Benjamin Cowan

Biographic Data

ID3765614
NAMEBenjamin Cowan
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin
FAMILY NAMECowan
SIGNATURECOWAN B
AFFILIATIONSWashington State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution

    Open AccessBenjamin Cowan, Benjamin R CowanARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2024References: 1

  • Mobile money and healthcare use: Evidence from East Africa

    Open AccessHaseeb Ahmed, Benjamin CowanARTICLEWorld Development2021Cited by: 4References: 12

  • The “Beauty of Inequality” and the Mythos of the Medieval: Brazil and the Forging of Global Catholic Traditionalism

    Benjamin Arthur Cowan, Benjamin CowanARTICLELuso-Brazilian Review2019

    This paper recovers the untold story of the Brazilians whose reactions to perceived modernization and secularization helped create today’s transnational Christian Right. Catholic traditionalism at and after Vatican II has gained intermittent notoriety in the years since the Council—yet this notoriety has almost always focused around North Atlantic reactionaries. I show that prominent members of Brazil’s ecclesial and lay hierarchies worked at the…

  • Sources of Bias in Teenagers' College Expectations

    Open AccessBenjamin Cowan, Benjamin W CowanARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2018Cited by: 1References: 22

    Objective Though many studies have found that teenagers overestimate their chances of college completion, the sources of this bias are still not well understood. Methods This article compares individuals' college expectations as teenagers with their subsequent college outcomes using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). I analyze how a rich set of youth characteristics correlate with the discrepancy between expectatio…

  • Recreational marijuana legalization and college student use: Early evidence

    Open AccessAustin M Miller, Robert Rosenman et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2017

    We analyze marijuana use by college undergraduates before and after legalization of recreational marijuana. Using survey data from the National College Health Assessment, we show that students at Washington State University experienced a significant increase in marijuana use after legalization. This increase is larger than would be predicted by national trends. The change is strongest among females, Black students, and Hispanic students. The incr…

  • The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the making of race and nation in Brazil

    Benjamin Arthur Cowan, Benjamin CowanARTICLESocial History2016

  • "Why Hasn't This Teacher Been Shot?" Moral-Sexual Panic, the Repressive Right, and Brazil's National Security State

    Benjamin Arthur Cowan, Benjamin CowanARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2012Cited by: 5

    This article takes up the story of right-wing mobilization before and during Brazil's military government of 1964-1985. Understanding the regime's violent countersubversion requires analysis of the ideology that framed it. This ideology flourished among a long-neglected group of far-right intellectuals and organizations that had considerable influence in successive military administrations and worked to define subversion-the military state's ever…