Robert Denis Mare
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
Ph. D., University of Michigan
Office: 264 HAINES
Phone: 310-825-5585
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
mare@ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Stratification/Mobility; Demography; Quantitative Methodology
Research Interests
My work focuses on three areas: (1) dynamic analysis of residential mobility and residential segregation; (2) educational assortative mating and marriage markets; (3) the joint analysis of social mobility, fertility, marriage, and other demographic processes.
Selected Publications
Mare, R. D. 1981. "Change and Stability in Educational Stratification." American Sociological Review 46: 72-87.
Winship, C., and R. D. Mare. Mare, R. D., and C. Winship. 1984. "The Paradox of Lessening Racial Inequality and Joblessness among Black Youth: Enrollment, Enlistment, and Employment, 1964-1981." American Sociological Review 49: 39-55.
Mare, R. D., C. Winship, and W. N. Kubitschek. 1984. "The Transition from Youth to Adult: Understanding the Age Pattern of Employment." American Journal of Sociology 89: 326-358
Gamoran, A., and R. D. Mare. 1989. "Secondary School Tracking and Stratification: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?" American Journal of Sociology 94: 1146-1183.
Mare, R. D. 1991. "Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating." American Sociological Review 56: 15-32.
Mare, R. D. 1995. "Changes in Educational Attainment and School Enrollment." Pp. 155-213 in R. Farley (ed.), State of the Union: America in the 1990s. Volume I: Economic Trends. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Mare, R. D. 1997. "Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Educational Mobility, and Racial Inequality." Social Science Research 26: 263-91.
Musick, K., and R. D. Mare. 2004. “Family Structure, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Reproduction of Poverty: Evidence for Increasing Polarization?” Demography 41: 629-48.
Schwartz, C. R., and R. D. Mare. 2005. "Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage from 1940 to 2003." Demography 42: 621-46.
Mare, R. D., and H.-C. Chang. 2006. “Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions.” Pp. 195-231 in G. Fields, D. B. Grusky, and S. L. Morgan (eds.) Frontiers in Economic and Social Mobility. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Mare, R. D., and V. Maralani. 2006. “The Intergenerational Effects of Changes in Women’s Educational Attainments.” American Sociological Review.
Bruch, E. E., and R. D. Mare. 2006. "Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change." American Journal of Sociology.
Jackson, M., and R. D. Mare. 2007. "Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Measurements of Neighborhood Experience and Their Effects on Children." Social Science Research 36: 590-610.
Bruch, E. E., and R. D. Mare. Forthcoming. “Segregation Processes.” In P. Bearman and P. Hedström (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford University Press.
Grants
(Selected)
"A Survey Module on Families and Social Mobility." (with R. M. Hauser) National Science Foundation, 1994-97.
“California Census Research Data Center.” (Co-PI, with J. Hotz, H. Brady, and D. Card) National Science foundation, 1998-.
“UCLA Population Training Program.” National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development 2001-2006.
“California Center for Population Research.” National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development. 2001-2006.
“UCLA Project on Spatial Aspects of Inequality.” Russell Sage Foundation, 2001-2005. (with A. Pebley, J. Hotz, J. Currie, M. Phillips, N. Sastry)
“Dynamic Models of Race and Income Segregation.” Dissertation Support Grant for Elizabeth Bruch. National Science Foundation, 2004-06.
“Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change: Evaluating Dynamic Models of Residential Segregation.” (with R. Berk and E. Bruch) National Science Foundation, 2004-06.
Awards
Awards and Other Activities (Selected)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1983-84.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1994-95.
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award, American Sociological Association Section on Methodology, 1999.
Director, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, 1989-94.
Visiting Senior Social Scientist, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 1994-95.
Visiting Professor, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Summer 1997.
Editor, Demography, 1995-98.
Director, California Center for Population Research, 1998-2003.
Governing Board, NORC General Social Survey, 1999-2008; Chair, 2004-08.
National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment, 1999-2002.
Member, National Institute Health, Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods Integrated Review Group, Member, 2000-2003.
Member, Social Environment Working Group, National Children’s Study, 2001-04.
Member, Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 2006-
President, Research Committee on Social Stratification of the International Sociological Assocaition (RC28), 2006-
Visiting Fellow, New College, University of Oxford, 2007
Robert Park Best Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Community and Urban Sociology, 2006 (with E. Bruch).
James S. Coleman Best Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Rationality and Society, 2005-07 (with E. Bruch).
