John Robert Warren Professor University of Minnesota Department of Sociology & Minnesota Population Center 909 Social Sciences ~ 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 612.624.2310 (Office) ~ 612.624.7020 (FAX) Click Here to Email Me Current CV

(Page 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

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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