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ID1002
NOMBREA Villarreal
NOMBRESA
APELLIDOVillarreal
FIRMAVILLARREAL A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0003-1560-1717
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS36
TOTAL DE CITAS577
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H12
  • The role of self-employment in immigrants’ economic assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2026

    Immigrants have been shown to have higher self-employment rates than the native-born. However, unlike socioeconomic outcomes such as education and earnings, for which a narrowing gap with natives signals a positive outcome, immigrants’ high self-employment rates have a more ambivalent meaning. Self-employment may reflect problems in the economic assimilation process if it is used as a strategy by immigrants who are underpaid in the wage/salary la…

  • The Earnings Assimilation of Unauthorized Immigrants

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Demography•2026•Referencias: 35

    We examine the earnings assimilation of unauthorized Hispanic immigrants using an innovative strategy to estimate which individuals may lack legal work authorization. Our strategy relies on restricted-use data linking respondents of the Current Population Survey to Social Security records. A successful match with Social Security records, along with survey information, is used as evidence that an immigrant is authorized. Using a successful match w…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•Christopher R Tamborini, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2025•Referencias: 20

    Self-employment plays a crucial role in immigrants’ economic assimilation. Previous studies examining immigrants’ self-employment relied on estimates obtained from national surveys, which could contain measurement error. In this research note, we compare estimates of immigrant men's self-employment obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with those from data linking respondents to their tax records. Our findings indicate that the CPS su…

  • Individual Behaviors and Health Inequalities

    Open Access•M L Caudillo, A Villarreal et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2025•Referencias: 74

    We evaluate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for preterm birth in Mexico using microdata that include all births from 2014 to 2022. The country's hybrid public/private healthcare system allows us to examine how women's adaptive behaviors to the health crisis shaped their birth outcomes. The proportion of women giving birth in private hospitals increased dramatically after the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. This was likely a strateg…

  • First- and Second-Generation Women's Economic Assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 45

    Research on the economic assimilation of immigrants and their descendants has disproportionately focused on men. In this study, we examine the life-course employment and earnings trajectories of first- and second-generation women using a restricted-use dataset linking individual respondents of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to their tax earnings records. We compare the age-specific probability of employment and annual earnings of women of ea…

  • Hispanic Men's Earnings Mobility Across Immigrant Generations

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 41

    Whether immigrants and their descendants are catching up socioeconomically with the rest of society is a fundamental question in the study of immigrant assimilation. In this paper, we examine the progress that Hispanic immigrant men make catching up with the earnings of later-generation Whites across generations. We rely on data from multiple years of the Current Population Survey linked with individuals' tax earnings. This unique dataset allows …

  • The Economic Assimilation of Second-Generation Men

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Demography•2023•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 38

    Previous research on the economic assimilation of recent U.S.-born children of immigrants who form the new second generation has disproportionately focused on their educational attainment and other early-life outcomes. In this study, we examine the earnings trajectories of second-generation men through a large part of their adult lives using a unique dataset that links respondents from more than two decades of the Current Population Survey to the…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu•ARTICLE•Demography•2022•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 15

    We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on gender disparities in three employment outcomes: labor force participation, full-time employment, and unemployment. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey, in this research note we test individual fixed-effects models to examine the employment status of women relative to that of men in the nine months following the onset of the epidemic in March of 2020. We also test separate mo…

  • The Opioid Epidemic and Children’s Living Arrangements in the United States, 2000–2018

    Open Access•M L Caudillo, A Villarreal et al.•ARTICLE•The Annals of the American…•2022•Referencias: 49

    Although the detrimental effects of the opioid epidemic on individuals’ health and well-being have been well documented, we know little about how it has affected the family contexts in which children live. We assess how the opioid epidemic, as measured by a rise in the opioid overdose death rate, has affected the rates at which children live in different family arrangements: two married parents, two cohabiting parents, single mother, single fathe…

  • Emigration and Electoral Outcomes in Mexico

    Open Access•Yao Lu, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2021

    Does emigration deepen or depress democratic transitions in migrant-sending countries? This study examines the multifaceted and countervailing influences of migration on democratic outcomes in sending societies, as operationalized by electoral participation and competition. Drawing on longitudinal data compiled from several Mexican sources, we find that international migration, but not domestic migration, increases voter turnout and electoral com…

