J Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 17908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9248-5460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and the job
Academic knowledge—such as biology, psychology, and economics—is found both in university majors and specific occupations. When educational attainment expands in the population, does it improve or weaken the academic match between university majors and occupations? Using nationally representative data from Great Britain and Canada, we find heterogeneous effects by field of study that are consistent across countries. Increases in the proportion of…
Cultural Capital in Higher Education: A Case Study of Extension Requests
Recent literature conceptualizes accommodation-seeking behaviors as a form of cultural capital. However, quantitative research on this type of cultural capital is limited. In this paper, we quantitatively examine a particular form of cultural capital—asking for extensions on assignments or tests. We present empirical findings from a short survey to post-secondary students at a large research university in Canada. We find evidence that higher-soci…
Network position and academic achievement in middle school
Does network position promote academic achievement net of the characteristics of friends in the network? Using nearly complete friendship network data at two middle schools, we estimate fixed‐effects models to examine whether degree centrality and brokerage position affect grades, net of all time‐invariant student characteristics, and the observable content of the friend network. The results show that more central network positions advance academ…
Network Position Affects Social Status in Early Adolescence
Does position in the friendship network affect social status in early adolescence? Previous research shows that friendship relations are not equivalent to popularity hierarchies, but favorable positions in the friendship network should allow students to gain status. We use four waves of longitudinal network data and dynamic panel models with fixed effects to estimate the impact of network position on social status. Degree centrality and brokerage…
Educational expansion, fields of study, and the gender gap in analytic skill usage on the job
Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood
Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared with indi…
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis
The relative education hypothesis states that in contexts where university degrees are scarce, workers with bachelor's degrees are sought after and enter cognitively skilled occupations; but as education expands across birth cohorts, some workers with bachelor's degrees are unable to maintain their position in the labor market. In an earlier ASR article (Horowitz 2018), I found support for this argument; however, Furey (2021) shows model instabil…
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition
Why does volunteer participation by college social justice activists decline dramatically following graduation? Using a new, multimethod longitudinal study that spans college and the early post-graduate years, I test existing theory about how changes in time constraints, social support, and organizational opportunities affect volunteer activist participation in social justice movements. Analyzing qualitative data from semi-structured interviews t…
Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree
What is the worth of a college degree when higher education expands? The relative education hypothesis posits that when college degrees are rare, individuals with more education have less competition to enter highly-skilled occupations. When college degrees are more common, there may not be enough highly-skilled jobs to go around; some college-educated workers lose out to others and are pushed into less-skilled jobs. Using new measurements of occ…
Who Is This 'We' You Speak of? Grounding Activist Identity in Social Psychology
What is an activist identity? Prior answers have focused almost exclusively on collective identity, without (a) considering the possibility of role-based identities or (b) grounding collective identities in broader social-psychological theories. The present study investigates activist identity through the lens of role-based and category-based identities and reports two major findings. First, there is a distinct role-based activist identity, one t…
Dimensions of Job Quality, Mechanisms, and Subjective Well‐Being in the United States
How does job quality predict subjective well‐being in the United States? Prior research suggests that various job quality dimensions such as job security and individual task discretion affect subjective well‐being, but the theoretical mechanisms are implied rather than tested and aspects of job quality are rarely tested together. I use structural equation modeling and General Social Survey data to assess the impact of five job quality dimensions—…
Does College Influence Sociopolitical Attitudes
Past research shows a statistically significant relationship between college completion and sociopolitical attitudes. However, recent scholarship suggests the effects of college on social outcomes may be confounded with unobserved family background. In this study, we leverage the shared family and social background of siblings to better identify the effect of college on sociopolitical attitudes. We draw data from the Study of American Families an…
Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America
Decades of social science research demonstrate the impact of education on civic participation. However, prior scholarship generally assumes that the returns to education do not change over time or geographic space. Absolute educational effects are not always plausible; as more individuals obtain a college degree, there are a greater number of qualified individuals competing for the same social resources. The present study tests the impact of educ…
OHCHR Pre-deployment Human Rights Training: Adapting to the Evolving Roles, Responsibilities, and Influence of UN Human Rights Officers
The increasing presence of UN human rights staff across the globe, the detailed information that they collect, and the expanding number of human rights venues that their information is being fed into is rapidly changing the profession and perceptions of UN Human Rights Officers. One outcome of these changes is that Human Rights Officers, who report to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, are gaining greater potential for influencing how gov…
