The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Recent Writing and Other Sources

Short Pieces

From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry

Reentry: Reversing Mass Imprisonment

Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, October 7, 2007 —
Click here for the hearings.

Podcast of presentation on “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration”
at the conference on The Moynihan Report Revisited

Report on the Evaluation of the ComALERT Prisoner Reentry program

Income Inequality

“Inequality Among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005.” (With Deirdre Bloome and Christine Percheski.)

The Social Impact of the U.S. Penal System

Introduction to Gresham’s Sykes’s The Society of Captives (Princeton University Press, new edition).

Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Click here for the Introduction.

Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. 2005. “Black-White Earnings Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration.” American Journal of Sociology 111:553-578.

Western, Bruce. 2002. “The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality.” American Sociological Review.” American Sociological Review 67:526-546.

Unions and Industrial Relations

"Unions, Norms, and Wage Inequality" (with Jake Rosenfeld)

Data Appendix for “Unions, Norms, and Wage Inequality”

Henry S. Farber and Bruce Western . 2002. “Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Declining Union Organization.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 40:385-402.

Henry S. Farber and Bruce Western. 2001. “Accounting for the Decline of Unions in the Private Sector, 1973-1998.” Journal of Labor Research 22:459-486.

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Methods

Western, Bruce and Filiz Garip. 2005. “Bayesian Analysis of Comparative Survey Data.” WinBUGS code for this paper are available here.

Western, Bruce and Meredith Kleykamp. 2004. “A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis.” R code, WinBUGS code, and data for this paper are contained in the files: western.web.zip.

Lynch, Scott and Bruce Western. 2004. “Bayesian Predictive Checks for Nonstandard Models.” Sociological Methods and Research 301-335.

Western, Bruce. 2001. “Bayesian Thinking about Macrosociology.” American Journal of Sociology 107:353-78.

Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research: A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach. American Journal of Political Science 42:1233-1259 (1998). Some BUGS files for the analysis of this paper are available here.

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