Lawrence E Raffalovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 75560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence E Raffalovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence E |
| FAMILY NAME | Raffalovich |
| SIGNATURE | RAFFALOVICH L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe
The present study builds on previous work by Andresen by examining the effects of entry into the European Union (EU) on the levels of homicide in the 10 Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Andresen’s research has indicated that accession to the EU led to increased levels of violent crime across municipalities in Lithuania over the 2001–2006 period. We go beyond prior work by using pooled cross-sectional time-series dat…
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov
We appreciate the careful attention that Professor Toshkov has devoted to our research, and we are grateful for the opportunity to respond. Given the space constraints, we must be very brief. We focus on his criticisms of assumptions. 1 Professor Toshkov argues that our findings and conclusions are based on three assumptions that he claims are unwarranted: (i) the decision to take the natural logarithm of the homicide rate; (ii) the use of a 1-ye…
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
Poverty, Infant Mortality, and Homicide Rates in Cross‐national Perspective: Assessments of Criterion and Construct Validity
This article assesses the extent to which the infant mortality rate might be treated as a “proxy” for poverty in research on cross‐national variation in homicide rates. We have assembled a pooled, cross‐sectional time‐series data set for 16 advanced nations from the 1993–2000 period that includes standard measures of infant mortality and homicide and contains information on the following commonly used “income‐based” poverty measures: a measure in…
Family income at the bottom and at the top: Income sources and family characteristics
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States: A Pooled, Cross‐sectional Time‐series Analysis of Metropolitan Areas
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
Nonmarital Fertility and the Effects of Divorce Rates on Youth Suicide Rates
Using pooled, time-series data for a sample of 15 developed nations, we assess the effect of divorce rates on gender-specific suicide rates for youths aged 15 - 19 with models of relative cohort size, lagged nonmarital fertility, and an interaction term for divorce rates and nonmarital fertility. The results reveal that, for young men, relative cohort size is positively related to suicide rates, and divorce rates interact with lagged nonmarital f…
The Power of Property in Comparative Perspective
Economic Deprivation and Changes in Homicide Arrest Rates for White and Black Youths, 1967–1998: A National Time‐series Analysis
Using time‐series techniques with national data for 1967–98, we model the effects on changes in age‐race‐specific arrest rates of changes in indicators of economic deprivation. A measure of child poverty is positively related to juvenile arrest rates for both races, whereas changing unemployment (lagged) yields a surprising negative effect on youth offending. Measures of intraracial income inequality are also associated with changes in juvenile a…
Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States, and Markets. Vol. 3 of The Real Utopias Project
Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis
Journal Article Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis Get access Lawrence E. Raffalovich Lawrence E. Raffalovich State University of New York at Albany Direct correspondence to Lawrence E. Raffalovich, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author…
Unions, Strikes, and Labor's Share of Income: A Quarterly Analysis of the United States, 1949-1992
Detrending Time Series: A Cautionary Note
Trends in time series may produce spurious covariation among variables. Although it is clearly necessary to model such sources of covariation, it is equally necessary to model those processes correctly. This article considers two types of processes that produce trends in time series. Trend stationary processes produce a constant rate of change in the level of a variable. Difference stationary processes produce a random rate of change in the level…
Macroeconomic Structure and Labor's Share of Income: United States, 1950 to 1980
We test several hypotheses derived fr-om Marxist crisis theories regarding the impact of macroeconomic performance on the distribution of income between labor and capital in the United States during the period 1950 to 1980. Using annual data on compensation, profits, and employment, we estimate the short-term effects of cyclical variations in unemployment, inflation, growth, and capacity utilization on labor's income share. With an additive decom…
On Analyzing Earnings Inequality in Segmented Labor Markets
In this article, I describe a methodology for analyzing the earnings distribution in segmented labor markets. I model earnings inequality as a function of labor market structure, then model change in the distribution of earnings between and within labor markets as a function of aggregate economic performance. Finally, I derive statistical models that can be estimated with existing data on earnings and employment. I conclude by discussing the rele…
Common, Specific, and Error Variance Components of Factor Models: Estimation with Longitudinal Data
