Jeffrey Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6319-6571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys’ relative to girls’ outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution, precisely where gender gaps are most pronounced. These relationships are not explained by school or neighbo…
The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites
We use population-level data on all Florida children born between 1994 and 2002 to examine the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants from a Superfund (toxic waste) site. We compare siblings who faced different toxic exposures during gestation because of Superfund site cleanup (or, in other specifications, because of a family move). Children exposed to toxic waste while gestating have substantially worse cognitive and b…
Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida
Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter t…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992–2002, we find that family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. The differential effect of family disadvantage on boys is robust to specifications …
Sex-Based Predictors of Male and Female Property Crime Arrest Rates: Disadvantage and Drug Use
A large body of research has considered the relationship between crime and structural indicators. However, despite trends in the gender gap in offending, fewer studies have separately examined the effects of structural variables on both male and female offending. The present study examined that question through a macro-level examination of property crime across large U.S. cities using data from the Uniform Crime Report and the American Community …
School Starting Age and Cognitive Development
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and large‐scale population‐level birth and school data from the state of Florida. We estimate effects of being old for grade (being born in September vs. August) that are remarkably stable—always around 0.2 SD difference in test scores—across a wide range of heterogeneous g…
Burglary Expertise: Comparing Burglars to Other Offenders
Researchers have studied offense-specific expertise among burglars with a variety of methods, including by comparing their simulated target choices to those of students, residents, and police officers. However, prior work has almost never compared the choices of burglars and non-burglar offenders, and so it is unclear whether burglars' expertise exceeds that possessed by others with similar backgrounds and lifestyles. The present study adds to th…
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development
We make use of a new data resource—merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002—to study the relationship between birth weight and cognitive development. Using singletons as well as twin and sibling fixed effects models, we find that the effects of early health on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school career; that these effects are similar across a wide range of family backgrounds;…
Ambient air pollution and hypertensive disorder of pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Ambient air pollution has been implicated in the development of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). However, evidence of the association between air pollution and HDP is still limited, and the effects of gaseous air pollutants on HDP and their time windows of exposure have not been well studied. METHODS: We used the Florida birth registry data to investigate the associations between air pollutants (NO2, SO2, PM(2.5), O3 and CO)…
Use of a Prenatal Risk Screen to Predict Maternal Traumatic Pregnancy-Associated Death: Program and Policy Implications
The implementation of prenatal risk screening to identify women at increased risk for traumatic pregnancy-associated death would help to ensure that policies to reduce infant risk factors also address maternal risk factors
Identifying Indicators During Pregnancy for Child Maltreatment
The Association of Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index with Breastfeeding Initiation
Length of Prenatal Participation in WIC and Risk of Delivering a Small for Gestational Age Infant: Florida, 1996–2004
The Risk of Birth Defects in Multiple Births: A Population-Based Study
A Risk Assessment Screening Test for Very Low Birth Weight
Continuing the Bifurcation of Affect and Cognition
Of What Help Is He? A Review of Foucault and Education
The works of French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) continue to influence discussions about what it means to be human across an astonishing variety of disciplines, known collectively as the human sciences. Foucault’s efforts to explicate the processes by which historical subjects come to be objects of scrutiny, knowledge, and control have begun to be replicated in education, a social institution he did not study directly. A rece…
"Of What Help Is He? A Review of "Foucault and Education
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
School Starting Age and Cognitive Development
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and large‐scale population‐level birth and school data from the state of Florida. We estimate effects of being old for grade (being born in September vs. August) that are remarkably stable—always around 0.2 SD difference in test scores—across a wide range of heterogeneous g…
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys’ relative to girls’ outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution, precisely where gender gaps are most pronounced. These relationships are not explained by school or neighbo…
Burglary Expertise: Comparing Burglars to Other Offenders
Researchers have studied offense-specific expertise among burglars with a variety of methods, including by comparing their simulated target choices to those of students, residents, and police officers. However, prior work has almost never compared the choices of burglars and non-burglar offenders, and so it is unclear whether burglars' expertise exceeds that possessed by others with similar backgrounds and lifestyles. The present study adds to th…
Continuing the Bifurcation of Affect and Cognition
Of What Help Is He? A Review of Foucault and Education
