T A Hirschl
Biographic Data
| ID | 20954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T A Hirschl |
| GIVEN NAMES | T A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschl |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHL T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2361-8826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Religion and Climate Change Indifference
This study seeks to identify the influence of religion on indifference toward anthropogenic climate change. This influence is conceptualized by adapting Durkheim's classic sociological model where religion serves to integrate individuals into society using sacred beliefs. We test this theory by conceptualizing and estimating a path model where climate change indifference is regressed on religion and political ideology. The study data are five cro…
International Comparisons in Fighting Poverty
This study compares international experiences in how the poor are fighting poverty. The study data are derived from clients participating in the Poverty Stoplight program where clients create the set of indicators defining multidimensional poverty. Clients then create a plan to change a set of indicators in order to raise themselves out of poverty. By comparing efforts across three countries, the study analyzes the diversity of contexts in light …
Is a new structurally dispossessed class developing in the United States
This study inquires whether a new structurally dispossessed class is developing in the United States. The new class proposition is derived from social theory and operationalized by two empirical characteristics: not in the labor force (NILF) and family income below poverty. The primary data source is the Current Population Survey over the years from 1968 to 2018, and threshold demographic criteria for class development is specified as increasing …
American Nightmares
If you are favorably disposed toward Hilgartner and Bosk’s (1988) social arenas model of social problems, then American Nightmares is a book that you will want to read. Joel Best and co-authors creatively apply the social arenas model to a set of social problems across six chapters, and along the way articulate a full-throated critique of academic sociology. Best’s critique of sociology is situated within his purpose of analyzing the rise and fal…
Non-metro versus metro poverty in the transition to adulthood in the United States
The Success Paradox
Politics, Religion, and Society
This study investigates the effect of religious identity on U.S. Presidential voter choice in order to determine whether this relationship changed over time. The research literature is divided on this question with several investigators finding a positive trend in religious-political polarization since 1980, and others finding no polarization. The study further addresses a putative link between social inequality and religious politics by identify…
Ideology and the Experience of Poverty Risk
This study analyzes the tension between ideological individualism with regard to views about poverty, versus the high social risk of poverty that prevails in the U.S. Because of this tension, we anticipate fissures and caveats to individualism, contingent on the individual's direct experience with poverty. Eight focus groups comprised of 80 individual respondents are interviewed across three communities in upstate New York, and the analysis confi…
The increasing risk of poverty across the American life course
This article extends the emerging body of life course research on poverty by empirically identifying the incidence, chronicity, and age pattern of American poverty and how these dimensions have changed during the period 1968-2000. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we construct a series of life tables that estimate the risk of poverty for adults during their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, and compare these estimates for Americans in the…
The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society
Objectives. In this article, we analyze voter choice data from six U.S. presidential elections for evidence of religious identity and sociodemographic effects on voter choice. Methods. Voter choice is analyzed over the period 1980 to 2000 with multivariate statistical models. Results. A link is found between voter choice and religious identity, where the effect of religious identity on voter choice is contingent on location within the stratificat…
Product Review
American Poverty as a Structural Failing
Empirical research on American poverty has largely focused on individual characteristicst o explain the occurrence and patternso f poverty. The argument in this article is that such an emphasis is misplaced. By focusing upon individual attributes as the cause of poverty, social scientists have largely missed the underlying dynamic of American impoverishment. Poverty researchers have in effect focused on who loses out at the economic game, rather …
Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence? Exploring the Life Course Probabilities
This study estimates the life course incidence and age pattern of affluence among American couples in comparison to nonmarried, never married, and formerly married men and women. Life course probabilities are computed from a series of life tables built upon 25 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N= 8,510 25-year-olds; N= 3,481 45-year-olds). Results confirm the notion that marriage enhances the lifetime probability of affluence…
Welfare Use as a Life Course Event
What proportion of the American population uses a social safety net program during the course of adulthood? To address this question, we constructed a series of life tables using 30 years of longitudinal data. Our results indicate that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 20 and 65 will at some point reside in a household that receives benefits from a means-tested welfare program (food stamps, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, Aid to…
Poverty across the Life Cycle
Poverty across the Life Cycle
The likelihood of experiencing poverty at some point during the adult life cycle is estimated. These probabilities are derived through a set of life tables built upon 25 waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and represent an alternative approach to studying poverty than prior empirical studies. Life table analyses are divided into early adulthood (ages 20–40), middle adulthood (ages 40–60),and later adulthood (ages 60–80). The fi…
The Measurement of Long‐Term Risks over the Life Course
