Ross M Stolzenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 134247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross M Stolzenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross M |
| FAMILY NAME | Stolzenberg |
| SIGNATURE | STOLZENBERG R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3034-5600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 928 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Judges as Party Animals
Long-standing debate over the Politicized Departure Hypothesis (PDH) asserts that federal judges tend to arrange to retire under presidents of the same political party as the president who first appointed them, thereby giving that party the right to nominate their successor. PDH is important for asserting political party agency by judges, who receive no consequent personal benefit, and for explaining the long-term political party orientation of c…
New Results About Difference Scores, Ratios, and Hierarchical Linear Model Parameters as Tools for Comparing Groups
At least since Pearson's infamous warning in 1897, ratio and difference measures have provoked dispute and misunderstanding, even as they continue to appear in social science research publications. Using differential calculus and hierarchical model decomposition, this article (a) presents a new, streamlined exposition that directs attention to the 'effects' of variables rather than correlations between them, (b) explicates a previously unnoticed …
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Mortality hazard and length of time until death are widely used as health outcome measures and are themselves of fundamental demographic interest. Considerable research has asked whether labor force retirement reduces subsequent health and its mortality measures. Previous studies have reported positive, negative, and null effects of retirement on subsequent longevity and mortality hazard, but inconsistent findings are difficult to resolve because…
Retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices
We construct demographic models of retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices, a group that has gained demographic notice, evaded demographic analysis, and is said to diverge from expected retirement patterns. Models build on prior multistate labor force status studies, and data permit an unusually clear distinction between voluntary and “induced” retirement. Using data on every justice from 1789 through 2006, with robust, clus…
Gendered reciprocity
Sexual Practices and Sexual Satisfaction
True Facts, True Stories, and True Differences
Cet article est un commentaire critique d'une etude de Greeley et Hout (1999), qui s'interessant aux religions juive et catholique, presentent des hypotheses relatives aux tendances dans l'evolution des croyances respectives. Leurs arguments seraient truffes d'erreurs dans leurs analyses statistiques et dans leur exposition de la doctrine religieuse juive, et ignorent les differences selon le sexe dans les croyances a une vie apres la mort
It's about Time and Gender
This article considers the effect of husbands' and wives' hours of work on each others' health. Theoretical analysis focuses on gendering of health-related behavior, the needed to promote a spouse's salubrious behavior, and the effects of work hours on the availability of time for nonwork activities. Empirical analyses are based on 1986 and 1989 longitudinal U.S. data. Fewer than 40 hours of work per week by wives has no effect on husbands' healt…
English Proficiency, Education, and the Conditional Economic Assimilation of Hispanic and Asian Origin Men
Tools for Intuition about Sample Selection Bias and Its Correction
The authors provide mathematical tools to assist intuition about selection bias in concrete empirical analyses. These new tools do not offer a general solution to the selection bias problem; no method now does that. Rather, the techniques they present offer a new decomposition of selection bias. This decomposition permits an analyst to develop intuition and make reasoned judgments about the sources, severity, and direction of sample selection bia…
Religious Participation in Early Adulthood
We attempt to integrate, elaborate, and test competing theories of why religious participation increases with age during young adulthood. We reconceptualize age and family formation as interacting causes of religious participation rather than competing explanations of it. We expand the concept offamily formation to include divorce, cohabitation, and dissolution of cohabitational relationships. We distinguish attitudes toward the family from famil…
Attitudes, Values, and Entrance into Cohabitational Versus Marital Unions
This article argues that marriage and cohabitation are associated with important differences in work patterns, earnings, treatment of money, use of leisure time, social relations with the extended family, the division of household labor, and fertility. We hypothesize that these differences lead those considering the formation of a household to consider their attitudes toward these aspects of life, which appear to be so different in marriage from …
Educational Continuation by College Graduates
This article resonsiders the apparently paradoxical absence of back ground SES effects on school continuation by college graduates. The approach is distinguished by its focus on specific graduate programs, in particular MBA programs, and by a concentration on different types of attitudes that appear relevant to graduate school matriculation. The article examines the impacts of job values and direct attention to conative attitudes toward graduate …
Foreign student academic performance in U.S. Graduate schools
Ethnicity, Geography, and Occupational Achievement of Hispanic Men in the United States
Using data from the Survey of Income and Education of the U.S. Census Bureau, the author examines occupational inequality between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men in the United States. Following previous research, he hypothesizes that Hispanic occupational disadvantage is affected by the geographic distribution of Hispanics, and the subgroup structure of the Hispanic population. However, results indicate that neither variable has a strong effe…
