Research Area: Group Disparities:
Race, Ethnicity, Nationality

Recent Publications

Books

Cancian, Maria, and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2009. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. Russell Sage.

Danziger, Sheldon H., and Peter Gottschalk. 2004. Diverging Fortunes: Trends in Poverty and Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.

Xie, Yu, and Kimberlee A. Shauman. 2003. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. Boston, MA : Harvard University Press.

Journal Articles

2008

Krysan, Maria, Reynolds Farley, and Mick P. Couper. 2008. "In the Eye of the Beholder." DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race , 5(1): 5-26.

2007

Stamatakis, K.A., Kaplan, George A., and R.E. Roberts. 2007. "Short sleep duration across income, education, and Race/Ethnic groups: Population prevalence and growing disparities during 34 years of follow-up." Annals of Epidemiology, 17(12): 948-955.

Osborne, C., Wendy Manning, and Pamela Smock. 2007. "Married and cohabiting parents' relationship stability: A focus on race and ethnicity." Journal of Marriage and Family, 69(5): 1345-1366.

Fitchett, G., P.E. Murphy, H.M. Kravitz, S.A. Everson-Rose, Neal Krause, and L.H. Powell. 2007. "Racial/ethnic differences in religious involvement in a multi-ethnic cohort of midlife women." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 46(1): 119-132.

2006

Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. 2006. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96(11): 2032-2039.

Geronimus, Arline T., Cynthia Colen, Tara P. Shochet, Lori Barer Ingber, and Sherman James. 2006. "Urban-Rural Differences in Excess Mortality among High-Poverty Populations: Evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 17(3): 532-558.

Bailey, Martha J., and William J. Collins. 2006. "The wage gains of African-American women in the 1940s." Journal of Economic History, 66(3): 737-777.

Delva, Jorge, Patrick M. O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston. 2006. "Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status differences in overweight and health-related behaviors among American students: National trends 1986-2003." Journal of Adolescent Health, 39(4): 536-545.

2005

Fuller, C.M., L. Borrel, C. Latkin, Sandro Galea, D. Ompad, S.A. Strathdee, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "The Effect of Race, Neighborhood, and Social Network on Age of Initiation of Injection Drug Use." American Journal of Public Health, 95: 689-695.

2004

Howell, C., and Sarah E. Turner. 2004. "Legacies in Black and White: the Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool." Research in Higher Education, 45(4): 325-351.

Krause, Neal. 2004. "Common Facets of Religion, Unique Facets of Religion, an Life Satisfaction Among Older African Americans." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 59(2): S109-S117.

Haider, S.J., Robert F. Schoeni, Y.H. Bao, and C. Danielson. 2004. "Immigrants, welfare reform, and the economy." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(4): 745-764.

2003

Wong, C.A., Jacquelynne S. Eccles, and A. Sameroff. 2003. "The Influence of Ethnic Discrimination and Ethnic Identification on African American Adolescents' School and Socioemotional Adjustment." Journal of Personality, 71(6): 1197-1232.

Ford, Kathleen, W. Sohn, and James M. Lepkowski. 2003. "Ethnicity or Race, Area Characteristics, and Sexual Partner Choice Among American Adolescents." Journal of Sex Research, 40(2): 211-218.

Bennett, PR, and Yu Xie. 2003. "Revisiting Racial Differences in College Attendance: the Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities." American Sociological Review, 68(4): 567-580.

Turner, Sarah E., and John Bound. 2003. "Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans." Journal of Economic History, 63(1): 145-177.

Stuber, J., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, S. Blaney, and C. Fuller. 2003. "The Association Between Multiple Domains of Disrimination and Self-Assessed Health: A Multilevel Analysis of Latinos and Blacks in Four Low-Income New York City Neighborhoods." Health Services Research, 38(6): 1735-1759.

Krause, Neal. 2003. "A preliminary assessment of race differences in the relationship between religious doubt and depressive symptoms." Review of Religious Research, 45(2): 93-115.

Wallace, J.M., T.N. Brown, Jerald Bachman, and T.A. Laveist. 2003. "The influence of race and religion on abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana among adolescents." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64(6): 843-848.

Krause, Neal. 2003. "Race, religion, and abstinence from alcohol in late life." Journal of Aging and Health, 15: 508-533.

Sastry, Narayan, and J.M. Hussey. 2003. "An Investigation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Weight in Chicago Neighborhoods." Demography, 40(4)701-725.

2002

Gutman, Leslie Morrison, A.S. Sameroff, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2002. "The academic achievement of African American students during early adolescence: An examination of risk, promotive, and protective factors." American Journal of Community Psychology, 30(3), 376-399.

Farley, Reynolds, and Maria Krysan. 2002. "The Residential Preferences of Blacks: Do They Explain Persistent Segregation?" Social Forces, 80(3): 937-980.

Barsky, Robert B., John Bound, Kerwin Charles, and J.P. Lupton. 2002. "Accounting for the black-white wealth gap: A nonparametric approach." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97(459): 663-673.

Hannum, Emily. 2002. "Educational Stratification by Ethnicity in China: Enrollment and Attainment in the Early Reform Years." Demography, 39(1): 95-117.

Allard, Scott W., and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2002. "Proximity and Opportunity: How Residence and Race Affect the Employment of Welfare Recipients." Housing Policy Debate, 13(4): 675-700.

Chapters

Danziger, Sheldon H., Deborah Reed, and Tony N. Brown. 2005. "Poverty and prosperity : prospects for reducing racial/ethnic economic disparities in the United States." In Racism and Public Policy edited by Y. Bangura. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Morenoff, Jeffrey, and John W. Lynch. 2004. "What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Over the Life Course." In Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life edited by Norman B. Anderson, Randy A. Bulatao, and Barney Cohen. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

PSC Reports

Frey, William H. 2009. "How Did Race Affect the 2008 Presidential Election?" PSC Research Report No. 09-688. September 2009.

Farley, Reynolds. 2008. "The Kerner Commission Report Plus Four Decades: What Has Changed? What Has Not?" PSC Research Report No. 08-656. September 2008.

Sastry, Narayan, and Anne R. Pebley. 2008. "Family and Neighborhood Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality in Children’s Achievement." PSC Research Report No. 08-647. June 2008.

Greenman, Emily, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Is Assimilation Theory Dead? The Effect of Assimilation on Adolescent Well-Being." PSC Research Report No. 06-605. August 2006.

Greenman, Emily, and Yu Xie. 2006. "Double Jeopardy or Compensating Disadvantage? The Interaction Effect of Gender and Race on Earnings in the U.S." PSC Research Report No. 06-604. August 2006.

Frey, William H., and Dowell Myers. 2005. "Racial Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas and Cities, 1990–2000: Patterns, Trends, and Explanations." PSC Research Report No. 05-573. April 2005.


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