Readings/Lectures for Yu Xie's Part of the Course:

1. Decomposition/Standardization, Index of Dissimilarity

Duncan, O. D., & Duncan, B. 1955. “A methodological analysis of segregation analysis.” American Sociological Review, 20 (2), 210-217.

Lam, David , Deborah Levison . 1992. "Age, Experience, and Schooling: Decomposing Earnings Inequality in the United States and Brazil ." Sociological Inquiry, 62 (2): 218-45.

Zeng, Zhen and Yu Xie . 2004. “ Asian Americans' Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: The Role of Place of Education.” American Journal of Sociology 109:1075-1108.

Vaupel, J. W., & Yashin, A. I. 1985. “Heterogeneity ruses - Some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics.” American Statistician, 39 (3), 176-185.

Lecture 1 Slides

Lecture 2 Slides

Assignment 7

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2. Causal Inference

Duncan, O. D. 1966. Path analysis: sociological examples. The American Journal of Sociology, 72 (1), 1-16.

Winship, Christopher and Stephen L. Morgan. 1999. “The Estimation of Causal Effects From Observational Data.” Annual Review of Sociology 25:659-707.

Xie, Yu and Xiaogang Wu . 2005. “ Market Premium, Social Process, and Statisticism.” American Sociological Review . 70:865-870.

Harding, David J. "Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on High School Dropout and Teenage Pregnancy." American Journal of Sociology, 109 (3): 676-719. 2003.