Mary Alice Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 158100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Alice Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1537-0894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Covid-19 Affected Parenting in a Multi-City Sample With Low Incomes
We combined data from five cohorts of mothers of young children across three cities to understand how COVID-19 affected parenting among predominantly Black and Latine families with low incomes. We examined whether mothers reported that their parenting got worse, got better, or stayed the same; drew on a qualitative substudy to identify themes describing parenting experiences; and used quantitative data to identify psychosocial characteristics ass…
Health as a rich people’s game through the lens of work and income
The growing reliance on precarious employment —work that is uncertain, insecure, and unstable —has transformed work for many from a resource to a vulnerability for health and well-being. Using longitudinal data from the NLSY79 cohort (n ≈ 6,666) in the United States, we focused on two social determinants of health (SDOH), work and family income. We examine work schedule and income patterns between ages 22 and 49, explicitly building upon the life…
Spatial analysis of synthetic clusters of risk and resilience in the wake of the Flint water crisis
Natural and anthropogenic disasters often have greater impact on marginalized communities because of structural disinvestment and racism. Impacts may not be uniform across communities; it is important to identify characteristics related to individual- and neighborhood-level resilience in the context of disaster. The Flint Water Crisis (FWC), given its varying, widespread impacts, provides an opportunity to examine these characteristics. Using Spe…
Economic hardships during Covid-19 and maternal mental health: Combining samples with low incomes across three cities
History matters: The statistical modelling of the life course
Structural competency in New Mexico: Moving outside of medical education
In 2019, the Doña Ana Wellness Institute (DAWI), Doña Ana County, New Mexico's health council, sponsored two trainings in structural competency by the Structural Competency Working Group. One focused on health care professionals and learners; the other focused on government, non-profit organisations, and elected officials. DAWI and New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) representatives attended the trainings and identified the structural comp…
Challenges and opportunities in rapid disaster research: Lessons from the field in New Mexico and Vanuatu
Rapid research is essential to assess impacts in communities affected by disasters, particularly those communities made "hard-to-reach" due to their active marginalization across history and in contemporary practices. In this article, we describe two rapid research projects developed to assess needs for and experiences of communities hard-hit by disasters. The first is a project on the COVID-19 pandemic in southern New Mexico (USA) that was devel…
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic
The wholesale changes brought about by the COVID‐19 pandemic to men and women's paid work arrangements and work–family balance provide a natural experiment for testing the common elements of two theories, needs exposure (Schafer et al. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne De Sociologie, 57(4);2020:523–549) and parental proximity (Sullivan et al. Family Theory & Review, 2018;10(1):263–279) against a third theory also suggested by Schafer …
Developing a Culturally Informed Survey Instrument to Assess Biomedical Research Participation Among Latinos on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Racial/ethnic minorities, rural populations, and those with low socioeconomic status income are underrepresented in research in the United States (U.S.). Assessing preferences for recruitment, participation, and the role of beliefs about biomedical research in specific and unique underserved communities represents a potentially critical step in reducing barriers to biomedical research participation. We developed a culturally informed survey to me…
Early Childhood Teachers’ Lives in Context: Implications for Professional Development in Under‐Resourced Areas
This study explores the personal, professional, and contextual conditions faced by early childhood education ( ECE ) teachers in under‐resourced settings and how these relate to teacher responsiveness to professional development ( PD ): namely, teacher attrition (a sign of PD failure when occurring shortly after PD ), take‐up of offered PD , adherence to PD training/materials, and quality of implementation. We use data from six disadvantaged dist…
Do sedentary behavior and physical activity spatially cluster? Analysis of a population-based sample of Boston adolescents
Reducing Falls in Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration of an Intergenerational Tai Chi Class
Portfolio submission: no abstract
The Relationship of Individual- And Community-Level Sociocultural and Neighborhood Factors to the Mental Health of Ethnic Groups in Two Large U.S. Cities: Sociocultural Factors and Mental Health
Using multilevel modeling, the present study examines psychological well-being as a function of sociocultural factors, neighborhood disadvantage, neighborhood fragmentation, and neighborhood integration, along with individual factors among a sample of 1,306 African and Latino/a Americans living in New York City and Chicago neighborhoods. Neighborhood blocks were prestratified based on racial/ethnic and economic characteristics and then randomly s…
Bias Amplification and Bias Unmasking
In the analysis of causal effects in non-experimental studies, conditioning on observable covariates is one way to try to reduce unobserved confounder bias. However, a developing literature has shown that conditioning on certain covariates may increase bias, and the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have not been fully explored. We add to the literature on bias-increasing covariates by first introducing a way to decompose omitted variable bia…
