Bibliography of Readings (as of June, 2007)

This is a partial list of relevant articles/books on various statistical techniques. While not meant to be exhaustive, it does include general reference books, descriptions of techniques, and some illustrative applications. See recent journals for additional applications in your own field of study. Many of these may be available through JSTOR or American Search Premier; check IRIS through the Rutgers Library.

I. Readings in Cross-Tabulation

A. Instruction in Reading Tables

Babbie, Earl R. n.d. "Notes on Percentaging Tables." Ditto.

Rosenberg, Morris. 1968. The Logic of Survey Analysis. New York: Basic. Appendix A.

Zeisel, Hans. 1968. Say It With Figures. New York: Harper and Row. Ch. 8 and 9.

B. Elaboration and Inferring Causality

Babbie, Earl R. 1986. The Practice of Social Research. Fourth edition (or later editions). Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth. Chs. 3 and 16.

Hirschi, Travis and Hanan C. Selvin. 1973. Principles of Survey Analysis. New York: Free Press. Chs. 3 and 8, "Principles of Causal Analysis" and "False Criteria of Causality").

Lazarsfeld, Paul F., and Morris Rosenberg. 1955. "Interpretation of Statistical Relations as a Research Operation." Pp. 115-25 in The Language of Social Research.

Rosenberg, Morris. 1968. The Logic of Survey Analysis. New York: Basic. Ch. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Appendix B.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968. Constructing Social Theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World. Ch. 2.

C. Miscellaneous Crosstabulation Readings

Berelson, Bernard R., Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and William N. McPhee. 1954. Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Good example of tabular analysis, especially pp. 54-73.]

Idler, Ellen L. 1989. "Moral Medicine: Symbolic Content in 19th Century Shaker Therapeutics." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 13:1-24.

Reynolds, H.T. 1977. The Analysis of Cross-Classifications. New York: Free Press. [Statistical techniques associated with crosstabs--chi-square, analysis of variance, measures of association, log-linear analysis, etc.]

Rudel, Thomas K. 2002. "Ecologically Noble Amerindians? Cattle Ranching and Cash Cropping among Shuar and Colonists in Ecuador." Latin American Research Review 37:144-159.

Tufte, Edward R. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Tufte, Edward R. 1990. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Wainer, Howard. 1984. "How to Display Data Badly." The American Statistician 38:137-147. [click here]

II. Multiple Regression Analysis

A. Regression Techniques

Aldrich, John, and Charles F. Cnudde. 1975. "Probing the Bounds of Conventional Wisdom: A Comparison of Regression, Probit, and Discriminant Analysis." American Journal of Political Science 19:571-606.

Cohen, Jacob. 1968. "Multiple Regression as a General Data Analytic System." Psychological Bulletin 70:426-43.

Cohen, Jacob, and Patricia Cohen. 1975. Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. [This is an excellent reference book for more advanced techniques as well.]

Duncan, Otis Dudley. 1975. Introduction to Structural Equation Models. New York: Academic Press.

Edwards, Allen L. 1979. Multiple Regression and the Analysis of Variance and Covariance. San Francisco, CA.: W.H. Freeman.

Fennessey, James. 1968. "The General Linear Model: A New Perspective on Some Familiar Topics." American Journal of Sociology 74:1-27.

Goldberger, Arthur S. 1968. Topics in Regression Analysis. New York: MacMillan.

Gordon, Robert A. 1968. "Issues in Multiple Regression." American Journal of Sociology 73:592-616.

Greene, William H. 1990. Econometric Analysis. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company. (pp. 193-195: evaluating whether adding additional variables adds significance)

Hanushek, Eric A., and John E. Jackson. 1977. Statistical Methods for Social Scientists. New York: Academic Press. [This is an excellent reference book for more advanced techniques as well.]

Hargens, Lowell L. 1976. "A Note on Standardized Coefficients as Structural Parameters." Sociological Methods and Research 5:247-56.

Kerlinger, Fred N., and Elazar J. Pedhazur. 1973. Multiple Regression in Behavioral Research. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Kim, Jae-On, and Charles W. Mueller. 1976. "Standardized and Unstandardized Coefficients in Causal Analysis: An Expository Note." Sociological Methods and Research 4:423-38.

