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John Robert "Rob" Warren

Portrait: John Robert 'Rob' Warren

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Acting Director, Minnesota Population Center
Ph.D. 1998 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Room 1172 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-2310
Email: warre046@umn.edu
Website: www.soc.umn.edu/~warre046/

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Social Inequality; Education; Aging and the Life Course; Health Disparities.

Current Research

Educational Policies and Educational and Labor Market Success: A series of ongoing projects are designed to assess the effects of high school exit examinations, course graduation requirements, voter-approved operating levies and other policies on high school completion, educational achievement, and post-high school labor market outcomes.

Work and Family across the Life Course: Using data on more than 10,000 Wisconsin high school graduates and their siblings who have been interviewed periodically between 1957 and 2004, I plan to model the impact of work and family across the life course on health, well-being, financial security, and other outcomes in late adulthood.

Panel Conditioning Effects in Longitudinal Studies: How does participating in a long-term longitudinal study alter individuals' attitudes and behaviors—or at least their propensity to accurately report those attitudes and behaviors?

Selected Publications

"Changes in Health Between Ages 54 and 66: The Role of Job Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status," with Peter Hoonakker and Pascale Carayon. 2008. Research on Aging 30:672-700.

"State Exit Exams Harm the Students Who Fail Them and Do Not Benefit the Students Who Pass Them. Now What?" with Eric S. Grodsky. 2009. Phi Delta Kappan 90: 645-649.

"Socioeconomic Status and Health across the Life Course: A Test of the Social Causation and Health Selection Hypotheses." 2009. Social Forces.87: 2125-2154.

"Measuring High School Graduation Rates at the State Level: What Difference Does Methodology Make?" with Andrew Halpern-Manners. Forthcoming. Sociological Methods & Research.

"Changes in Health Between Ages 54 and 66: The Role of Job Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status," with Peter Hoonakker and Pascale Carayon. 2008. Research on Aging 30:672-700.

"Testing and Social Stratification in American Education," with Eric Grodsky and Erika Felts. 2008. Annual Review of Sociology 34:385-404.