Glenn Firebaugh

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Glenn Firebaugh is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania State University

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According to Wikipedia, Glenn Firebaugh is an American sociologist and leading international authority on social science research methods. Currently he is the Roy C. Buck Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. He has also held regular or visiting faculty appointments at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, Oxford University, and the University of Michigan. Firebaugh is best known for his contributions to statistical methods and for his research on global inequality. In 2018 he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the American Sociological Association for "a career of distinguished contributions to the field of sociological methodology." His publications are highly cited by other social scientists.

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2. Measures of Multigroup Segregation (2002) (610)
A Rule for Inferring Individual-Level Relationships from Aggregate Data (1978) (406)
Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales (2008) (352)
Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment (1992) (332)
Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World (1994) (323)
The geographic scale of Metropolitan racial segregation (2008) (301)
Trends in Antiblack Prejudice, 1972-1984: Region and Cohort Effects (1988) (296)
Empirics of World Income Inequality1 (1999) (244)
Analyzing Repeated Surveys (1997) (237)
Seven Rules for Social Research (2008) (224)
Race and space in the 1990s: changes in the geographic scale of racial residential segregation, 1990-2000. (2009) (178)
Trends in Global Gender Inequality (2010) (170)
Rural Development: Principles, Policies, and Management (1986) (168)
The New Geography of Global Income Inequality (2003) (156)
Does Foreign Capital Harm Poor Nations? New Estimates Based on Dixon and Boswell's Measures of Capital Penetration (1996) (155)
Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality1 (2004) (154)
Fixed Effects, Random Effects, and Hybrid Models for Causal Analysis (2013) (151)
The Trend in International Health Inequality (2004) (143)
Does Your Neighbor’s Income Affect Your Happiness?1 (2009) (134)
Surging environmentalism: changing public opinion or changing publics? (1994) (122)
Racial Variation in the Effect of Incarceration on Neighborhood Attainment (2013) (115)
Methods for estimating cohort replacement effects. (1989) (107)
User's Guide to Ratio Variables (1985) (104)
Racial Segregation and Inequality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Very Low-Birth-Weight and Very Preterm Infants (2019) (98)
Structural determinants of urbanization in Asia and Latin America 1950-1970 (1979) (82)
Trends in U.S. Church Attendance: Secularization and Revival, or Merely Lifecycle Effects? (1991) (82)
For blacks in America, the gap in neighborhood poverty has declined faster than segregation (2016) (81)
Where does social change come from? (1992) (78)
Vote Turnout of Nineteenth Amendment Women: The Enduring Effect of Disenfranchisement (1995) (73)
Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010 (2015) (67)
The Trend in Between-Nation Income Inequality (2000) (64)
Confidence in Science: The Gender Gap. (1992) (63)
Assessing Group Effects (1979) (57)
Sociological Methodology 1986. (1988) (52)
Danish Elections 1920-1979: A Logit Approach to Ecological Analysis and Inference. (1988) (42)
Scale Economy or Scale Entropy? Country Size and Rate of Economic Growth, 1950-1977 (1983) (39)
Peer Relations and School Resistance: Does Oppositional Culture Apply to Race or to Gender?. (2005) (39)
History, Population Policies, and Fertility Decline in Eastern Europe (2007) (36)
Response: Segregation and Social Distance—A Generalized Approach to Segregation Measurement (2002) (36)
Pinpointing the sources of the Asian mortality advantage in the USA (2015) (35)
Why did life expectancy decline in the United States in 2015? A gender-specific analysis. (2017) (32)
Americans' Belief in an Afterlife: Trends over the Past Two Decades (1993) (30)
Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States (2016) (28)
Who Supports Marketization and Democratization in Post-Communist Romania? (1998) (28)
Why Lifespans Are More Variable Among Blacks Than Among Whites in the United States (2014) (28)
A New Method for Determining Why Length of Life is More Unequal in Some Populations Than in Others (2012) (26)
THE ARTIFACT ISSUE IN DETERRENCE RESEARCH (1990) (25)
The Ratio Variables Hoax in Political Science (1988) (23)
Why the racial gap in life expectancy is declining in the United States (2014) (22)
A New Approach to Measuring Socio-Spatial Economic Segregation (2006) (20)
Changing Inequality (2013) (18)
Observed Trends in Between‐Nation Income Inequality and Two Conjectures1 (2000) (18)
Replication Data Sets and Favored-Hypothesis Bias (2007) (18)
