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Unions, norms, and the rise in U.S. wage inequality by Western, Bruce, Rosenfeld, Jake

“…"From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this…”
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Great Recession, The by Grusky, David B, Western, Bruce, Wimer, Christopher

“…Officially over in 2009, the Great Recession is now generally acknowledged to be the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression. As a…”
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The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences by Redburn, Steve, Western, Bruce, Travis, Jeremy

“…After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades…”
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Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification by Western, Bruce, Bloome, Deirdre, Sosnaud, Benjamin, Tach, Laura

“…Economic insecurity describes the risk of economic loss faced by workers and households as they encounter the unpredictable events of social life. Our review…”
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Study retention as bias reduction in a hard-to-reach population by Western, Bruce, Braga, Anthony, Hureau, David, Sirois, Catherine

“…Collecting data from hard-to-reach populations is a key challenge for research on poverty and other forms of extreme disadvantage. With data from the Boston…”
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Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners by Western, Bruce

“…Men and women who go to prison are poor and involved in violence. This article explores the connection between poverty and violence for a sample of former…”
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Multicollinearity and Model Misspecification by Winship, Christopher, Western, Bruce

“…Multicollinearity in linear regression is typically thought of as a problem of large standard errors due to near-linear dependencies among independent…”
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Life During COVID for Court-Involved People by PLUMMER, SAMANTHA, ITTNER, TIMOTHY, MONREAL, ANGIE, SANDELSON, JASMIN, WESTERN, BRUCE

“…Data from a unique survey of court-involved New Yorkers collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 provides evidence for a cycle of disadvantage involving…”
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Clustering of health burdens in solitary confinement: A mixed-methods approach by Jahn, Jaquelyn L., Bardele, Nicolette, Simes, Jessica T., Western, Bruce

“…Research on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement has contributed to restrictions on its use, particularly for people with serious mental…”
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Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison by Western, Bruce

“…A large social science research literature examines the effects of prisons on crime and socioeconomic inequality, but the penal institution itself is often a…”
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Poverty in America: New Directions and Debates by Desmond, Matthew, Western, Bruce

“…Reviewing recent research on poverty in the United States, we derive a conceptual framework with three main characteristics. First, poverty is…”
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Racialized Re-entry: Labor Market Inequality After Incarceration by Western, Bruce, Sirois, Catherine

“…Why do some people succeed in the labor market after incarceration but others do not? We study the transition from prison to work with data on monthly…”
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Incarceration & social inequality by Western, Bruce, Pettit, Becky

“…In the last few decades, the al contours of American social inequality have been transformed by the rapid growth in the prison and jail America's prisons and…”
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The Black Family and Mass Incarceration by Western, Bruce, Wildeman, Christopher

“…Released in 1965, the Moynihan Report traced the severe social and economic distress of poor urban African Americans to high rates of single-parenthood…”
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Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children by Western, Bruce, Smith, Natalie

“…The negative effects of incarceration on child well-being are often linked to the economic insecurity of formerly incarcerated parents. Researchers caution,…”
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Social capital in the creation of cultural capital: Family structure, neighborhood cohesion, and extracurricular participation by An, Weihua, Western, Bruce

“…Past research has found that participation in extracurricular activities helps develop children's cultural capital that is crucial to both education and career…”
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Incarceration in Fragile Families by Wildeman, Christopher, Western, Bruce

“…Since the mid-1970s the U.S. imprisonment rate has increased roughly fivefold. As Christopher Wildeman and Bruce Western explain, the effects of this sea…”
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Discrimination in a low-wage labor market: A field experiment by Pager, Devah, Western, Bruce, Bonikowski, Bart

“…"Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study…”
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Bayesian Posterior Predictive Checks for Complex Models by Lynch, Scott M., Western, Bruce

“…In sociological research, it is often difficult to compare nonnested models and to evaluate the fit of models in which outcome variables are not normally…”
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9. Variance Function Regressions for Studying Inequality by Western, Bruce, Bloome, Deirdre

“…Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences, yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual inequality. Residual…”
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