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John Robert Warren Associate Professor ~ Director of Undergraduate Studies 909 Social Sciences ~ 612.624.2310 (Office) ~ 612.624.7020 (FAX) Current CV
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Interest Areas
Social Stratification; Sociology of
Education
Current Research
This long-term project is designed to assess the consequences of
state-mandated high school exit examinations for high school completion,
educational achievement, and post-high school labor market outcomes. This project has been supported by grants
from the Spencer Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education /
Click here
to be directed to the “State High School Exit Examination” web site.
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? To
address this question I am using data from the Youth Development Study and an
experimental research design. This
project is currently being supported by the National Science Foundation.
ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS: CONSEQUENCES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE (with Jennie
Brand, UCLA)
Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (including annual
information about respondents’ elementary and secondary school
characteristics), I am examining the life-long consequences of elementary and
secondary school attributes and resources.
This project is currently being supported by the Spencer Foundation.
THE
We plan to continue the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) with a
major round of data collection, 52 years after the high school graduation of
the original 10,317 participants. We will exploit the unique scientific value
of the WLS to pursue a broad agenda of research on social, psychological,
biological, and economic factors in health and aging. New survey and biomedical data, along with
the life-long data of the WLS, will resolve old questions and open new areas of
interdisciplinary inquiry in life course research. We are planning in-home interviews of 8,500
surviving men and women who were first surveyed as seniors in high school in
1957 and were followed up in 1964, 1975, 1993, and 2003-06; they will be about
70 years old when re-contacted. We are
also planning (a) physical examinations, in collaboration with the Survey of
Health Outcomes in Wisconsin; (b) parallel in-home interviews of about 5,500
randomly selected siblings of the graduates, mainly aged 60 to 80; (c) parallel
in-home interviews with spouses of graduates and siblings; (d) interviews with
adult children of WLS graduates and siblings; and (e) continuing links to
Medicare/Medicaid records and to the National Death Index. The WLS is unique as
a large scale longitudinal study of adults and their families that covers more
than half a century. It is a valuable public resource for studies of aging and
the life course; intergenerational relationships; family relations;
non-normative parenting outcomes (disabilities and mental illness among adult
children); long-term effects of education and cognitive ability; occupational
careers; physical and mental well-being; health literacy; cognitive change; and
morbidity and mortality.
Click here to go to the WLS website.
WORK AND
FAMILY ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE (with Jim Raymo, UW-Madison)
Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we plan to
investigate the extent to which work and family trajectories across the life
course affect physical and mental health and financial well-being in later
adulthood either directly or through their effects on more proximate predictors
of these outcomes. Grant proposals are
now under review.
Recent Papers
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
John Robert Warren & Andrew
Halpern-Manners. 2007. “Is the Glass Emptying or Filling Up? Reconciling
Divergent Trends in High School Completion and Dropout” Educational
Researcher 36:335-343. (Click
here for
the technical appendix)
John Robert Warren & Rachael Kulick.
2007. “Modeling States’ Enactment of High School Exit Examination Policies.”
Social Forces 86:215-230.
Jennie Brand, John
Robert Warren, Peter Hoonakker, & Pascale Carayon. 2007. “Sibling Models of
the Role of Job Characteristics in Mediating SES-Health Relationships.” Social
Science Research 36:222-253.
John Robert Warren, Krista N. Jenkins,
& Rachael Kulick. 2006. “High School Exit Examinations and State-Level
Completion and GED Rates, 1975-2002.” Educational Evaluation and Policy
Analysis 28:131-152.
John Robert Warren & Emily F.
Cataldi. 2006. “A Historical Perspective on High School Students’ Paid
Employment and Its Consequences for High School Dropout.” Sociological Forum
21:113-143.
John Robert Warren. 2005. “
FORTHCOMING
John Robert Warren & Elaine M.
Hernandez. “Did Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Morbidity Change in
the 
John Robert Warren, Eric S. Grodsky,
& Jennifer C. Lee. “
UNDER REVIEW
John Robert Warren, Peter Hoonakker,
& Pascale Carayon. “Changes in Health Between Ages 54 and 66: The Role of
Job Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status.”
John Robert Warren. “Socioeconomic Status and Health across the
Life Course: A Test of the Social Causation and Health Selection Hypotheses.”
Eric S. Grodsky, John Robert Warren,
& Demetra Kalogrides. “
John Robert Warren
& Andrew Halpern-Manners. “Measuring High School Graduation Rates at the
State Level: What Difference Does Methodology Make?”
Eric S. Grodsky, John Robert Warren, and
Erika Felts. “Testing and Social Stratification American Education.”
Andrew
Halpern-Manners & John Robert Warren. “Changes in the Labor Market Returns
to Obtaining a GED after the 2002 Test Revisions.” 
John Robert Warren
& Amelia Corl. “
IN PROGRESS
2007 RC-28 PAPER: Elaine Hernandez
& John Robert Warren. “The Effects of Macro- And Individual-Level
Socioeconomic Status on Child Mortality in
2007 ASA &
RC-28 PAPER: Andrew Halpern-Manners & John Robert Warren. “Measuring Primary
and Secondary School Characteristics: A Group-Based Modeling Approach.”
Courses
RESEARCH
METHODS (Sociology 3801, Undergraduate Level) (Fall 2006
Syllabus)
STATISTICS (Sociology
3811, Undergraduate Level) (Spring 2006 Syllabus)
STATISTICS (Sociology
5811, Graduate Level) (Fall 2006 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 2006 Syllabus)
Service
1.
I am the deputy editor of Sociology of Education.
Click here to go to the journal web site.
2.
I organize the Department of Sociology’s weekly workshop
series. Click here
to go to the workshop schedule.
3.
I am the Department of Sociology’s Director of Undergraduate
Studies. Click here
for information about the department’s undergraduate program.
Personal Stuff
- I have a lovely wife and two awesome
sons. Click here for a picture.
- I play for Nemesis in the Adult (ice)
Hockey Association. Click here to follow our progress. Click here for my statistics.
- The Chicago Cubs will win the 2008 World Series. Click here to follow their progress. AC006299 EAMUS
CATULI
- The St. Paul Saints will win the 2008 American Association
championship. Click here
to follow their progress.
- In February of 2007 I jumped into a frozen
