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John Robert Warren Professor University of Minnesota Department of Sociology & Minnesota Population Center 909 Social Sciences ~ Minneapolis, MN 55455 612.624.2310 (Office) ~ 612.624.7020 (FAX) |
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last updated 12/23/11)
Interest Areas
Social Stratification; Sociology of
Education
Current Research
THE
WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY (with several colleagues, mostly in
Wisconsin)
About 10,000 members of Wisconsin’s high school class of
1957 have been surveyed periodically since 1957. In 2010 we are re-interviewing the graduates
and a randomly selected sibling as part of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
(WLS). WLS data have long been a
cornerstone of research on social stratification, and are an important resource
for understanding processes related to aging, careers, retirement, the family,
health, and more. This project is
supported by several grants from the National Institute on Aging.
WORK
AND FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE (with Jim Raymo)
Using data from the WLS, we are modeling the impact of work
and family roles and conditions across the life course on health, well-being,
financial security, and other outcomes in late adulthood. This project is supported by the National
Institute on Aging.
INTEGRATING,
HARMONIZING, AND LINKING DATA FROM THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY (with
Sarah Flood)
Despite the longitudinal design of the Current Population
Survey (CPS), researchers have almost exclusively analyzed these data as though
they were collected through a series of cross-sectional surveys. With support from the National Institute for
Child Health and Human Development, we are developing integrated data,
dissemination software, and associated metadata that will make longitudinal
analyses of CPS data radically easier.
We will freely disseminate fully harmonized and linked CPS data through
an innovative user interface that will dramatically simplify and improve
search, discovery, research design, and data access. We will provide researchers with flexible
access to integrated and well-documented longitudinal data across all CPS
surveys, including all surviving basic monthly surveys and all topical
supplements.
PANEL
CONDITIONING EFFECTS IN LONGITUDINAL STUDIES (with Andrew
Halpern-Manners and Florencia Torche)
How does participating in a long-term longitudinal study
alter individuals’ attitudes and behaviors—or at least their propensity to
report those attitudes and behaviors accurately? To address this issue we are using data from
the Current Population Survey, the German Socioeconomic Panel, the General
Social Survey, and other surveys. This
project has been supported by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.
SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY INFORMATION SYSTEM (w/ Salvatore Saporito)
We are creating a new database of school attendance
boundaries for the country's largest school districts. The National Science Foundation has provided
funds for work on the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS).
With the assistance of William & Mary undergraduate student researchers,
our team will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to map school
attendance boundaries for 800 of the largest school districts nationwide. This
will allow users to map Census or ACS data onto school attendance boundaries. As a result,
researchers can characterize the populations that live within those
areas (and will no longer need to use census tracts or Zip Codes as proxies).
Recent Papers
FORTHCOMING
John
Robert Warren and Andrew Halpern-Manners. “Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal
Social Science Surveys.” Sociological Methods & Research ![]()
Andrew
Halpern-Manners and John Robert Warren. “Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal
Studies: Evidence from Labor Force Items in the Current Population Survey.” Demography
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Florencia Torche,
John Robert Warren, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Eduardo Valeenzuela. “Panel
Conditioning in a Longitudinal Study of Chilean Adolescents' Substance Use:
Evidence from an Experiment.” Social Forces ![]()
Andrew
Halpern-Manners and John Robert Warren. “High-Stakes Testing and the Rise of the
GED.” Chapter to appear in Studies of the
GED Testing Program, edited by James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries and
Nicholas Mader. ![]()
Warren, John
Robert. “What Do Growing Childhood Socioeconomic Inequalities Mean for the
Future of Inequalities in Adult Health?” Chapter to appear in Living in a High Inequality Regime,
edited by David Grudsky and Alair Maclean. New York: Russell Sage. ![]()
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
James
Raymo, John Robert Warren, Megan Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and JeongHwa Ho. 2011.
“Precarious Employment, Bad Jobs, Labor Unions, and Retirement.” Journals of
Gerontology: Social Sciences 66B: 249-259.
James M. Raymo, John R.
Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeong-Hwa Ho. 2010. “Later-life
Employment Preferences and Outcomes: The Role of Mid-life Work Experiences.” Research
on Aging 32:419-466.
John Robert Warren and
Caitlin Hamrock. 2010. “The Effect of Minimum Wage Rates on States’ High School
Completion Rates.” Social Forces 88: 1379-1392.