  • Immigrants' Employment Stability Over the Great Recession and Its Aftermath

    Open Access•Christopher R Tamborini, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 54

    We examine immigrant men's employment stability during the Great Recession and its aftermath using a longitudinal approach that draws on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative panel survey of U.S. residents. Discrete-time event-history models are used to estimate male immigrants' relative risk of experiencing an involuntary job loss or underemployment, defined as working less than full-time in…

  • The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000–2016

    Open Access•M L Caudillo, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2021•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 63

    The United States has experienced a dramatic rise in opioid addiction and opioid overdose deaths in recent years. We investigate the effect of the opioid epidemic at the local level on nonmarital fertility using aggregate- and individual-level analyses. Opioid overdose death rates and prescriptions per capita are used as indicators of the intensity of the opioid epidemic. We estimate area fixed-effects models to test the effect of the opioid epid…

  • The U.S. Occupational Structure

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2020•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 21

    We propose a new approach to study the structure of occupational labor markets that relies on social network analysis techniques. Highly detailed transition matrices are constructed based on changes in individual workers' occupations over successive months of the Current Population Survey rotating panels. The resulting short-term transition matrices provide snapshots of all occupational movements in the U.S. labor market at different points in ti…

  • The Endogeneity of Race

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Stanley R Bailey•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2019

    A growing body of sociological research has shown that racial identification is not only fluid, but crucially depends on other individual- and societal-level factors. When such factors are also associated with socioeconomic outcomes such as earnings, estimates of the disadvantage experienced by individuals because of how they identify racially obtained from standard regression models may be biased. We illustrate this potential bias using data fro…

  • Immigrants' Economic Assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2018•Citada por: 57•Referencias: 45

    We examine immigrants' earnings trajectories and measure the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their longitudinal earnings obtained from individual tax records. Our analysis addresses key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants' earnings trajectories. First, we find a racial…

  • Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•2017•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 61

    This article examines the effect of exposure to criminal violence on fear of crime and mental health in Mexico, a country that has experienced a dramatic rise in violent events resulting from the operation of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). Data are drawn from more than 30,000 respondents to a national longitudinal survey of Mexican households. We use fixed‐effects models which allow us to control for time‐invariant individual and municipa…

  • The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2016•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 40

    Recent studies have found international migrants from developing countries such as Mexico to be negatively selected by education; that is, they are less educated than those who stay behind. Moving beyond the question of whether migrants are negatively selected by education overall, I examine how migrants are selected compared with others in similar jobs. Using data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican households, I find that m…

  • Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2014•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 33

    The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have a profound effect on the ethnic and national-origin composition of the U.S. population. This study examines the origins of the migration decline using a nationally representative panel s…

  • Prenatal Exposure to Violence and Birth Weight in Mexico

    Open Access•F Torche, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 37•Referencias: 72

    This article examines the effect of maternal exposure to local homicides on birth weight. We create a monthly panel by merging all births in Mexico from 2008 to 2010 with homicide data at the municipality level. Findings from fixed-effects models indicate that exposure to homicides in the first trimester of gestation increases infant birth weight and reduces the proportion of low birth weight. The effect is not driven by fertility or migration re…

  • Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 32•Referencias: 62

    This article examines ethnic boundary crossing and its effects on estimates of ethnic disparities in children's outcomes in the context of Mexico, a country with the largest indigenous population in the Western hemisphere. The boundary that separates the indigenous and non-indigenous population is extremely fluid, as it is based on characteristics that can easily change within a generation, such as language use, cultural practices, and a subjecti…

  • Land of the cosmic race

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2014•Citada por: 9

    A powerful official ideology promoted by the Mexican Government since the early twentieth century glorifies the mestizo, defined as the descendant of both indigenous and Spanish peoples, as a symbo

  • Decline of medical student idealism in the first and second year of medical school

    Open Access•Christopher P Morley, Carrie Roseamelia et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Education Online•2013

    The results are suggestive that idealism decline begins earlier than noted in other studies, implying a need for curricular interventions in the first two years of medical school

  • How Job Characteristics Affect International Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Sarah Blanchard•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 32

