Loretta E Ba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 155665 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Loretta E Ba |
| PRENOMES | Loretta E |
| SOBRENOME | Ba |
| ASSINATURA | BA L E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2746-6391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Women’s decision-making power and contraceptive use in Nigeria
Contraceptive use has been linked with women’s empowerment and positive health and well-being outcomes. This research examines contraceptive use in Nigeria using an analytical sample of 17,511 women in the 2018 Demographic Health Survey data, first modeling contraception use in general or Some Form of Contraceptive Use with logistic regressions, and second, considering Modern and Traditional Contraceptive Methods as separate, discrete outcomes fo…
The Price Is Not Right
Using recent data from a national sample of 2.8 million households in the Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2023), we examine how grocery taxes and race are related to food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We address three questions: How does a respondent's household food insecurity differ in states that impose grocery taxes compared to states without grocery taxes? How does a respondent's food insecurity differ by their race? Ho…
Who Votes among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups
The authors address the gap in what is known about voting among Asian American ethnic subgroups using National Asian American Survey 2016 Post-Election Survey data to investigate the propensity to vote in the 2016 presidential election across two samples: registered Asian Americans and registered naturalized Asian Americans. The authors use logistic regressions to examine voting behavior across 10 Asian ethnic subgroups for the first time. Across…
Marriage Without Borders
Citizen Outsider
Gendered Power and the Use of Contraception and Condoms among Married Women in Ghana
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are used to examine what predicts current contraception and condom use among married women in Ghana. Women’s gender-based power is examined in the three dimensions of interpersonal decision-making power, household status, and socioeconomic status; these dimensions are considered as predictor or focal variables. Ghanaian women’s higher sexual decision-making power, greater education, work outside of the hom…
Film Review
Living in the American South and the Likelihood of Having a Tubal Sterilization
This research uses a nationally representative sample of 7,643 American women from the public- and restricted-use National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6 data files and logistic regressions to model for the first time the relationship between having a tubal sterilization and southern region of residence. This research finds a disparity in reproductive health for southern women; women living in the South face about 1.5 greater odds of being ster…
The Effects of Global Interaction on Poverty in Developing Countries, 1991-2005
While previous studies have examined the impact of globalization on a myriad of welfare outcomes in developing countries, the effect of cross-national exchanges on extreme poverty remains unexplored. Poverty has declined substantially during this most recent wave of globalization, suggesting that cross-border relations may be partially responsible. We test this proposition by estimating the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade opennes…
Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen, Child Migration in Africa
Reconsidering Race, Class, and Residential Segregation in American Cities
Scholars have often discounted social class as a substantial contributor to residential segregation by race, in part as a result of using the dissimilarity index, which is likely to show high levels of uneven group distribution regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), and in part as a result of using limited categories of SES. This study expands on prior research by examining residential segregation between black-alone and white-alone households…
Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in the United States
We use categorical and logistic regression models to investigate the extent that family structure affects children's health outcomes at age five (i.e., child's type of health insurance coverage, the use of a routine medical doctor, and report of being in excellent health) using a sample of 4,898 children from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. We find that children with married biological parents are most likely to have private heal…
Social Focus on Health and Children's Well-being
This special section on children's health and well-being is an outgrowth of the 2010 International Sociological Association's (ISA) World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden. Within the Congress, the Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood, organized a panel focused on the health and well-being of children. Together, this collection makes two distinct contributions: first in terms of considering children's health disparities as an area of concer…
Childhood in Sociology and Society
The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article…
Do Health Insurance and Residence Pattern the Likelihood of Tubal Sterilization among American Women
Breaking Singles Up
Using the National Health and Social Life Survey, we investigate sexual satisfaction by marital status and gender. We disaggregate the “single” category into “never-married” and “ever-married” individuals, rather than lumping never-married, divorced, separated, and widowed individuals into the “single” category. We argue that the use of a combined category neglects variation between never-married and ever-married single individuals due to differe…
American Identity and Attitudes Toward English Language Policy Initiatives
Relatively little is known about what individual-level factors drive Americans' attitudes toward offering services to immigrants. Using national-level data and logistic regressions, we examine what factors co-vary with whether respondents agree or disagree with specific policy initiatives regarding support for English language use for immigrants. We then examine what factors are related to whether respondents agree that tax money should be used t…
Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Although both media and scholarly attention to the use of child labor has focused on Asia and Latin America, the highest incidence of the practice is found in Africa, where one in three children works. Loretta Bass presents a comprehensive, systematic study of child labor in sub-Saharan Africa. Bass offers a window on the lives of Africa's children workers, a view informed by her analysis of the historical, economic, political, sociocultural, and…
Differences in registering and voting between native-born and naturalized Americans
Impacting the Political Landscape
Enlarging the street and negotiating the curb
Outlines a case study detailing how a road enlargement project eliminated sidewalk selling space and restructured the edge of a major market in Dakar, Senegal. Explains how the crucial role of location for street and market trade to the fore, covering the ensuing negotiations which revealed powerful hierarchies based on gender, age and class. Shows how these shaped the process of duscussion and led to differential outcomes for individual traders
Beyond Homework
Impacting the Political Landscape
Differences in registering and voting between native-born and naturalized Americans
Do Health Insurance and Residence Pattern the Likelihood of Tubal Sterilization among American Women
Enlarging the street and negotiating the curb
Outlines a case study detailing how a road enlargement project eliminated sidewalk selling space and restructured the edge of a major market in Dakar, Senegal. Explains how the crucial role of location for street and market trade to the fore, covering the ensuing negotiations which revealed powerful hierarchies based on gender, age and class. Shows how these shaped the process of duscussion and led to differential outcomes for individual traders
Reconsidering Race, Class, and Residential Segregation in American Cities
Scholars have often discounted social class as a substantial contributor to residential segregation by race, in part as a result of using the dissimilarity index, which is likely to show high levels of uneven group distribution regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), and in part as a result of using limited categories of SES. This study expands on prior research by examining residential segregation between black-alone and white-alone households…
Who Votes among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups
The authors address the gap in what is known about voting among Asian American ethnic subgroups using National Asian American Survey 2016 Post-Election Survey data to investigate the propensity to vote in the 2016 presidential election across two samples: registered Asian Americans and registered naturalized Asian Americans. The authors use logistic regressions to examine voting behavior across 10 Asian ethnic subgroups for the first time. Across…
The Effects of Global Interaction on Poverty in Developing Countries, 1991-2005
While previous studies have examined the impact of globalization on a myriad of welfare outcomes in developing countries, the effect of cross-national exchanges on extreme poverty remains unexplored. Poverty has declined substantially during this most recent wave of globalization, suggesting that cross-border relations may be partially responsible. We test this proposition by estimating the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade opennes…
American Identity and Attitudes Toward English Language Policy Initiatives
Relatively little is known about what individual-level factors drive Americans' attitudes toward offering services to immigrants. Using national-level data and logistic regressions, we examine what factors co-vary with whether respondents agree or disagree with specific policy initiatives regarding support for English language use for immigrants. We then examine what factors are related to whether respondents agree that tax money should be used t…
Beyond Homework
Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in the United States
We use categorical and logistic regression models to investigate the extent that family structure affects children's health outcomes at age five (i.e., child's type of health insurance coverage, the use of a routine medical doctor, and report of being in excellent health) using a sample of 4,898 children from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. We find that children with married biological parents are most likely to have private heal…
Gendered Power and the Use of Contraception and Condoms among Married Women in Ghana
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are used to examine what predicts current contraception and condom use among married women in Ghana. Women’s gender-based power is examined in the three dimensions of interpersonal decision-making power, household status, and socioeconomic status; these dimensions are considered as predictor or focal variables. Ghanaian women’s higher sexual decision-making power, greater education, work outside of the hom…
Living in the American South and the Likelihood of Having a Tubal Sterilization
This research uses a nationally representative sample of 7,643 American women from the public- and restricted-use National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6 data files and logistic regressions to model for the first time the relationship between having a tubal sterilization and southern region of residence. This research finds a disparity in reproductive health for southern women; women living in the South face about 1.5 greater odds of being ster…
Childhood in Sociology and Society
The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article…
Beyond Homework
Enlarging the street and negotiating the curb
Outlines a case study detailing how a road enlargement project eliminated sidewalk selling space and restructured the edge of a major market in Dakar, Senegal. Explains how the crucial role of location for street and market trade to the fore, covering the ensuing negotiations which revealed powerful hierarchies based on gender, age and class. Shows how these shaped the process of duscussion and led to differential outcomes for individual traders
Differences in registering and voting between native-born and naturalized Americans
Impacting the Political Landscape
Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Although both media and scholarly attention to the use of child labor has focused on Asia and Latin America, the highest incidence of the practice is found in Africa, where one in three children works. Loretta Bass presents a comprehensive, systematic study of child labor in sub-Saharan Africa. Bass offers a window on the lives of Africa's children workers, a view informed by her analysis of the historical, economic, political, sociocultural, and…