Theory Testing in a World of Constrained Research Design
Because censored sampling is often unavoidable in much sociological data analysis, computationally simple corrections of censoring bias would be useful. Heckman's correction is simple to compute, widely used, and proven asymptotically correct under certain assumptions, but its limitations in practical situations are not well known in sociology. Here, we overview prior criticisms of Heckman's estimator, and we consider the case in which its normal…
The Utility of Empirical Bayes Methods for Comparing Regression Structures in Small Subsamples
Sociological analysis often calls for estimation of sinmilrar regression equations in several samnples, but snmall samtiple sizes frequently make such estimates uinstable. While not used widely in sociology or demography, empirical Bayes techniques have considerable potential for extracting useful information from data in which sample subgrouips are both small and suspected of having been drawn from popuilation subgroups in which substantively in…
Local labor markets, children and labor force participation of wives
Most research on married women’s labor force participation relates characteristics of individual women to their probability of labor force participation. Some studies relate characteristics of geographic areas to average labor force participation rates in those areas, although these aggregate level analyses are usually gross tests of ideas about individuallevel processes. Here we take a quintessentially sociological perspective and seek to unders…
The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Nonadditive Models
Bringing the Boss Back In
Employers play a crucial role in the process of social stratification in the U.S.: the jobs they provide are the primary mechanism by which individuals are distributed among occupations and by which earnings are distributed among persons. But the vast majority of sociological work on socioeconomic achievement ignores employers completely, and nearly all related work by economists either ignores employers or else ignores characteristics of workers…
Reply to Spilerman and Miller
Age, Fertility Expectations and Plans for Employment
Fertility, female laborforce participation, and the relationship between them are key subjects in a number of theoretical and applied areas of sociology. Because sex role norms and the widespread use of birth control devices have given American women much control over their fertility and substantial choice in their labor force activity (or inactivity), understanding the development and interrelationship of labor force participation plans and fert…
City Differences and Nondifferences in the Effect of Race and Sex on Occupational Distribution
The empirical and theoretical analysis of intercity variation in black-white occupational differences constitutes a thin but persistent thread running through the last 30 years of sociological literature. At least nine separate statistical analyses have been reported in major sociological journals from 1951 to 1976, starting with Turner's (1951) attempt to test hypotheses frequently found in the race relations concerning the relative occupational…
Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women
Analysis of 3589 women in their mid-20s indicates that the number of children planned is more often determined by labor force participation planned than the reverse. A statistical model is constructed which 1) allows labor force participation plans to cause fertility expectations of young women; 2) simultaneously allows fertility expectations to cause labor force participation plans; 3) allows certain background factors to account for the relatio…
Occupations, Labor Markets and the Process of Wage Attainment
A key problem in sociology, as in economics, is explaining why some workers earn more money than others. Sociological models of earnings have stressed the role of a worker's occupation and have tended to ignore the conditions of the labor market in which he finds work. Economic models have stressed labor market functioning at the expense of considering the role of a worker's occupation in determining his wages. In this paper, I attempt to combine…
Religious Participation in Early Adulthood
We attempt to integrate, elaborate, and test competing theories of why religious participation increases with age during young adulthood. We reconceptualize age and family formation as interacting causes of religious participation rather than competing explanations of it. We expand the concept offamily formation to include divorce, cohabitation, and dissolution of cohabitational relationships. We distinguish attitudes toward the family from famil…
Bringing the Boss Back In
Employers play a crucial role in the process of social stratification in the U.S.: the jobs they provide are the primary mechanism by which individuals are distributed among occupations and by which earnings are distributed among persons. But the vast majority of sociological work on socioeconomic achievement ignores employers completely, and nearly all related work by economists either ignores employers or else ignores characteristics of workers…
Occupations, Labor Markets and the Process of Wage Attainment
A key problem in sociology, as in economics, is explaining why some workers earn more money than others. Sociological models of earnings have stressed the role of a worker's occupation and have tended to ignore the conditions of the labor market in which he finds work. Economic models have stressed labor market functioning at the expense of considering the role of a worker's occupation in determining his wages. In this paper, I attempt to combine…
Attitudes, Values, and Entrance into Cohabitational Versus Marital Unions
This article argues that marriage and cohabitation are associated with important differences in work patterns, earnings, treatment of money, use of leisure time, social relations with the extended family, the division of household labor, and fertility. We hypothesize that these differences lead those considering the formation of a household to consider their attitudes toward these aspects of life, which appear to be so different in marriage from …
Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women
Analysis of 3589 women in their mid-20s indicates that the number of children planned is more often determined by labor force participation planned than the reverse. A statistical model is constructed which 1) allows labor force participation plans to cause fertility expectations of young women; 2) simultaneously allows fertility expectations to cause labor force participation plans; 3) allows certain background factors to account for the relatio…
Tools for Intuition about Sample Selection Bias and Its Correction
The authors provide mathematical tools to assist intuition about selection bias in concrete empirical analyses. These new tools do not offer a general solution to the selection bias problem; no method now does that. Rather, the techniques they present offer a new decomposition of selection bias. This decomposition permits an analyst to develop intuition and make reasoned judgments about the sources, severity, and direction of sample selection bia…
Theory Testing in a World of Constrained Research Design
Because censored sampling is often unavoidable in much sociological data analysis, computationally simple corrections of censoring bias would be useful. Heckman's correction is simple to compute, widely used, and proven asymptotically correct under certain assumptions, but its limitations in practical situations are not well known in sociology. Here, we overview prior criticisms of Heckman's estimator, and we consider the case in which its normal…
Ethnicity, Geography, and Occupational Achievement of Hispanic Men in the United States
Using data from the Survey of Income and Education of the U.S. Census Bureau, the author examines occupational inequality between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men in the United States. Following previous research, he hypothesizes that Hispanic occupational disadvantage is affected by the geographic distribution of Hispanics, and the subgroup structure of the Hispanic population. However, results indicate that neither variable has a strong effe…
Age, Fertility Expectations and Plans for Employment
Fertility, female laborforce participation, and the relationship between them are key subjects in a number of theoretical and applied areas of sociology. Because sex role norms and the widespread use of birth control devices have given American women much control over their fertility and substantial choice in their labor force activity (or inactivity), understanding the development and interrelationship of labor force participation plans and fert…
Educational Continuation by College Graduates
This article resonsiders the apparently paradoxical absence of back ground SES effects on school continuation by college graduates. The approach is distinguished by its focus on specific graduate programs, in particular MBA programs, and by a concentration on different types of attitudes that appear relevant to graduate school matriculation. The article examines the impacts of job values and direct attention to conative attitudes toward graduate …
Local labor markets, children and labor force participation of wives
Most research on married women’s labor force participation relates characteristics of individual women to their probability of labor force participation. Some studies relate characteristics of geographic areas to average labor force participation rates in those areas, although these aggregate level analyses are usually gross tests of ideas about individuallevel processes. Here we take a quintessentially sociological perspective and seek to unders…
It's about Time and Gender
This article considers the effect of husbands' and wives' hours of work on each others' health. Theoretical analysis focuses on gendering of health-related behavior, the needed to promote a spouse's salubrious behavior, and the effects of work hours on the availability of time for nonwork activities. Empirical analyses are based on 1986 and 1989 longitudinal U.S. data. Fewer than 40 hours of work per week by wives has no effect on husbands' healt…
The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Nonadditive Models
Education, Occupation, and Wage Differences Between White and Black Men
Past research has indicated repeatedly that black men receive lower wages than white males working in the same occupation. Past findings have also suggested that these within-occupation race differences in men's success in convertin their years of schooling into dollars of earnings. This paper reexamines the role of returns of schooling in producing differences in earnings of white and black men who are employed in the same occupation. The role o…
English Proficiency, Education, and the Conditional Economic Assimilation of Hispanic and Asian Origin Men
City Differences and Nondifferences in the Effect of Race and Sex on Occupational Distribution
The empirical and theoretical analysis of intercity variation in black-white occupational differences constitutes a thin but persistent thread running through the last 30 years of sociological literature. At least nine separate statistical analyses have been reported in major sociological journals from 1951 to 1976, starting with Turner's (1951) attempt to test hypotheses frequently found in the race relations concerning the relative occupational…
Sexual Practices and Sexual Satisfaction
Retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices
We construct demographic models of retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices, a group that has gained demographic notice, evaded demographic analysis, and is said to diverge from expected retirement patterns. Models build on prior multistate labor force status studies, and data permit an unusually clear distinction between voluntary and “induced” retirement. Using data on every justice from 1789 through 2006, with robust, clus…
