Scott Eliason

Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1989 Pennsylvania State University
Room 1070 Social Sciences
tel.: 612-624-5006
email: elias026@umn.edu
web: http://www.soc.umn.edu/~eliason/

Interest Areas

Quantitative Methodology; Work, Occupations, and Labor Markets; Stratification; Life Course.

Selected Current Research

Gender and Labor Market Attainments, with Professor Melissa Bonstead-Bruns (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire). This project focuses on how gender of job tasks and gender of individuals interact to impact the distribution of labor market attainments, such as market wages.

The Life Course of Political Participation and Partisanship: Assessing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Late 20th Century Europe, with Professor Robin Stryker and Eric Tranby. This project is supported by the Life Course Center and focuses on the separate and combined effects that an individual’s age, historically situated time period, and birth cohort has on gender differences in political participation and partisanship in Europe.

The Welfare State and Gendered Labor Markets: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Alternative Mechanisms Producing Female-Specific Labor Demand and Labor Supply, with Professor Robin Stryker and Eric Tranby. This project extends our research on the welfare state, gendered labor markets and political orientations (Stryker and Eliason 2002), by expanding our fuzzy-set analyses of the causal logic linking public sector size and public provision of day care with female labor force participation in OECD countries.

Latent Life Paths and Attainments in the Youth Development Survey with Professor Jeylan Mortimer, Jeremy Staff, Jennifer Lee, and Eric Tranby. This project builds on the latent life path approach of Macmillan and Eliason (2003) to investigate the role of probabilistically distributed pathways from adolescence to early adulthood in influencing early market attainments.

Diagnostics and Guidelines for Numerical and Asymptotic Approximations in Generalized Regression Models. This project, with Michael Massoglia, focuses on assessing how well data support the estimation of various models using maximum likelihood estimators

Selected Recent Publications

"The Welfare State, Gendered Labor Markets and Aggregate Political Orientations in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Britain, 1977-1994," with Robin Stryker. 2003. European University Institute. Gender Studies Program Working Paper Series.

"Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach," with Ross Macmillan. 2003. Chapter in Handbook of the Life Course, Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Current Issues in the Study of the Labor Force, with Clifford C. Clogg (posthumous) and Kevin T. Leicht. 2000. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.