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Brown, Jacob R., and Hanno Hilbig. 2021. “Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate”. British Journal of Political Science, 1-11.
Brown, Jacob R., and Hanno Hilbig. 2021. “Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate”. British Journal of Political Science, 1-11.
How does an individual's criminal record shape interactions with the state and society? This article presents evidence from a nationwide field experiment in the United States, which shows that prospective applicants with criminal records are about 5...
Dost, Meredith, Ryan Enos, and Jennifer Hochschild. 2021. “Loyalists and Switchers: Characterizing Voters’ Responses to Donald Trump’s Campaign and Presidency”. Political Science Quarterly 136 (1): 81-103.
Dost, Meredith, Ryan Enos, and Jennifer Hochschild. 2021. “Loyalists and Switchers: Characterizing Voters’ Responses to Donald Trump’s Campaign and Presidency”. Political Science Quarterly 136 (1): 81-103.
Meredith Dost, Ryan Enos, and Jennifer Hochschild look at the crucial segment of American voters who have changed their views about Donald Trump since the 2016 presidential election. Using two original surveys, they find that attitudes on race and...
Barasz, Kate, and Serena F. Hagerty. 2021. “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News”. Journal of Consumer Research.
Barasz, Kate, and Serena F. Hagerty. 2021. “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News”. Journal of Consumer Research.
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—for example, hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized...
Bíró, Anikó, Tamás Hajdu, Gábor Kertesi, and Dániel Prinz. 2021. “Life Expectancy Inequalities in Hungary over 25 Years: The Role of Avoidable Deaths”. Population Studies.
Bíró, Anikó, Tamás Hajdu, Gábor Kertesi, and Dániel Prinz. 2021. “Life Expectancy Inequalities in Hungary over 25 Years: The Role of Avoidable Deaths”. Population Studies.
Using mortality registers and administrative data on income and population, we develop new evidence on the magnitude of life expectancy inequality in Hungary and the scope for health policy in mitigating this. We document considerable inequalities in life...
Zacher, Meghan, Ethan J. Raker, Mariana C. Arcaya, Sarah R. Lowe, Jean Rhodes, and Mary C. Waters. 2021. “Physical Health Symptoms and Hurricane Katrina: Individual Trajectories of Development and Recovery More Than a Decade After the Storm”. American Journal of Public Health 111: 127–135.
Zacher, Meghan, Ethan J. Raker, Mariana C. Arcaya, Sarah R. Lowe, Jean Rhodes, and Mary C. Waters. 2021. “Physical Health Symptoms and Hurricane Katrina: Individual Trajectories of Development and Recovery More Than a Decade After the Storm”. American Journal of Public Health 111: 127–135.
Objectives. To examine how physical health symptoms developed and resolved in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Methods. We used data from a 2003 to 2018 study of young, low-income mothers who were living in New Orleans, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina...
Small, Mario L., and Jenna M. Cook. 2021. “Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action”. Sociological Methods & Research.
Small, Mario L., and Jenna M. Cook. 2021. “Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action”. Sociological Methods & Research.
This article examines an important and thorny problem in interview research: How to assess whether what people say motivated their actions actually did so? We ask three questions: What specific challenges are at play? How have researchers addressed them...
Kiviat, Barbara. 2021. “Which Data Fairly Differentiate? American Views on the Use of Personal Data in Two Market Settings”. Sociological Science 8 (2).
Kiviat, Barbara. 2021. “Which Data Fairly Differentiate? American Views on the Use of Personal Data in Two Market Settings”. Sociological Science 8 (2).
Corporations increasingly use personal data to offer individuals different products and prices. I present first-of-its-kind evidence about how U.S. consumers assess the fairness of companies using personal information in this way. Drawing on a nationally...
Manduca, Robert. 2021. “The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from Administrative Data”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48 (5): 1357-72.
Manduca, Robert. 2021. “The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from Administrative Data”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48 (5): 1357-72.
Urban researchers have long debated the extent to which metropolitan employment is monocentric, polycentric, or diffuse. In this paper I use high-resolution data based on unemployment insurance records to show that employment in US metropolitan areas is...
Henninger, Phoebe, Marc Meredith, and Michael Morse. 2021. “Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual-Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws”. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 18: 256-86.
Henninger, Phoebe, Marc Meredith, and Michael Morse. 2021. “Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual-Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws”. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 18: 256-86.
Legal disputes over laws that require certain forms of identification (ID) to vote mostly focus on the burden placed on people who do not possess ID. We contend that this singular focus ignores the burden imposed on people who do possess ID, but...
Huber, Gregory A., Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, and Katie Steele. 2021. “The Racial Burden of Voter List Maintenance Errors: Evidence from Wisconsin’s Supplemental Movers Poll Books”. Science Advances 7 (7).
Huber, Gregory A., Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, and Katie Steele. 2021. “The Racial Burden of Voter List Maintenance Errors: Evidence from Wisconsin’s Supplemental Movers Poll Books”. Science Advances 7 (7).
Administrative records are increasingly used to identify registered voters who may have moved, with potential movers then sent postcards asking them to confirm their address of registration. It is important to understand how often these registrants did...
Morse, Michael. 2021. “The Future of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: Evidence from the Campaign to Restore Voting Rights in Florida”. California Law Review 109.
Morse, Michael. 2021. “The Future of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: Evidence from the Campaign to Restore Voting Rights in Florida”. California Law Review 109.
This Article offers an empirical account of felon disenfranchisement and legal financial obligations in the era of mass incarceration. It focuses on a 2018 ballot initiative, known as Amendment 4, which sought to end lifetime disenfranchisement in Florida...
Manduca, Robert, and Robert J. Sampson. 2021. “Childhood Exposure to Polluted Neighborhood Environments and Intergenerational Income Mobility, Teenage Birth, and Incarceration in the USA”. Population and Environment 42: 501–523.
Manduca, Robert, and Robert J. Sampson. 2021. “Childhood Exposure to Polluted Neighborhood Environments and Intergenerational Income Mobility, Teenage Birth, and Incarceration in the USA”. Population and Environment 42: 501–523.
This paper joins a growing body of research linking measures of the physical environment to population well-being, with a focus on neighborhood toxins. Extending a national database on the social mobility of American children growing up in over 70,000...