John Robert Warren & Eric
S. Grodsky. 2009. “State Exit Exams Harm
the Students Who Fail Them and Do Not Benefit the Students Who Pass Them. Now
What?” Phi Delta Kappan 90: 645-649.
Andrew Halpern-Manners, John
Robert Warren, and Jennie Brand. 2009. “Dynamic Measures of Primary and
Secondary School Characteristics: Implications for School Effects Research.” Social
Science Research 38:397-411.
John Robert Warren. 2009.
“Socioeconomic Status and Health across the Life Course: A Test of the Social
Causation and Health Selection Hypotheses.” Social Forces.87: 2125-2154.
John Robert Warren &
Andrew Halpern-Manners. 2009. “Measuring High School Graduation Rates at the
State Level: What Difference Does Methodology Make?” Sociological Methods
& Research 38:3-37.
Eric Grodsky, John Robert
Warren, & Demetra Kalogrides. 2009. “State High School Exit Examinations
and NAEP Long-Term Trends in Reading and Mathematics, 1971-2004.” Educational
Policy 24: 589-614.
UNDER REVIEW
Warren, Robert E.
& John Robert Warren. “Annual Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant
Population in the United States, by State: 1990 to 2010.” ![]()
John
Robert Warren, James Raymo, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Julia Goldberg. “The
Impact of Work and Family Trajectories on Economic Well-Being at Older Ages:
New Insights on Cumulative Stratification.” ![]()
Caren
Arbeit and John Robert Warren. “Wage Penalties for Foreign Degrees Among
College Educated Immigrants.” ![]()
Saliba, Jim and
John Robert Warren. “In What Contexts Do People Support Raising Taxes? Voter
Support for School Funding Referenda.” ![]()
Warren, John
Robert, Laurie Knies, Steven Haas, and Elaine Hernandez. “The Role of Childhood
Sickness in Stratifying Adult Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Late 19th
Century America.” ![]()
IN PROGRESS
Grodsky, Eric,
John Robert Warren, Stephanie DeLuca, and Regina Deil-Amen. Reconsidering College Enrollment for All:
Exploring Multiple Pathways to Successful Adulthood.
John Robert
Warren, Abby Hagel, Salvatore Saporito, and Jean Forster. “Are ZIP Codes and
Census Tracts Suitable Proxies for School Attendance Areas?”
Raymo, James, John
Robert Warren, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Julia Goldberg. “The Impact of Work
and Family Trajectories on Health at Older Ages.”
John Robert
Warren, James Raymo, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Ti-Fen Yeh. “The Impact of
Work and Family Trajectories on Mortality: New Insights on Cumulative
Stratification.”
Warren, John
Robert & Jim Saliba. “School Non-Promotion Rates in the United States:
Estimates by State, Year, and Demographic Group.”
Warren, John
Robert, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Florencia Torche. “Panel Conditioning in
Surveys of Crime and Deviance: An Experiment.”
Palloni, Alberto,
James Raymo, John Robert Warren, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and Liying Luo. “A
Comparison of Alternative Methods for Describing Life Course Trajectories.”
Flood, Sarah,
Julia Drew, and John Robert Warren. “Making Full Use of the Longitudinal Design
of the Current Population Survey: Methods for Linking Records Across 16
Months.”
Warren,
John Robert, Laurie Knies, Steven Haas, and Elaine Hernandez. “The Impact of
Family Socioeconomic Resources on Childhood Health: Evidence from Late 19th
Century America.”
Pudrovska, Tetyana,
John Robert Warren, James Raymo, and Andrew Halpern-Manners. “Employment
Histories and Cognition in Late Mid-life.”
Courses
RESEARCH
METHODS (Sociology 3801, Undergraduate Level)
(Fall 2006 Syllabus)
STATISTICS
(Sociology 3811, Undergraduate Level)
(Spring
2006 Syllabus)
STATISTICS
(Sociology 5811, Graduate Level)
(Fall
2010 Syllabus)
STATISTICS
(~Sociology 8811, Graduate Level)
(Spring 2001 Syllabus)
SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION (~Sociology 3201, Undergraduate Level)
(Summer 2001 Syllabus)
SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION (Sociology 8201, Graduate Level)
(Spring
2004 Syllabus)
SOCIOLOGY
AS A PROFESSION (Sociology 8001, Graduate Level)
(Fall
2010 Syllabus)
Service
1. I
am the Minnesota Population Center’s Training Director. Click here
for information about the Population Studies Minor.
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