Projects

"Urban Youth through the Third Decade:  Life Course Patterns" and "Life Course Patterns of  Urban Youth through the Third Decade" ( the Spencer Foundation and the NSF; D. R. Entwisle and K. L. Alexander ) are to clean the recently completed Mature Adult Survey data (at age 28/29, with 80% panel coverage) and conduct analyses of the group’s transition to adulthood in relation to earlier formative experiences at home and at school.

"A Proposal to Archive the Beginning School Study Data,” (The Grant Foundation; D. R. Entwisle and K. L. Alexander) is funding staff time to develop a public use version of the entire BSS data archive, extending all the way back to fall 1982 when the study participants were just entering first grade.  The data will be deposited with Harvard’s Murray Research Center.

Labor relations in Chinese factories during the Mao Zedong era,

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (2006); Joel Andreas.

The "Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children Project"

(NICHD, 2004-2007; PI: Andrew Cherlin) provides information on how children and their caregivers in low-income families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio are faring in the post-welfare-reform era.  The third survey wave of this Three-City Study, as it has come to be known, was collected in 2005.

The "Ethnographic and Survey Studies of the Determinants of Healthy Marriages" project (U.S. Administration for Children and Families, 2005-2007; PI: Andrew Cherlin) examines barriers to stable marriages and cohabiting unions among a low-income population using both ethnographic and survey data from the Three-City Study.

The "Welfare Reform and Young Adult Outcomes" project (NICHD, 1999-2004; PI: Lingxin Hao; Co-investigators: Nan Astone and Andrew Cherlin) examines the consequences of welfare reform, both in terms of state variation and in terms of the overall structural shift of welfare policy under PRWORA, for adolescents and young adults.

Recent Publications

June 2007.  Hao, Lingxin, Nan M. Astone and Andrew J. Cherlin.  “The Effects of Stringent Child Support and Welfare Policies on Non-marital, Teenage Childbearing.” Population Research and Policy Review 26(3): June.

April 2007.  Fomby, Paula and Andrew Cherlin.  "Family, Children and Child Well-Being." American Sociological Review.  V. 72 (April): 181 – 204.

April 2007.  Alexander, Karl L., Doris R. Entwisle and Linda Steffel Olson.  "Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap."  American Sociological Review.  V. 72 (April): 167– 180.

March 2007.  Agarwala, Rina. “Resistance and Compliance in the Age of Globalization: Indian Women and Labor Organizations," in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 610. 

June 2007. Andreas, Joel. “The Structure of Charismatic Mobilization: A Case Study of Rebellion during the Chinese Cultural Revolution” American Sociological Review, Vol. 72, Number 3.

2007.  Pong, Suet-ling and Lingxin Hao.  "Neighborhood and School Factors in the School Performance of Immigrants’ Children." International Migration Review 41

June 2006, Agarwala, Rina and Scott M. Lynch. "Refining the Measurement of Women's Autonomy: an International Application of a Multi-dimensional
Construct." Social Forces, V. 84, No. 4, pp. 2077-2099.

2006. Agarwala, Rina. “From Work to Welfare: A New Class Movement in India.” Critical Asian Studies. Vol. 38, No. 4, December. (pp. 419-445)

2006.  Hao, Lingxin and Ross L. Matsueda.  “Family Dynamics Through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems.”  Social Science Research 35:500-524.

2006. Herring, Ronald and Rina Agarwala. “Introduction: Restoring Agency to Class: Puzzles from the Subcontinent.” Critical Asian Studies. Vol. 38, No. 4, December. (pp. 323-357)

2006, Katrina McDonald, Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women.  Rowman & Littlefield (2006).

2006, Katrina McDonald, “Downward Residential Mobility in Cultural Context: The Case of Disadvantaged Black Mothers,” with Bedelia Richards (under review).

2006, Katrina McDonald, “Visibility/Invisibility Blues: The Paradox of Racial/Ethnic Inclusion,”with Adia Harvey and Shelly Brown (in progress).

2006, Melvin L. Kohn, Change and Stability: A Cross-National Analysis of Social Structure and Personality. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2006, Joel Andreas. “Institutionalized rebellion: Governing Tsinghua University during the late years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.” The China Journal, No. 55 (January 2006), pp. 1-28.