Lewis-Beck, Michael. 1980. Applied Regression: An Introduction. Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, 07-022. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Nie, Norman, et. al. 1975. SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. New York: McGraw Hill. [Chs. 18, 20, 21]

Schuessler, Karl. 1969. "Covariance Analysis in Sociological Research." In Edgar F. Borgatta (eds.), Sociological Methodology 1969. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Smith, Kent W., and M.S. Sasaki. 1979. "Decreasing Multicollinearity: A Method for Models With Multiplicative Functions." Sociological Methods and Research 8:35-55.

Stimson, James A., Edward G. Carmines, and Richard A. Zeller. 1978. "Interpreting Polynomial Regression." Sociological Methods and Research 6:515-24.

Winship, Christopher, and Robert D. Mare. 1984. "Regression Models with Ordinal Data." American Sociological Review 49:512-25.

Van de Geer, John P. 1971. Introduction to Multivariate Analysis for the Social Sciences. San Francisco: Freeman.

Vinod, H.D., and A. Ulla. 1981. Recents Advances in Regression Methods. New York: Dekker.

Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. 2003. Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. Ohio: South-Western (Thomson).

B. Regression Applications

Bellas, Marcia L. 1994. "Comparable Worth in Academia: The Effects on Faculty Salaries of the Sex Composition and Labor-Market Conditions of Academic Disciplines." American Sociological Review 59:807-21.

Böröcz, József, and Caleb Southworth. 1996. "Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power: Conversion of Cultural Capital to Income, Hungary, 1986. Social Forces 74:797-821.

Carr, Deborah. 1997. "The Fulfillment of Career Dreams at Midlife: Does it Matter for Women's Mental Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38:331-344. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. 2002. The Psychological Consequences of Work-Family Trade-offs for Three Cohorts of Men and Women. Social Psychological Quarterly 65:103-124. [click here]

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Ronald C. Kessler, Randolph M. Nesse, John Sonnega, and Camille Wortman. 2000. “Marital Quality and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 55B:S197-207. [click here]

Carr, Deborah and Jennifer Sheridan. 2001. "Family Turning Points and Career Transitions at Midlife." Pp. 201-227 in Restructuring Work and the Life Course, edited by Victor W. Marshall, Walter R. Heinz, Helga Krueger, and Anil Verma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Hazard models]

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Camille Wortman, Randolph M. Nesse, and Ronald C. Kessler. 2001. “Psychological Adjustment to Sudden and Anticipated Spousal Death Among the Older Widowed.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B: S237-48. [click here]

Clarke, Lee, and Carroll Estes. 1992. "Sociological and Economic Theories of Markets and Nonprofits: Evidence from Home Health Organizations." American Journal of Sociology 97 (January):945-69. [click here, JSTOR]

Davis, Nancy J., and Robert V. Robinson. 1991. "Men's and Women's Consciousness of Gender Inequality: Austria, West Germany, Great Britain, and the United States." American Sociological Review 56:72-84.

Friedman, Judith J. 1995. "The Effects of Industrial Structure and Resources upon the Distribution of Fast-Growing Small Firms among U.S. Urbanised Areas." Urban Studies 32:863-883.

Hall, Brian. 1992. "In God We Trust: The Central Role of Religion in Determinign Political Philosophy." Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

Horwitz, Allan V., Helene Raskin White, and Sandra Howell-White. 1996. "The Use of Multiple Outcomes in Stress Research: A Case Study of Gender Differences in Responses to Marital Dissolution." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37:278-291.

Idler, Ellen L. 1995. "Religion, Health, and Nonphysical Senses of Self." Social Forces 74:683-704.

Idler, Ellen L., and Ronald J. Angel. 1990. "Age, Chronic Pain, and Subjective Assessments of Health." Advances in Medical Sociology 1:131-152.

Idler, Ellen L., and Stanislav V. Kasl. 1995. "Self-Ratings of Health: Do They Also Predict Change in Functional Ability?" Journal of Gerontology 50B:S344-S353.

Idler, Ellen, Stanislav V. Kasl, and Judith C. Hays. 2001. "Patterns of Religious Practice and Belief in the Last Year of Life." Journal of Gerontology 56B:S326-S334.

