Aaron Gullickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 248989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Gullickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Gullickson |
| SIGNATURE | GULLICKSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7237-8131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Trends and Heterogeneity in Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1960 to 2023
Although scholars recognize that interracial marriage in the United States has grown exponentially since the 1960s, our understanding of this trend for specific racial pairings is piecemeal and thin, because of issues with data comparability and lack of information on marriage timing between 1980 and 2007. In this study, the author uses log-linear models of census and American Community Survey data to analyze trends in interracial marriage from 1…
Blurring the Marriage Market? Contemporary Patterns of Multiracial Marriage
Research on interracial marriage has only begun to incorporate the growing mixed-race population. Using the 2010–2019 pooled American Community Survey, we explore the likelihood of a range of spousal pairings relative to racial endogamy for multiracial people while accounting for group size and controls for education, age, and immigration status. A distinguishing feature of marriage for multiracial individuals is the possibility of a partial over…
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019
Understanding how outcomes for biracial individuals compare with those for their monoracial peers is critical for understanding how patterns of racial inequality in the contemporary United States might be shifting. Yet, we know very little about the life chances of biracial individuals because of limitations in most available data sources. In this article, I utilize American Community Survey data from 2010 to 2019 to examine the risk of being cle…
Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980–2018
Intermarriage among ethnic groups belonging to the same panethnic category (e.g., Asian, Latino) is an important indicator of the strength of panethnicity. Yet, most of the research on panethnic intermarriage uses older samples with significant data limitations. In this article, I use data on recently married couples from the 2014–2018 American Community Surveys and the 1980 U.S. Census to analyze the likelihood of ethnic exogamy within the panet…
A counterfactual choice approach to the study of partner selection
Research on assortative mating â how partner characteristics affect the likelihood of union formation â commonly uses the log-linear model, but this approach has been criticized for its complexity and limitations
The Racial Identification of Young Adults in a Racially Complex Society
Quantitative studies of racial identification have commonly focused on the identification choices of children and adolescents living in the parental home. Less is known about the racial self-identification choices that individuals make as they develop into independent young adults. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I compare the racial self-identification of respondents when they were aged 18–23 to their biological p…
The Diverging Beliefs and Practices of the Religiously Affiliated and Unaffiliated in the United States
Since 1990, the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation has grown substantially. Prior work has shown that between 1990 and 2000, the religiously unaffiliated population also became more religious in belief and practices, both in absolute terms and relative to the affiliated population. This curious empirical finding is believed to be driven by a dilution effect in which moderate believers disaffiliated from organized religion witho…
Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference
Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person's essentialized identity that answer the question of "who is what?" Despite this loose but well-understood connection between the two concepts and the availability of ancestry data on the U.S. census, researchers have rarely used the two sources of data in combination. In this article, drawing on theories of boundary formation, I …
Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil
Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of U.S. society, resulting from unusually strong racial boundaries historically developed there. We examine status exchange across racial lines in Brazil. In contrast to the United States, Brazil features greater fluidity of racial boundaries and a middle tier of “brown” individuals. If exchange is…
A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid and governed by strict rules of descent, particularly along the black-white boundary. This is often contrasted with countries, such as Brazil, that recognize "mixed" or intermediate racial categories and allow for more fluidity or ambiguity in racial classification. Recently released longitudinal data from the IPUMS Linked Representative Samples, and the brief…
Inequality in the Spatial Allocation of Social Services: Government Contracts to Nonprofit Organizations in New York City
Publicly funded social services are an increasingly important component of social provision spending, accounting for approximately one-fifth of today’s welfare state expenditures. These funds are often allocated through purchase of service contracts between state and municipal agencies and third-party providers, usually nonprofit organizations. This study uses a unique dataset of government contracts with nonprofit organizations in New York City …
Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880
This article examines variation in the social position of mixed-race populations by exploiting county-level variation in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 U.S. census. The role of the mixed-race category as either a "buffer class" or a status threat depended on the class composition of whites. Black/mulatto occupational differentiation was greatest where whites had high occupational prestige and t…
Education and black-white interracial marriage
This article examines competing theoretical claims regarding how an individual’s education will affect his or her likelihood of interracial marriage. I demonstrate that prior models of interracial marriage have failed to adequately distinguish the joint and marginal effects of education on interracial marriage and present a model capable of distinguishing these effects. I test this model on black-white interracial marriages using 1980, 1990, and …
Black/White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850–2000
This article traces the trend in black/white interracial marriage between 1850-2000, using microlevel Census samples. The results show that the frequency of interracial marriage has been highly responsive to the dynamic nature of broader race relations. The growth of the Jim Crow racial state in the South and segregation in the North led to a drastic decline in the frequency of interracial marriage from 1880 to 1930. The frequency of interracial …
The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America