Latino Beliefs About Biomedical Research Participation: A Qualitative Study on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Latinos are under-represented in biomedical research conducted in the United States, impeding disease prevention and treatment efforts for this growing demographic group. We gathered perceptions of biomedical research and gauged willingness to participate through elicitation interviews and focus groups with Latinos living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Themes that emerged included a strong willingness to participate in biomedical studies and suggeste…
Racial and Gender Identity Among Black Adolescent Males: An Intersectionality Perspective
A considerable amount of social identity research has focused on race and racial identity, while gender identity, particularly among Black adolescents, remains underexamined. The current study used survey data from 183 Black adolescent males (13-16 years old) to investigate the development and relation between racial and gender identity centrality and private regard, and how these identities impact adjustment over time. It was found that dimensio…
The Critical Pedagogy of Mentoring: Undergraduate Researchers as Mentors in Youth Participatory Action Research
The Sage Handbook of Multilevel Modeling
The Impact of Uncapping of Mandatory Retirement on Postsecondary Institutions
The Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act passed by Congress in 1986 eliminated mandatory age-related retirement at age 70. Initially, all postsecondary institutions were exempt from the Act. Based on a report by the National Research Council (NRC), which forecast only a minimal impact of this Act on higher education, the federal government allowed the exemption to lapse; effective December 31, 1993, faculty would no longer be subject to m…
Paying Down the Care Deficit: The Health Consequences for Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren in a Mexican Migrant Community of Origin
While significant research addresses global chains of care work from the perspective of female migrant workers engaged in low-paid, unstable domestic labor in 'receiving' communities, little research has focused on those who substitute for migrant workers to provide care in communities of origin. This article addresses that gap by focusing on the health consequences of care work for grandmothers in southern Veracruz, Mexico who assume the primary…
Student writing, assessment, and the motivated sign: Finding a theory for the times
This paper aims to encourage teachers in higher education to reflect on the criteria they apply when assessing students’ academic writing. Grounding its arguments in readings of postgraduate students’ texts, the paper identifies complexities that evaded the teachers’ assessments. These complexities are made visible by the development of particular theoretical perspectives. The concept of the ‘motivated sign’ is given central significance in view …
Persistent Inequality? Answers From Hybrid Models for Longitudinal Data
Many questions in social research must be evaluated over time. For example, in studies of intragenerational mobility, measuring opportunity for economic advancement requires longitudinal data. The authors develop and use a class of hybrid functional models to demonstrate how different models can lead to extremely different substantive conclusions. They provide guidelines for longitudinal data analyses in which variance partitions are central to t…
Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market
In the contemporary uncertain labour market situation, the tradition of upward mobility, or the chance for all workers to improve their earnings, may be a thing of the past in the United States of America (USA). In a competitive economic environment, many companies that once offered the opportunity for advancement to workers, have reinvented themselves as leaner enterprises with more flexible work forces. This publication presents empirical resea…
Covariance Models For Latent Structure In Longitudinal Data
We present several approaches to modeling latent structure in longitudinal studies when the covariance itself is the primary focus of the analysis. This is a departure from much of the work on longitudinal data analysis, in which attention is focused solely on the cross-sectional mean and the influence of covariates on the mean. Such analyses are particularly important in policy-related studies, in which the heterogeneity of the population is of …
The ‘Pedagogic Relation’ in Accounts of Student Writers’ Needs and Difficulties
Racial and Gender Identity Among Black Adolescent Males: An Intersectionality Perspective
A considerable amount of social identity research has focused on race and racial identity, while gender identity, particularly among Black adolescents, remains underexamined. The current study used survey data from 183 Black adolescent males (13-16 years old) to investigate the development and relation between racial and gender identity centrality and private regard, and how these identities impact adjustment over time. It was found that dimensio…
Latino Beliefs About Biomedical Research Participation: A Qualitative Study on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Latinos are under-represented in biomedical research conducted in the United States, impeding disease prevention and treatment efforts for this growing demographic group. We gathered perceptions of biomedical research and gauged willingness to participate through elicitation interviews and focus groups with Latinos living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Themes that emerged included a strong willingness to participate in biomedical studies and suggeste…
Bias Amplification and Bias Unmasking