    Despite the importance given to employment opportunities as a primary motive for migration, previous studies have paid insufficient attention to the kinds of jobs that are more likely to retain workers in their countries of origin. We use information from a panel survey of Mexican adults to examine how job characteristics affect the risk of international migration. The sampling strategy and overall size of the survey allow us to analyze the effec…

  • Flawed Statistical Reasoning and Misconceptions about Race and Ethnicity

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 13•Referencias: 14

  • Rush to the border? Market liberalization and urban- and rural-origin internal migration in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, E R Hamilton•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2012•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 33

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  • Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2010•Citada por: 136•Referencias: 58

    Latin America is often used as a backdrop against which U.S. race relations are compared. Yet research on race in Latin America focuses almost exclusively on countries in the region with a large recognized presence of individuals of African descent such as Brazil. Racial categories in these countries are based on skin color distinctions along a black-white continuum. By contrast, the main socially recognized ethnic distinction in Indo-Latin Ameri…

  • Political Competition and Violence in Mexico

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2002•Citada por: 58•Referencias: 56

    Many countries that have recently undergone transitions to democracy have experienced increases in violent crime. Yet sociological theories have generally failed to consider the impact of political factors on crime. The author examines the relation between greater electoral competition and homicide at the subnational level in a country undergoing an uneven transition to democracy. In societies characterized by the presence of patronage networks, …

  • Immigrants' Economic Assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2018•Citada por: 57•Referencias: 45

    We examine immigrants' earnings trajectories and measure the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their longitudinal earnings obtained from individual tax records. Our analysis addresses key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants' earnings trajectories. First, we find a racial…

  • Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2014•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 33

    The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have a profound effect on the ethnic and national-origin composition of the U.S. population. This study examines the origins of the migration decline using a nationally representative panel s…

  • Social Cohesion, Criminal Victimization and Perceived Risk of Crime in Brazilian Neighborhoods

    A Villarreal, B F A Silva•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2006•Citada por: 45

    Ecological theories linking community characteristics to the level of crime have rarely been tested outside the context of the United States and Western Europe. In this study we examine the effects of social cohesion and neighborhood disorder on crime using data from a survey of neighborhoods in Brazil. We find that lower-income neighborhoods, including irregular settlements known as favelas, have higher levels of social cohesion. Contrary to the…

  • Prenatal Exposure to Violence and Birth Weight in Mexico

    Open Access•F Torche, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 37•Referencias: 72

    This article examines the effect of maternal exposure to local homicides on birth weight. We create a monthly panel by merging all births in Mexico from 2008 to 2010 with homicide data at the municipality level. Findings from fixed-effects models indicate that exposure to homicides in the first trimester of gestation increases infant birth weight and reduces the proportion of low birth weight. The effect is not driven by fertility or migration re…

  • Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 32•Referencias: 62

    This article examines ethnic boundary crossing and its effects on estimates of ethnic disparities in children's outcomes in the context of Mexico, a country with the largest indigenous population in the Western hemisphere. The boundary that separates the indigenous and non-indigenous population is extremely fluid, as it is based on characteristics that can easily change within a generation, such as language use, cultural practices, and a subjecti…

  • Economic Globalization and Women's Employment

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2007•Citada por: 23•Referencias: 44

    Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In this article, we examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally represe…

  • Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•2017•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 61

    This article examines the effect of exposure to criminal violence on fear of crime and mental health in Mexico, a country that has experienced a dramatic rise in violent events resulting from the operation of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). Data are drawn from more than 30,000 respondents to a national longitudinal survey of Mexican households. We use fixed‐effects models which allow us to control for time‐invariant individual and municipa…

  • How Job Characteristics Affect International Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Sarah Blanchard•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 32

    Despite the importance given to employment opportunities as a primary motive for migration, previous studies have paid insufficient attention to the kinds of jobs that are more likely to retain workers in their countries of origin. We use information from a panel survey of Mexican adults to examine how job characteristics affect the risk of international migration. The sampling strategy and overall size of the survey allow us to analyze the effec…

  • Unraveling The Economic Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Heeju Shin•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•2008•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 39

