The Harvard University Department of Sociology

METHODS

"A Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age-Period-Cohort Models"with David J. Harding. Sociological Methods & Research, 2008.

Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research with Stephen L. Morgan. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

"Causal Inference in Sociological Studies," with Michael Sobel in Handbook of Data Analysis, Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman, eds., Sage Publications, 2004.

"Sample Selection Bias Models," with Vincent Kang Fu and Robert Mare in Handbook of Data Analysis, Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman (eds.), Sage Publications, 2004.

"Latent Class Models for Contingency Tables With Missing Data," with Robert D. Mare and John Robert Warren in Applied Latent Class Analysis, Jacques A. Hagenaars and Allan L. McCutcheon, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"Modeling Social Interdependence: Is It in the Structure or in Our Hearts?" with Lin Tao, in Sociological Methodology Michael E. Sobel and Mark P. Becker, eds., 2001.

"Commentary: Estimating Causal Effects," with Felix Elwert in International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001.

"Sample Selection Bias," with Robert D. Mare, in Encyclopedia of Sociology (volume 4), Edgar F. Borgatta & Rhonda J. Montgomery (eds.), Macmillan Reference, 2000.

"Sampling Weights and Regression in Analysis" with Larry Radbill. Sociological Methods & Research, 1999.

"The Estimation of Causal Effects From Observational Data" with Stephen L. Morgan. Annual Review of Sociology, 1999.

"Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis," with Larry Radbill, Sociological Methods & Research, 1994.

"A Logit Model with Interactions for Predicting Major Gift Donors," with Wesley E. Lindahl, Research in Higher Education, 1994.

"Models for Sample Selection Bias," with Robert D. Mare, Annual Review of Sociology, 1992.

"Predictive Models for Annual Fundraising and Major Gift Fundraising," with Wesley E. Lindahl, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1992.

"Loglinear Models for Reciprocal and Other Simultaneous Effects," with Robert D. Mare, Sociological Methodology, Peter V. Marsden (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1991.

"Loglinear Models with Missing Data: A Latent Class Approach," with Robert Mare in Sociological Methodology, Clifford C. Clogg (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1991.

"Endogenous Switching Regression Models for the Causes and Effects of Discrete Variables," with Robert D. Mare, Common Problems in Quantitative Social Research, J. Scott Long ed., Sage Press, 1988.

"Heterogeneity, and Interdependence: A Test Using Survival Models," Sociological Methodology, Nancy B. Tuma (ed.), Jossey-Bass, 1986.

"Regression Models with Ordinal Variables," with Robert D. Mare in American Sociological Review, 1984.

"Structural Equations and Path Analysis for Discrete Data," with Robert D. Mare, American Journal of Sociology, 1983.

"The Welfare Approach to Measuring Inequality," with Joseph Schwartz, Sociological Methodology , Karl Schuessler ed., Jossey-Bass, 1980.

"The Desirability of Using the Index of Dissimilarity or any Adjustment of It for Measuring Segregation: Reply to Falk, Cortese, and Cohen," Social Forces, 1978.

"A Revaluation of Indexes of Residential Segregation," Social Forces, 1977.

 

 


 

 

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