We would like to thank Joyce Jacobsen and Lawrence Mead for their insights and comments regarding our methodological approach and analytical results contained in the article "Rags or Riches."Each author has raised a number of issues that merit consideration for future research.Jacobsen has detailed a variety of topics that could be pursued through our basic life course approach.Mead, on the other hand, has focused on what he perceives to be the b…
Rags or Riches? Estimating the Probabilities of Poverty and Affluence across the Adult American Life Span
Objective . Poverty and affluence represent events central to the American identity of failure and success. Yet in spite of their significance, we know little about the actual likelihood of experiencing these events across the adult life course. In this article we empirically estimate the extent to which Americans will experience poverty and/or affluence during their adulthood. Methods . A series of life tables are constructed based upon data fro…
Estimating the Proportion of Americans Ever Experiencing Poverty During Their Elderly Years
Our results suggest that in spite of relatively low cross-sectional rates of elderly poverty in America, the likelihood of impoverishment at some point during the later years of life remains a very real possibility
Cutting Edge
Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strateg…
The Likelihood of Poverty across the American Adult Life Span
This article estimates the likelihood of poverty across the life span (ages 20 to 85) for American adults. These proportions were derived through a set of life tables built on 25 waves of longitudinal data. They represent the first time in the social or behavioral sciences that such figures have been calculated. By age 35 nearly one-third of the U.S. population will have experienced a year in poverty. By age 65 more than half of all Americans wil…
The Economic Risk of Childhood in America
Mark R. Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty across the Formative Years, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 1058-1067
Teenage sexual attitudes in China
Not much is known about the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers. In this article we endeavor to address this void by examining the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers with survey data collected in Sichuan Province in 1988. Our analysis has two goals: first, to describe aggregate attitudes toward premarital sexual practices; and second, to identify the principal factors that influence these attitudes. To accomplish the second goal we estimate …
Household Poverty in Rural and Metropolitan-Core Areas of the United States1
Urban poverty and rural development literatures are used to identify the determinants of poverty, resulting in the hypothesis that controlling for household and contextual-level variables would reduce metropolitan (metro) core versus rural differences in the likelihood of poverty. Modeling data from the 1985 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, rural households have the highest probability of poverty followed by the metro core. Both househ…
Urban influences on farmland use in New York State
Household Poverty in Rural and Metropolitan-Core Areas of the United States1
Urban poverty and rural development literatures are used to identify the determinants of poverty, resulting in the hypothesis that controlling for household and contextual-level variables would reduce metropolitan (metro) core versus rural differences in the likelihood of poverty. Modeling data from the 1985 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, rural households have the highest probability of poverty followed by the metro core. Both househ…
Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence? Exploring the Life Course Probabilities
This study estimates the life course incidence and age pattern of affluence among American couples in comparison to nonmarried, never married, and formerly married men and women. Life course probabilities are computed from a series of life tables built upon 25 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N= 8,510 25-year-olds; N= 3,481 45-year-olds). Results confirm the notion that marriage enhances the lifetime probability of affluence…
Poverty across the Life Cycle
The likelihood of experiencing poverty at some point during the adult life cycle is estimated. These probabilities are derived through a set of life tables built upon 25 waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and represent an alternative approach to studying poverty than prior empirical studies. Life table analyses are divided into early adulthood (ages 20–40), middle adulthood (ages 40–60),and later adulthood (ages 60–80). The fi…
Rags or Riches? Estimating the Probabilities of Poverty and Affluence across the Adult American Life Span
Objective . Poverty and affluence represent events central to the American identity of failure and success. Yet in spite of their significance, we know little about the actual likelihood of experiencing these events across the adult life course. In this article we empirically estimate the extent to which Americans will experience poverty and/or affluence during their adulthood. Methods . A series of life tables are constructed based upon data fro…
The Likelihood of Poverty across the American Adult Life Span
This article estimates the likelihood of poverty across the life span (ages 20 to 85) for American adults. These proportions were derived through a set of life tables built on 25 waves of longitudinal data. They represent the first time in the social or behavioral sciences that such figures have been calculated. By age 35 nearly one-third of the U.S. population will have experienced a year in poverty. By age 65 more than half of all Americans wil…
The increasing risk of poverty across the American life course
This article extends the emerging body of life course research on poverty by empirically identifying the incidence, chronicity, and age pattern of American poverty and how these dimensions have changed during the period 1968-2000. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we construct a series of life tables that estimate the risk of poverty for adults during their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, and compare these estimates for Americans in the…
Welfare Use as a Life Course Event
What proportion of the American population uses a social safety net program during the course of adulthood? To address this question, we constructed a series of life tables using 30 years of longitudinal data. Our results indicate that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 20 and 65 will at some point reside in a household that receives benefits from a means-tested welfare program (food stamps, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, Aid to…
