J M Timberlake
Biographic Data
| ID | 20517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Timberlake |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Timberlake |
| SIGNATURE | TIMBERLAKE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3143-2810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 653 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Effects of police violence on citizen calls for service: The killing of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati, Ohio
Research on the impact of police violence on citizens’ willingness to call the police has yielded mixed results, with some studies finding strong effects and others finding none. We contribute to this literature by examining whether calls for service declined in the aftermath of the killing of Samuel DuBose by a University of Cincinnati Police Department officer in 2015. We employ an interrupted time series design, treating the DuBose killing as …
Racial Steering in U.S. Housing Markets: When, Where, and to Whom Does It Occur
Housing discrimination has long been thought to contribute to the persistence of racial segregation, yet evidence indicates that many forms of discrimination have waned over time. We argue that past work has not fully considered the role of racial steering in maintaining segregation. To explore patterns of steering, we leverage experimental audit data from the 2012 Housing Discrimination Study to examine how neighborhoods of homes shown by real e…
Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society
Accounting for Demography and Preferences: New Estimates of Residential Segregation with Minimum Segregation Measures
The index of dissimilarity (D) has historically been and continues to be a widely used quantitative measure of residential segregation. Conventional interpretations of D imply that normatively desirable residential patterns occur when ethnoracial compositions of lower-order geographic units (such as neighborhoods) match those of higher-order units (such as metropolitan areas). However, it is likely that average preferences for same-group contact …
Neighborhood Ethnoracial Composition and Gentrification in Chicago and New York, 1980 to 2010
This research examines the impact of neighborhood ethnoracial composition on the likelihood that neighborhoods that could gentrify do gentrify over time. Drawing on findings from the gentrification and residential preference literatures, we hypothesize that the percentage of Black and Latino residents in neighborhoods in 1980 is associated with the probability of gentrification, conditional on the racial composition of neighborhoods in 2010. We t…
Residential Segregation
Residential segregation refers to the separation of two or more socially defined groups in residential space. Analyses of residential segregation generally track temporal trends and geographic patterns in segregation, and attempt to understand the causes and consequences of segregation. In the United States, African Americans are highly segregated from whites in most metropolitan areas, though levels of black–white segregation have been declining…
Who “They” Are Matters: Immigrant Stereotypes and Assessments of the Impact of Immigration
We investigate the relationship between stereotypes of immigrants and assessments of the impact of immigration on U.S. society. Our analysis exploits a split-ballot survey of registered voters in Ohio, who were asked to evaluate both the characteristics of one of four randomly assigned immigrant groups and perceived impacts of immigration. We find that associations between impact assessments and stereotypes of Middle Eastern, Asian, and European …
The Fist in the Face of God: Heavy Metal Music and Decentralized Cultural Diffusion
The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the diffusion of heavy metal music. We use data from an Internet archive to measure the population-adjusted rate of metal band foundings in 150 countries for the 1991-2008 period. We hypothesize that growth in 'digital capacity' (Internet and personal computer use) catalyzed the diffusion of metal music. We include time-varying controls for gross national income, political regime,…
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).There is a scene in the film Crocodile Dundee in which a young hood
Racial and Ethnic Trends in the Suburbanization of Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2010
This research examines recent trends in the suburbanization of poor non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races in the United States. The authors find strong associations between a temporally lagged measure of suburban housing supply and poverty suburbanization during the period 2006–2010 for all groups, but these associations are largely attenuated by similarly lagged controls for suburban affordable housing and employment, a…
Sun Belt Rising: Regional Population Change and the Decline in Black Residential Segregation, 1970–2009
The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the overall decline in black segregation in the United States in recent decades. Using data from the 1970 to 2000 decennial censuses and the 2005–2009 American Community Survey (ACS), our analysis indicates that black dissimilarity and isolation declined more in the South…
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
Accounting for Job Quality in Women’s and Men’s Commute Time to Work: An Update to the “Household Responsibility” Thesis
Women often face trade-offs in fulfilling both employment and household responsibilities. One indicator of this is commute time, a compromise between the stresses of longer work journeys and potentially expanded job options. Women spend less time commuting than men and thus may have fewer work opportunities. While prior research finds a link between commute time and women's disproportionate household responsibilities, it does not examine in detai…
Employment Opportunity for Workers Without a College Degree Across the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors
The public and nonprofit sectors are known for providing enhanced employment opportunity to women, persons of color, and parents. The authors ask whether the same is true for workers without college degrees, examining sectoral differences in access to jobs offering fringe benefits, full-time hours, and schedule flexibility. The authors find that the influence of sector and union representation on job quality varies by type of benefit. For example…
