Glenn Firebaugh's Information
POSITION TITLE: Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Income inequality; health inequality; segregation research; income and happiness; statistics.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Demographic Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1976-1982 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
1982-1988 Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
1986-1988 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
1988-1992 Professor of Sociology; Senior Scientist, Population Issues Research Center, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, The Pennsylvania State University
1992-present Professor of Sociology; Senior Scientist, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
1997-2000 Editor, American Sociological Review
2004-2005 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University
2004-2006 Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Demography
2006-present Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1972-1976 NIMH Fellow in Quantitative Methods, Indiana University
1980-1985 Editorial Board, Sociological Methods and Research
1985-1987 Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology
1985-1988 Editorial Board, Social Forces
1985-1988 Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly
1986-1989 Editorial Board, ASA Rose Monograph Series
1988-1991 Editorial Board, Sociological Methodology
1995-1996 Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review
1995 Elected Member, Sociological Research Association
1997-2000 Editor, American Sociological Review
2000 Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, Penn State University
2001 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
2001 Best-Article Prize, Center for the Study of Social Inequality, Cornell University
2006 The New Geography of Global Income Inequality (2003). Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press: Finalist, Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
2007 Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
2008- Member, Organizing Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Firebaugh, G.
(1982).
"Population Density and Fertility in 22 Indian Villages."
Demography 19(4):481-494.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1983).
"Scale Economy or Scale Entropy? Country Size and Rate of Economic Growth, 1950-1977."
American Sociological Review 48:257-269.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1984).
"Urbanization of the Nonfarm Population: A Research Note on the Convergence of Rich and Poor Nations."
Social Forces 62:775-783.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
J.P. Gibbs
(1985).
"User's Guide to Ratio Variables."
American Sociological Review 50:713-722.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1986).
"Using Ratio Variables in the Analysis of Aggregates." In
von Saldern, M.
(Ed.)
, Mehrebenenanalysen-Beitrage Zur Erfassung Hierarchisch Strukturierter Realitat.
Weinheim:
Beltz.
Firebaugh, G.
and
B.P. Bullock
(1986).
"Level of Processing of Exports: New Estimates for 73 Less-Developed Countries in 1970 and 1980."
International Studies Quarterly 30:333-350.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
J.P. Gibbs
(1986).
"Using Ratio Variables to Control for Population Size."
Sociological Methods and Research 15:101-117.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
B.P. Bullock
(1987).
"Export Upgrading, Export Concentration, and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries."
Studies in Comparative International Development 22:87-109.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1988).
"The Ratio Variables Hoax in Political Science."
American Journal of Political Science 32:523-535.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
K.E. Davis
(1988).
"Trends in Antiblack Prejudice 1972-1984: Region and Cohort Effects."
American Journal of Sociology 94:251-72.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1989).
"Gender Differences in Exercise and Sports."
Sociology and Social Research 73:59-66.
Firebaugh, G.
(1989).
"Methods for Estimating Cohort Replacement Effects." In
Clogg, C.C.
(Ed.)
, Sociological Methodology.
Oxford:
Basil Blackwell.
(pp. 243-262)
Gibbs, J.P.
and
G. Firebaugh
(1990).
"The Artifact Issue in Deterrence Research."
Criminology 28:347-367.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
B. Harley
(1991).
"Trends in U.S. Church Attendance: Secularization and Revival, or Merely Life Cycle Effects?."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30:487-500.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1992).
"Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment."
American Journal of Sociology 98:105-130.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1992).
"Where Does Social Change Come From? Estimating the Relative Contributions of Individual Change and Population Turnover."
Population Research and Policy Review 11:1-20.
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Fox, M.F.
and
G. Firebaugh
(1992).
"Confidence in Science: The Gender Gap."
Social Science Quarterly 73:101-113.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1993).
"Are Bad Estimates Good Enough for the Courts?."
Social Science Quarterly 74(3):488-495.
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Harley, B.
and
G. Firebaugh
(1993).
"Americans' Belief in an Afterlife: Trends Over the Past Two Decades."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32:269-278.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
F.D. Beck
(1994).
"Has Economic Growth Benefited the Masses? Growth, Dependence and Welfare in the Third World."
American Sociological Review 59(5):631-653.
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Humphrey, C.R.
,
C.L. Kanagy
and
G. Firebaugh
(1994).
"Surging Environmentalism: Changing Public Opinion or Changing Publics?."
Social Science Quarterly 75:804-819.
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Kanagy, C.L.
,
G. Firebaugh
and
H.M. Nelsen
(1994).
"The Narrowing Regional Gap in Church Attendance in the United States."
Rural Sociology 59(3):515-524.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1995).
"Will Bayesian Inference Help? A Skeptical View."
Sociological Methodology 25:469-472.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
B. Harley
(1995).
