Andrew Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8268-5853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 613 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Intersectional inequalities in advanced stage diagnosis of colorectal cancer in England: A cross-sectional study of National Cancer Registry data from 2013 to 2019
BACKGROUND: Inequalities in colorectal cancer (CRC) staging and outcomes exist across numerous sociodemographic axes. Early-stage CRC diagnosis is important for treatment success and survival. In this study, we investigate inequalities in CRC staging using registry data for 186 713 first-time CRC cancer diagnoses from 2013 to 2019 in England. METHODS: We employ the novel Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy …
Estimating the impact of the Russian invasion on the displacement of graduating high school students in Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war has dramatically impacted every area of life in Ukraine, including education. In this paper, we curate a uniquely comprehensive dataset of standardized exam outcomes used for admissions to higher education institutions in Ukraine—analogous to the Standardized Aptitude Test (SAT) in the United States—to provide strong estimates of student displacement and the first analysi…
The Statistical Advantages of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities
Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) is a multilevel regression approach grounded in intersectionality theory. It examines inequalities across intersections of social identities (e.g., gender, ethnicity, class) and is argued to provide more accurate predictions of intersectional means than conventional methods that estimate group means directly or via regressions with all interactions. This study ev…
Understanding pastoralist adaptations to drought via games and choice experiments: Field testing among Borana communities
Transhumant and nomadic pastoralism in arid and semi-arid spaces from West through Central, East, and Southern Africa is regarded as critical to regional system resilience and food security. Although pastoral systems are highly adapted and adaptive to uncertainty and change, recent decades of severe climatic events and increasing resource pressure are pushing pastoral systems to adopt novel norms and practices. Importantly, forage residue conserv…
A tutorial for conducting intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (Maihda)
Intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (I-MAIHDA) is an innovative approach for investigating inequalities, including intersectional inequalities in health, disease, psychosocial, socioeconomic, and other outcomes. I-MAIHDA and related MAIHDA approaches have conceptual and methodological advantages over conventional single-level regression analysis. By enabling the study of inequalities produced…
Commentary on: “Age Period Cohort Analysis – A Review of What We Should and Shouldn’t Do”
Clarifications on the intersectional Maihda approach: A conceptual guide and response to Wilkes and Karimi (2024)
Understanding the effect of universal credit on housing insecurity in England: A difference-in-differences approach
Existing research indicates an association between the introduction of Universal Credit in the UK and increased financial hardship among claimants. This policy change embodies key changes in welfare policy and ideology taking place across Europe and worldwide. This study investigates the association between housing insecurity and claiming Universal Credit in comparison to Housing Benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance. To examine changes in housing in…
An analysis of intersectional disparities in alcohol consumption in the US
Alcohol is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States (US). Prior research has demonstrated that alcohol consumption and related mortality are socially patterned; however, no study has investigated intersectional disparities in alcohol consumption, i.e., attending to how social positions overlap and interact. In this study, we used an innovative intersectional approach (Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and…
Extending intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (Maihda) to study individual longitudinal trajectories, with application to mental health in the UK
The intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) approach is gaining prominence in health sciences and beyond, as a robust quantitative method for identifying intersectional inequalities in a range of individual outcomes. However, it has so far not been applied to longitudinal data, despite the availability of such data, and growing recognition that intersectional social processes and determi…
Methods for disentangling period and cohort changes in mortality risk over the twentieth century: Comparing graphical and modelling approaches
This paper explores changes in age-specific mortality risk across periods and cohorts during the twentieth century in the developed world. We use and compare two approaches—one graphical (Lexis plots) and one statistical (an adapted Hierarchical age-period-cohort model)—that control out overall trends in mortality, to focus on discrete changes associated with specific events. Our analyses point to a number of key global and local events in the Tw…
Migration Theory in Climate Mobility Research
The purpose of this article is to explore how migration theory is invoked in empirical studies of climate-related migration, and to provide suggestions for engagement with theory in the emerging field of climate mobility. Theory is critical for understanding processes we observe in social-ecological systems because it points to a specific locus of attention for research, shapes research questions, guides quantitative model development, influences…
Communicating Probability Information in Weather Forecasts: Findings and Recommendations from a Living Systematic Review of the Research Literature