Langton, Nancy, and Jeffrey Pfeffer. 1994. "Paying the Professor: Sources of Salary Variation in Academic Labor Markets." American Sociological Review 59:236-56.

McCall, Leslie. 1998 "Spatial Routes to Gender Wage (In)equality: Regional Restructuring and Wage Differentials by Gender and Education." Economic Geography 74(4): 379-404. [click here]

McCall, Leslie. 2000 "Explaining Levels of Within-Group Wage Inequality in U.S. Labor Markets." Demography 37(4): 415-430. [click here]

McCall, Leslie. 2000 "Gender and the New Inequality: Explaining the College/Non-College Wage Gap in U.S. Labor Markets." American Sociological Review 65(2): 234-255. [click here]

McCall, Leslie. 2001 "Sources of Racial Wage Inequality in Metropolitan Labor Markets: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences." American Sociological Review 66(4): 520-542. [click here]

Molm, Linda D. 1991. "Affect and Social Exchange: Satisfaction in Power-Dependence Relations." American Sociological Review 56:475-493.

Ono, Hiroshi. 2007. "Careers in Foreign-Owned Firms in Japan." American Sociological Review 72:267-290.

Parcel, Toby L., and Elizabeth G. Menaghan. 1994. "Early Parental Work, Family Social Capital, and Early Childhood Outcomes." American Journal of Sociology 99:972-1009.

Petersen, Trond. 1992. "Payment Systems and the Structure of Inequality: Conceptual Issues and an Analysis of Salespersons in Department Stores." American Journal of Sociology 98 (July):67-104.

Phillips, Julie A., and Douglas S. Massey. 1999. "The New Labor Market: Immigrants and Wages after IRCA" Demography 36:233-246.

Presser, Harriet B. 1994. "Employment Schedules Among Dual-Earner Spouses and the Division of Household Labor by Gender." American Sociological Review 59:348-64.

Robinson, Robert V., and Ana-Maria Wahl. 1990. "Industrial Employment and Wages of Women, Men, and Children in a 19th Century City: Indianapolis, 1850-1880." American Sociological Review 55:912-928.

Roos, Patricia A. 1981. "Sex Stratification in the Workplace: Male-Female Differences in Economic Returns to Occupation." Social Science Research 10:195-224.

Roos, Patricia A. 1983. "Marriage and Women's Occupational Attainment in Cross-Cultural Perspective." American Sociological Review 48:852-64. [click here, JSTOR]

Roos, Patricia. 1985. Gender and Work: A Comparative Analysis of Industrial Societies. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.

Schooler, Carmi, and Carrie Schoenbach. 1994. "Social Class, Occupational Status, Occupational Self-Direction, and Job Income: A Cross-National Examination." Sociological Forum 9:431-458.

South, Scott J., and Glenna Spitze. 1994. "Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households." American Sociological Review 59:327-47.

Treiman, Donald J., and Patricia A. Roos. 1983. "Sex and Earnings in Industrial Society: A Nine-Nation Comparison." American Journal of Sociology 89:612-50. [click here, JSTOR]

Xin, Xiaohui, and Thomas K. Rudel. 2004. "The Context for Political Corruption: A Cross-National Analysis." Social Science Quarterly 85:294-309. [click here]

III. Dummy Variable Regression Analysis

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "Black/White Differences in Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Loss among Older Adults." Research on Aging 26(6): 591-622. [click here]

Chayko, Mary. 1993. "How You "Act Your Age" When You Watch TV." Sociological Forum 8:573-93.

Mason, William M. 1973. "The Impact of Endorsements on Voting." Sociological Methods and Research 1:463-96.

Miller, Jerry L.L., and Maynard L. Erickson. 1974. "On Dummy Variable Regression Analysis: A Description and Illustration of the Method." Sociological Methods and Research 2:409-30.

Roos, Patricia A., and Joyce F. Hennessy. 1987. "Assimilation or Exclusion? Japanese and Mexican Americans in California." Sociological Forum 2:278-304.

Treiman, Donald J. 1966. "Status Discrepancy and Prejudice." American Journal of Sociology 71:651-64.

