Previous Publications

  • Wang Feng (Sociology) with Noriko Tsuya, George Alter and James Z. Lee published the pioneering Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 (MIT Press, 2010).
  • Katie Bolzendahl (Sociology) with Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman published Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans Definitions of Family (Russell Sage Foundation 2010).
  • Tim Bruckner and collaborators document the decline in “ Involuntary Civil Commitments after the Implementation of Californias Mental Health Services Act” in Psychiatric Services 61:1006-11.
  • Andrew M. Penner (Sociology) and collaborators report on “The within-job motherhood wage penalty in Norway, 1979-1996” in Journal of Marriage and Family 72:1274-1288.
  • John Hipp (Criminology) offers “A dynamic view of neighborhoods: The reciprocal relationship between crime and neighborhood structural characteristics” in Social Problems 57: 205-230.
  • Andrew M. Penner (Sociology) with Aliya Saperstein analyze “The race of a criminal record: How incarceration colors racial perception” in Social Problems 57: 92-113.
  • David Swanson (UCR) published "New Directions in the Development of Population Estimates in the United States?" in Population Research and Policy Review 29:797-818 (with J. McKibben).
  • Evan Schofer (Sociology) published "National and Global Origins of Environmental Association" in the American Sociological Review, 75: 505-533.
  • David Neumark (Economics) addresses "Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration" in 2010 Journal of Human Resources.
  • Thurston Domina (Education) with Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar and Marta Tienda analyzes "Students Left Behind: Measuring 10th to 12th Grade Student Persistence Rates in Texas High Schools." In Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 32(2): 324-346.
  • George Farkas (Education) co-authored "Perinatal and Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Variable and Persistent Cognitive Delay at 24 and 48 Months in a National Sample" in Maternal and Child Health Journal.
  • Susan Greenhalgh (Anthropology) saw the publication of Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China (Harvard University Press, 2010).
  • Thurston Domina (Education) with Sigal Alon and Marta Tienda studies "Stymied Mobility or Temporary Lull: The Puzzle of Lagging Hispanic College Degree Attainment" in Social Forces 88(4): 1807-1832.
  • Judith Treas (Sociology) published the 2009 Pacific Sociological Association Presidential Address, The Great American Recession: Sociological Insights on Blame and Pain in Sociological Perspectives 53:3-17.
  • Judith Treas (Sociology) and Sonja Drobnic publish Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men, and Housework in Cross-National Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2010).
  • Jennifer Lee (Sociology) and Frank D. Bean (Sociology) explore The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2010).
  • Christopher Carpenter (Business) with Thomas Buchmueller report on “Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage, Access, and Outcomes for Individuals in Same-Sex versus Different-Sex Relationships, 2000-2007” in American Journal of Public Health 100(3): 489-495.
  • Manisha Shah (Economics) reports on “Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development” in the May 2009 issue of Demography.
  • John Hipp and George Tita  (Criminology) with Greenbaum report on “Drive-bys
    and Trade-ups: Examining the Directionality of the Crime and Residential
    Instability Relationship”  Social Forces  87: 1777-1812.
  • Judith Treas (Sociology) and Fernando Torres-Gil edited “Immigration in an Aging Society,” the Winter 2009 issue of Generations: The Journal of the American Society on Aging.  Cited by the New York Times, their work will be the focus of a one-day National Forum on Immigration in Chicago in March, 2010.
  • Tim Bruckner (Planning & Public Health) published “From paradox to disparity: trends in neonatal death in very low birth weight non-Hispanic black and white infants, 1989-2004” in Journal of Pediatrics October, 2009; “Infant mortality and diminished entelechy in three European countries” in Social Science and Medicine May 2009; and “Does deinstitutionalization increase suicide?” Health Services Research August 2009.
  • Marlon Boarnet (Planning) contributed to Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use and CO2 Emissions. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2009.
  • Cynthia Feliciano (Sociology) published “Education and ethnic identity formation among children of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants” in Sociological Perspectives 2009:135-158.
  • Marianne Bitler (Economics) and Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter (Business) with Zavodny are publishing “Effects of venue-specific state clean indoor air laws on smoking-related outcomes” in Health Economics.
  • Matt L. Huffman (Sociology) with Cohen & Pearlman reports on “Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Desegregation, 1975-2005” in Administrative Science Quarterly.
  • Peg Burchinal (Education) with Clarke-Stewart, Bub, Owen & Belsky reports on “Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior.” Developmental Psychology, 46, 1-17.
  • George Tita (Criminology) with Short, Brantingham & Bertozzi analyze “Dissipation and displacement of crime in reaction-diffusion models of crime.” The 2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
  • Peg Burchinal (Education) with Campbell, Spieker, Vandergrift & Belsky reports on “Predictors and sequelae of trajectories of physical aggression in school-age boys and girls.” Development and Psychopathology, 22, 133-150.
  • David A. Swanson (UCR) and Peter A. Morrison suggest "Teaching Business Demography Using Case Studies" in Population Research and Policy Review 29: 93-104.
  • Tim Bruckner (Planning/Public Health) with Catalano, Zilko & Saxton publishes “Selection in utero: A biological response to mass layoffs.” Am J Hum Biol. 2009 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Catherine Bolzendahl (Sociology) publishes “Making the Implicit Explicit: Gender Influences on Social Spending in 12 Industrialized Democracies, 1980-1999” in 2009 Social Politics.
  • Peg Burchinal (Education) with Pungello, Kainz, Wasik, Sparling, Ramey, & Campbell contributes “Early educational intervention, early cumulative risk, and the early home environment as predictors of young adult outcomes within a high-risk sample.” Child Development, 81, 410-426.
  • Tim Bruckner (Planning/Public Health) with Snowden, Subbaraman & Brown reports on “Economic Antecedents of Medicaid-financed Mental Health Services among Youths in California.” Int J Ment Health (in press).
  • Peg Burchinal (Education) and associates report on Early care and education quality and child outcomes. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US DHHS, and Child Trends, 2009.
  • Peg Burchinal (Education) and associates publish “The relations of observed pre-k classroom quality profiles to children’s achievement and social competence.” Early Education & Development, 20, 346-372.
  • John Hipp (Criminology), George Tita (George Tita), and Lyndsay Boggess offer “A new twist on an old approach: A random-interaction approach for estimating the rates of inter-group interaction” in a 2010 Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

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