The Economic Risk of Childhood in America
Mark R. Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty across the Formative Years, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 1058-1067
Estimating the Proportion of Americans Ever Experiencing Poverty During Their Elderly Years
Our results suggest that in spite of relatively low cross-sectional rates of elderly poverty in America, the likelihood of impoverishment at some point during the later years of life remains a very real possibility
The Link between Population Density and Welfare Participation
This article explores a neglected topic in the social welfare, poverty, and demographic literatures—the link between population density and welfare participation in the United States. Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are used to meet two objectives: first, to test whether a relationship exists between population density and use of the food stamp program among eligible households; second, to explore the potential reasons f…
Dairy Farm Survival in a Metropolitan Area
The effect of nonfarm development on dairy farm survival in New York's highly developed lower Hudson Valley is analyzed. The major hypothesis is that significant losses of dairy farms during this period are the result of urban development pressures. Contrary to this hypothesis, however, the bivariate and multivariate analyses of data from a mail survey of all commercial dairy operators in Dutchess County as of 1984 and industry survivors, exiters…
American Poverty as a Structural Failing
Empirical research on American poverty has largely focused on individual characteristicst o explain the occurrence and patternso f poverty. The argument in this article is that such an emphasis is misplaced. By focusing upon individual attributes as the cause of poverty, social scientists have largely missed the underlying dynamic of American impoverishment. Poverty researchers have in effect focused on who loses out at the economic game, rather …
The Effect of Population Density on Welfare Participation
Journal Article The Effect of Population Density on Welfare Participation Get access Thomas A. Hirschl, Thomas A. Hirschl Cornell University Direct correspondence to Thomas A. Hirschl, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark R. Rank Mark R. Rank Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar So…
Ideology and the Experience of Poverty Risk
This study analyzes the tension between ideological individualism with regard to views about poverty, versus the high social risk of poverty that prevails in the U.S. Because of this tension, we anticipate fissures and caveats to individualism, contingent on the individual's direct experience with poverty. Eight focus groups comprised of 80 individual respondents are interviewed across three communities in upstate New York, and the analysis confi…
The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society
Objectives. In this article, we analyze voter choice data from six U.S. presidential elections for evidence of religious identity and sociodemographic effects on voter choice. Methods. Voter choice is analyzed over the period 1980 to 2000 with multivariate statistical models. Results. A link is found between voter choice and religious identity, where the effect of religious identity on voter choice is contingent on location within the stratificat…
Non-metro versus metro poverty in the transition to adulthood in the United States
Politics, Religion, and Society
This study investigates the effect of religious identity on U.S. Presidential voter choice in order to determine whether this relationship changed over time. The research literature is divided on this question with several investigators finding a positive trend in religious-political polarization since 1980, and others finding no polarization. The study further addresses a putative link between social inequality and religious politics by identify…
The Success Paradox
Poverty across the Life Cycle
Homelessness
The purpose of this article is to identify an appropriate research framework for testing different theories of homelessness. This purpose is justified in terms of the value of theoretical research for understanding the broader social implications of the phenomenon. The article is divided into three parts. First, a definition of homelessness is proposed that is well suited to theoretically oriented research. The definition focuses on identifying h…
The Effect of Population Density on Welfare Participation
Journal Article The Effect of Population Density on Welfare Participation Get access Thomas A. Hirschl, Thomas A. Hirschl Cornell University Direct correspondence to Thomas A. Hirschl, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark R. Rank Mark R. Rank Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar So…
The Link between Population Density and Welfare Participation
This article explores a neglected topic in the social welfare, poverty, and demographic literatures—the link between population density and welfare participation in the United States. Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are used to meet two objectives: first, to test whether a relationship exists between population density and use of the food stamp program among eligible households; second, to explore the potential reasons f…
Rural Poverty in America. Cynthia M. Duncan
Dairy Farm Survival in a Metropolitan Area
The effect of nonfarm development on dairy farm survival in New York's highly developed lower Hudson Valley is analyzed. The major hypothesis is that significant losses of dairy farms during this period are the result of urban development pressures. Contrary to this hypothesis, however, the bivariate and multivariate analyses of data from a mail survey of all commercial dairy operators in Dutchess County as of 1984 and industry survivors, exiters…
Urban influences on farmland use in New York State
Household Poverty in Rural and Metropolitan-Core Areas of the United States1
Urban poverty and rural development literatures are used to identify the determinants of poverty, resulting in the hypothesis that controlling for household and contextual-level variables would reduce metropolitan (metro) core versus rural differences in the likelihood of poverty. Modeling data from the 1985 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, rural households have the highest probability of poverty followed by the metro core. Both househ…
Teenage sexual attitudes in China
