Jason Beckfield
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jason Beckfield is an American sociologist. He is the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Early life Jason Beckfield was born to Cathy and Albert Beckfield in 1976. He grew up in Joplin, Missouri and graduated from Truman State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Published Works
- Power and Position in the World City System1 (2004) (412)
- Comparative Welfare States Data Set (2004) (390)
- Inequality in the World Polity: The Structure of International Organization (2003) (317)
- Epi + demos + cracy: linking political systems and priorities to the magnitude of health inequities--evidence, gaps, and a research agenda. (2009) (292)
- Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975–2001 (2005) (266)
- European Integration and Income Inequality (2006) (216)
- Does Income Inequality Harm Health? New Cross-National Evidence∗ (2004) (176)
- An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health (2015) (170)
- Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda. (2018) (170)
- Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-being in Less-developed Countries, 1980–2003 (2007) (167)
- The Social Structure of the World Polity1 (2010) (159)
- Intercity Relations and Globalisation: The Evolution of the Global Urban Hierarchy, 1981—2007 (2010) (144)
- The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies (2007) (126)
- Exactly How Has Income Inequality Changed? (2005) (112)
- The unique impact of abolition of Jim Crow laws on reducing inequities in infant death rates and implications for choice of comparison groups in analyzing societal determinants of health. (2013) (111)
- Health Inequalities in Global Context (2013) (99)
- US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy (2020) (98)
- The Dual World Polity: Fragmentation and Integration in the Network of Intergovernmental Organizations (2008) (88)
- A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network (2009) (87)
- Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s? (2019) (83)
- Shorter lives in stingier states: Social policy shortcomings help explain the US mortality disadvantage. (2016) (74)
- Healthcare Systems in Comparative Perspective: Classification, Convergence, Institutions, Inequalities, and Five Missed Turns. (2013) (67)
- Age at menarche: 50-year socioeconomic trends among US-born black and white women. (2015) (65)
- Who, and what, causes health inequities? Reflections on emerging debates from an exploratory Latin American/North American workshop (2010) (62)
- Jim Crow and Premature Mortality Among the US Black and White Population, 1960–2009: An Age–Period–Cohort Analysis (2014) (61)
- Depressed during the depression: has the economic crisis affected mental health inequalities in Europe? Findings from the European Social Survey (2014) special module on the determinants of health (2017) (59)
- Recessions, job loss, and mortality among older US adults. (2014) (59)
- How Development Matters (2008) (54)
- Remapping Inequality in Europe (2009) (51)
- 50-year trends in US socioeconomic inequalities in health: US-born Black and White Americans, 1959-2008. (2014) (49)
- Power and Position in the World City System, 1981‐2000 (2007) (46)
- Political Sociology and the People's Health (2018) (33)
- Health and the Social Rights of Citizenship: Integrating Welfare-State Theory and Medical Sociology (2011) (30)
- Institutions, Incorporation, and Inequality: The Case of Minority Health Inequalities in Europe (2018) (24)
- Can changes in the distributions of and associations between education and income bias temporal comparisons of health disparities? An exploration with causal graphs and simulations. (2013) (23)
- Reply: Whither the Parallel Paths? The Future of Scholarship on the World City System1 (2006) (22)
- Unequal Europe (2019) (19)
- How social policy contributes to the distribution of population health: the case of gender health equity (2018) (18)
- Epi + demos + cracy: A Critical Review of Empirical Research Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities (2009) (16)
- The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Cross-national Analysis of Mental Health and Unemployment (2017) (15)
- Are inequities decreasing? Birth registration for children under five in low-income and middle-income countries, 1999–2016 (2019) (14)
- Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010 (2016) (13)
- Empowering Health: A Comparative Political Sociology of Health Disparities (2009) (13)
- History, haldanes and health inequities: exploring phenotypic changes in body size by generation and income level in the US-born White and Black non-Hispanic populations 1959-1962 to 2005-2008. (2013) (12)