In the analysis of causal effects in non-experimental studies, conditioning on observable covariates is one way to try to reduce unobserved confounder bias. However, a developing literature has shown that conditioning on certain covariates may increase bias, and the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have not been fully explored. We add to the literature on bias-increasing covariates by first introducing a way to decompose omitted variable bia…
Early Childhood Teachers’ Lives in Context: Implications for Professional Development in Under‐Resourced Areas
This study explores the personal, professional, and contextual conditions faced by early childhood education ( ECE ) teachers in under‐resourced settings and how these relate to teacher responsiveness to professional development ( PD ): namely, teacher attrition (a sign of PD failure when occurring shortly after PD ), take‐up of offered PD , adherence to PD training/materials, and quality of implementation. We use data from six disadvantaged dist…
The Relationship of Individual- And Community-Level Sociocultural and Neighborhood Factors to the Mental Health of Ethnic Groups in Two Large U.S. Cities: Sociocultural Factors and Mental Health
Using multilevel modeling, the present study examines psychological well-being as a function of sociocultural factors, neighborhood disadvantage, neighborhood fragmentation, and neighborhood integration, along with individual factors among a sample of 1,306 African and Latino/a Americans living in New York City and Chicago neighborhoods. Neighborhood blocks were prestratified based on racial/ethnic and economic characteristics and then randomly s…
Reducing Falls in Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration of an Intergenerational Tai Chi Class
Portfolio submission: no abstract
The ‘Pedagogic Relation’ in Accounts of Student Writers’ Needs and Difficulties
Covariance Models For Latent Structure In Longitudinal Data
We present several approaches to modeling latent structure in longitudinal studies when the covariance itself is the primary focus of the analysis. This is a departure from much of the work on longitudinal data analysis, in which attention is focused solely on the cross-sectional mean and the influence of covariates on the mean. Such analyses are particularly important in policy-related studies, in which the heterogeneity of the population is of …
Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market
In the contemporary uncertain labour market situation, the tradition of upward mobility, or the chance for all workers to improve their earnings, may be a thing of the past in the United States of America (USA). In a competitive economic environment, many companies that once offered the opportunity for advancement to workers, have reinvented themselves as leaner enterprises with more flexible work forces. This publication presents empirical resea…
Student writing, assessment, and the motivated sign: Finding a theory for the times
This paper aims to encourage teachers in higher education to reflect on the criteria they apply when assessing students’ academic writing. Grounding its arguments in readings of postgraduate students’ texts, the paper identifies complexities that evaded the teachers’ assessments. These complexities are made visible by the development of particular theoretical perspectives. The concept of the ‘motivated sign’ is given central significance in view …
Persistent Inequality? Answers From Hybrid Models for Longitudinal Data
Many questions in social research must be evaluated over time. For example, in studies of intragenerational mobility, measuring opportunity for economic advancement requires longitudinal data. The authors develop and use a class of hybrid functional models to demonstrate how different models can lead to extremely different substantive conclusions. They provide guidelines for longitudinal data analyses in which variance partitions are central to t…
Paying Down the Care Deficit: The Health Consequences for Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren in a Mexican Migrant Community of Origin
While significant research addresses global chains of care work from the perspective of female migrant workers engaged in low-paid, unstable domestic labor in 'receiving' communities, little research has focused on those who substitute for migrant workers to provide care in communities of origin. This article addresses that gap by focusing on the health consequences of care work for grandmothers in southern Veracruz, Mexico who assume the primary…
The Sage Handbook of Multilevel Modeling
The Impact of Uncapping of Mandatory Retirement on Postsecondary Institutions
The Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act passed by Congress in 1986 eliminated mandatory age-related retirement at age 70. Initially, all postsecondary institutions were exempt from the Act. Based on a report by the National Research Council (NRC), which forecast only a minimal impact of this Act on higher education, the federal government allowed the exemption to lapse; effective December 31, 1993, faculty would no longer be subject to m…
Latino Beliefs About Biomedical Research Participation: A Qualitative Study on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Latinos are under-represented in biomedical research conducted in the United States, impeding disease prevention and treatment efforts for this growing demographic group. We gathered perceptions of biomedical research and gauged willingness to participate through elicitation interviews and focus groups with Latinos living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Themes that emerged included a strong willingness to participate in biomedical studies and suggeste…
Racial and Gender Identity Among Black Adolescent Males: An Intersectionality Perspective
A considerable amount of social identity research has focused on race and racial identity, while gender identity, particularly among Black adolescents, remains underexamined. The current study used survey data from 183 Black adolescent males (13-16 years old) to investigate the development and relation between racial and gender identity centrality and private regard, and how these identities impact adjustment over time. It was found that dimensio…