Not much is known about the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers. In this article we endeavor to address this void by examining the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers with survey data collected in Sichuan Province in 1988. Our analysis has two goals: first, to describe aggregate attitudes toward premarital sexual practices; and second, to identify the principal factors that influence these attitudes. To accomplish the second goal we estimate …
Estimating the Proportion of Americans Ever Experiencing Poverty During Their Elderly Years
Our results suggest that in spite of relatively low cross-sectional rates of elderly poverty in America, the likelihood of impoverishment at some point during the later years of life remains a very real possibility
Cutting Edge
Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strateg…
The Likelihood of Poverty across the American Adult Life Span
This article estimates the likelihood of poverty across the life span (ages 20 to 85) for American adults. These proportions were derived through a set of life tables built on 25 waves of longitudinal data. They represent the first time in the social or behavioral sciences that such figures have been calculated. By age 35 nearly one-third of the U.S. population will have experienced a year in poverty. By age 65 more than half of all Americans wil…
The Economic Risk of Childhood in America
Mark R. Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl, The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty across the Formative Years, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 1058-1067
Poverty across the Life Cycle
Poverty across the Life Cycle
The likelihood of experiencing poverty at some point during the adult life cycle is estimated. These probabilities are derived through a set of life tables built upon 25 waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and represent an alternative approach to studying poverty than prior empirical studies. Life table analyses are divided into early adulthood (ages 20–40), middle adulthood (ages 40–60),and later adulthood (ages 60–80). The fi…
The Measurement of Long‐Term Risks over the Life Course
We would like to thank Joyce Jacobsen and Lawrence Mead for their insights and comments regarding our methodological approach and analytical results contained in the article "Rags or Riches."Each author has raised a number of issues that merit consideration for future research.Jacobsen has detailed a variety of topics that could be pursued through our basic life course approach.Mead, on the other hand, has focused on what he perceives to be the b…
Rags or Riches? Estimating the Probabilities of Poverty and Affluence across the Adult American Life Span
Objective . Poverty and affluence represent events central to the American identity of failure and success. Yet in spite of their significance, we know little about the actual likelihood of experiencing these events across the adult life course. In this article we empirically estimate the extent to which Americans will experience poverty and/or affluence during their adulthood. Methods . A series of life tables are constructed based upon data fro…
Welfare Use as a Life Course Event
What proportion of the American population uses a social safety net program during the course of adulthood? To address this question, we constructed a series of life tables using 30 years of longitudinal data. Our results indicate that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 20 and 65 will at some point reside in a household that receives benefits from a means-tested welfare program (food stamps, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, Aid to…
American Poverty as a Structural Failing
Empirical research on American poverty has largely focused on individual characteristicst o explain the occurrence and patternso f poverty. The argument in this article is that such an emphasis is misplaced. By focusing upon individual attributes as the cause of poverty, social scientists have largely missed the underlying dynamic of American impoverishment. Poverty researchers have in effect focused on who loses out at the economic game, rather …
Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence? Exploring the Life Course Probabilities
This study estimates the life course incidence and age pattern of affluence among American couples in comparison to nonmarried, never married, and formerly married men and women. Life course probabilities are computed from a series of life tables built upon 25 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N= 8,510 25-year-olds; N= 3,481 45-year-olds). Results confirm the notion that marriage enhances the lifetime probability of affluence…
Product Review
The increasing risk of poverty across the American life course
This article extends the emerging body of life course research on poverty by empirically identifying the incidence, chronicity, and age pattern of American poverty and how these dimensions have changed during the period 1968-2000. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we construct a series of life tables that estimate the risk of poverty for adults during their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, and compare these estimates for Americans in the…
The Link Between Voter Choice and Religious Identity in Contemporary Society
Objectives. In this article, we analyze voter choice data from six U.S. presidential elections for evidence of religious identity and sociodemographic effects on voter choice. Methods. Voter choice is analyzed over the period 1980 to 2000 with multivariate statistical models. Results. A link is found between voter choice and religious identity, where the effect of religious identity on voter choice is contingent on location within the stratificat…
Ideology and the Experience of Poverty Risk
This study analyzes the tension between ideological individualism with regard to views about poverty, versus the high social risk of poverty that prevails in the U.S. Because of this tension, we anticipate fissures and caveats to individualism, contingent on the individual's direct experience with poverty. Eight focus groups comprised of 80 individual respondents are interviewed across three communities in upstate New York, and the analysis confi…
Politics, Religion, and Society
This study investigates the effect of religious identity on U.S. Presidential voter choice in order to determine whether this relationship changed over time. The research literature is divided on this question with several investigators finding a positive trend in religious-political polarization since 1980, and others finding no polarization. The study further addresses a putative link between social inequality and religious politics by identify…
Non-metro versus metro poverty in the transition to adulthood in the United States
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