Quantitative Social Science

Volume One: Overview and Research Design
PART ONE: THEORY AND DEBATES
What Is Wrong with 'Variable Sociology'? - Hartmut Esser
Socio-Logic - Michael Mann
Causation, Statistics and Sociology - John H Goldthorpe
Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing - Ann Oakley
Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science
The Philosophical Foundations of Darwinism - Ernst Mayr
Barking up the Wrong Branch - Stanley Lieberson and Freda B Lynn
Scientific Alternatives to the Current Model of Sociological Science
PART TWO: CAUSAL INFERENCE
Statistics and Causal Inference - Paul W Holland
Causal Inference in the Social Sciences - Michael E Sobel
The Estimation of Causal Effects from Observational Data - Christopher Winship and Stephen L Morgan
PART THREE: OBSERVATIONAL VERSUS EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Economics - Bruce D Meyer
Choice as an Alternative to Control in Observational Studies - Paul R Rosenbaum
Statistics in Epidemiology - Norman E Breslow
The Case-Control Study
Moving to Opportunity in Boston - Lawrence F Katz, Jeffrey R Kling and Jeffrey B Liebman
Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
PART FOUR: ROLE OF TIME AND SPACE
Of Time and Space - Andrew Abbott
The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School
The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change - Norman B Ryder
Time, Human Agency and Social Change - Perspectives on the Life-Course - Glen H Elder Jr
Job Relocation and the Racial Gap in Unemployment in Detroit and Chicago - Ted Mouw
PART FIVE: GENETIC BASIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Genotype-Environment Interaction and Correlation in Analysis of Human Behavior - Robert Plomin, J C DeFries and John C Loehlin
Sibling Models and Data in Economics - Beginnings of a Survey - Zvi Griliches
PART SIX: LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals - W S Robinson
Comparative Sociology and the Comparative Method - Charles C Ragin
Rule for Inferring Individual-Level Relationships from Aggregate Data - Glenn Firebaugh
Social Change, the Social Organization of Families and Fertility Limitation - William G Axinn and Scott T Yabiku
PART SEVEN: INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE APPROACH
Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables - Joshua D Angrist, Guido W Imbens and Donald B Rubin
Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable Is Weak - John Bound, David A Jaeger and Regina M Baker
Volume Two: Data Quality
PART ONE: SAMPLING DESIGN AND WEIGHTING
Inference from Complex Samples - L Kish and M R Frankel
Regression Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys - D Holt, T M F Smith and P D Winter
PART TWO: SURVEYS AND QUESTIONS
The Life History Calendar - Deborah Freedman et al
A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data
The Science of Asking Questions - Nora Cate Schaeffer and Stanley Presser
Judgment in a Social Context - Biases, Shortcomings and the Logic of Conversation - Norbert Schwarz
Problems in the Use of Survey Questions to Measure Public Opinion - Howard Schuman and Jacqueline Scott
Integration of Fieldwork and Survey Methods - Sam D Sieber
PART THREE: ARCHIVAL, TEXTUAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
English Population History from Family Reconstitution - Summary Results 1600-1799 - E A Wrigley and Roger S Schofield
The Press as a Source of Socio-Historical Data - Issues in the Methodology of Data Collection from Newspapers - Roberto Franzosi
Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871 - Roger V Gould
PART FOUR: SUMMARY MEASURES
A Methodological Analysis of Segregation Analysis - Otis Dudley Duncan and Beverly Duncan
Measures of Inequality - Paul D Allison
Measures of Multigroup Segregation - Sean F Reardon and Glenn Firebaugh
PART FIVE: SCALING AND INDEXING
Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix - Donald T Campbell and Donald W Fiske
Conventional Wisdom on Measurement - A Stuctural Equation Perspective - Kenneth Bollen and Richard Lennox
The Essential Process in a Family of Measurement Models - Geoffrey N Masters and Benjamin D Wright
PART SIX: MISSING DATA
Handling Missing Data in Survey Research - J Michael Brick and Graham Kalton
Regression with Missing X's - A Review - Roderick J A Little
An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data - The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics - John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt
Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins - Orly Ashenfelter and Alan Krueger
PART SEVEN: CONTEXTUAL AND NETWORK DATA
Social Contagion and Innovation - Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence - Ronald S Burt
Community and Contraceptive Choice in Rural Thailand - Barbara Entwisle et al
A Case Study of Nang Rong
Ecometrics - Stephen W Raudenbush and Robert J Sampson