"Trends in Job Satisfaction in the United States by Race, Gender, and Type of Occupation."
Research in the Sociology of Work 5:87-104.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
K. Chen
(1995).
"Vote Turnout of Nineteenth Amendment Women: The Enduring Effect of Disenfranchisement."
American Journal of Sociology 100(4):972-996.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1996).
"Does Foreign Capital Harm Poor Nations? New Estimates Based on Dixon and Boswell's Measures of Capital Penetration."
American Journal of Sociology 102(2):563-575.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1997).
Analyzing Repeated Surveys.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
Firebaugh, G.
(1997).
"Development Sociology as We Approach the Twenty-First Century."
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17:90-96.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
D.L. Haynie
(1997).
"Using Repeated Surveys to Study Aging and Social Change." In
Hardy, M.A.
(Ed.)
, Studying Aging and Social Change: Conceptual and Methodological Issues.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
(pp. 148-163)
Firebaugh, G.
and
D. Sandu
(1998).
"Who Supports Marketization and Democratization in Post-Communist Romania?."
Sociological Forum 13:521-541.
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Firebaugh, G.
(1999).
"Empirics of World Income Inequality."
American Journal of Sociology 104(6):1597-1630.
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Beck, F.D.
,
C.R. Humphrey
and
G. Firebaugh
(2000).
"The Effect of Absentee-ownership on Local Employment Change."
Sociological Focus 33:385-407.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2000).
"Introduction to the ASR Millennial Issue."
American Sociological Review 64:v-vi.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2000).
"Looking Forward, Looking Back: Continuity and Change at the Turn of the Millennium."
American Sociological Review 64.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2000).
"Observed Trends in Between-Nation Income Inequality, and Two Conjectures."
American Journal of Sociology 106(1):215-221.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2000).
"Trends in Between-Nation Income Inequality."
Annual Review of Sociology 26:323-339.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2001).
"The ASR Review Process."
American Sociological Review 66(4):619-621.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2001).
"Ecological Fallacy - Statistics of." In
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Pergamon Press.
Reardon, S.F.
and
G. Firebaugh
(2002).
"Measures of Multigroup Segregation."
Sociological Methodology 32:33-67.
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Reardon, S.F.
and
G. Firebaugh
(2002).
"Response: Segregation and Social Distance -- A Generalized Approach to Segregation Measurement."
Sociological Methodology 2002 32:85-101.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2003).
The New Geography of Global Income Inequality.
Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2003).
"The New Geography of Income Distribution in the World [in German]." In
Miller, W.
and
S. Scherer
(Eds.)
, Expanding Markets, Welfare State Retrenchment, and Their Impact on Social Stratification.
Frankfurt:
Campus-Verlag.
Firebaugh, G.
(2004).
"Does Industrialization No Longer Benefit Poor Countries? A Comment on Arrighi, Silver, and Brewer, 2003."
Studies in Comparative International Development 39(1):99-105.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
B. Goesling
(2004).
"Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality."
American Journal of Sociology 110(2):283-312.
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Goesling, B.
and
G. Firebaugh
(2004).
"The Trend in International Health Inequality."
Population and Development Review 30(1):131-146.
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Bradatan, C.
and
G. Firebaugh
(2007).
"History, Population Policies, and Fertility Decline in Eastern Europe: A Case Study."
Journal of Family History 32(2):179-192.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2007).
"Income Inequality, Global." In
Ritzer, G.S.
(Ed.)
, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing.
Firebaugh, G.
(2007).
"Replication Data Sets and Favored-Hypothesis Bias: Comment on Jeremy Freese (2007) and Gary King (2007)."
Sociological Methods and Research 36(2):200-209.
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Firebaugh, G.
and
B. Goesling
(2007).
"Globalization and Global Inequalities." In
, The Blackwell Companion to Globalization.
Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2008).
"Implications of Implication Analysis."
Sociological Methodology 38:51-58.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2008).
Seven Rules for Social Research.
Princeton University Press.
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Lee, B.A.
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S.F. Reardon
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G. Firebaugh
,
C.R. Farrell
,
S.A. Matthews
and
D. O'Sullivan
(2008).
"Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales."
American Sociological Review 73(5):766-791.
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Reardon, S.F.
,
S.A. Matthews
,
D. O'Sullivan
,
B.A. Lee
,
G. Firebaugh
,
C.R. Farrell
and
K. Bischoff
(2008).
"The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation."
Demography 45(3):489-514.
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Firebaugh, G.
(2009).
"Is the Social World Flat? W.S. Robinson and the Ecological Fallacy."
International Journal of Epidemiology 38(2):368-370.
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Reardon, S.F.
,
C.R. Farrell
,
S.A. Matthews
,
D. O'Sullivan
,
K. Bischoff
and
G. Firebaugh
(2009).
"Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000."
Social Science Research 38(1):55-70.
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