Watts, Harold W. 1964. "An Introduction to the Theory of Binary Variables (or all about Dummies)." Unpublished paper, University of Wisconsin.

IV. Factor Analysis

*Bonchek, Lisa. 1996. "The Confidence Map: Public Trust in Social, Political, and Economic Institutions." Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

Cerulo, Karen A. 1988. "Analyzing Cultural Products: A New Method of Measurement." Social Science Research 17:317-352.

Harmon, Harry H. 1960. Modern Factor Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Jackson, David J., and Edgar F. Borgatta. 1981. Factor Analysis and Measurement in Sociological Research: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Kelley, Jonathan. 1974. "The Politics of School Busing." Public Opinion Quarterly 38:23-39.

Kim, Jae-On. 1975. "Factor Analysis." Ch. 24 in Norman H. Nie, et al., SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Second edition. New York: McGraw Hill.

Kim, Jae-On, and Charles W. Mueller. 1978. Introduction to Factor Analysis: What it is and How to do it. Sage University Paper on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, 07-013. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Kim, Jae-On, and Charles W. Mueller. 1978. Factor Analysis: Statistical Methods and Practical Issues. Sage Paper 07-014. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Parcel, Toby L., and Charles W. Mueller. 1983. Ascription and Labor Markets: Race and Sex Differences in Earnings. New York: Academic Press. [Ch. 2]

Roos, Patricia A., and Donald J. Treiman. 1980. "DOT Scales for the 1970 Census Classification." Pp. 336-389 in Ann R. Miller, Donald J. Treiman, Pamela S. Cain, and Patricia A. Roos (eds.), Work, Jobs, and Occupations: A Critical Review of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Rummel, R.J. 1967. "Understanding Factor Analysis." Journal of Conflict Resolution 11:444-77.

V. Regression Standardization: Decomposition of Means

Althauser, Robert P., and Michael Wigler. 1972. "Standardization and Component Analysis." Sociological Methods and Research 1:97-135.

Conley, Dalton. 1999. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Ch. 2) [click here]

Duncan, Otis Dudley. 1968. "Inheritance of Poverty or Inheritance of Race?" Pp. 85-110 in Daniel P. Moynihan (eds.), On Understanding Poverty. New York: Basic Books.

Goldin, Claudia Goldin. 1990. Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. New York: Oxford University Press.

Iams, H.H., and A. Thornton. 1975. "Decomposition of Differences: A Cautionary Note." Sociological Methods and Research 3:341-52.

Jones, F.L., and Jonathan Kelley. 1984. "Decomposing Differences Between Groups: A Cautionary Note on Measuring Discrimination." Sociological Methods & Research 12 (February):323-343.

Oaxaca, Ronald. 1973. "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets." International Economic Review 14:693-709.

Parcel, Toby L., and Charles W. Mueller. 1983. Ascription and Labor Markets: Race and Sex Differences in Earnings. New York: Academic Press.

Phillips, Julie A. 2002. "Black, White, and Latino Homicide Rates: Why the Difference?" Social Problems 49:349-373. [click here]

Roos, Patricia A. 1981. "Sex Stratification in the Workplace: Male-Female Differences in Economic Returns to Occupation." Social Science Research 10:195-224.

Roos, Patricia A., and Joyce F. Hennessy. 1987. "Assimilation or Exclusion? Japanese and Mexican Americans in California." Sociological Forum 2:278-304.

Treiman, Donald J., and Patricia A. Roos. 1983. "Sex and Earnings in Industrial Society: A Nine-Nation Comparison." American Journal of Sociology 89:612-50. [click here, JSTOR]

Wellington, Alison J. 1994. "Accounting for the Male/Female Wage Gap Among Whites: 1976 and 1985." American Sociological Review 59:839-848.

Winsborough, H.H., and Peter Dickinson. 1971. "Components of Negro-White Income Differences." Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, Colorado, August.

VI. Path Analysis

Alwin, Duane, and Robert M. Hauser. 1975. "The Decomposition of Effects in Path Analysis." American Sociological Review 40:37-47.

Duncan, Otis Dudley. 1966. "Path Analysis: Sociological Examples." American Journal of Sociology 72:1-16.