Skin tone variation within the United States' black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect both the inherited privileges of a mulatto elite and contemporary preferences for lighter skin. Three influential studies have claimed that such differentials in educational occupational and spousal attainment have remained strong in the post-Civil Rights era, based on res…
Kinship structures and survival: Maternal mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian border 1750-1898
This is an analysis of maternal survival of up to 13,202 mothers following 56,546 births in south central Slavonia (Croatia) in the period 1714-1898, using automated family reconstitution of 23,307 marriages, 112,181 baptisms, and 94,077 burials from seven contiguous Catholic parishes. Physiological factors have the effects commonly expected. Maternal risk is increased by general economic and social conditions that are plausibly related to withdr…
Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
Education and black-white interracial marriage
This article examines competing theoretical claims regarding how an individual’s education will affect his or her likelihood of interracial marriage. I demonstrate that prior models of interracial marriage have failed to adequately distinguish the joint and marginal effects of education on interracial marriage and present a model capable of distinguishing these effects. I test this model on black-white interracial marriages using 1980, 1990, and …
The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America
Skin tone variation within the United States' black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect both the inherited privileges of a mulatto elite and contemporary preferences for lighter skin. Three influential studies have claimed that such differentials in educational occupational and spousal attainment have remained strong in the post-Civil Rights era, based on res…
A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid and governed by strict rules of descent, particularly along the black-white boundary. This is often contrasted with countries, such as Brazil, that recognize "mixed" or intermediate racial categories and allow for more fluidity or ambiguity in racial classification. Recently released longitudinal data from the IPUMS Linked Representative Samples, and the brief…
Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil
Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of U.S. society, resulting from unusually strong racial boundaries historically developed there. We examine status exchange across racial lines in Brazil. In contrast to the United States, Brazil features greater fluidity of racial boundaries and a middle tier of “brown” individuals. If exchange is…
Black/White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850–2000
This article traces the trend in black/white interracial marriage between 1850-2000, using microlevel Census samples. The results show that the frequency of interracial marriage has been highly responsive to the dynamic nature of broader race relations. The growth of the Jim Crow racial state in the South and segregation in the North led to a drastic decline in the frequency of interracial marriage from 1880 to 1930. The frequency of interracial …
Inequality in the Spatial Allocation of Social Services: Government Contracts to Nonprofit Organizations in New York City
Publicly funded social services are an increasingly important component of social provision spending, accounting for approximately one-fifth of today’s welfare state expenditures. These funds are often allocated through purchase of service contracts between state and municipal agencies and third-party providers, usually nonprofit organizations. This study uses a unique dataset of government contracts with nonprofit organizations in New York City …
Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880
This article examines variation in the social position of mixed-race populations by exploiting county-level variation in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 U.S. census. The role of the mixed-race category as either a "buffer class" or a status threat depended on the class composition of whites. Black/mulatto occupational differentiation was greatest where whites had high occupational prestige and t…
Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference
Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person's essentialized identity that answer the question of "who is what?" Despite this loose but well-understood connection between the two concepts and the availability of ancestry data on the U.S. census, researchers have rarely used the two sources of data in combination. In this article, drawing on theories of boundary formation, I …
A counterfactual choice approach to the study of partner selection
Research on assortative mating â how partner characteristics affect the likelihood of union formation â commonly uses the log-linear model, but this approach has been criticized for its complexity and limitations
Kinship structures and survival: Maternal mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian border 1750-1898
This is an analysis of maternal survival of up to 13,202 mothers following 56,546 births in south central Slavonia (Croatia) in the period 1714-1898, using automated family reconstitution of 23,307 marriages, 112,181 baptisms, and 94,077 burials from seven contiguous Catholic parishes. Physiological factors have the effects commonly expected. Maternal risk is increased by general economic and social conditions that are plausibly related to withdr…
The Diverging Beliefs and Practices of the Religiously Affiliated and Unaffiliated in the United States
Since 1990, the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation has grown substantially. Prior work has shown that between 1990 and 2000, the religiously unaffiliated population also became more religious in belief and practices, both in absolute terms and relative to the affiliated population. This curious empirical finding is believed to be driven by a dilution effect in which moderate believers disaffiliated from organized religion witho…
Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980–2018
Intermarriage among ethnic groups belonging to the same panethnic category (e.g., Asian, Latino) is an important indicator of the strength of panethnicity. Yet, most of the research on panethnic intermarriage uses older samples with significant data limitations. In this article, I use data on recently married couples from the 2014–2018 American Community Surveys and the 1980 U.S. Census to analyze the likelihood of ethnic exogamy within the panet…
Kinship structures and survival: Maternal mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian border 1750-1898
This is an analysis of maternal survival of up to 13,202 mothers following 56,546 births in south central Slavonia (Croatia) in the period 1714-1898, using automated family reconstitution of 23,307 marriages, 112,181 baptisms, and 94,077 burials from seven contiguous Catholic parishes. Physiological factors have the effects commonly expected. Maternal risk is increased by general economic and social conditions that are plausibly related to withdr…
The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America
