Shannon Cavanagh,Paula Fomby
Shannon Cavanagh
Scholars have long looked to family composition to understand child well-being. Family instability, or the experience of repeated changes in parents' union status during childhood, represents a recent advance in this field that takes into a...
Kathleen Mullan Harris,Kristen M Schorpp
Kathleen Mullan Harris
This article provides an overview of the integration of biomarkers and biological mechanisms in social science models of stratification and health. The goal in reviewing this literature is to highlight research that identifies the social fo...
Julie R Posselt,Eric Grodsky
Julie R Posselt
Graduate and professional education play an increasingly important role in economic inequality and elite formation in the United States, but sociologists have not subjected stratification in and through graduate education to the same level ...
Steven Ruggles,Catherine Fitch,Evan Roberts
Steven Ruggles
For the past 80 years, social scientists have been linking historical censuses across time to study economic and geographic mobility. In recent decades, the quantity of historical census record linkage has exploded, owing largely to the adv...
Incarceration and Health [0.03%]
监禁与健康
Michael Massoglia,William Alex Pridemore
Michael Massoglia
The expansion of the penal system has been one of the most dramatic trends in contemporary American society. A wealth of research has examined the impact of incarceration on a range of later life outcomes and has considered how the penal sy...
Redistributional Policy in Rich Countries: Institutions and Impacts in Nonelderly Households [0.03%]
富裕国家中的再分配政策：非老年人家庭中的制度与影响
Janet C Gornick,Timothy M Smeeding
Janet C Gornick
We review research on institutions of redistribution operating in high-income countries. Focusing on the nonelderly, we invoke the concept of the household income package, which includes income from labor, from related households, and from ...
Endogenous Selection Bias: The Problem of Conditioning on a Collider Variable [0.03%]
内生选择性偏差：对聚合变量进行控制的问题
Felix Elwert,Christopher Winship
Felix Elwert
Endogenous selection bias is a central problem for causal inference. Recognizing the problem, however, can be difficult in practice. This article introduces a purely graphical way of characterizing endogenous selection bias and of understan...
The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective [0.03%]
住房问题的社会经济、人口和政治影响的比较研究
Jane R Zavisca,Theodore P Gerber
Jane R Zavisca
Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have pr...
James M Raymo,Hyunjoon Park,Yu Xie et al.
James M Raymo et al.
Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing in East Asia have been even more pronounced than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families have changed very little. We review recent research on trends ...
Lori M Hunter,Jessie K Luna,Rachel M Norton
Lori M Hunter
Research on the environmental dimensions of human migration has made important strides in recent years. However, findings have been spread across multiple disciplines with wide ranging methodologies and limited theoretical development. This...