    An extensive amount of research has shown that female-headed households are among the most disadvantaged in the United States. By contrast, households headed by single mothers in Mexico have median per capita income levels that are the same or higher than those headed by men and are no more likely to be living in poverty. These findings are surprising, given the many disadvantages that Mexican women face in the labor market and the added difficul…

  • Flawed Statistical Reasoning and Misconceptions about Race and Ethnicity

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 13•Referencias: 14

  • The U.S. Occupational Structure

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2020•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 21

    We propose a new approach to study the structure of occupational labor markets that relies on social network analysis techniques. Highly detailed transition matrices are constructed based on changes in individual workers' occupations over successive months of the Current Population Survey rotating panels. The resulting short-term transition matrices provide snapshots of all occupational movements in the U.S. labor market at different points in ti…

  • The Social Ecology of Rural Violence

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2004•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 34

    This article develops a conceptual framework to study rural violence by extending the insights of human ecology. Four hypotheses are proposed regarding the effects of land distribution, collective ownership, and the organization of agricultural production on homicide rates. These hypotheses are tested using data from a census of all agricultural production units in a sample of Mexican municipalities. An unequal distribution of land is associated …

  • Women's Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2007•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 38

    Findings from previous studies examining the relation between women's employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the opposite relation or no relation at all. I propose a new framework in which a woman's employment status and her risk of violent victimization are both influenced by the level of control exercised by her partner. Controll…

  • Land of the cosmic race

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2014•Citada por: 9

    A powerful official ideology promoted by the Mexican Government since the early twentieth century glorifies the mestizo, defined as the descendant of both indigenous and Spanish peoples, as a symbo

  • The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2016•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 40

    Recent studies have found international migrants from developing countries such as Mexico to be negatively selected by education; that is, they are less educated than those who stay behind. Moving beyond the question of whether migrants are negatively selected by education overall, I examine how migrants are selected compared with others in similar jobs. Using data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican households, I find that m…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu•ARTICLE•Demography•2022•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 15

    We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on gender disparities in three employment outcomes: labor force participation, full-time employment, and unemployment. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey, in this research note we test individual fixed-effects models to examine the employment status of women relative to that of men in the nine months following the onset of the epidemic in March of 2020. We also test separate mo…

  • Immigrants' Employment Stability Over the Great Recession and Its Aftermath

    Open Access•Christopher R Tamborini, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 54

    We examine immigrant men's employment stability during the Great Recession and its aftermath using a longitudinal approach that draws on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative panel survey of U.S. residents. Discrete-time event-history models are used to estimate male immigrants' relative risk of experiencing an involuntary job loss or underemployment, defined as working less than full-time in…

  • Rush to the border? Market liberalization and urban- and rural-origin internal migration in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, E R Hamilton•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2012•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 33

  • First- and Second-Generation Women's Economic Assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 45

    Research on the economic assimilation of immigrants and their descendants has disproportionately focused on men. In this study, we examine the life-course employment and earnings trajectories of first- and second-generation women using a restricted-use dataset linking individual respondents of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to their tax earnings records. We compare the age-specific probability of employment and annual earnings of women of ea…

  • The Economic Assimilation of Second-Generation Men

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Demography•2023•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 38

    Previous research on the economic assimilation of recent U.S.-born children of immigrants who form the new second generation has disproportionately focused on their educational attainment and other early-life outcomes. In this study, we examine the earnings trajectories of second-generation men through a large part of their adult lives using a unique dataset that links respondents from more than two decades of the Current Population Survey to the…

  • The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000–2016

    Open Access•M L Caudillo, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2021•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 63

    The United States has experienced a dramatic rise in opioid addiction and opioid overdose deaths in recent years. We investigate the effect of the opioid epidemic at the local level on nonmarital fertility using aggregate- and individual-level analyses. Opioid overdose death rates and prescriptions per capita are used as indicators of the intensity of the opioid epidemic. We estimate area fixed-effects models to test the effect of the opioid epid…

  • Hispanic Men's Earnings Mobility Across Immigrant Generations

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 41

    Whether immigrants and their descendants are catching up socioeconomically with the rest of society is a fundamental question in the study of immigrant assimilation. In this paper, we examine the progress that Hispanic immigrant men make catching up with the earnings of later-generation Whites across generations. We rely on data from multiple years of the Current Population Survey linked with individuals' tax earnings. This unique dataset allows …