Stereotypes of U . S . Immigrants from Four Global Regions
Objective This study explores variation in stereotypes of U . S . immigrants from L atin A merica, the M iddle E ast, E urope, and A sia. Method We exploit a split‐ballot design in two waves of the O hio P oll to test hypotheses about effects of contextual and respondent‐level characteristics on immigrant stereotypes. Results Respondents generally rated A sian immigrants most positively and L atin A merican immigrants most negatively, with E urop…
Trends in the Suburbanization of Racial/Ethnic Groups in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970 to 2000
This research examines recent trends in suburbanization for non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races. The authors find some association between group-level acculturation and socioeconomic status and 2000 suburbanization rates; however, these associations are largely attenuated by controls for suburban housing supply and do not explain much of the variation in changes in suburbanization rates from 1970 to 2000. Suburban hous…
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation): Families, States, and Educational Achievement
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Scratchin’ and Surviving” or “Movin’ on Up?” Two Sources of Change in Children’s Neighborhood SES
Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970–2000
We complement and extend research on change in racial and ethnic residential segregation by estimating determinants of change from 1970 to 2000 in four measures of residential inequality—dissimilarity, entropy, isolation, and net difference—between American Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos. Because we use a longer time horizon and multiple measures, our findings clearly demonstrate some convergence in residential location patterns across group…
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Duration of Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence
Despite much scholarly attention to “neighborhood effects” on children, no study to date has measured the cumulative exposure of children to neighborhood poverty and affluence. In this article, I estimate racial and ethnic inequality in the amount of time children can expect to live in poor and nonpoor neighborhoods throughout childhood. At rates prevailing in the early- to mid-1990s, the average black child can expect to spend about 50 percent o…
Do Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes Depend on The Sex of Target Group Members? Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment
Several social scientific perspectives suggest that racial and ethnic stereotypes vary by the sex of minority group members. However, prior research has not used survey data to test the hypothesis that the public holds strong gendered racial/ethnic stereotypes. We exploit a between-subjects experiment in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to investigate the extent to which respondents' beliefs about seven attributes of four racial/ethnic ta…
Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900 to 2000
The role of cohabitation in family formation: The United States in comparative perspective
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
How Should We Wage the War on Drugs? Determinants of Public Preferences for Drug Control Alternatives
When citizens are presented with alternative policy solutions to a given social problem, why do they choose to support one over another? In this article, the authors analyze a survey of residents of the five largest U.S. metropolitan areas to understand determinants of public support for spending on three major components of American drug control policy: law enforcement programs, rehabilitative services for addicts, and school‐based prevention pr…
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers: Results from 17 Western Countries
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
The role of cohabitation in family formation: The United States in comparative perspective
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers: Results from 17 Western Countries
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
Neighborhood Ethnoracial Composition and Gentrification in Chicago and New York, 1980 to 2010
This research examines the impact of neighborhood ethnoracial composition on the likelihood that neighborhoods that could gentrify do gentrify over time. Drawing on findings from the gentrification and residential preference literatures, we hypothesize that the percentage of Black and Latino residents in neighborhoods in 1980 is associated with the probability of gentrification, conditional on the racial composition of neighborhoods in 2010. We t…
Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970–2000
We complement and extend research on change in racial and ethnic residential segregation by estimating determinants of change from 1970 to 2000 in four measures of residential inequality—dissimilarity, entropy, isolation, and net difference—between American Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos. Because we use a longer time horizon and multiple measures, our findings clearly demonstrate some convergence in residential location patterns across group…
Racial and Ethnic Trends in the Suburbanization of Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2010
This research examines recent trends in the suburbanization of poor non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races in the United States. The authors find strong associations between a temporally lagged measure of suburban housing supply and poverty suburbanization during the period 2006–2010 for all groups, but these associations are largely attenuated by similarly lagged controls for suburban affordable housing and employment, a…
Sun Belt Rising: Regional Population Change and the Decline in Black Residential Segregation, 1970–2009