The Critical Pedagogy of Mentoring: Undergraduate Researchers as Mentors in Youth Participatory Action Research
The Relationship of Individual- And Community-Level Sociocultural and Neighborhood Factors to the Mental Health of Ethnic Groups in Two Large U.S. Cities: Sociocultural Factors and Mental Health
Using multilevel modeling, the present study examines psychological well-being as a function of sociocultural factors, neighborhood disadvantage, neighborhood fragmentation, and neighborhood integration, along with individual factors among a sample of 1,306 African and Latino/a Americans living in New York City and Chicago neighborhoods. Neighborhood blocks were prestratified based on racial/ethnic and economic characteristics and then randomly s…
Bias Amplification and Bias Unmasking
In the analysis of causal effects in non-experimental studies, conditioning on observable covariates is one way to try to reduce unobserved confounder bias. However, a developing literature has shown that conditioning on certain covariates may increase bias, and the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have not been fully explored. We add to the literature on bias-increasing covariates by first introducing a way to decompose omitted variable bia…
Do sedentary behavior and physical activity spatially cluster? Analysis of a population-based sample of Boston adolescents
Reducing Falls in Older Adults: A Qualitative Exploration of an Intergenerational Tai Chi Class
Portfolio submission: no abstract
Developing a Culturally Informed Survey Instrument to Assess Biomedical Research Participation Among Latinos on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Racial/ethnic minorities, rural populations, and those with low socioeconomic status income are underrepresented in research in the United States (U.S.). Assessing preferences for recruitment, participation, and the role of beliefs about biomedical research in specific and unique underserved communities represents a potentially critical step in reducing barriers to biomedical research participation. We developed a culturally informed survey to me…
Early Childhood Teachers’ Lives in Context: Implications for Professional Development in Under‐Resourced Areas
This study explores the personal, professional, and contextual conditions faced by early childhood education ( ECE ) teachers in under‐resourced settings and how these relate to teacher responsiveness to professional development ( PD ): namely, teacher attrition (a sign of PD failure when occurring shortly after PD ), take‐up of offered PD , adherence to PD training/materials, and quality of implementation. We use data from six disadvantaged dist…
Structural competency in New Mexico: Moving outside of medical education
In 2019, the Doña Ana Wellness Institute (DAWI), Doña Ana County, New Mexico's health council, sponsored two trainings in structural competency by the Structural Competency Working Group. One focused on health care professionals and learners; the other focused on government, non-profit organisations, and elected officials. DAWI and New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) representatives attended the trainings and identified the structural comp…
Challenges and opportunities in rapid disaster research: Lessons from the field in New Mexico and Vanuatu
Rapid research is essential to assess impacts in communities affected by disasters, particularly those communities made "hard-to-reach" due to their active marginalization across history and in contemporary practices. In this article, we describe two rapid research projects developed to assess needs for and experiences of communities hard-hit by disasters. The first is a project on the COVID-19 pandemic in southern New Mexico (USA) that was devel…
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic
The wholesale changes brought about by the COVID‐19 pandemic to men and women's paid work arrangements and work–family balance provide a natural experiment for testing the common elements of two theories, needs exposure (Schafer et al. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne De Sociologie, 57(4);2020:523–549) and parental proximity (Sullivan et al. Family Theory & Review, 2018;10(1):263–279) against a third theory also suggested by Schafer …
History matters: The statistical modelling of the life course
Health as a rich people’s game through the lens of work and income
The growing reliance on precarious employment —work that is uncertain, insecure, and unstable —has transformed work for many from a resource to a vulnerability for health and well-being. Using longitudinal data from the NLSY79 cohort (n ≈ 6,666) in the United States, we focused on two social determinants of health (SDOH), work and family income. We examine work schedule and income patterns between ages 22 and 49, explicitly building upon the life…
Spatial analysis of synthetic clusters of risk and resilience in the wake of the Flint water crisis
Natural and anthropogenic disasters often have greater impact on marginalized communities because of structural disinvestment and racism. Impacts may not be uniform across communities; it is important to identify characteristics related to individual- and neighborhood-level resilience in the context of disaster. The Flint Water Crisis (FWC), given its varying, widespread impacts, provides an opportunity to examine these characteristics. Using Spe…
Economic hardships during Covid-19 and maternal mental health: Combining samples with low incomes across three cities
How Covid-19 Affected Parenting in a Multi-City Sample With Low Incomes
We combined data from five cohorts of mothers of young children across three cities to understand how COVID-19 affected parenting among predominantly Black and Latine families with low incomes. We examined whether mothers reported that their parenting got worse, got better, or stayed the same; drew on a qualitative substudy to identify themes describing parenting experiences; and used quantitative data to identify psychosocial characteristics ass…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)