In the classic factor-analysis model, the total variance of an item is decomposed into common, specific, and random error components. Since with cross-sectional data it is not possible to estimate the specific variance component, specific and random error variance are summed to the item's uniqueness. This procedure imposes a downward bias to item reliability estimates, however, and results in correlated item uniqueness in longitudinal models. In …
High Tech in Social Research: Reply to Zeller
Accounting for Labor's Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
Accounting for Labors Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
This study investigates the distribution of income between capital and labor in the printing and publishing industry. The authors first compare a variety of conceptualizations and operational measures of labor's share and then estimate models for the period 1946 - 78 that explain the movements in several share measures on the basis of variables that represent the differential power of labor and capital. Their findings indicate that worker power (…
The Evolution of Equality of Educational Opportunities in France
Throughout the twentieth century, all industrialized countries have experienced an increase in their populations' mean educational attainments. Researchers have wondered whether this increase in availability of education was associated with increased equality of educational opportunities. Some see a temporal trend toward equality while others see no change. After reviewing the evidence for several countries, we present data on the French populati…
Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Historical Change
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States: A Pooled, Cross‐sectional Time‐series Analysis of Metropolitan Areas
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
Poverty, Infant Mortality, and Homicide Rates in Cross‐national Perspective: Assessments of Criterion and Construct Validity
This article assesses the extent to which the infant mortality rate might be treated as a “proxy” for poverty in research on cross‐national variation in homicide rates. We have assembled a pooled, cross‐sectional time‐series data set for 16 advanced nations from the 1993–2000 period that includes standard measures of infant mortality and homicide and contains information on the following commonly used “income‐based” poverty measures: a measure in…
Unions, Strikes, and Labor's Share of Income: A Quarterly Analysis of the United States, 1949-1992
Detrending Time Series: A Cautionary Note
Trends in time series may produce spurious covariation among variables. Although it is clearly necessary to model such sources of covariation, it is equally necessary to model those processes correctly. This article considers two types of processes that produce trends in time series. Trend stationary processes produce a constant rate of change in the level of a variable. Difference stationary processes produce a random rate of change in the level…
Macroeconomic Structure and Labor's Share of Income: United States, 1950 to 1980
We test several hypotheses derived fr-om Marxist crisis theories regarding the impact of macroeconomic performance on the distribution of income between labor and capital in the United States during the period 1950 to 1980. Using annual data on compensation, profits, and employment, we estimate the short-term effects of cyclical variations in unemployment, inflation, growth, and capacity utilization on labor's income share. With an additive decom…
Economic Deprivation and Changes in Homicide Arrest Rates for White and Black Youths, 1967–1998: A National Time‐series Analysis
Using time‐series techniques with national data for 1967–98, we model the effects on changes in age‐race‐specific arrest rates of changes in indicators of economic deprivation. A measure of child poverty is positively related to juvenile arrest rates for both races, whereas changing unemployment (lagged) yields a surprising negative effect on youth offending. Measures of intraracial income inequality are also associated with changes in juvenile a…
The Evolution of Equality of Educational Opportunities in France
Throughout the twentieth century, all industrialized countries have experienced an increase in their populations' mean educational attainments. Researchers have wondered whether this increase in availability of education was associated with increased equality of educational opportunities. Some see a temporal trend toward equality while others see no change. After reviewing the evidence for several countries, we present data on the French populati…
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
Family income at the bottom and at the top: Income sources and family characteristics
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe
The present study builds on previous work by Andresen by examining the effects of entry into the European Union (EU) on the levels of homicide in the 10 Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Andresen’s research has indicated that accession to the EU led to increased levels of violent crime across municipalities in Lithuania over the 2001–2006 period. We go beyond prior work by using pooled cross-sectional time-series dat…
Nonmarital Fertility and the Effects of Divorce Rates on Youth Suicide Rates