The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the overall decline in black segregation in the United States in recent decades. Using data from the 1970 to 2000 decennial censuses and the 2005–2009 American Community Survey (ACS), our analysis indicates that black dissimilarity and isolation declined more in the South…
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Duration of Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence
Despite much scholarly attention to “neighborhood effects” on children, no study to date has measured the cumulative exposure of children to neighborhood poverty and affluence. In this article, I estimate racial and ethnic inequality in the amount of time children can expect to live in poor and nonpoor neighborhoods throughout childhood. At rates prevailing in the early- to mid-1990s, the average black child can expect to spend about 50 percent o…
Trends in the Suburbanization of Racial/Ethnic Groups in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970 to 2000
This research examines recent trends in suburbanization for non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races. The authors find some association between group-level acculturation and socioeconomic status and 2000 suburbanization rates; however, these associations are largely attenuated by controls for suburban housing supply and do not explain much of the variation in changes in suburbanization rates from 1970 to 2000. Suburban hous…
Stereotypes of U . S . Immigrants from Four Global Regions
Objective This study explores variation in stereotypes of U . S . immigrants from L atin A merica, the M iddle E ast, E urope, and A sia. Method We exploit a split‐ballot design in two waves of the O hio P oll to test hypotheses about effects of contextual and respondent‐level characteristics on immigrant stereotypes. Results Respondents generally rated A sian immigrants most positively and L atin A merican immigrants most negatively, with E urop…
Separate, But How Unequal? Ethnic Residential Stratification, 1980 to 1990
Much recent scholarship has focused on inequality in the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods in which different racial and ethnic groups are concentrated. However, the most widely used measures of residential inequality merely describe the extent to which groups are nominally differentiated in residential space. I use 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census data to calculate levels of and changes in residential stratification—the degree to which members of o…
Still Life in Black and White: Effects of Racial and Class Attitudes on Prospects for Residential Integration in Atlanta
I use the 1993 Atlanta Survey of Urban Inequality to evaluate the effects of five types of racial and class attitudes on assessments of the desirability of residential integration: (1) preferences for neighbors of the same race, (2) perceived racial differences in social class characteristics, (3) Whites'perceptions of group threat from Blacks, (4) Blacks'perceptions of discrimination, and (5) negative racial stereotypes. For Whites the strongest…
Do Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes Depend on The Sex of Target Group Members? Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment
Several social scientific perspectives suggest that racial and ethnic stereotypes vary by the sex of minority group members. However, prior research has not used survey data to test the hypothesis that the public holds strong gendered racial/ethnic stereotypes. We exploit a between-subjects experiment in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to investigate the extent to which respondents' beliefs about seven attributes of four racial/ethnic ta…
How Should We Wage the War on Drugs? Determinants of Public Preferences for Drug Control Alternatives
When citizens are presented with alternative policy solutions to a given social problem, why do they choose to support one over another? In this article, the authors analyze a survey of residents of the five largest U.S. metropolitan areas to understand determinants of public support for spending on three major components of American drug control policy: law enforcement programs, rehabilitative services for addicts, and school‐based prevention pr…
Effects of Conservative Sociopolitical Attitudes on Public Support for Drug Rehabilitation Spending
Objective . In this article we investigate why traditionally conservative social groups show less support for spending on drug rehabilitation programs than for drug control spending in general. Methods . Using data from the 1984 through 1998 General Social Surveys, we first estimate logistic regressions of support for drug control spending across five sociopolitical cleavages. We then estimate effects of three types of sociopolitical attitudes on…
Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation): Families, States, and Educational Achievement
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Public Support for Increased Spending on the Drug Problem in America Is Not a Simple Matter
Journal Article PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR INCREASED SPENDING ON THE DRUG PROBLEM IN AMERICA IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER Get access Kenneth A. Rasinski, Kenneth A. Rasinski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Jeffrey M. Timberlake Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric D. Lock Eric D. Lock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
The Fist in the Face of God: Heavy Metal Music and Decentralized Cultural Diffusion
The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the diffusion of heavy metal music. We use data from an Internet archive to measure the population-adjusted rate of metal band foundings in 150 countries for the 1991-2008 period. We hypothesize that growth in 'digital capacity' (Internet and personal computer use) catalyzed the diffusion of metal music. We include time-varying controls for gross national income, political regime,…
Accounting for Job Quality in Women’s and Men’s Commute Time to Work: An Update to the “Household Responsibility” Thesis
Women often face trade-offs in fulfilling both employment and household responsibilities. One indicator of this is commute time, a compromise between the stresses of longer work journeys and potentially expanded job options. Women spend less time commuting than men and thus may have fewer work opportunities. While prior research finds a link between commute time and women's disproportionate household responsibilities, it does not examine in detai…
Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900 to 2000
Scratchin’ and Surviving” or “Movin’ on Up?” Two Sources of Change in Children’s Neighborhood SES
Racial Steering in U.S. Housing Markets: When, Where, and to Whom Does It Occur
Housing discrimination has long been thought to contribute to the persistence of racial segregation, yet evidence indicates that many forms of discrimination have waned over time. We argue that past work has not fully considered the role of racial steering in maintaining segregation. To explore patterns of steering, we leverage experimental audit data from the 2012 Housing Discrimination Study to examine how neighborhoods of homes shown by real e…
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
Accounting for Demography and Preferences: New Estimates of Residential Segregation with Minimum Segregation Measures
The index of dissimilarity (D) has historically been and continues to be a widely used quantitative measure of residential segregation. Conventional interpretations of D imply that normatively desirable residential patterns occur when ethnoracial compositions of lower-order geographic units (such as neighborhoods) match those of higher-order units (such as metropolitan areas). However, it is likely that average preferences for same-group contact …
Employment Opportunity for Workers Without a College Degree Across the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors
The public and nonprofit sectors are known for providing enhanced employment opportunity to women, persons of color, and parents. The authors ask whether the same is true for workers without college degrees, examining sectoral differences in access to jobs offering fringe benefits, full-time hours, and schedule flexibility. The authors find that the influence of sector and union representation on job quality varies by type of benefit. For example…
Public Support for Increased Spending on the Drug Problem in America Is Not a Simple Matter
Journal Article PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR INCREASED SPENDING ON THE DRUG PROBLEM IN AMERICA IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER Get access Kenneth A. Rasinski, Kenneth A. Rasinski Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Jeffrey M. Timberlake Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric D. Lock Eric D. Lock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Still Life in Black and White: Effects of Racial and Class Attitudes on Prospects for Residential Integration in Atlanta
I use the 1993 Atlanta Survey of Urban Inequality to evaluate the effects of five types of racial and class attitudes on assessments of the desirability of residential integration: (1) preferences for neighbors of the same race, (2) perceived racial differences in social class characteristics, (3) Whites'perceptions of group threat from Blacks, (4) Blacks'perceptions of discrimination, and (5) negative racial stereotypes. For Whites the strongest…
Effects of Conservative Sociopolitical Attitudes on Public Support for Drug Rehabilitation Spending
Objective . In this article we investigate why traditionally conservative social groups show less support for spending on drug rehabilitation programs than for drug control spending in general. Methods . Using data from the 1984 through 1998 General Social Surveys, we first estimate logistic regressions of support for drug control spending across five sociopolitical cleavages. We then estimate effects of three types of sociopolitical attitudes on…
Separate, But How Unequal? Ethnic Residential Stratification, 1980 to 1990
Much recent scholarship has focused on inequality in the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods in which different racial and ethnic groups are concentrated. However, the most widely used measures of residential inequality merely describe the extent to which groups are nominally differentiated in residential space. I use 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census data to calculate levels of and changes in residential stratification—the degree to which members of o…
How Should We Wage the War on Drugs? Determinants of Public Preferences for Drug Control Alternatives
When citizens are presented with alternative policy solutions to a given social problem, why do they choose to support one over another? In this article, the authors analyze a survey of residents of the five largest U.S. metropolitan areas to understand determinants of public support for spending on three major components of American drug control policy: law enforcement programs, rehabilitative services for addicts, and school‐based prevention pr…
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers: Results from 17 Western Countries
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900 to 2000
The role of cohabitation in family formation: The United States in comparative perspective
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970–2000
We complement and extend research on change in racial and ethnic residential segregation by estimating determinants of change from 1970 to 2000 in four measures of residential inequality—dissimilarity, entropy, isolation, and net difference—between American Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos. Because we use a longer time horizon and multiple measures, our findings clearly demonstrate some convergence in residential location patterns across group…
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Duration of Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence
Despite much scholarly attention to “neighborhood effects” on children, no study to date has measured the cumulative exposure of children to neighborhood poverty and affluence. In this article, I estimate racial and ethnic inequality in the amount of time children can expect to live in poor and nonpoor neighborhoods throughout childhood. At rates prevailing in the early- to mid-1990s, the average black child can expect to spend about 50 percent o…
Do Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes Depend on The Sex of Target Group Members? Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment
Several social scientific perspectives suggest that racial and ethnic stereotypes vary by the sex of minority group members. However, prior research has not used survey data to test the hypothesis that the public holds strong gendered racial/ethnic stereotypes. We exploit a between-subjects experiment in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to investigate the extent to which respondents' beliefs about seven attributes of four racial/ethnic ta…
Scratchin’ and Surviving” or “Movin’ on Up?” Two Sources of Change in Children’s Neighborhood SES
Trends in the Suburbanization of Racial/Ethnic Groups in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970 to 2000
This research examines recent trends in suburbanization for non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races. The authors find some association between group-level acculturation and socioeconomic status and 2000 suburbanization rates; however, these associations are largely attenuated by controls for suburban housing supply and do not explain much of the variation in changes in suburbanization rates from 1970 to 2000. Suburban hous…
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation): Families, States, and Educational Achievement
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Stereotypes of U . S . Immigrants from Four Global Regions
Objective This study explores variation in stereotypes of U . S . immigrants from L atin A merica, the M iddle E ast, E urope, and A sia. Method We exploit a split‐ballot design in two waves of the O hio P oll to test hypotheses about effects of contextual and respondent‐level characteristics on immigrant stereotypes. Results Respondents generally rated A sian immigrants most positively and L atin A merican immigrants most negatively, with E urop…
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).There is a scene in the film Crocodile Dundee in which a young hood
Racial and Ethnic Trends in the Suburbanization of Poverty in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2010
This research examines recent trends in the suburbanization of poor non-Latino Whites, Blacks, and Asians, and Latinos of all races in the United States. The authors find strong associations between a temporally lagged measure of suburban housing supply and poverty suburbanization during the period 2006–2010 for all groups, but these associations are largely attenuated by similarly lagged controls for suburban affordable housing and employment, a…
Sun Belt Rising: Regional Population Change and the Decline in Black Residential Segregation, 1970–2009
The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the overall decline in black segregation in the United States in recent decades. Using data from the 1970 to 2000 decennial censuses and the 2005–2009 American Community Survey (ACS), our analysis indicates that black dissimilarity and isolation declined more in the South…
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
Accounting for Job Quality in Women’s and Men’s Commute Time to Work: An Update to the “Household Responsibility” Thesis
Women often face trade-offs in fulfilling both employment and household responsibilities. One indicator of this is commute time, a compromise between the stresses of longer work journeys and potentially expanded job options. Women spend less time commuting than men and thus may have fewer work opportunities. While prior research finds a link between commute time and women's disproportionate household responsibilities, it does not examine in detai…
Employment Opportunity for Workers Without a College Degree Across the Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Sectors
The public and nonprofit sectors are known for providing enhanced employment opportunity to women, persons of color, and parents. The authors ask whether the same is true for workers without college degrees, examining sectoral differences in access to jobs offering fringe benefits, full-time hours, and schedule flexibility. The authors find that the influence of sector and union representation on job quality varies by type of benefit. For example…
The Fist in the Face of God: Heavy Metal Music and Decentralized Cultural Diffusion
The purpose of this paper is to explain the timing and location of the diffusion of heavy metal music. We use data from an Internet archive to measure the population-adjusted rate of metal band foundings in 150 countries for the 1991-2008 period. We hypothesize that growth in 'digital capacity' (Internet and personal computer use) catalyzed the diffusion of metal music. We include time-varying controls for gross national income, political regime,…
Residential Segregation
Residential segregation refers to the separation of two or more socially defined groups in residential space. Analyses of residential segregation generally track temporal trends and geographic patterns in segregation, and attempt to understand the causes and consequences of segregation. In the United States, African Americans are highly segregated from whites in most metropolitan areas, though levels of black–white segregation have been declining…
Who “They” Are Matters: Immigrant Stereotypes and Assessments of the Impact of Immigration
We investigate the relationship between stereotypes of immigrants and assessments of the impact of immigration on U.S. society. Our analysis exploits a split-ballot survey of registered voters in Ohio, who were asked to evaluate both the characteristics of one of four randomly assigned immigrant groups and perceived impacts of immigration. We find that associations between impact assessments and stereotypes of Middle Eastern, Asian, and European …
Neighborhood Ethnoracial Composition and Gentrification in Chicago and New York, 1980 to 2010
This research examines the impact of neighborhood ethnoracial composition on the likelihood that neighborhoods that could gentrify do gentrify over time. Drawing on findings from the gentrification and residential preference literatures, we hypothesize that the percentage of Black and Latino residents in neighborhoods in 1980 is associated with the probability of gentrification, conditional on the racial composition of neighborhoods in 2010. We t…
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