The Case of the Missing-Values Card, and Other Mysteries: Another Look at the Effect of Government Spending on Income Inequality (1980) (16)
Does industrialization no longer benefit poor countries? A comment on arrighi, silver, and brewer, 2003 (2004) (15)
Will Bayesian Inference Help? A Skeptical View (1995) (15)
Commentary: 'Is the social world flat? W.S. Robinson and the ecologic fallacy'. (2009) (15)
Ecological Fallacy, Statistics of (2001) (14)
Level of Processing of Exports: New Estimates for 73 Less-developed Countries in 1970 and 1980 (1986) (14)
Is immigrant neighborhood inequality less pronounced in suburban areas? (2016) (14)
Population Density and Fertility in 22 Indian Villages (1982) (14)
Urbanization of the Nonfarm Population: A Research Note on the Convergence of Rich and Poor Nations (1984) (14)
10. Income, Age, and Happiness in America (2012) (12)
Using Ratio Variables to Control for Population Size (1986) (11)
Export upgrading, export concentration, and economic growth in less developed countries: A cross-national study (1987) (8)
The ASR Review Process (2001) (8)
Trends in Global Gender Inequality (Forthcoming, Social Forces). (2010) (8)
Residential Inequality (2015) (8)
Permanent migrants to cities in China: hukou origin and earnings among men in an era of economic transformation (2013) (7)
Chapter 11. The Future of Global Income Inequality (2003) (6)
The Narrowing Regional Gap in Church Attendance in the United States1 (2010) (5)
Twin consequences of rising U.S. death rates among young adults: Lower life expectancy and greater lifespan variability. (2019) (5)
Residential Inequality (2015) (5)
Defensible and Indefensible Commentaries (1987) (4)
Understanding the contribution of suicide to life expectancy in South Korea (2016) (4)
Are bad estimates good enough for the courts? : Discriminatory electoral practices, contextual effects, and a new double regression method for the courts (1993) (4)
REPLACEMENT EFFECTS, COHORT AND OTHERWISE: RESPONSE TO RODGERS (1990) (4)
Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends (2008) (4)
Global Income Inequality (2015) (3)
Income and Happiness in the United States (2005) (3)
Development Sociology As We Approach the 21st Century (1997) (3)
The Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in America (2013) (2)
The Effect of Absentee Ownership on Local Employment Change (2000) (2)
Chapter 4. Inequality: What It Is and How It Is Measured (2003) (1)
Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World (2012) (1)
Doing Social Science: Evidence and Methods in Empirical Research (2010) (0)
Decomposing Aggregate Trends (1997) (0)
The First Rule, from Seven Rules for Social Research (2008) (0)
Chapter 10. Causes of the Inequality Transition (2003) (0)
Errata (1979) (0)
A General Model for Decomposing Aggregate Change (1997) (0)
Online Resource 2 (2012) (0)
Is the density-fertility relation a statistical artifact?: A reply to eric Jensen (1986) (0)
Chapter 6. Income Inequality across Nations in the Late Twentieth Century (2003) (0)
Chapter 1. Massive Global Income Inequality: When Did It Arise and Why Does It Matter? (2003) (0)
How does incarceration affect where people live after prison, and does it vary by race? (2016) (0)
Chapter 9. Change in Income Inequality within Nations (2003) (0)
Comment: Implications of Implication Analysis (2008) (0)
Summary: Analyzing Social Change (1997) (0)
Chapter 7. Weighted versus Unweighted Inequality: Key to the Divergence Debate (2003) (0)
The urbanization of nations, 1950-1970 : an examination of the theory of "overurbanization" (1976) (0)
Detecting Change in Individual-Level Relationships (1997) (0)
Chapter 5. What We Already Know (2003) (0)
Book Review: A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (2006) (0)
Using Lorenz Curves and the Gini Index to Depict Inequality and Segregation for Multiple Groups (2015) (0)
Online Resource 1 (2012) (0)
Chapter 2. The Reversal of Historical Inequality Trends (2003) (0)
Chapter 8. Continental Divides: Asia, Africa, and the Reversal of the Trend (2003) (0)
Chapter 3. How Is National Income Measured, and Can We Trust the Data? (2003) (0)
Where Do They Live Now? Incarceration, Reentry, and Neighborhood Racial Composition (2011) (0)
Multiple Geographic Scales Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at (2011) (0)
Book Review: Alfred DeMaris Regression With Social Data: Modeling Continuous and Limited Response Variables, 2004 64 pp. $135.00. New York: John Wiley. ISBN 0471224855 (2009) (0)
Draft #1 – Please do not cite or quote without permission INCOME AND HAPPINESS IN THE UNITED STATES (2004) (0)
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence by Yi Feng: Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence . By Yi Feng . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+383. (2004) (0)
Seasonal Variability in Weight Gain Among Children: A Closer Examination of the Interaction Effects. (2021) (0)
Epilogue: Does Rising Income Bring Greater Happiness ? (2003) (0)

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