Promoting Peace Through Accountability in Darfur
Dvorak and the Teaching of American History
Classical music might at first seem an unlikely vehicle for teaching American history in middle and high schools. For one thing, America's musical high culture has long been predominantly Eurocentric: Mozart and Beethoven have mattered more than Charles Ives or Aaron Copland. For another, classical music is increasingly marginal in the culture at large. Less and less do we hear it on the radio, or read about it in newspapers and magazines. A cent…
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
Sur les réactions (dp) et (dn)
En étudiant les réactions (dp) et (dn), ou plutôt les réactions équivalentes (pd) et (nd), nous examinons les conditions de validité de l'approximation de Butler. Son équivalence avec l'approximation de Born a déjà été notée dans la littérature; la théorie de Butler ne tient donc pas compte de la réaction des diverses ondes sortantes. La plus importante est celle de l'onde élastique diffusée du nucléon incident. Après un exposé général de la ques…
A reply to Mr. Koffka
Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree
What is the worth of a college degree when higher education expands? The relative education hypothesis posits that when college degrees are rare, individuals with more education have less competition to enter highly-skilled occupations. When college degrees are more common, there may not be enough highly-skilled jobs to go around; some college-educated workers lose out to others and are pushed into less-skilled jobs. Using new measurements of occ…
Does College Influence Sociopolitical Attitudes
Past research shows a statistically significant relationship between college completion and sociopolitical attitudes. However, recent scholarship suggests the effects of college on social outcomes may be confounded with unobserved family background. In this study, we leverage the shared family and social background of siblings to better identify the effect of college on sociopolitical attitudes. We draw data from the Study of American Families an…
Who Is This 'We' You Speak of? Grounding Activist Identity in Social Psychology
What is an activist identity? Prior answers have focused almost exclusively on collective identity, without (a) considering the possibility of role-based identities or (b) grounding collective identities in broader social-psychological theories. The present study investigates activist identity through the lens of role-based and category-based identities and reports two major findings. First, there is a distinct role-based activist identity, one t…
Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America
Decades of social science research demonstrate the impact of education on civic participation. However, prior scholarship generally assumes that the returns to education do not change over time or geographic space. Absolute educational effects are not always plausible; as more individuals obtain a college degree, there are a greater number of qualified individuals competing for the same social resources. The present study tests the impact of educ…
Dimensions of Job Quality, Mechanisms, and Subjective Well‐Being in the United States
How does job quality predict subjective well‐being in the United States? Prior research suggests that various job quality dimensions such as job security and individual task discretion affect subjective well‐being, but the theoretical mechanisms are implied rather than tested and aspects of job quality are rarely tested together. I use structural equation modeling and General Social Survey data to assess the impact of five job quality dimensions—…
Cultural Capital in Higher Education: A Case Study of Extension Requests
Recent literature conceptualizes accommodation-seeking behaviors as a form of cultural capital. However, quantitative research on this type of cultural capital is limited. In this paper, we quantitatively examine a particular form of cultural capital—asking for extensions on assignments or tests. We present empirical findings from a short survey to post-secondary students at a large research university in Canada. We find evidence that higher-soci…
Educational expansion, fields of study, and the gender gap in analytic skill usage on the job
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis
The relative education hypothesis states that in contexts where university degrees are scarce, workers with bachelor's degrees are sought after and enter cognitively skilled occupations; but as education expands across birth cohorts, some workers with bachelor's degrees are unable to maintain their position in the labor market. In an earlier ASR article (Horowitz 2018), I found support for this argument; however, Furey (2021) shows model instabil…
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition
Why does volunteer participation by college social justice activists decline dramatically following graduation? Using a new, multimethod longitudinal study that spans college and the early post-graduate years, I test existing theory about how changes in time constraints, social support, and organizational opportunities affect volunteer activist participation in social justice movements. Analyzing qualitative data from semi-structured interviews t…
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
A reply to Mr. Koffka
Sur les réactions (dp) et (dn)
En étudiant les réactions (dp) et (dn), ou plutôt les réactions équivalentes (pd) et (nd), nous examinons les conditions de validité de l'approximation de Butler. Son équivalence avec l'approximation de Born a déjà été notée dans la littérature; la théorie de Butler ne tient donc pas compte de la réaction des diverses ondes sortantes. La plus importante est celle de l'onde élastique diffusée du nucléon incident. Après un exposé général de la ques…
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
Dvorak and the Teaching of American History
Classical music might at first seem an unlikely vehicle for teaching American history in middle and high schools. For one thing, America's musical high culture has long been predominantly Eurocentric: Mozart and Beethoven have mattered more than Charles Ives or Aaron Copland. For another, classical music is increasingly marginal in the culture at large. Less and less do we hear it on the radio, or read about it in newspapers and magazines. A cent…
Promoting Peace Through Accountability in Darfur