Probabilistic forecast information is rapidly spreading in the weather enterprise. Many scientists agree that this is a positive development, but incorporating probability information into risk communication can be challenging because communicators have little guidance about the most effective way to present it. This project endeavors to create such guidance by initiating a “living systematic review” of research studies that empirically examine t…
Revisiting the Effects of Organized Mammography Programs on Inequalities in Breast Screening Uptake: A Multilevel Analysis of Nationwide Data From 1997 to 2017
This study revisits the effects of mammography screening programs on inequalities in breast screening uptake in Switzerland. The progressive introduction of regional mammography programs by 12 out of the 26 Swiss cantons (regions) since 1999 offers an opportunity to perform an ecological quasi-experimental study. We examine absolute income and marital status inequalities in mammography uptake, and whether the cantons' implementation of mammograph…
Neighbourhood deprivation and intersectional inequalities in biomarkers of healthy ageing in England
While social and spatial determinants of biomarkers have been reported, no previous study has examined both together within an intersectional perspective. We present a novel extension of quantitative intersectional analyses using cross-classified multilevel models to explore how intersectional positions and neighbourhood deprivation are associated with biomarkers, using baseline UK Biobank data (collected from 2006 to 2010). Our results suggest i…
Civilians, Urban Warfare, and US Doctrine
Age period cohort analysis: A review of what we should and shouldn’t do
Context: Age, period and birth cohort (APC) effects have been known for decades in biological, health and social sciences. However, exact collinearity between these three (Age = Year – Birth Year) leads to difficulty estimating these effects. It is thus impossible to estimate linear components of these effects without strong assumptions about at least one of these. This is problematic for anyone interested in APC patterns. Attempts to ‘solve’ thi…
Fixed and random effects models: Making an informed choice
This paper assesses the options available to researchers analysing multilevel (including longitudinal) data, with the aim of supporting good methodological decision-making. Given the confusion in the literature about the key properties of fixed and random effects (FE and RE) models, we present these models’ capabilities and limitations. We also discuss the within-between RE model, sometimes misleadingly labelled a ‘hybrid’ model, showing that it …
The hierarchical age–period–cohort model: Why does it find the results that it finds?
It is claimed the hierarchical-age-period-cohort (HAPC) model solves the age-period-cohort (APC) identification problem. However, this is debateable; simulations show situations where the model produces incorrect results, countered by proponents of the model arguing those simulations are not relevant to real-life scenarios. This paper moves beyond questioning whether the HAPC model works, to why it produces the results it does. We argue HAPC esti…
Scaling up pro-environmental agricultural practice using agglomeration payments: Proof of concept from an agent-based model
Opportunities for improved promotion of ecosystem services in agriculture under the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Urban geography and protest mobilization in Africa
Should age-period-cohort analysts accept innovation without scrutiny? A response to Reither, Masters, Yang, Powers, Zheng and Land
Explaining Fixed Effects: Random Effects Modeling of Time-Series Cross-Sectional and Panel Data
This article challenges Fixed Effects (FE) modeling as the ‘default’ for time-series-cross-sectional and panel data. Understanding different within and between effects is crucial when choosing modeling strategies. The downside of Random Effects (RE) modeling—correlated lower-level covariates and higher-level residuals—is omitted-variable bias, solvable with Mundlak's (1978a) formulation. Consequently, RE can provide everything that FE promises an…
Don't birth cohorts matter? A commentary and simulation exercise on Reither, Hauser, and Yang's (2009) age–period–cohort study of obesity
Explaining Fixed Effects: Random Effects Modeling of Time-Series Cross-Sectional and Panel Data
This article challenges Fixed Effects (FE) modeling as the ‘default’ for time-series-cross-sectional and panel data. Understanding different within and between effects is crucial when choosing modeling strategies. The downside of Random Effects (RE) modeling—correlated lower-level covariates and higher-level residuals—is omitted-variable bias, solvable with Mundlak's (1978a) formulation. Consequently, RE can provide everything that FE promises an…
Another 'futile quest'? A simulation study of Yang and Land's Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort model
Whilst some argue that a solution to the age-period-cohort (APC) 'identification problem' is impossible, numerous methodological solutions have been proposed, including Yang and Land's Hierarchical-APC (HAPC) model: a multilevel model considering periods a
Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City
This book's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceauşescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of auth…
The impossibility of separating age, period and cohort effects
Life-course and cohort trajectories of mental health in the UK, 1991-2008 - A multilevel age-period-cohort analysis
Urban geography and protest mobilization in Africa
Neighbourhood deprivation and intersectional inequalities in biomarkers of healthy ageing in England
While social and spatial determinants of biomarkers have been reported, no previous study has examined both together within an intersectional perspective. We present a novel extension of quantitative intersectional analyses using cross-classified multilevel models to explore how intersectional positions and neighbourhood deprivation are associated with biomarkers, using baseline UK Biobank data (collected from 2006 to 2010). Our results suggest i…
