Robert L Wagmiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 245012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Wagmiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagmiller |
| SIGNATURE | WAGMILLER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Attitudinal Change, Cohort Replacement, and the Liberalization of Attitudes about Same-sex Relationships, 1973-2018
Americans' attitudes toward same-sex relationships have liberalized considerably over the last 40 years. We examine how the demographic processes generating social change in attitudes toward same-sex relationships changed over time. Using data from the 1973 to 2018 General Social Survey and decomposition techniques, we estimate the relative contributions of intracohort change and cohort replacement to overall social change for three different per…
The role of welfare in family income inequality: 1968–2016
Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity
Does Black Socioeconomic Mobility Explain Recent Progress Toward Black-White Residential Integration
Studies of racial residential segregation have found that black-white segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas has declined slowly but steadily since the early 1970s. As of this writing, black-white residential segregation in the United States is approximately 25 % lower than it was in 1970. To identify the sources of this decline, we used individual-level, geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to compare the residential atta…
Decomposing trends in adult body mass index, obesity, and morbid obesity, 1971–2012
Are Contemporary Patterns of Black Male Joblessness Unique? Cohort Replacement, Intracohort Change, and the Diverging Structures of Black and White Men’s Employment
Employment rates for black men have declined sharply over the last half century. We use data from the 1962–2009 March Current Population Surveys and linear decomposition techniques to examine the mechanisms generating change in employment rates for white and black men with different levels of education. We find that not only did the overall magnitude of change in employment differ by race and education, but so too did the mechanisms generating ch…
Growth trajectories of early aggression, overactivity, and inattention: Relations to second-grade reading
The link between behavior problems and low academic achievement is well established, but few studies have examined longitudinal relations between early externalizing behaviors before school entry and low academic achievement following transition to formal schooling. Early inattention has been particularly overlooked, despite strong associations between inattention and reading difficulties later in development. Trajectories of infant and toddler a…
Blacks’ and Whites’ Experiences of Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Intercohort Variation in Neighborhood Diversity and Integration in Early and Early Middle Adulthood
The racial and ethnic diversity of American cities has increased sharply in recent decades. This study uses a unique longitudinal, cohort-comparison research design to investigate changes over the past three decades in the diversity and multigroup integration of Blacks’ and Whites’ neighborhoods between early and early middle adulthood. This study finds that the neighborhoods in which recent cohorts of Blacks and Whites reside are both more diver…
Why Did Poverty Become Less Geographically Concentrated in the 1990s
Objective. After increasing sharply in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of high‐poverty neighborhoods in the United States unexpectedly and dramatically declined in the 1990s. This article examines the roles that residential and income mobility played in this decline. Methods. Using geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study analyzes changes during the 1990s and early 2000s in: (1) patterns of residential mobility between hi…
Does Children's Academic Achievement Improve when Single Mothers Marry
Promoting marriage, especially among low-income single mothers with children, is increasingly viewed as a promising public policy strategy for improving developmental outcomes for disadvantaged children. Previous research suggests, however, that children's academic achievement either does not improve or declines when single mothers marry. In this article, the authors argue that previous research may understate the benefits of mothers' marriages t…
A Fixed Effects Approach to Assessing Bias in Proxy Reports
Researchers often have to rely on one person to inform them about the characteristics and behaviors of another person. Recent efforts to study autobiographical memory, however, indicate that such proxy respondents encode, store, retrieve, and report memories differently than respondents reporting about themselves. These differences may make reports by proxy respondents more susceptible to bias. Unfortunately, many of the same practical challenges…
Male Nonemployment in White, Black, Hispanic, and Multiethnic Urban Neighborhoods, 1970−2000
Many social problems in urban neighborhoods are rooted in high rates of male nonemployment. Past research suggests that male joblessness is a problem largely in low−income, Black neighborhoods. In contrast, this study reports that increases in male nonemployment over the past 30 years have been more widely distributed across urban neighborhoods. Although rates of male joblessness rose most sharply in low−income Black neighborhoods, more advantage…
Parental Health and Children's Economic Well-Being
The life course perspective emphasizes that past economic experiences and stage in the life course influence a family's ability to cope with negative life events such as poor health. However, traditional analytic approaches are not well-suited to examine how the impact of negative life events differs based on a family's past economic experiences, nor do they typically account for the potentially spurious association between negative life events a…
Race and the spatial segregation of jobless men in urban America
Changes in U.S. metropolitan areas over the past 30 years are thought to have concentrated jobless men in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods clustered near the center of the city. Using tract-level data from the Neighborhood Change Database for 1970–2000, I examine how the residential segregation of jobless from employed men has changed over the past three decades. I find that jobless men in U.S. metropolitan areas have become less …
The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life Chances
Recent research suggests that child well-being and subsequent status attainment are influenced not only by the duration of exposure to economic disadvantage during childhood, but also by the timing and sequencing of exposure. Unfortunately, traditional measures of children's economic deprivation typically fail to differentiate between exposures to disadvantage at different stages in childhood and largely ignore how economic circumstances change o…