Skin tone variation within the United States' black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect both the inherited privileges of a mulatto elite and contemporary preferences for lighter skin. Three influential studies have claimed that such differentials in educational occupational and spousal attainment have remained strong in the post-Civil Rights era, based on res…
Education and black-white interracial marriage
This article examines competing theoretical claims regarding how an individual’s education will affect his or her likelihood of interracial marriage. I demonstrate that prior models of interracial marriage have failed to adequately distinguish the joint and marginal effects of education on interracial marriage and present a model capable of distinguishing these effects. I test this model on black-white interracial marriages using 1980, 1990, and …
Black/White Interracial Marriage Trends, 1850–2000
This article traces the trend in black/white interracial marriage between 1850-2000, using microlevel Census samples. The results show that the frequency of interracial marriage has been highly responsive to the dynamic nature of broader race relations. The growth of the Jim Crow racial state in the South and segregation in the North led to a drastic decline in the frequency of interracial marriage from 1880 to 1930. The frequency of interracial …
Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880
This article examines variation in the social position of mixed-race populations by exploiting county-level variation in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 U.S. census. The role of the mixed-race category as either a "buffer class" or a status threat depended on the class composition of whites. Black/mulatto occupational differentiation was greatest where whites had high occupational prestige and t…
Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification
A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid and governed by strict rules of descent, particularly along the black-white boundary. This is often contrasted with countries, such as Brazil, that recognize "mixed" or intermediate racial categories and allow for more fluidity or ambiguity in racial classification. Recently released longitudinal data from the IPUMS Linked Representative Samples, and the brief…
Inequality in the Spatial Allocation of Social Services: Government Contracts to Nonprofit Organizations in New York City
Publicly funded social services are an increasingly important component of social provision spending, accounting for approximately one-fifth of today’s welfare state expenditures. These funds are often allocated through purchase of service contracts between state and municipal agencies and third-party providers, usually nonprofit organizations. This study uses a unique dataset of government contracts with nonprofit organizations in New York City …
Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil
Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may be an idiosyncratic feature of U.S. society, resulting from unusually strong racial boundaries historically developed there. We examine status exchange across racial lines in Brazil. In contrast to the United States, Brazil features greater fluidity of racial boundaries and a middle tier of “brown” individuals. If exchange is…
Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference
Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person's essentialized identity that answer the question of "who is what?" Despite this loose but well-understood connection between the two concepts and the availability of ancestry data on the U.S. census, researchers have rarely used the two sources of data in combination. In this article, drawing on theories of boundary formation, I …
The Racial Identification of Young Adults in a Racially Complex Society
Quantitative studies of racial identification have commonly focused on the identification choices of children and adolescents living in the parental home. Less is known about the racial self-identification choices that individuals make as they develop into independent young adults. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, I compare the racial self-identification of respondents when they were aged 18–23 to their biological p…
The Diverging Beliefs and Practices of the Religiously Affiliated and Unaffiliated in the United States
Since 1990, the percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation has grown substantially. Prior work has shown that between 1990 and 2000, the religiously unaffiliated population also became more religious in belief and practices, both in absolute terms and relative to the affiliated population. This curious empirical finding is believed to be driven by a dilution effect in which moderate believers disaffiliated from organized religion witho…
A counterfactual choice approach to the study of partner selection
Research on assortative mating â how partner characteristics affect the likelihood of union formation â commonly uses the log-linear model, but this approach has been criticized for its complexity and limitations
Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980–2018
Intermarriage among ethnic groups belonging to the same panethnic category (e.g., Asian, Latino) is an important indicator of the strength of panethnicity. Yet, most of the research on panethnic intermarriage uses older samples with significant data limitations. In this article, I use data on recently married couples from the 2014–2018 American Community Surveys and the 1980 U.S. Census to analyze the likelihood of ethnic exogamy within the panet…
Differences in the Risk of Grade Retention for Biracial and Monoracial Students in the United States, 2010 to 2019
Understanding how outcomes for biracial individuals compare with those for their monoracial peers is critical for understanding how patterns of racial inequality in the contemporary United States might be shifting. Yet, we know very little about the life chances of biracial individuals because of limitations in most available data sources. In this article, I utilize American Community Survey data from 2010 to 2019 to examine the risk of being cle…
Trends and Heterogeneity in Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1960 to 2023
Although scholars recognize that interracial marriage in the United States has grown exponentially since the 1960s, our understanding of this trend for specific racial pairings is piecemeal and thin, because of issues with data comparability and lack of information on marriage timing between 1980 and 2007. In this study, the author uses log-linear models of census and American Community Survey data to analyze trends in interracial marriage from 1…
Blurring the Marriage Market? Contemporary Patterns of Multiracial Marriage
Research on interracial marriage has only begun to incorporate the growing mixed-race population. Using the 2010–2019 pooled American Community Survey, we explore the likelihood of a range of spousal pairings relative to racial endogamy for multiracial people while accounting for group size and controls for education, age, and immigration status. A distinguishing feature of marriage for multiracial individuals is the possibility of a partial over…
Sociology (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Population (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)