  • Bringing the firms into globalization research

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Arthur Sakamoto•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2011•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 33

  • Public Opinion of the Economy and the President among Mexico City Residents

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•1999

    Because of the prominence of the president in the Mexican political system, public opinion of the executive is a particularly important political indicator. Two models of public opinion are used here to explain changes in President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's approval rate from 1990 to 1994. The economic-performance model assumes that approval was based on public perception of trends in the economy. The statistical analysis shows that individuals…

  • Political Competition and Violence in Mexico

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2002•Citada por: 58•Referencias: 56

    Many countries that have recently undergone transitions to democracy have experienced increases in violent crime. Yet sociological theories have generally failed to consider the impact of political factors on crime. The author examines the relation between greater electoral competition and homicide at the subnational level in a country undergoing an uneven transition to democracy. In societies characterized by the presence of patronage networks, …

  • The Social Ecology of Rural Violence

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2004•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 34

    This article develops a conceptual framework to study rural violence by extending the insights of human ecology. Four hypotheses are proposed regarding the effects of land distribution, collective ownership, and the organization of agricultural production on homicide rates. These hypotheses are tested using data from a census of all agricultural production units in a sample of Mexican municipalities. An unequal distribution of land is associated …

  • Social Cohesion, Criminal Victimization and Perceived Risk of Crime in Brazilian Neighborhoods

    A Villarreal, B F A Silva•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2006•Citada por: 45

    Ecological theories linking community characteristics to the level of crime have rarely been tested outside the context of the United States and Western Europe. In this study we examine the effects of social cohesion and neighborhood disorder on crime using data from a survey of neighborhoods in Brazil. We find that lower-income neighborhoods, including irregular settlements known as favelas, have higher levels of social cohesion. Contrary to the…

  • Economic Globalization and Women's Employment

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2007•Citada por: 23•Referencias: 44

    Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In this article, we examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally represe…

  • Women's Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2007•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 38

    Findings from previous studies examining the relation between women's employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the opposite relation or no relation at all. I propose a new framework in which a woman's employment status and her risk of violent victimization are both influenced by the level of control exercised by her partner. Controll…

  • Unraveling The Economic Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Heeju Shin•ARTICLE•Sociological Quarterly•2008•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 39

    An extensive amount of research has shown that female-headed households are among the most disadvantaged in the United States. By contrast, households headed by single mothers in Mexico have median per capita income levels that are the same or higher than those headed by men and are no more likely to be living in poverty. These findings are surprising, given the many disadvantages that Mexican women face in the labor market and the added difficul…

  • Admixture estimates for the population of Havana City

    Open Access•Alberto Cintado, Osmel Companioni et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Human Biology•2009

    Our findings indicate the existence of admixture and genetic structure in the population of Havana City. This study represents one of the first steps towards understanding Cuban population admixture in order to produce successful experimental designs for admixture mapping

  • Stratification by Skin Color in Contemporary Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2010•Citada por: 136•Referencias: 58

    Latin America is often used as a backdrop against which U.S. race relations are compared. Yet research on race in Latin America focuses almost exclusively on countries in the region with a large recognized presence of individuals of African descent such as Brazil. Racial categories in these countries are based on skin color distinctions along a black-white continuum. By contrast, the main socially recognized ethnic distinction in Indo-Latin Ameri…

  • Development and the Urban and Rural Geography of Mexican Emigration to the United States

    E R Hamilton, Eric Hamilton et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2011

    Past research on international migration from Mexico to the United States uses geographically-limited data and analyzes emigrant-sending communities in isolation. Theories supported by this research may not explain urban emigration, and this research does not consider connections between rural and urban Mexico. In this study we use national data from Mexico to investigate rural and urban emigration. We find that a central motivation for emigratio…

  • Bringing the firms into globalization research

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Arthur Sakamoto•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2011•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 33

  • Flawed Statistical Reasoning and Misconceptions about Race and Ethnicity

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 13•Referencias: 14

  • Rush to the border? Market liberalization and urban- and rural-origin internal migration in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, E R Hamilton•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2012•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 33

