Rebekah Burroway
Biographic Data
| ID | 178227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebekah Burroway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebekah |
| FAMILY NAME | Burroway |
| SIGNATURE | BURROWAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Working 9 to 5, Barely Getting By
Improving women’s employment prospects has long been a goal of development agencies worldwide. Despite persistent gender gaps in labor force participation, women’s employment is heralded as a key mechanism for improving health and well-being. Yet, empirical evidence for the link between women’s work and child health is mixed. We examine the relationship between work and health from a cross-national and distributional perspective. More specificall…
Property and Pa-Tree-Archy
Although previous studies have examined the causes of deforestation from a cross-national, quantitative perspective, these studies tend to neglect the role of women in mitigating forest loss. Yet, evidence from case studies shows that when women own land they tend to protect forests, replant trees, and engage in agricultural practices that place less pressure on forests. Building on this work, we use ordinary least squares regression models to an…
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990-2018
Defend women’s rights and save the trees
Consistencies and contradictions
The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women
It Takes a Village
Women's education is widely recognized as a key factor in improving well-being in developing countries. However, previous research rarely considers both the individual and contextual effects of education. As broad societal transformations take place, education may shape women's capacity to take advantage of better access to power and resources, resulting in a dispersion effect of expanded women's education on well-being. Combining multilevel mode…
Education is the antidote
Hungry for Equality
Access to food is one of the most basic human needs, yet undernourishment remains one of the greatest barriers to health and development in the Global South. The entitlement approach to hunger maintains that the real issue is not the overall availability of food, but access to it. This paper specifically highlights the access failures of women by focusing on how gender-based stratification limits command over food, even in light of existing food …
Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause
Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries, including political economy, the capability approach, and fundamental cause. This study combines the perspectives in a multi-level analysis of child malnutrition and diarrhea in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of who faces increased health risks and who is shielded from them. Using the Demographic and Health Surveys and Wo…
Are all jobs created equal? A cross-national analysis of women's employment and child malnutrition in developing countries
Democracy and child health in developing countries
The rise of democracy across the world brought with it expectations that governments would be more attentive and responsive to the welfare of the people, creating better services and better health. Indeed, a considerable body of scholarship finds that democracy has significant, direct effects on multiple measures of well-being, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality. Despite several recent critiques, the paramount theme is that democra…
Women's Rights Save Lives
Sociologists have long recognized women's empowerment as a key factor in improving development and health in developing countries. Using new data, this study goes beyond the traditionally used indicators of empowerment by highlighting the potential role of women's rights to land, property, and loans in explaining cross-national variation in child health. Results show that land and property rights are associated with lower rates of infant and chil…
Business Unity and Anticorporate Protests
Do large corporations respond to social movement protests following a firm-centric rationale or do they develop their strategies relationally? If they do so relationally, do corporate networks help foster class-wide unity in their responses to protests? We address these questions through an examination of protests against U.S. Fortune 500 firms. We incorporate data on board of director interlocks and corporate involvement in policy planning organ…
Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation interventions for HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSWs) aim to organise FSWs for collective action and challenge the structures of power that underlie HIV risk. Assessing intervention impact is challenging because the importance of direct individual exposure to intervention components may decrease over time as change occurs at social-normative, policy and other structural levels. In this paper, the auth…
Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty
We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single-mother poverty than in poverty among the overall population. By far, the United States has the highest rate of poverty among single mother…
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
Despite overall declining HIV infection rates, gender inequality in HIV prevalence rates is striking. On average across the world, young women have about twice the HIV prevalence rates as their male counterparts. Many scholars point to the particular vulnerabilities that women face in regard to HIV risk. However, they have not employed gender stratification theory to explain gender disparities in HIV prevalence. This analysis builds on a relative…
Sector, size, stability, and scandal
Purpose – Although women remain substantially underrepresented in the top echelons of large corporations, a non‐trivial presence of female executives has emerged in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the firm characteristics that predict the sex of the executive office holder, classifying the plausible firm characteristics that could explain the presence of female executives into four explanations: sector, size, stability, and…
Schools Against Aids
Although AIDS is a leading cause of death worldwide, the consequences of the pandemic are remarkably unequally distributed cross-nationally. This unequal global distribution of AIDS deaths should be of interest to sociologists because of the potential role of structural forces in accounting for these disparities. Yet, there has been relatively little sociological research on this topic. Using underutilized cross-national data on AIDS deaths, this…
Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty
We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single-mother poverty than in poverty among the overall population. By far, the United States has the highest rate of poverty among single mother…
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
Despite overall declining HIV infection rates, gender inequality in HIV prevalence rates is striking. On average across the world, young women have about twice the HIV prevalence rates as their male counterparts. Many scholars point to the particular vulnerabilities that women face in regard to HIV risk. However, they have not employed gender stratification theory to explain gender disparities in HIV prevalence. This analysis builds on a relative…
Democracy and child health in developing countries
The rise of democracy across the world brought with it expectations that governments would be more attentive and responsive to the welfare of the people, creating better services and better health. Indeed, a considerable body of scholarship finds that democracy has significant, direct effects on multiple measures of well-being, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality. Despite several recent critiques, the paramount theme is that democra…
Schools Against Aids
Although AIDS is a leading cause of death worldwide, the consequences of the pandemic are remarkably unequally distributed cross-nationally. This unequal global distribution of AIDS deaths should be of interest to sociologists because of the potential role of structural forces in accounting for these disparities. Yet, there has been relatively little sociological research on this topic. Using underutilized cross-national data on AIDS deaths, this…
Education is the antidote
Are all jobs created equal? A cross-national analysis of women's employment and child malnutrition in developing countries
Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation interventions for HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSWs) aim to organise FSWs for collective action and challenge the structures of power that underlie HIV risk. Assessing intervention impact is challenging because the importance of direct individual exposure to intervention components may decrease over time as change occurs at social-normative, policy and other structural levels. In this paper, the auth…
