University of Wisconsin-Madison
Benny Witkovsky published an op-ed about his dissertation research titled “Pretending local elections aren’t partisan is actually making voters angrier” in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Ballots for local elections in Wisconsin do not include party identification next to candidates’ names. He explains why that practice began, describes why it may have outlived its purpose, and …
Social Science & Medicine – Population Health Abstract: Immigration from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has diversified the U.S. non-Hispanic White population. Analyzing health disparities within this group is a complex task due to data limitations across most federal and state data collection systems. This study investigates disparities in the risk of giving …
Social Psychology Quarterly Abstract: Prior research finds that relative to women, men are less receptive to scientific evidence of gender bias against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, whereas the researcher’s gender does not influence evaluations of gender research. Do these effects hold for research documenting workplace gender inequalities more generally? In a preregistered …
Jenna Nobles and Florencia Torche received a 2023 Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) for their paper “Vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health.” The abstract of the award-winning paper states, “Maternal COVID-19 infection has been associated with increased risk of preterm birth, which can …
Socio-Economic Review Abstract Automation’s extensive impact on the labor market and economy is well recognized, but the underlying motivations for its adoption remain understudied. To address this gap, we analyze an original dataset covering 1276 cities across 148 countries, using event history analysis to examine the adoption of automated metro systems. Our research suggests that …
We’re co-sponsoring an event with Chican@ and Latin@ Studies, “Strangers No Longer: An Evening with Sergio González.” Marquette University History Professor and UW–Madison alum Sergio González will visit Madison on April 4, 2024 to discuss his new book Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press) which examines the …
Term: Fall 2024 Status: Cancelled Working With: Prof. Joel Rogers Meets: 9:55-11:55 M, 216 Ingraham Topic: Community-Engaged Research for Solving Urban Problems: A High-Road Practicum Use social science research tools to solve problems in Wisconsin communities! All academic backgrounds welcome. This course uses high-road strategies and applied social science research to solve real community problems. “High …
Population Research and Policy Review Abstract: Determining whether a household is ‘in poverty,’ requires identifying a resource unit, typically consisting of individuals who both co-reside and pool resources. High levels of family complexity and fluidity in living arrangements among contemporary American families, particularly those that include children, have complicated this task. We leverage novel survey …
Sociology Compass Abstract: The collapse of the USSR in late 1991 inspired social science research on levels, patterns, and trends in inequality within Russia, due to theoretical interest in how market transition affects social stratification. The start of the Putin regime in 2000 marked a new era in Russia’s post‐Soviet political economic trajectory: in contrast …
Sociological Science Abstract: This paper shows how class shaped service workers’ experiences of administrative burdens during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use the pandemic and pandemic-related shutdowns as a pseudo natural experiment in which job loss was applied to a set of workers from different class backgrounds and with different class locations, workers who then turned …