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Mortality hazard and length of time until death are widely used as health outcome measures and are themselves of fundamental demographic interest. Considerable research has asked whether labor force retirement reduces subsequent health and its mortality measures. Previous studies have reported positive, negative, and null effects of retirement on subsequent longevity and mortality hazard, but inconsistent findings are difficult to resolve because…
True Facts, True Stories, and True Differences
Cet article est un commentaire critique d'une etude de Greeley et Hout (1999), qui s'interessant aux religions juive et catholique, presentent des hypotheses relatives aux tendances dans l'evolution des croyances respectives. Leurs arguments seraient truffes d'erreurs dans leurs analyses statistiques et dans leur exposition de la doctrine religieuse juive, et ignorent les differences selon le sexe dans les croyances a une vie apres la mort
The Utility of Empirical Bayes Methods for Comparing Regression Structures in Small Subsamples
Sociological analysis often calls for estimation of sinmilrar regression equations in several samnples, but snmall samtiple sizes frequently make such estimates uinstable. While not used widely in sociology or demography, empirical Bayes techniques have considerable potential for extracting useful information from data in which sample subgrouips are both small and suspected of having been drawn from popuilation subgroups in which substantively in…
New Results About Difference Scores, Ratios, and Hierarchical Linear Model Parameters as Tools for Comparing Groups
At least since Pearson's infamous warning in 1897, ratio and difference measures have provoked dispute and misunderstanding, even as they continue to appear in social science research publications. Using differential calculus and hierarchical model decomposition, this article (a) presents a new, streamlined exposition that directs attention to the 'effects' of variables rather than correlations between them, (b) explicates a previously unnoticed …
Estimating an Equation With Multiplicative and Additive Terms, With an Application To Analysis of Wage Differentials Between Men and Women in 1960
Several available models of causation which embody 'interactions' among some but not all independent variables are compared. Equations of the form
Estimating an Equation With Multiplicative and Additive Terms, With an Application To Analysis of Wage Differentials Between Men and Women in 1960
Several available models of causation which embody 'interactions' among some but not all independent variables are compared. Equations of the form
Occupations, Labor Markets and the Process of Wage Attainment
A key problem in sociology, as in economics, is explaining why some workers earn more money than others. Sociological models of earnings have stressed the role of a worker's occupation and have tended to ignore the conditions of the labor market in which he finds work. Economic models have stressed labor market functioning at the expense of considering the role of a worker's occupation in determining his wages. In this paper, I attempt to combine…
Education, Occupation, and Wage Differences Between White and Black Men
Past research has indicated repeatedly that black men receive lower wages than white males working in the same occupation. Past findings have also suggested that these within-occupation race differences in men's success in convertin their years of schooling into dollars of earnings. This paper reexamines the role of returns of schooling in producing differences in earnings of white and black men who are employed in the same occupation. The role o…
Intended Childbearing and Labor Force Participation of Young Women
Analysis of 3589 women in their mid-20s indicates that the number of children planned is more often determined by labor force participation planned than the reverse. A statistical model is constructed which 1) allows labor force participation plans to cause fertility expectations of young women; 2) simultaneously allows fertility expectations to cause labor force participation plans; 3) allows certain background factors to account for the relatio…
Reply to Spilerman and Miller
Age, Fertility Expectations and Plans for Employment
Fertility, female laborforce participation, and the relationship between them are key subjects in a number of theoretical and applied areas of sociology. Because sex role norms and the widespread use of birth control devices have given American women much control over their fertility and substantial choice in their labor force activity (or inactivity), understanding the development and interrelationship of labor force participation plans and fert…
City Differences and Nondifferences in the Effect of Race and Sex on Occupational Distribution
The empirical and theoretical analysis of intercity variation in black-white occupational differences constitutes a thin but persistent thread running through the last 30 years of sociological literature. At least nine separate statistical analyses have been reported in major sociological journals from 1951 to 1976, starting with Turner's (1951) attempt to test hypotheses frequently found in the race relations concerning the relative occupational…
Bringing the Boss Back In
Employers play a crucial role in the process of social stratification in the U.S.: the jobs they provide are the primary mechanism by which individuals are distributed among occupations and by which earnings are distributed among persons. But the vast majority of sociological work on socioeconomic achievement ignores employers completely, and nearly all related work by economists either ignores employers or else ignores characteristics of workers…
The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Nonadditive Models
Local labor markets, children and labor force participation of wives
Most research on married women’s labor force participation relates characteristics of individual women to their probability of labor force participation. Some studies relate characteristics of geographic areas to average labor force participation rates in those areas, although these aggregate level analyses are usually gross tests of ideas about individuallevel processes. Here we take a quintessentially sociological perspective and seek to unders…