American Journal of Sociology Roger Gould Prize, 2006-07 (with E. Bruch).
Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2008-.
President-Elect, Population Association of America, 2009.
Grad Students
(Current Ph.D. Candidates Supervised)
Kate Choi
Bongoh Kye
Claudia Solari
(Completed Ph.D.'s Supervised -- UCLA)
Jennifer Flashman. 2009. You've Got a Friend: Adolescent Friendship Choices, Dynamics, and Implications for Future Stratification. (Prize Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Vanesa Estrada. 2007. Race and the American Dream: Homeownership Transitions in the US, 1968-2003. (NIH Postdoctoral Fellow RAND; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Riverside)
David Cort. 2007. The Impact of Background Factors and Acculturation Types on the Well-Being of Second Generation Immigrant Children. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Massachussetts, Amherst)
Margot I. Jackson. 2007. Short and Long Term Social Determinants and Consequences of Child Health. (Postdoctoral Fellow, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Brown University).
Vida Maralani. 2006. Intergenerational Aspects of Educational Inequality. (Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Yale University)
Christine R. Schwartz. 2006. Union Formation and Dissolution, Educational Assortative Mating, and Inequality in the United States. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Elizabeth E. Bruch. 2006. Ethnic and Economic Factors in Segregation Processes. (Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Michigan)
Vincent Kang Fu. 2003. Regional and Ethnic Variation in Intermarriage and Social Boundaries. (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah)
Nelson Lim. 2000. Employers' Attitudes, Social Division of Labor, and Human Resource Practices in Hiring Low-Skilled Labor (Associate Social Scientist, RAND, Santa Monica)
(Completed Ph.D.'s Supervised -- University of Wisconsin)
Meichu Chen. 2000. Marital Quality and Well-Being. (Visiting Assistant Professor, Tung-hai University, Taiwan; Research Associate, Population Research Center, University of Texas)
Wendy Y. Carter. 1997. The Effects of Changing Family Structures on Educational Outcomes of Black and White American Cohorts: 1908-1969. (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Phoenix)
Hsiu-Jen Yeh. 1995. Trends in Status Homogamy in the United States for Married and Cohabiting Couples: 1960-1990. (Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Kurt J. Bauman. 1995. Family Background and Racial Differences in Educational Attainment: Explaining the Black Net Educational Advantage. (Population Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census)
Hanam Phang. 1995. A Dynamic Study of Women's Labor Market Transitions over the Early Life Course: Cohort Trends, Racial Differentials, and Determinants. (Research Associate, Korean Labor Institute)
Peter Tiemeyer. 1993. Racial Differences in the Transition to Stable Employment Among Young Men. (Information Technology Department, RR Donnelly)
Meei-Shenn Tzeng. 1993. Labor Market Experiences and Socioeconomic Effects on Marital Dissolution. (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, McGill University)
Cherng-Tay James Hsueh. 1992. Sibling Resemblance in Educational Attainment : An Investigation of the Effects of Family Background. (Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University.)
Yu Xie. 1989. The Process of Becoming a Scientist. (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan)
Arthur Sakamoto. 1988. Occupational Effects on Earnings and Poverty Among Prime-Age Men. (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas)
(Completed Masters Supervised -- UCLA)
Laura Bekes. 2007. Private School Attendance and Racial Avoidance by Asian Americans.
Jennifer Flashman. 2005. Delayed Selection: Changes in the Process of College Choice for Men and Women.
Claudia Solari. 2005. The Impact of Housing Overcrowding on Child Academic Achievement.
Margot Jackson. 2004. Understanding the Effects of Neighborhoods on Children: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Measures of the Neighborhood Experience.
Jane Jun. 2003. A Discrete Time Hazard Analysis of Educational Persistence in Los Angeles and the United States.
Vanesa Estrada. 2003. Race-Ethnic Prejudice and Neighborhood Quality Effects on Residential Mobility Decisions: Evidence from the Los Angeles Survey of Families and Neighborhoods.
Elizabeth E. Bruch. 2001. Preferences, Populations, and Residential Segregation: A Computational Approach.
Vida Maralani. 2001. From GED to College: The Influence of Age on the Decision to Enter College.
Christine R. Schwartz. 2001. The Determinants of Educational Assortative Mating: A Cohort Perspective.
Melissa Chiu. 2000. Leaving Home in Indonesia: Gender, Autonomy, and the Transition to Adulthood.
Adam Miller. 2000. A Longitudinal Study of the Returns to Elite Education: The Case of African Americans.
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