Duncan, Otis Dudley. 1970. "Partials, Partitions, and Paths." Pp. 38-47 in Edgar Borgatta (ed.), Sociological Methodology: 1969. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Winship, Christopher and Robert D. Mare. 1983. "Structural Equations and Path Analysis for Discrete Data." American Journal of Sociology 89:54-110.

VII. Logistic Regression/Multinomial Logit

Agresti, Alan, and Barbara Finlay. 1986. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Second edition. San Francisco: Dellen Publishing Company. (Chapter 15).

Aldrich, John H., and Forrest D. Nelson. 1984. Linear Probability, Logit, and Probit Models. Series/Number 07-045. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Bielby, William T., and Denise D. Bielby. 1994. "'All Hits Are Flukes': Institutionalized Decision Making and the Rhetoric of Network Prime-Time Program Development." American Journal of Sociology 99:1287-1313.

Carr, Deborah. 1996. "Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980." Work and Occupations 23:26-53. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. 2003. "A "Good Death" for Whom? Quality of Spouse's Death and Psychological Distress among Older Widowed Persons." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44:215-232. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "The Desire to Date and Remarry among Older Widows and Widowers." Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 1051-68. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. 2004. “Gender, Pre-Loss Marital Dependence and Older Adults’ Adjustment to Widowhood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 220-35. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "‘My Daughter Has a Career - I Just Raised Babies’: Women’s Intergenerational Social Comparisons." Social Psychology Quarterly 67(2): 132-54. [click here]

Carr, Deborah. Forthcoming. "Parental Pride or Father-Son Rivalry? How Midlife Fathers Compare their Work and Family Lives with their Young Adult Sons." Journal of Marriage and Family. [click here]

Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman. "Is Obesity Stigmatizing? Body Weight, Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in the United States. [click here]

Cleary, Paul D., and Ronald Angel. 1984. "The Analysis of Relationships Involving Dichotomous Dependent Variables." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 25 (September):334-348.

DeMaris, Alfred. 1992. Logit Modeling: Practical Applications. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

DeMaris, Alfred. 1993. "Odds versus Probabilities in Logit Equations: A Reply to Roncek." Social Forces 71:1057-1065.

Elliot, James R., and Ryan A. Smith. 2001. "Ethnic Matching of Supervisors to Subordinate Work Groups: Findings on "Bottom-up" Ascription and Social Closure." Social Problems 48:258-276. [click here, Academic Search Premier]

Ellison, Christopher G. 1990. "Military Background, Racial Orientations, and Political Participation among Black Adult Males." Unpublished paper.

Ellison, Christopher G., and Bruce London. 1990. "Generations and Black Political Participation: Compensatory and Ethnic Community Theories Revisited." Revised version of a paper presented at the 1990 meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston.

Fligstein, Neil, and Peter Brantley. 1992. "Bank Control, Owner Control, or Organizational Dynamics: Who Controls the Large Modern Corporation." American Journal of Sociology 98 (September):280-307.

Fox, John. 1984. Linear Statistical Models and Related Methods, With Application to Social Research. New York: John Wiley.

Gatta, Mary L., and Patricia A. Roos. 2005. "Rethinking Occupational Integration." Forthcoming, Sociological Forum.

Hanushek, Eric A., and John E. Jackson. 1977. Statistical Methods for Social Scientists. New York: Academic Press. (Chapter 7)

Horwitz, Allan V., Cathy Spatz Widom, Julie McLaughlin, and Helene Raskin White. 2001. "The Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Adult Mental Health: A Prospective Study." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42:184-201.

Horwitz, Allan V., Tami M. Videon, Mark F. Schmitz, and Diane Davis. Forthcoming. "Rethinking Twins and Environments: Possible Social Sources for Assumed Genetic Influences in Twin Research." Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Idler, Ellen L., Stanislav V. Kasl, and Jon H. Lemke. 1990. "Self-Evaluated Health and Mortality among the Ederly in New Haven, Connecticut, and Iowa and Washington Counties, Iowa, 1982-1986." American Journal of Epidemiology 131:91-103.

Kalmijn, Matthijs. 1994. "Mother's Occupational Status and Children's Schooling." American Sociological Review 59:257-75.