  • Decline of medical student idealism in the first and second year of medical school

    Open Access•Christopher P Morley, Carrie Roseamelia et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Education Online•2013

    The results are suggestive that idealism decline begins earlier than noted in other studies, implying a need for curricular interventions in the first two years of medical school

  • How Job Characteristics Affect International Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Sarah Blanchard•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 32

    Despite the importance given to employment opportunities as a primary motive for migration, previous studies have paid insufficient attention to the kinds of jobs that are more likely to retain workers in their countries of origin. We use information from a panel survey of Mexican adults to examine how job characteristics affect the risk of international migration. The sampling strategy and overall size of the survey allow us to analyze the effec…

  • Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2014•Citada por: 55•Referencias: 33

    The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have a profound effect on the ethnic and national-origin composition of the U.S. population. This study examines the origins of the migration decline using a nationally representative panel s…

  • Prenatal Exposure to Violence and Birth Weight in Mexico

    Open Access•F Torche, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 37•Referencias: 72

    This article examines the effect of maternal exposure to local homicides on birth weight. We create a monthly panel by merging all births in Mexico from 2008 to 2010 with homicide data at the municipality level. Findings from fixed-effects models indicate that exposure to homicides in the first trimester of gestation increases infant birth weight and reduces the proportion of low birth weight. The effect is not driven by fertility or migration re…

  • Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2014•Citada por: 32•Referencias: 62

    This article examines ethnic boundary crossing and its effects on estimates of ethnic disparities in children's outcomes in the context of Mexico, a country with the largest indigenous population in the Western hemisphere. The boundary that separates the indigenous and non-indigenous population is extremely fluid, as it is based on characteristics that can easily change within a generation, such as language use, cultural practices, and a subjecti…

  • Land of the cosmic race

    A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2014•Citada por: 9

    A powerful official ideology promoted by the Mexican Government since the early twentieth century glorifies the mestizo, defined as the descendant of both indigenous and Spanish peoples, as a symbo

  • The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Demography•2016•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 40

    Recent studies have found international migrants from developing countries such as Mexico to be negatively selected by education; that is, they are less educated than those who stay behind. Moving beyond the question of whether migrants are negatively selected by education overall, I examine how migrants are selected compared with others in similar jobs. Using data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican households, I find that m…

  • Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico

    Open Access•A Villarreal, W H Yu et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•2017•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 61

    This article examines the effect of exposure to criminal violence on fear of crime and mental health in Mexico, a country that has experienced a dramatic rise in violent events resulting from the operation of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). Data are drawn from more than 30,000 respondents to a national longitudinal survey of Mexican households. We use fixed‐effects models which allow us to control for time‐invariant individual and municipa…

  • Immigrants' Economic Assimilation

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2018•Citada por: 57•Referencias: 45

    We examine immigrants' earnings trajectories and measure the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives, using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their longitudinal earnings obtained from individual tax records. Our analysis addresses key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants' earnings trajectories. First, we find a racial…

  • The Endogeneity of Race

    Open Access•A Villarreal, Stanley R Bailey•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2019

    A growing body of sociological research has shown that racial identification is not only fluid, but crucially depends on other individual- and societal-level factors. When such factors are also associated with socioeconomic outcomes such as earnings, estimates of the disadvantage experienced by individuals because of how they identify racially obtained from standard regression models may be biased. We illustrate this potential bias using data fro…

  • The U.S. Occupational Structure

    Open Access•A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2020•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 21

    We propose a new approach to study the structure of occupational labor markets that relies on social network analysis techniques. Highly detailed transition matrices are constructed based on changes in individual workers' occupations over successive months of the Current Population Survey rotating panels. The resulting short-term transition matrices provide snapshots of all occupational movements in the U.S. labor market at different points in ti…

  • Emigration and Electoral Outcomes in Mexico

    Open Access•Yao Lu, A Villarreal•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2021

    Does emigration deepen or depress democratic transitions in migrant-sending countries? This study examines the multifaceted and countervailing influences of migration on democratic outcomes in sending societies, as operationalized by electoral participation and competition. Drawing on longitudinal data compiled from several Mexican sources, we find that international migration, but not domestic migration, increases voter turnout and electoral com…

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