The Utility of Empirical Bayes Methods for Comparing Regression Structures in Small Subsamples
Sociological analysis often calls for estimation of sinmilrar regression equations in several samnples, but snmall samtiple sizes frequently make such estimates uinstable. While not used widely in sociology or demography, empirical Bayes techniques have considerable potential for extracting useful information from data in which sample subgrouips are both small and suspected of having been drawn from popuilation subgroups in which substantively in…
Ethnicity, Geography, and Occupational Achievement of Hispanic Men in the United States
Using data from the Survey of Income and Education of the U.S. Census Bureau, the author examines occupational inequality between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men in the United States. Following previous research, he hypothesizes that Hispanic occupational disadvantage is affected by the geographic distribution of Hispanics, and the subgroup structure of the Hispanic population. However, results indicate that neither variable has a strong effe…
Theory Testing in a World of Constrained Research Design
Because censored sampling is often unavoidable in much sociological data analysis, computationally simple corrections of censoring bias would be useful. Heckman's correction is simple to compute, widely used, and proven asymptotically correct under certain assumptions, but its limitations in practical situations are not well known in sociology. Here, we overview prior criticisms of Heckman's estimator, and we consider the case in which its normal…
Foreign student academic performance in U.S. Graduate schools
Educational Continuation by College Graduates
This article resonsiders the apparently paradoxical absence of back ground SES effects on school continuation by college graduates. The approach is distinguished by its focus on specific graduate programs, in particular MBA programs, and by a concentration on different types of attitudes that appear relevant to graduate school matriculation. The article examines the impacts of job values and direct attention to conative attitudes toward graduate …
Religious Participation in Early Adulthood
We attempt to integrate, elaborate, and test competing theories of why religious participation increases with age during young adulthood. We reconceptualize age and family formation as interacting causes of religious participation rather than competing explanations of it. We expand the concept offamily formation to include divorce, cohabitation, and dissolution of cohabitational relationships. We distinguish attitudes toward the family from famil…
Attitudes, Values, and Entrance into Cohabitational Versus Marital Unions
This article argues that marriage and cohabitation are associated with important differences in work patterns, earnings, treatment of money, use of leisure time, social relations with the extended family, the division of household labor, and fertility. We hypothesize that these differences lead those considering the formation of a household to consider their attitudes toward these aspects of life, which appear to be so different in marriage from …
English Proficiency, Education, and the Conditional Economic Assimilation of Hispanic and Asian Origin Men
Tools for Intuition about Sample Selection Bias and Its Correction
The authors provide mathematical tools to assist intuition about selection bias in concrete empirical analyses. These new tools do not offer a general solution to the selection bias problem; no method now does that. Rather, the techniques they present offer a new decomposition of selection bias. This decomposition permits an analyst to develop intuition and make reasoned judgments about the sources, severity, and direction of sample selection bia…
True Facts, True Stories, and True Differences
Cet article est un commentaire critique d'une etude de Greeley et Hout (1999), qui s'interessant aux religions juive et catholique, presentent des hypotheses relatives aux tendances dans l'evolution des croyances respectives. Leurs arguments seraient truffes d'erreurs dans leurs analyses statistiques et dans leur exposition de la doctrine religieuse juive, et ignorent les differences selon le sexe dans les croyances a une vie apres la mort
It's about Time and Gender
This article considers the effect of husbands' and wives' hours of work on each others' health. Theoretical analysis focuses on gendering of health-related behavior, the needed to promote a spouse's salubrious behavior, and the effects of work hours on the availability of time for nonwork activities. Empirical analyses are based on 1986 and 1989 longitudinal U.S. data. Fewer than 40 hours of work per week by wives has no effect on husbands' healt…
Sexual Practices and Sexual Satisfaction
Gendered reciprocity
Retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices
We construct demographic models of retirement and death in office of U.S. Supreme Court justices, a group that has gained demographic notice, evaded demographic analysis, and is said to diverge from expected retirement patterns. Models build on prior multistate labor force status studies, and data permit an unusually clear distinction between voluntary and “induced” retirement. Using data on every justice from 1789 through 2006, with robust, clus…
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Mortality hazard and length of time until death are widely used as health outcome measures and are themselves of fundamental demographic interest. Considerable research has asked whether labor force retirement reduces subsequent health and its mortality measures. Previous studies have reported positive, negative, and null effects of retirement on subsequent longevity and mortality hazard, but inconsistent findings are difficult to resolve because…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Demography (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Demography (10 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works)