Stylised fact or situated messiness? The diverse effects of increasing debt on national economic growth
This article reanalyses data used by Reinhart and Rogoff (2010c, American Economic Review, 100: 573–78—RR), and later Herndon et al. (2013, Cambridge Journal of Economics, online, doi: 10.1093/cje/bet075) to consider the relationship between growth and debt in developed countries. The consistency over countries and the causal direction of RR’s so called ‘stylised fact’ is considered. Using multilevel models, we find that when the effect of debt o…
Extending intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (Maihda) to study individual longitudinal trajectories, with application to mental health in the UK
The intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) approach is gaining prominence in health sciences and beyond, as a robust quantitative method for identifying intersectional inequalities in a range of individual outcomes. However, it has so far not been applied to longitudinal data, despite the availability of such data, and growing recognition that intersectional social processes and determi…
Understanding the effect of universal credit on housing insecurity in England: A difference-in-differences approach
Existing research indicates an association between the introduction of Universal Credit in the UK and increased financial hardship among claimants. This policy change embodies key changes in welfare policy and ideology taking place across Europe and worldwide. This study investigates the association between housing insecurity and claiming Universal Credit in comparison to Housing Benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance. To examine changes in housing in…
Intersectional inequalities in advanced stage diagnosis of colorectal cancer in England: A cross-sectional study of National Cancer Registry data from 2013 to 2019
BACKGROUND: Inequalities in colorectal cancer (CRC) staging and outcomes exist across numerous sociodemographic axes. Early-stage CRC diagnosis is important for treatment success and survival. In this study, we investigate inequalities in CRC staging using registry data for 186 713 first-time CRC cancer diagnoses from 2013 to 2019 in England. METHODS: We employ the novel Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy …
Design Appeals in England in the 1990s: An Aggregate Analysis
Design is a critical area in development control practice, and design appeals constitute a particularly important set of control cases. This is especially true in Britain where developers make much more use of the appeal system than elsewhere, and where central government utilises appeals to control local planning practice. This paper examines trends in all appeals over the period 1981-95 and trends in design appeals during 1991-95. It reveals hi…
The Hungarians in Romania Since 1989
The fate of the Hungarian minority in Romania is closely linked to the political situation in that country, its economic development, and its geopolitical location. This was the case before 1989 and remains so today. On the other hand, the Hungarians of Romania are an important factor affecting the internal and the external political relations of the country. This was dramatically confirmed by the revolution of 1989 which had been triggered by et…
I. Recent Developments in Constitutional Matters
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I. Constitutional Aspects
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Constitutional Aspects
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I. Constitutiional Aspects
The Hungarians in Romania Since 1989
The fate of the Hungarian minority in Romania is closely linked to the political situation in that country, its economic development, and its geopolitical location. This was the case before 1989 and remains so today. On the other hand, the Hungarians of Romania are an important factor affecting the internal and the external political relations of the country. This was dramatically confirmed by the revolution of 1989 which had been triggered by et…
Design Appeals in England in the 1990s: An Aggregate Analysis
Design is a critical area in development control practice, and design appeals constitute a particularly important set of control cases. This is especially true in Britain where developers make much more use of the appeal system than elsewhere, and where central government utilises appeals to control local planning practice. This paper examines trends in all appeals over the period 1981-95 and trends in design appeals during 1991-95. It reveals hi…
Queering the Interview
Elephants and Citizens
This chapter considers the importation of megalomaniacal majesty into the Roman Republic. Over time, kingly conceit became more conspicuous in Rome, and particularly at times of communal festivity. In contrast to the manner in which the behaviour of kings such as Philadelphus or Epiphanes is remembered, there is rather more information in Roman sources about the sentiments of the urban audience, as is seen in reports about the employment of anima…
Kings and Elephants
This chapter examines the pomp and circumstance of Hellenistic capitals. By 300 AD, personal monarchy had shown itself to be the only way to control large territory and generate great revenue. And when the Hellenistic kings were not busy making war or superintending their streams of revenue, they were devoting a great deal of energy and resources to managing affairs that concerned ‘what may perhaps be called self-validation’. Kings of self-made d…
Looking at Caesar
This chapter shows that Julius Caesar, in gesturing to impress, reveals the fluidity of assumptions governing political life in Rome. His complex styles of self-definition correlate with the mixed nature of the Roman polity, in which elements of both demotic populism and kingliness are to be found in his more spectacular behaviour.