The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life Chances
Recent research suggests that child well-being and subsequent status attainment are influenced not only by the duration of exposure to economic disadvantage during childhood, but also by the timing and sequencing of exposure. Unfortunately, traditional measures of children's economic deprivation typically fail to differentiate between exposures to disadvantage at different stages in childhood and largely ignore how economic circumstances change o…
Blacks’ and Whites’ Experiences of Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Intercohort Variation in Neighborhood Diversity and Integration in Early and Early Middle Adulthood
The racial and ethnic diversity of American cities has increased sharply in recent decades. This study uses a unique longitudinal, cohort-comparison research design to investigate changes over the past three decades in the diversity and multigroup integration of Blacks’ and Whites’ neighborhoods between early and early middle adulthood. This study finds that the neighborhoods in which recent cohorts of Blacks and Whites reside are both more diver…
Race and the spatial segregation of jobless men in urban America
Changes in U.S. metropolitan areas over the past 30 years are thought to have concentrated jobless men in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods clustered near the center of the city. Using tract-level data from the Neighborhood Change Database for 1970–2000, I examine how the residential segregation of jobless from employed men has changed over the past three decades. I find that jobless men in U.S. metropolitan areas have become less …
Attitudinal Change, Cohort Replacement, and the Liberalization of Attitudes about Same-sex Relationships, 1973-2018
Americans' attitudes toward same-sex relationships have liberalized considerably over the last 40 years. We examine how the demographic processes generating social change in attitudes toward same-sex relationships changed over time. Using data from the 1973 to 2018 General Social Survey and decomposition techniques, we estimate the relative contributions of intracohort change and cohort replacement to overall social change for three different per…
Does Children's Academic Achievement Improve when Single Mothers Marry
Promoting marriage, especially among low-income single mothers with children, is increasingly viewed as a promising public policy strategy for improving developmental outcomes for disadvantaged children. Previous research suggests, however, that children's academic achievement either does not improve or declines when single mothers marry. In this article, the authors argue that previous research may understate the benefits of mothers' marriages t…
Growth trajectories of early aggression, overactivity, and inattention: Relations to second-grade reading
The link between behavior problems and low academic achievement is well established, but few studies have examined longitudinal relations between early externalizing behaviors before school entry and low academic achievement following transition to formal schooling. Early inattention has been particularly overlooked, despite strong associations between inattention and reading difficulties later in development. Trajectories of infant and toddler a…
Parental Health and Children's Economic Well-Being
The life course perspective emphasizes that past economic experiences and stage in the life course influence a family's ability to cope with negative life events such as poor health. However, traditional analytic approaches are not well-suited to examine how the impact of negative life events differs based on a family's past economic experiences, nor do they typically account for the potentially spurious association between negative life events a…
Does Black Socioeconomic Mobility Explain Recent Progress Toward Black-White Residential Integration
Studies of racial residential segregation have found that black-white segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas has declined slowly but steadily since the early 1970s. As of this writing, black-white residential segregation in the United States is approximately 25 % lower than it was in 1970. To identify the sources of this decline, we used individual-level, geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to compare the residential atta…
A Fixed Effects Approach to Assessing Bias in Proxy Reports
Researchers often have to rely on one person to inform them about the characteristics and behaviors of another person. Recent efforts to study autobiographical memory, however, indicate that such proxy respondents encode, store, retrieve, and report memories differently than respondents reporting about themselves. These differences may make reports by proxy respondents more susceptible to bias. Unfortunately, many of the same practical challenges…
The role of welfare in family income inequality: 1968–2016
Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity
Are Contemporary Patterns of Black Male Joblessness Unique? Cohort Replacement, Intracohort Change, and the Diverging Structures of Black and White Men’s Employment
Employment rates for black men have declined sharply over the last half century. We use data from the 1962–2009 March Current Population Surveys and linear decomposition techniques to examine the mechanisms generating change in employment rates for white and black men with different levels of education. We find that not only did the overall magnitude of change in employment differ by race and education, but so too did the mechanisms generating ch…
Why Did Poverty Become Less Geographically Concentrated in the 1990s
Objective. After increasing sharply in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of high‐poverty neighborhoods in the United States unexpectedly and dramatically declined in the 1990s. This article examines the roles that residential and income mobility played in this decline. Methods. Using geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study analyzes changes during the 1990s and early 2000s in: (1) patterns of residential mobility between hi…
Male Nonemployment in White, Black, Hispanic, and Multiethnic Urban Neighborhoods, 1970−2000
Many social problems in urban neighborhoods are rooted in high rates of male nonemployment. Past research suggests that male joblessness is a problem largely in low−income, Black neighborhoods. In contrast, this study reports that increases in male nonemployment over the past 30 years have been more widely distributed across urban neighborhoods. Although rates of male joblessness rose most sharply in low−income Black neighborhoods, more advantage…