Using pooled, time-series data for a sample of 15 developed nations, we assess the effect of divorce rates on gender-specific suicide rates for youths aged 15 - 19 with models of relative cohort size, lagged nonmarital fertility, and an interaction term for divorce rates and nonmarital fertility. The results reveal that, for young men, relative cohort size is positively related to suicide rates, and divorce rates interact with lagged nonmarital f…
Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis
Journal Article Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis Get access Lawrence E. Raffalovich Lawrence E. Raffalovich State University of New York at Albany Direct correspondence to Lawrence E. Raffalovich, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author…
Accounting for Labor's Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
Accounting for Labors Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
This study investigates the distribution of income between capital and labor in the printing and publishing industry. The authors first compare a variety of conceptualizations and operational measures of labor's share and then estimate models for the period 1946 - 78 that explain the movements in several share measures on the basis of variables that represent the differential power of labor and capital. Their findings indicate that worker power (…
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov
We appreciate the careful attention that Professor Toshkov has devoted to our research, and we are grateful for the opportunity to respond. Given the space constraints, we must be very brief. We focus on his criticisms of assumptions. 1 Professor Toshkov argues that our findings and conclusions are based on three assumptions that he claims are unwarranted: (i) the decision to take the natural logarithm of the homicide rate; (ii) the use of a 1-ye…
On Analyzing Earnings Inequality in Segmented Labor Markets
In this article, I describe a methodology for analyzing the earnings distribution in segmented labor markets. I model earnings inequality as a function of labor market structure, then model change in the distribution of earnings between and within labor markets as a function of aggregate economic performance. Finally, I derive statistical models that can be estimated with existing data on earnings and employment. I conclude by discussing the rele…
Common, Specific, and Error Variance Components of Factor Models: Estimation with Longitudinal Data
In the classic factor-analysis model, the total variance of an item is decomposed into common, specific, and random error components. Since with cross-sectional data it is not possible to estimate the specific variance component, specific and random error variance are summed to the item's uniqueness. This procedure imposes a downward bias to item reliability estimates, however, and results in correlated item uniqueness in longitudinal models. In …
Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Historical Change
Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Historical Change
Accounting for Labor's Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
Accounting for Labors Share: Class and Income Distribution in the Printing Industry
This study investigates the distribution of income between capital and labor in the printing and publishing industry. The authors first compare a variety of conceptualizations and operational measures of labor's share and then estimate models for the period 1946 - 78 that explain the movements in several share measures on the basis of variables that represent the differential power of labor and capital. Their findings indicate that worker power (…
The Evolution of Equality of Educational Opportunities in France
Throughout the twentieth century, all industrialized countries have experienced an increase in their populations' mean educational attainments. Researchers have wondered whether this increase in availability of education was associated with increased equality of educational opportunities. Some see a temporal trend toward equality while others see no change. After reviewing the evidence for several countries, we present data on the French populati…
Common, Specific, and Error Variance Components of Factor Models: Estimation with Longitudinal Data
In the classic factor-analysis model, the total variance of an item is decomposed into common, specific, and random error components. Since with cross-sectional data it is not possible to estimate the specific variance component, specific and random error variance are summed to the item's uniqueness. This procedure imposes a downward bias to item reliability estimates, however, and results in correlated item uniqueness in longitudinal models. In …
High Tech in Social Research: Reply to Zeller
On Analyzing Earnings Inequality in Segmented Labor Markets
In this article, I describe a methodology for analyzing the earnings distribution in segmented labor markets. I model earnings inequality as a function of labor market structure, then model change in the distribution of earnings between and within labor markets as a function of aggregate economic performance. Finally, I derive statistical models that can be estimated with existing data on earnings and employment. I conclude by discussing the rele…
Macroeconomic Structure and Labor's Share of Income: United States, 1950 to 1980
We test several hypotheses derived fr-om Marxist crisis theories regarding the impact of macroeconomic performance on the distribution of income between labor and capital in the United States during the period 1950 to 1980. Using annual data on compensation, profits, and employment, we estimate the short-term effects of cyclical variations in unemployment, inflation, growth, and capacity utilization on labor's income share. With an additive decom…