Afterword
This chapter argues that it is often a refrain of contemporary political critique that style seems to overshadow substance in republics or democracies. But perhaps it has always been like that. If to be a Greek or Roman citizen was in some measure to have dignity in being a political consumer entitled to expect a good spectacle, then the study of classical politics has the power to offer insight into habits of consumption and affection, scrutiny …
Looking at the Powerful
This introductory chapter discusses the importance of the dynamics between spectacular actors and their audiences. It acknowledges some theoretical approaches, and looks at Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu and Julius Caesar as examples.
The Affections of the Athenians
This chapter examines the democracy of classical Athens. It shows the remarkable power of a citizenry to restrict overweening individuality in its ceremonial life, but also shows the lingering potential for infatuation with kingly charisma. This can be seen in abundance in the broader Hellenistic world.
Ciceronian Consensus
This chapter uses the oratory of Cicero to show the intricate dynamics of the late Republic, which Caesarism dooms. Cicero did not much like noisy crowds nor the liberalities which invited them. Yet in the summer of 44 AD, he excitedly recorded the ‘testimony and judgement’ of the populus delivered upon the assassins of Caesar. He had been impressed by the roar of the crowd at the ludi Apollinares. He thought this bespoke a future for his res pub…
Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City
This book's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceauşescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of auth…
Cicero, tradition and performance
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The impossibility of separating age, period and cohort effects
Don't birth cohorts matter? A commentary and simulation exercise on Reither, Hauser, and Yang's (2009) age–period–cohort study of obesity
Stylised fact or situated messiness? The diverse effects of increasing debt on national economic growth
This article reanalyses data used by Reinhart and Rogoff (2010c, American Economic Review, 100: 573–78—RR), and later Herndon et al. (2013, Cambridge Journal of Economics, online, doi: 10.1093/cje/bet075) to consider the relationship between growth and debt in developed countries. The consistency over countries and the causal direction of RR’s so called ‘stylised fact’ is considered. Using multilevel models, we find that when the effect of debt o…
Life-course and cohort trajectories of mental health in the UK, 1991-2008 - A multilevel age-period-cohort analysis
Another 'futile quest'? A simulation study of Yang and Land's Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort model
Whilst some argue that a solution to the age-period-cohort (APC) 'identification problem' is impossible, numerous methodological solutions have been proposed, including Yang and Land's Hierarchical-APC (HAPC) model: a multilevel model considering periods a
Should age-period-cohort analysts accept innovation without scrutiny? A response to Reither, Masters, Yang, Powers, Zheng and Land
Explaining Fixed Effects: Random Effects Modeling of Time-Series Cross-Sectional and Panel Data
This article challenges Fixed Effects (FE) modeling as the ‘default’ for time-series-cross-sectional and panel data. Understanding different within and between effects is crucial when choosing modeling strategies. The downside of Random Effects (RE) modeling—correlated lower-level covariates and higher-level residuals—is omitted-variable bias, solvable with Mundlak's (1978a) formulation. Consequently, RE can provide everything that FE promises an…
Scaling up pro-environmental agricultural practice using agglomeration payments: Proof of concept from an agent-based model
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Economics (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Mathematics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)