legal advice to IPV victims based on IPV type (i.e., EA, Emotional Abuse (EmoA), Physical Abuse (PA)). One hundred and sixty participants …
Socius Abstract: How significant are behavioral causes of death—suicide, homicide, accidental poisoning, and traffic accidents—in determining how long Americans live? By “determining,” the authors mean limiting or reducing, as they are looking at factors (causes of death) that reduce an individual’s length of life. This data visualization portrays the extent to which deaths from homicide, …
Science Advances Abstract: How are children’s fluoride exposures associated with cognitive test performance in adolescence and midlife? Whereas most prior research has estimated effects of exposure to extremely high levels of fluoride, we consider exposure to levels of fluoride within the range typical in most places and of greatest relevance to policy debates about government …
JAMA Network Open Abstract: Importance The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults. Past studies that compared plasma AD biomarker concentrations among groups minoritized by their race and ethnicity yielded inconsistent findings; however, these efforts did not include population representative samples …
Social Science & Medicine Abstract: Despite extensive research demonstrating how marriage affects health, less is known about how health changes impact marriages, particularly when one spouse’s health declines. This study extends the stress process model to dyadic contexts to ask whether and how one spouse’s cognitive decline is associated with the other spouse’s perceived marital …
Book chapter in Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification Abstract: The transitions from state socialism to market economies in the late twentieth century represented a profound transformation in virtually all aspects of the economic and social lives of the populations who experienced it. This chapter summarizes the voluminous literature that has arisen since the onset of …