Sector, size, stability, and scandal
Purpose – Although women remain substantially underrepresented in the top echelons of large corporations, a non‐trivial presence of female executives has emerged in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the firm characteristics that predict the sex of the executive office holder, classifying the plausible firm characteristics that could explain the presence of female executives into four explanations: sector, size, stability, and…
Business Unity and Anticorporate Protests
Do large corporations respond to social movement protests following a firm-centric rationale or do they develop their strategies relationally? If they do so relationally, do corporate networks help foster class-wide unity in their responses to protests? We address these questions through an examination of protests against U.S. Fortune 500 firms. We incorporate data on board of director interlocks and corporate involvement in policy planning organ…
Consistencies and contradictions
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990-2018
Defend women’s rights and save the trees
Hungry for Equality
Access to food is one of the most basic human needs, yet undernourishment remains one of the greatest barriers to health and development in the Global South. The entitlement approach to hunger maintains that the real issue is not the overall availability of food, but access to it. This paper specifically highlights the access failures of women by focusing on how gender-based stratification limits command over food, even in light of existing food …
Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause
Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries, including political economy, the capability approach, and fundamental cause. This study combines the perspectives in a multi-level analysis of child malnutrition and diarrhea in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of who faces increased health risks and who is shielded from them. Using the Demographic and Health Surveys and Wo…
Schools Against Aids
Although AIDS is a leading cause of death worldwide, the consequences of the pandemic are remarkably unequally distributed cross-nationally. This unequal global distribution of AIDS deaths should be of interest to sociologists because of the potential role of structural forces in accounting for these disparities. Yet, there has been relatively little sociological research on this topic. Using underutilized cross-national data on AIDS deaths, this…
Sector, size, stability, and scandal
Purpose – Although women remain substantially underrepresented in the top echelons of large corporations, a non‐trivial presence of female executives has emerged in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the firm characteristics that predict the sex of the executive office holder, classifying the plausible firm characteristics that could explain the presence of female executives into four explanations: sector, size, stability, and…
Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation interventions for HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSWs) aim to organise FSWs for collective action and challenge the structures of power that underlie HIV risk. Assessing intervention impact is challenging because the importance of direct individual exposure to intervention components may decrease over time as change occurs at social-normative, policy and other structural levels. In this paper, the auth…
Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty
We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single-mother poverty than in poverty among the overall population. By far, the United States has the highest rate of poverty among single mother…
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
Despite overall declining HIV infection rates, gender inequality in HIV prevalence rates is striking. On average across the world, young women have about twice the HIV prevalence rates as their male counterparts. Many scholars point to the particular vulnerabilities that women face in regard to HIV risk. However, they have not employed gender stratification theory to explain gender disparities in HIV prevalence. This analysis builds on a relative…
Women's Rights Save Lives
Sociologists have long recognized women's empowerment as a key factor in improving development and health in developing countries. Using new data, this study goes beyond the traditionally used indicators of empowerment by highlighting the potential role of women's rights to land, property, and loans in explaining cross-national variation in child health. Results show that land and property rights are associated with lower rates of infant and chil…
Business Unity and Anticorporate Protests
Do large corporations respond to social movement protests following a firm-centric rationale or do they develop their strategies relationally? If they do so relationally, do corporate networks help foster class-wide unity in their responses to protests? We address these questions through an examination of protests against U.S. Fortune 500 firms. We incorporate data on board of director interlocks and corporate involvement in policy planning organ…
Democracy and child health in developing countries
The rise of democracy across the world brought with it expectations that governments would be more attentive and responsive to the welfare of the people, creating better services and better health. Indeed, a considerable body of scholarship finds that democracy has significant, direct effects on multiple measures of well-being, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality. Despite several recent critiques, the paramount theme is that democra…
Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause
Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries, including political economy, the capability approach, and fundamental cause. This study combines the perspectives in a multi-level analysis of child malnutrition and diarrhea in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of who faces increased health risks and who is shielded from them. Using the Demographic and Health Surveys and Wo…
Are all jobs created equal? A cross-national analysis of women's employment and child malnutrition in developing countries
It Takes a Village
Women's education is widely recognized as a key factor in improving well-being in developing countries. However, previous research rarely considers both the individual and contextual effects of education. As broad societal transformations take place, education may shape women's capacity to take advantage of better access to power and resources, resulting in a dispersion effect of expanded women's education on well-being. Combining multilevel mode…
Education is the antidote
Hungry for Equality
Access to food is one of the most basic human needs, yet undernourishment remains one of the greatest barriers to health and development in the Global South. The entitlement approach to hunger maintains that the real issue is not the overall availability of food, but access to it. This paper specifically highlights the access failures of women by focusing on how gender-based stratification limits command over food, even in light of existing food …
The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women
Defend women’s rights and save the trees
Consistencies and contradictions
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990-2018
Working 9 to 5, Barely Getting By
Improving women’s employment prospects has long been a goal of development agencies worldwide. Despite persistent gender gaps in labor force participation, women’s employment is heralded as a key mechanism for improving health and well-being. Yet, empirical evidence for the link between women’s work and child health is mixed. We examine the relationship between work and health from a cross-national and distributional perspective. More specificall…
Property and Pa-Tree-Archy
Although previous studies have examined the causes of deforestation from a cross-national, quantitative perspective, these studies tend to neglect the role of women in mitigating forest loss. Yet, evidence from case studies shows that when women own land they tend to protect forests, replant trees, and engage in agricultural practices that place less pressure on forests. Building on this work, we use ordinary least squares regression models to an…
Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Developing country (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)