The works of French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) continue to influence discussions about what it means to be human across an astonishing variety of disciplines, known collectively as the human sciences. Foucault’s efforts to explicate the processes by which historical subjects come to be objects of scrutiny, knowledge, and control have begun to be replicated in education, a social institution he did not study directly. A rece…
Of What Help Is He? A Review of Foucault and Education
The works of French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) continue to influence discussions about what it means to be human across an astonishing variety of disciplines, known collectively as the human sciences. Foucault’s efforts to explicate the processes by which historical subjects come to be objects of scrutiny, knowledge, and control have begun to be replicated in education, a social institution he did not study directly. A rece…
"Of What Help Is He? A Review of "Foucault and Education
Continuing the Bifurcation of Affect and Cognition
A Risk Assessment Screening Test for Very Low Birth Weight
The Risk of Birth Defects in Multiple Births: A Population-Based Study
Length of Prenatal Participation in WIC and Risk of Delivering a Small for Gestational Age Infant: Florida, 1996–2004
Identifying Indicators During Pregnancy for Child Maltreatment
The Association of Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index with Breastfeeding Initiation
Use of a Prenatal Risk Screen to Predict Maternal Traumatic Pregnancy-Associated Death: Program and Policy Implications
The implementation of prenatal risk screening to identify women at increased risk for traumatic pregnancy-associated death would help to ensure that policies to reduce infant risk factors also address maternal risk factors
The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development
We make use of a new data resource—merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002—to study the relationship between birth weight and cognitive development. Using singletons as well as twin and sibling fixed effects models, we find that the effects of early health on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school career; that these effects are similar across a wide range of family backgrounds;…
Ambient air pollution and hypertensive disorder of pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Ambient air pollution has been implicated in the development of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). However, evidence of the association between air pollution and HDP is still limited, and the effects of gaseous air pollutants on HDP and their time windows of exposure have not been well studied. METHODS: We used the Florida birth registry data to investigate the associations between air pollutants (NO2, SO2, PM(2.5), O3 and CO)…
Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs: Information Shocks and the Take-Up of Social Programs
providing us with birth records and program participation data. We appreciate the helpful suggestions of colleagues and seminar participants at Duke University, Institut Sciences Po
Burglary Expertise: Comparing Burglars to Other Offenders
Researchers have studied offense-specific expertise among burglars with a variety of methods, including by comparing their simulated target choices to those of students, residents, and police officers. However, prior work has almost never compared the choices of burglars and non-burglar offenders, and so it is unclear whether burglars' expertise exceeds that possessed by others with similar backgrounds and lifestyles. The present study adds to th…
Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992–2002, we find that family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. The differential effect of family disadvantage on boys is robust to specifications …
Sex-Based Predictors of Male and Female Property Crime Arrest Rates: Disadvantage and Drug Use
A large body of research has considered the relationship between crime and structural indicators. However, despite trends in the gender gap in offending, fewer studies have separately examined the effects of structural variables on both male and female offending. The present study examined that question through a macro-level examination of property crime across large U.S. cities using data from the Uniform Crime Report and the American Community …
School Starting Age and Cognitive Development
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and large‐scale population‐level birth and school data from the state of Florida. We estimate effects of being old for grade (being born in September vs. August) that are remarkably stable—always around 0.2 SD difference in test scores—across a wide range of heterogeneous g…
The Developmental Consequences of Superfund Sites
We use population-level data on all Florida children born between 1994 and 2002 to examine the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants from a Superfund (toxic waste) site. We compare siblings who faced different toxic exposures during gestation because of Superfund site cleanup (or, in other specifications, because of a family move). Children exposed to toxic waste while gestating have substantially worse cognitive and b…
Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida
Little is known about the role birth order plays in delinquency and adult crime outcomes that carry significant externalities. We use rich data sets from Denmark and Florida to examine these outcomes and explore potential mechanisms. Despite large environmental differences between the areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, secondborn boys are 20%–40% more likely to be disciplined in school and enter t…
Sibling Spillovers
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family. Using administrative data on children from both Florida and Denmark, the paper examines the effects of having a disabled younger sibling. To address the identification challenge, the paper compares the differential effects for first- and second-born children in three-plus-child families, taking advantage of the fact that birth order influences the amount of time that a child …
Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys’ relative to girls’ outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution, precisely where gender gaps are most pronounced. These relationships are not explained by school or neighbo…
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Demography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Pregnancy (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Birth, Development, and Health (5 works) · Demography (5 works)