Detrending Time Series: A Cautionary Note
Trends in time series may produce spurious covariation among variables. Although it is clearly necessary to model such sources of covariation, it is equally necessary to model those processes correctly. This article considers two types of processes that produce trends in time series. Trend stationary processes produce a constant rate of change in the level of a variable. Difference stationary processes produce a random rate of change in the level…
Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis
Journal Article Growth and Distribution: Evidence from a Variable-Parameter Cross-National Time-Series Analysis Get access Lawrence E. Raffalovich Lawrence E. Raffalovich State University of New York at Albany Direct correspondence to Lawrence E. Raffalovich, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author…
Unions, Strikes, and Labor's Share of Income: A Quarterly Analysis of the United States, 1949-1992
Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States, and Markets. Vol. 3 of The Real Utopias Project
Economic Deprivation and Changes in Homicide Arrest Rates for White and Black Youths, 1967–1998: A National Time‐series Analysis
Using time‐series techniques with national data for 1967–98, we model the effects on changes in age‐race‐specific arrest rates of changes in indicators of economic deprivation. A measure of child poverty is positively related to juvenile arrest rates for both races, whereas changing unemployment (lagged) yields a surprising negative effect on youth offending. Measures of intraracial income inequality are also associated with changes in juvenile a…
The Power of Property in Comparative Perspective
Nonmarital Fertility and the Effects of Divorce Rates on Youth Suicide Rates
Using pooled, time-series data for a sample of 15 developed nations, we assess the effect of divorce rates on gender-specific suicide rates for youths aged 15 - 19 with models of relative cohort size, lagged nonmarital fertility, and an interaction term for divorce rates and nonmarital fertility. The results reveal that, for young men, relative cohort size is positively related to suicide rates, and divorce rates interact with lagged nonmarital f…
Family income at the bottom and at the top: Income sources and family characteristics
Immigration and the Recent Violent Crime Drop in the United States: A Pooled, Cross‐sectional Time‐series Analysis of Metropolitan Areas
A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic Chicago School, large immigrant populations might be associated with lower rather than higher rates of criminal violence. A limitation of the research in this area is that it has been based largely on cross‐sectional analyses for a restricted range of geographic a…
Poverty, Infant Mortality, and Homicide Rates in Cross‐national Perspective: Assessments of Criterion and Construct Validity
This article assesses the extent to which the infant mortality rate might be treated as a “proxy” for poverty in research on cross‐national variation in homicide rates. We have assembled a pooled, cross‐sectional time‐series data set for 16 advanced nations from the 1993–2000 period that includes standard measures of infant mortality and homicide and contains information on the following commonly used “income‐based” poverty measures: a measure in…
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime
Contemporary criminological research on immigration has focused largely on one aspect of the immigration process, namely, the impact of in-migration (i.e., presence or arrival) of foreign-born individuals on crime. A related but understudied aspect of the immigration process is the impact that the removal of certain segments of the foreign-born population, and specifically undocumented or deportable aliens, has on aggregate levels of criminal vio…
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis
Building upon prior research, this study examines the effects of European Union (EU) accession on suicide rates in the Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 using pooled cross-sectional time-series data that cover approximately 20 years (1990–2011). Results from fixed-effects regression analyses indicate that EU entry has no effect on total suicide rates and suicide rates among males, but has a negative effect on female s…
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe
The present study builds on previous work by Andresen by examining the effects of entry into the European Union (EU) on the levels of homicide in the 10 Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. Andresen’s research has indicated that accession to the EU led to increased levels of violent crime across municipalities in Lithuania over the 2001–2006 period. We go beyond prior work by using pooled cross-sectional time-series dat…
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov
We appreciate the careful attention that Professor Toshkov has devoted to our research, and we are grateful for the opportunity to respond. Given the space constraints, we must be very brief. We focus on his criticisms of assumptions. 1 Professor Toshkov argues that our findings and conclusions are based on three assumptions that he claims are unwarranted: (i) the decision to take the natural logarithm of the homicide rate; (ii) the use of a 1-ye…
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