American Identity and Attitudes Toward English Language Policy Initiatives
Relatively little is known about what individual-level factors drive Americans' attitudes toward offering services to immigrants. Using national-level data and logistic regressions, we examine what factors co-vary with whether respondents agree or disagree with specific policy initiatives regarding support for English language use for immigrants. We then examine what factors are related to whether respondents agree that tax money should be used t…
Breaking Singles Up
Using the National Health and Social Life Survey, we investigate sexual satisfaction by marital status and gender. We disaggregate the “single” category into “never-married” and “ever-married” individuals, rather than lumping never-married, divorced, separated, and widowed individuals into the “single” category. We argue that the use of a combined category neglects variation between never-married and ever-married single individuals due to differe…
Do Health Insurance and Residence Pattern the Likelihood of Tubal Sterilization among American Women
Childhood in Sociology and Society
The field of childhood studies in the US is comprised of cross-disciplinary researchers who theorize and conduct research on both children and youth. US sociologists who study childhood largely draw on the childhood literature published in English. This article focuses on American sociological contributions, but notes relevant contributions from non-American scholars published in English that have shaped and fueled American research. This article…
Reconsidering Race, Class, and Residential Segregation in American Cities
Scholars have often discounted social class as a substantial contributor to residential segregation by race, in part as a result of using the dissimilarity index, which is likely to show high levels of uneven group distribution regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), and in part as a result of using limited categories of SES. This study expands on prior research by examining residential segregation between black-alone and white-alone households…
Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in the United States
We use categorical and logistic regression models to investigate the extent that family structure affects children's health outcomes at age five (i.e., child's type of health insurance coverage, the use of a routine medical doctor, and report of being in excellent health) using a sample of 4,898 children from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study. We find that children with married biological parents are most likely to have private heal…
Social Focus on Health and Children's Well-being
This special section on children's health and well-being is an outgrowth of the 2010 International Sociological Association's (ISA) World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden. Within the Congress, the Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood, organized a panel focused on the health and well-being of children. Together, this collection makes two distinct contributions: first in terms of considering children's health disparities as an area of concer…
The Effects of Global Interaction on Poverty in Developing Countries, 1991-2005
While previous studies have examined the impact of globalization on a myriad of welfare outcomes in developing countries, the effect of cross-national exchanges on extreme poverty remains unexplored. Poverty has declined substantially during this most recent wave of globalization, suggesting that cross-border relations may be partially responsible. We test this proposition by estimating the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade opennes…
Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen, Child Migration in Africa
Living in the American South and the Likelihood of Having a Tubal Sterilization
This research uses a nationally representative sample of 7,643 American women from the public- and restricted-use National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6 data files and logistic regressions to model for the first time the relationship between having a tubal sterilization and southern region of residence. This research finds a disparity in reproductive health for southern women; women living in the South face about 1.5 greater odds of being ster…
Film Review
Gendered Power and the Use of Contraception and Condoms among Married Women in Ghana
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are used to examine what predicts current contraception and condom use among married women in Ghana. Women’s gender-based power is examined in the three dimensions of interpersonal decision-making power, household status, and socioeconomic status; these dimensions are considered as predictor or focal variables. Ghanaian women’s higher sexual decision-making power, greater education, work outside of the hom…
Marriage Without Borders
Citizen Outsider
Who Votes among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups
The authors address the gap in what is known about voting among Asian American ethnic subgroups using National Asian American Survey 2016 Post-Election Survey data to investigate the propensity to vote in the 2016 presidential election across two samples: registered Asian Americans and registered naturalized Asian Americans. The authors use logistic regressions to examine voting behavior across 10 Asian ethnic subgroups for the first time. Across…
The Price Is Not Right
Using recent data from a national sample of 2.8 million households in the Household Pulse Survey (U.S. Census Bureau 2023), we examine how grocery taxes and race are related to food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We address three questions: How does a respondent's household food insecurity differ in states that impose grocery taxes compared to states without grocery taxes? How does a respondent's food insecurity differ by their race? Ho…
Women’s decision-making power and contraceptive use in Nigeria
Contraceptive use has been linked with women’s empowerment and positive health and well-being outcomes. This research examines contraceptive use in Nigeria using an analytical sample of 17,511 women in the 2018 Demographic Health Survey data, first modeling contraception use in general or Some Form of Contraceptive Use with logistic regressions, and second, considering Modern and Traditional Contraceptive Methods as separate, discrete outcomes fo…
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