Kmec, Julie A. 2005. "Setting Occupational Sex Segregation in Motion: Demand-Side Explanations of Sex Traditional Employment. Work and Occupations 32:322-354.

Kmec, Julie A. 2006. "White Hiring Agents' Organizational Practices and Out-Group Hiring." Social Science Research 35:668-701.

Liao, Tim Futing. 1994. Interpreting Probability Models: Logit, Probit, and Other Generalized Linear Models. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

McAdam, Doug. 1992. "Gender as a Mediator of the Activist Experience: The Case of Freedom Summer." American Journal of Sociology 97 (March):1211-40.

McDaniel, Patricia. 1994. "Pulling the Pursestrings: The Social Context of Religious Contributions in the United States." Unpublished paper, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

Menard, Scott. 1995. Applied Logistic Regression Analysis. Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Nee, Victor. 1991. "Social Inequalities in Reforming State Socialism: Between Redistribution and Markets in China." American Sociological Association 56:267-282.

Peterson, Trond. 1985. "A Comment on Presenting Results from Logit and Probit Models." American Sociological Review 50:130-131.

Phillips, Julie A. and Megan M. Sweeney. 2005. "Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Disruption among White, Black and Mexican American Women." Forthcoming in Journal of Marriage and Family. [logistic regression (event history) and decomposition]

Roncek, Dennis W. 1993. "When Will They Ever Learn that First Derivatives Identify the Effects of Continuous Independent Variables, or 'Officer, You Can't Give Me a Ticket, I Wasn't Speeding for an Entire Hour.'" Social Forces 71:1067-1078.

Rudel, Thomas K., Diane Bates, and Rafael Machinguiashi. 2002. "A Tropical Forest Transition? Agricultural Change, Out-Migration, and Secondary Forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 92:87-102.

Smith, D. Randall, Anthony Ciacciarelli, Jennifer Serzan, and Danielle Lambert. Forthcoming. "The Home Advantage Revisited: Winning and Crowd Support in an Era of National Publics. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 2003. [click here]

Smith, Ryan A. 2001. "Particularism in Control Over Monetary Resources at Work." Work and Occupations 28:447-468. [click here, American Search Premier]

Smith, Ryan A., and James R. Elliott. 2002. "Does Ethnic Concentration Influence Employees' Access to Authority? An Examination of Contemporary Urban Labor Markets." Social Forces 81:255-279. [click here, American Search Premier]

Steinmetz, George. 1990. "The Local Welfare State: Two Strategies for Social Domination in Urban Imperial Germany." American Sociological Review 55:891-911.

Stolzenberg, Ross M. 1979. "The Measurement and Decomposition of Causal Effects in Nonlinear and Nonadditive Models." Pp. 459-488 in Karl F. Schuessler (ed.), Sociological Methodology 1980. Jossey-Bass.

Swafford, Michael. 1980. "Three Parametric Techniques for Contingency Table Analysis: A Non-Technical Commentary." American Sociological Review 45:664-690.

Sweeney, Megan M., and Allan V. Horwitz. 2001. "Infidelity, Initiation, and the Emotional Climate of Divorce: Are There Implications for Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42:295-309.

Sweeney, Megan M. and Julie A. Phillips. 2004. "Understanding Racial Differences in Marital Disruption: Recent Trends and Explanations." Journal of Marriage and Family: 66: 639-650. [logistic regression (event history) and decomposition]

Wellington, Alison J. 1994. "Accounting for the Male/Female Wage Gap Among White: 1976 and 1985." American Sociological Review 59:839-848.

Wright, Rosemary, and Jerry A. Jacobs. 1994. "Male Flight From Computer Work: A New Look at Occupational Resegregation and Ghettoization." American Sociological Review 59:511-35.

VIII. Other Techniques

Idler, Ellen, Howard Leventhal, Julie McLaughlin, Elaine Leventhal. 2004. In Sickness but Not in Health: Self-ratings, Identity, and Mortality . Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45:336-356. [proportional hazards models]

Phillips, Julie A., Jane E. Miller, Joel Cantor and Dorothy Gaboda. 2004. "Context or Composition: What Explains Variation in SCHIP Disenrollment?" Health Services Research: 39(4): 865-885. [HLM analysis]