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Shawn F. Dorius
Funded Research:
Global Status Hierarchies (continuation) (Freedman)
National Prestige Score Data Collection (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research.
Postdoctoral Mentor: Thornton
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Dorius research focuses on global inequality and international social change. His dissertation develops a theoretical framework for studying inter-country and global inequality in non-pecuniary variables and reports inter-country inequality trends in health, education, fertility, and income for much of the last two centuries. Dr. Dorius current research explores global change in people's beliefs about gender equality and gender roles.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Dorius, Shawn F., and Glenn Firebaugh. 2010. "Trends in Global Gender Inequality." Social Forces, 88(5): 1941-1968. PMCID: PMC3107548. Abstract. Local Access.
Dorius, Shawn F. 2008. "Global Demographic Convergence? A Reconsideration of Changing Intercountry Inequality in Fertility." Population and Development Review, 34(2): 519-537. DOI. Abstract.
PSC Reports
Dorius, Shawn F., and Duane Alwin. 2011. "The Global Development of Egalitarian Beliefs - A Decomposition of Trends in the Nature and Structure of Gender Ideology." PSC Research Report No. 10-723. January 2011. Abstract. PDF.