OHCHR Pre-deployment Human Rights Training: Adapting to the Evolving Roles, Responsibilities, and Influence of UN Human Rights Officers
The increasing presence of UN human rights staff across the globe, the detailed information that they collect, and the expanding number of human rights venues that their information is being fed into is rapidly changing the profession and perceptions of UN Human Rights Officers. One outcome of these changes is that Human Rights Officers, who report to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, are gaining greater potential for influencing how gov…
Doing Less with More: Cohorts, Education, and Civic Participation in America
Decades of social science research demonstrate the impact of education on civic participation. However, prior scholarship generally assumes that the returns to education do not change over time or geographic space. Absolute educational effects are not always plausible; as more individuals obtain a college degree, there are a greater number of qualified individuals competing for the same social resources. The present study tests the impact of educ…
Dimensions of Job Quality, Mechanisms, and Subjective Well‐Being in the United States
How does job quality predict subjective well‐being in the United States? Prior research suggests that various job quality dimensions such as job security and individual task discretion affect subjective well‐being, but the theoretical mechanisms are implied rather than tested and aspects of job quality are rarely tested together. I use structural equation modeling and General Social Survey data to assess the impact of five job quality dimensions—…
Does College Influence Sociopolitical Attitudes
Past research shows a statistically significant relationship between college completion and sociopolitical attitudes. However, recent scholarship suggests the effects of college on social outcomes may be confounded with unobserved family background. In this study, we leverage the shared family and social background of siblings to better identify the effect of college on sociopolitical attitudes. We draw data from the Study of American Families an…
Who Is This 'We' You Speak of? Grounding Activist Identity in Social Psychology
What is an activist identity? Prior answers have focused almost exclusively on collective identity, without (a) considering the possibility of role-based identities or (b) grounding collective identities in broader social-psychological theories. The present study investigates activist identity through the lens of role-based and category-based identities and reports two major findings. First, there is a distinct role-based activist identity, one t…
Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree
What is the worth of a college degree when higher education expands? The relative education hypothesis posits that when college degrees are rare, individuals with more education have less competition to enter highly-skilled occupations. When college degrees are more common, there may not be enough highly-skilled jobs to go around; some college-educated workers lose out to others and are pushed into less-skilled jobs. Using new measurements of occ…
Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood
Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared with indi…
Next Steps for the Relative Education Hypothesis
The relative education hypothesis states that in contexts where university degrees are scarce, workers with bachelor's degrees are sought after and enter cognitively skilled occupations; but as education expands across birth cohorts, some workers with bachelor's degrees are unable to maintain their position in the labor market. In an earlier ASR article (Horowitz 2018), I found support for this argument; however, Furey (2021) shows model instabil…
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition
Why does volunteer participation by college social justice activists decline dramatically following graduation? Using a new, multimethod longitudinal study that spans college and the early post-graduate years, I test existing theory about how changes in time constraints, social support, and organizational opportunities affect volunteer activist participation in social justice movements. Analyzing qualitative data from semi-structured interviews t…
Educational expansion, fields of study, and the gender gap in analytic skill usage on the job
Network Position Affects Social Status in Early Adolescence
Does position in the friendship network affect social status in early adolescence? Previous research shows that friendship relations are not equivalent to popularity hierarchies, but favorable positions in the friendship network should allow students to gain status. We use four waves of longitudinal network data and dynamic panel models with fixed effects to estimate the impact of network position on social status. Degree centrality and brokerage…
Cultural Capital in Higher Education: A Case Study of Extension Requests
Recent literature conceptualizes accommodation-seeking behaviors as a form of cultural capital. However, quantitative research on this type of cultural capital is limited. In this paper, we quantitatively examine a particular form of cultural capital—asking for extensions on assignments or tests. We present empirical findings from a short survey to post-secondary students at a large research university in Canada. We find evidence that higher-soci…
Network position and academic achievement in middle school
Does network position promote academic achievement net of the characteristics of friends in the network? Using nearly complete friendship network data at two middle schools, we estimate fixed‐effects models to examine whether degree centrality and brokerage position affect grades, net of all time‐invariant student characteristics, and the observable content of the friend network. The results show that more central network positions advance academ…
University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and the job
Academic knowledge—such as biology, psychology, and economics—is found both in university majors and specific occupations. When educational attainment expands in the population, does it improve or weaken the academic match between university majors and occupations? Using nationally representative data from Great Britain and Canada, we find heterogeneous effects by field of study that are consistent across countries. Increases in the proportion of…
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works)