- Who benefits from social investment? The gendered effects of family and employment policies on cardiovascular disease in Europe (2019) (11)
- The health of European populations: introduction to the special supplement on the 2014 European Social Survey (ESS) rotating module on the social determinants of health (2017) (9)
- Trading Equality for Health? Evaluating the Trade-off and Institutional Hypotheses on Health Inequalities in the Global South (2017) (9)
- Epi 1 demos 1 cracy: Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities—Evidence, Gaps, and a Research Agenda (2009) (9)
- The Dual World Polity: Fragmentation and Integration in Intergovernmental Organizations (2008) (8)
- Corporate Networks of World Cities (2011) (8)
- The End of Equality in Europe (2013) (8)
- Contextualizing Disparities: The Case for Comparative Research on Social Inequalities in Health. (2014) (8)
- Reproductive Justice and the Pace of Change: Socioeconomic Trends in US Infant Death Rates by Legal Status of Abortion, 1960-1980 (2015) (7)
- Income Inequality Trends in Core Societies (2005) (7)
- Organized Labor in European Countries, 1960–2006: Persistent Diversity and Shared Decline (2011) (7)
- Making a Case for Genetics: Interdisciplinary Visions and Practices in the Contemporary Social Sciences (2015) (6)
- REGIONALIZATION AND RETRENCHMENT : THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON THE WELFARE STATE * (2008) (6)
- Working Mothers and the Welfare State (review) (2008) (5)
- New Measures of Economic Insecurity Reveal its Expansion Into EU Middle Classes and Welfare States (2021) (5)
- Why history matters for quantitative target setting: Long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960–2010) (2015) (4)
- Health Inequalities: What do we know and what do we need to know? (2020) (4)
- THE SOCIOECONOMIC GRADIENT IN HEALTH : A CROSS-NATIONAL VARIABLE * (2008) (4)
- Analyzing and improving national and local child protection data in Nepal: A mixed methods study using 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data and interviews with 18 organizations. (2019) (4)
- Rising inequality is not balanced by intergenerational mobility (2019) (4)
- Chen et al. respond to "Bias in socioeconomic health disparities--comments". (2013) (3)
- U.S. state policy contexts and mortality of working-age adults (2022) (3)
- “Registries are not only a tool for data collection, they are for action”: Cancer registration and gaps in data for health equity in six population‐based registries in India (2020) (3)
- The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Advanced Democracies (2007) (3)
- Comment on Anton Hemerijck/3. More Europe, Not Less: Reversing the Long, Slow Decline of the European Social Model (2012) (2)
- THE GREAT U-TURN : INCOME INEQUALITY (2002) (2)
- Job security provisions and work hours (2017) (2)
- Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality. (2021) (2)
- Working Mothers and the Welfare State By Kimberly J. Morgan Stanford University Press, 2006. 250 pages. $55 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) (2007) (2)
- cracy : Linking Political Systems and Priorities to the Magnitude of Health Inequities — Evidence , Gaps , and a Research Agenda (2009) (2)
- Gender, Development and Democracy: Re-examining the Variation in Women's Cross-National Legislative Representation (2006) (2)
- The Stanford center on poverty and inequality (2016) (2)
- Review of Sociological Views of Political Participation in the 21st Century, edited by Betty A. Dobratz, Timothy Buzzell, and Lisa K. Waldner (2003) (1)
- Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility.By Neil Gilbert. Oxford University Press, 2002. 208 pp. $29.95 (2003) (1)
- Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 10: Sociological Views on Political Participation in the Twenty-First Century (2003) (1)
- Development and Democracy Matter for Women: A Research Note on the Determinants of Women’s Political Representation (2008) (1)
- Review of The Globalization of Nothing, by George Ritzer (2007) (1)
- A Novel Use of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Patterns of Workplace Hazards among Informally Employed Domestic Workers in 14 Cities, United States, 2011-2012. (2022) (1)
- REGIONALIZATION AND CONVERGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION* (2007) (1)
- The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution. By Pablo Beramendi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 320p. $99.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. (2014) (1)