The Dynamics of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Life Chances
Recent research suggests that child well-being and subsequent status attainment are influenced not only by the duration of exposure to economic disadvantage during childhood, but also by the timing and sequencing of exposure. Unfortunately, traditional measures of children's economic deprivation typically fail to differentiate between exposures to disadvantage at different stages in childhood and largely ignore how economic circumstances change o…
Race and the spatial segregation of jobless men in urban America
Changes in U.S. metropolitan areas over the past 30 years are thought to have concentrated jobless men in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods clustered near the center of the city. Using tract-level data from the Neighborhood Change Database for 1970–2000, I examine how the residential segregation of jobless from employed men has changed over the past three decades. I find that jobless men in U.S. metropolitan areas have become less …
Male Nonemployment in White, Black, Hispanic, and Multiethnic Urban Neighborhoods, 1970−2000
Many social problems in urban neighborhoods are rooted in high rates of male nonemployment. Past research suggests that male joblessness is a problem largely in low−income, Black neighborhoods. In contrast, this study reports that increases in male nonemployment over the past 30 years have been more widely distributed across urban neighborhoods. Although rates of male joblessness rose most sharply in low−income Black neighborhoods, more advantage…
Parental Health and Children's Economic Well-Being
The life course perspective emphasizes that past economic experiences and stage in the life course influence a family's ability to cope with negative life events such as poor health. However, traditional analytic approaches are not well-suited to examine how the impact of negative life events differs based on a family's past economic experiences, nor do they typically account for the potentially spurious association between negative life events a…
A Fixed Effects Approach to Assessing Bias in Proxy Reports
Researchers often have to rely on one person to inform them about the characteristics and behaviors of another person. Recent efforts to study autobiographical memory, however, indicate that such proxy respondents encode, store, retrieve, and report memories differently than respondents reporting about themselves. These differences may make reports by proxy respondents more susceptible to bias. Unfortunately, many of the same practical challenges…
Does Children's Academic Achievement Improve when Single Mothers Marry
Promoting marriage, especially among low-income single mothers with children, is increasingly viewed as a promising public policy strategy for improving developmental outcomes for disadvantaged children. Previous research suggests, however, that children's academic achievement either does not improve or declines when single mothers marry. In this article, the authors argue that previous research may understate the benefits of mothers' marriages t…
Why Did Poverty Become Less Geographically Concentrated in the 1990s
Objective. After increasing sharply in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of high‐poverty neighborhoods in the United States unexpectedly and dramatically declined in the 1990s. This article examines the roles that residential and income mobility played in this decline. Methods. Using geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study analyzes changes during the 1990s and early 2000s in: (1) patterns of residential mobility between hi…
Blacks’ and Whites’ Experiences of Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Intercohort Variation in Neighborhood Diversity and Integration in Early and Early Middle Adulthood
The racial and ethnic diversity of American cities has increased sharply in recent decades. This study uses a unique longitudinal, cohort-comparison research design to investigate changes over the past three decades in the diversity and multigroup integration of Blacks’ and Whites’ neighborhoods between early and early middle adulthood. This study finds that the neighborhoods in which recent cohorts of Blacks and Whites reside are both more diver…
Are Contemporary Patterns of Black Male Joblessness Unique? Cohort Replacement, Intracohort Change, and the Diverging Structures of Black and White Men’s Employment
Employment rates for black men have declined sharply over the last half century. We use data from the 1962–2009 March Current Population Surveys and linear decomposition techniques to examine the mechanisms generating change in employment rates for white and black men with different levels of education. We find that not only did the overall magnitude of change in employment differ by race and education, but so too did the mechanisms generating ch…
Growth trajectories of early aggression, overactivity, and inattention: Relations to second-grade reading
The link between behavior problems and low academic achievement is well established, but few studies have examined longitudinal relations between early externalizing behaviors before school entry and low academic achievement following transition to formal schooling. Early inattention has been particularly overlooked, despite strong associations between inattention and reading difficulties later in development. Trajectories of infant and toddler a…
Decomposing trends in adult body mass index, obesity, and morbid obesity, 1971–2012
Does Black Socioeconomic Mobility Explain Recent Progress Toward Black-White Residential Integration
Studies of racial residential segregation have found that black-white segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas has declined slowly but steadily since the early 1970s. As of this writing, black-white residential segregation in the United States is approximately 25 % lower than it was in 1970. To identify the sources of this decline, we used individual-level, geocoded data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to compare the residential atta…
The role of welfare in family income inequality: 1968–2016
Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity
Attitudinal Change, Cohort Replacement, and the Liberalization of Attitudes about Same-sex Relationships, 1973-2018
Americans' attitudes toward same-sex relationships have liberalized considerably over the last 40 years. We examine how the demographic processes generating social change in attitudes toward same-sex relationships changed over time. Using data from the 1973 to 2018 General Social Survey and decomposition techniques, we estimate the relative contributions of intracohort change and cohort replacement to overall social change for three different per…
Demography (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Population (6 works)