Toward a Science of Assessing Ecological Settings with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighbourhoods
Concurrent Partnerships and the Spread of HIV - Martina Morris and Mirjam Kretzschmar
Volume Three: Data Analysis I
PART ONE: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Sunset Salvo - John W Tukey
The Electronic Frontier - Exploring and Mapping Cyberspace - Michael Batty and Bob Barr
How Should We Measure 'Change' - Or Should We? - Lee J Cronbach and Lita Furby
Parental Divorce and Outcomes for Children - Maire Ni Bhrolchain et al
Evidence and Interpretation
Making the Most of Statistical Analyses - Gary King, Michael Tomz and Jason Wittenberg
Improving Interpretation and Presentation
PART TWO: COVARIATES AS CONTROLS IN OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES
Analysis of Covariance - Its Nature and Uses - William G Cochran
Sex Differences in Research Productivity - Yu Xie and Kimberlee A Shauman
New Evidence about an Old Puzzle
Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score - Paul R Rosenbaum and Donald B Rubin
PART THREE: DEMOGRAPHIC APPROACH
Heterogeneity Ruses - Some Surprising Effects of Selection on Population Dynamics - James W Vaupel and Anatoli I Yashin
Differential Fertility, Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Racial Inequality - Robert D Mare
PART FOUR: BAYESIAN APPROACH
Bayesian Analysis - James O Berger
A Look at Today and Thoughts of Tomorrow
Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research - Adrian E Raftery
Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research - Bruce Western
A Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling Approach
Why Isn't Everyone a Bayesian? - Bradley Efron
PART FIVE: STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS
Path Analysis - Otis Dudley Duncan
Sociological Examples
The Decomposition in Effects of Path Analysis - Duane F Alwin and Robert M Hauser
Recent Developments in Structural Equation Modeling - Karl G J[um]oreskog and Dag S[um]orbom
A Model of Stratification with Response Error in Social and Psychological Variables - Robert M Hauser, Shu Ling Tsai and William H Sewell
Latent Variables in Psychology and the Social Sciences - Kenneth A Bollen
Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economics - James J Heckman
A Twentieth Century Retrospective
PART SIX: ANALYSIS OF CONTINGENCY TABLES
Using Association Models in Sociological Research - Some Examples - Clifford C Clogg
The Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables - Yu Xie
PART SEVEN: DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS
Multinomial and Conditional Logit Discrete-Choice Models in Demography - Saul D Hoffman and Greg J Duncan
Opportunity and Choice in Socially Structured Labor Markets - John A Logan
Individual-Level Models for Mobility Tables in Other Cross-Classifications - Richard Breen
Volume Four: Data Analysis II
PART ONE: MULTI-LEVEL MODELS
A Hierarchical Model for Studying School Effects - Stephen Raudenbush and Anthony S Bryk
Multilevel Models in the Study of Dynamic Household Structures - Harvey Goldstein et al
PART TWO: META ANALYSIS
Fixed- and Random-Effects Models in Meta-Analysis - Larry V Hedges and Jack L Vevea
PART THREE: ANALYSIS OF PANEL DATA
Panel Models in Sociological Research - Charles N Halaby
Theory into Practice
The Effect of Arrests on Crime - A Multivariate Panel Analysis - David F Greenberg and Ronald C Kessler
Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions - Richard B Freeman
PART FOUR: GROWTH-CURVE ANALYSIS
Integrating Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Analyses - Bengt Muth[ac]en and Linda K Muth[ac]en
Growth Mixture Modeling with Latent Trajectory Classes
Application of Hierarchical Linear-Models to Assess Change - Anthony S Bryk and Stephen W Raudenbush
PART FIVE: ANALYSIS OF EVENT HISTORY DATA
Discreet Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories - Paul D Allison
Dynamic Analysis of Event Histories - Nancy Brandon Tuma, Michael T Hannan and Lyle P Groeneveld
PART SIX: SAMPLE SELECTION MODELS
An Introduction to Sample Selection Bias in Sociological Data - Richard A Berk
Models for Sample Selection Bias - Christopher Winship and Robert D Mare
Anatomy of the Selection Problem - Charles F Manski
Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Dissolution - A Matter of Self-Selection - Lee A Lillard, Michael J Brien and Linda J Waite
PART SEVEN: LATENT CLASS MODELS
How Many Latent Classes of Delinquent/Criminal Careers? Results from Mixed Poisson Regression Analyses - Amy V D'Unger et al
A Latent Class Analysis of Tolerance for Nonconformity in the American Public - Allan L McCutcheon
PART EIGHT: SPATIAL AND NETWORK MODELS
Under the Hood - Issues in the Specification and Interpretation of Spatial Regression Models - Luc Anselin
Beyond Social Capital - Robert J Sampson, Jeffrey D Morenoff and Felton Earls
Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children