Harvard Department of Sociology





Home Page Curriculum Vitae Recent Writing: Income Inequality Social Impact of U.S. Penal System Unions and Industrial Relations Methods	Recent writing and Other Resources Short Pieces Does Mass Incarceration Make Us Safer? (from the web site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard) 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. Pettit, Becky and Bruce Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69:151-69. 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 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. back to top 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. back to top	Contact 617-495-3879 (Phone) 617-496-5794 (FAX) 430 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Office Hours Tuesday 1-3pm Staff Contact Dorothy Friendly