- Re‐Stratified Europe: The Impact of Regional Integration on Economic Convergence, Income Inequality, and Total Economic Inequality in the European Union (2010) (1)
- Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (review) (2003) (1)
- Review of By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections, by John Gastil (2002) (1)
- Organized Labor in an Evolving Europe (2011) (1)
- New Europe: Growth to Limits? (2012) (1)
- New Questions and Answers about Embodied Social Inequalities (2018) (0)
- Development, Democracy and Women’s Legislative Representation: Re‐Visiting Existing Explanations of Gender Variation in the World’s Parliaments (2007) (0)
- Review of Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work‐Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States, by Kimberly J. Morgan (2007) (0)
- APSR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS, 2008–2009 (2009) (0)
- The Transnationalization, Regionalization and Globalization of Politics (2010) (0)
- The Globalization of Nothing (2007) (0)
- European Integration and Welfare State Convergence (2011) (0)
- Climate change: how to pack a punch at meetings (2020) (0)
- Matters of Life and Death: Resurrecting European Healthcare Systems (2014) (0)
- Why history matters for quantitative target setting: Long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960–2010) (2015) (0)
- European Integration and an Institutional Theory of Inequality (2019) (0)
- An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health (2015) (0)
- Review of The Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility, by Neil Gilbert (2003) (0)
- The Welfare State Matters: Integrating Welfare State Theories into Medical Sociology (2011) (0)
- Macroeconomic and Institutional Determinants of Population Health in Europe and the U.S. (2014) (0)
- How Hazardous is Moral Hazard? Stratified Sickness Absence in European Welfare States, 1992-2006 (2010) (0)
- Why Welfare-State Scholars Should Care about Health: Opportunities for Theoretical Development (2016) (0)
- Wealth, Health Care and the Welfare State: The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on Health (2010) (0)
- Trading Equality for Health? Social Inequalities in Child Mortality in Developing Nations (2012) (0)
- Review of Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States, edited by Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow (2010) (0)
- Key Concepts, Measures, and Data (2018) (0)
- Workplace hazards and health among informally employed domestic workers in 14 cities, United States, 2011-2012: using four approaches to characterize workers' patterns of exposures (2022) (0)
- But seriously: what can we do to reduce health inequalities? (2017) (0)
- Breaking the Mold (2019) (0)
- Liberal State Policies Improve Life Expectancy (2020) (0)
- Migrant Health in Europe: A Cross-national Analysis of the "Healthy Immigrant Effect" (2012) (0)
- SOCIOLOGY 2009 SENIOR THESIS WRITERS (2009) (0)
- Core Societies Exactly How Has Income Inequality Changed? : Patterns of Distributional Change in (2013) (0)
- Changing the Rules of the Game to Build the European Economy (2019) (0)
- Julia Lynch (2020), Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, £75.00, pp. 294, hbk. (2021) (0)
- Categorical Data Analysis (2001) (0)
- Scientific Challenges to Engaging Political Sociology and Social Epidemiology (2018) (0)
- AgeatMenarche:50-YearSocioeconomicTrendsAmong US-BornBlackandWhiteWomen (2015) (0)
- Climate change: how to pack a punch at meetings (2020) (0)
- The European Polarization of Income Distributions (2019) (0)
- Review of The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe, by Daniele Caramani (2005) (0)
- Health Inequalities in Global Context The Harvard made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2017) (0)
- Acknowledgments to Referees (2016) (0)
- The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe. By Daniele Caramani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+347. $75.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). (2005) (0)
- Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States. Edited by Kees van Kersbergen and Philip Manow. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+304. $24.99 (paper). (2010) (0)
- The institutional foundations of medicalization: a comparative approach to medicalizing unemployment (2015) (0)
- The QuieT RevoluTion in housing Policy is it Working ? Was it a Wrong Turn ? Where to go From here ? (2013) (0)
- Recessions, Job Loss, and Mortality (2014) (0)
- Policy Brief (2017) (0)
- Social and Economic Aspects of Globalization (2008) (0)
- Conclusion (2019) (0)
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