Books:
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2005.
On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Go to the Stanford UP website or Amazon to order a copy.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Christopher Winship. 2007.
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Go to the Cambridge UP website or Amazon to order a copy.
Click here for known errata.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Christopher Winship. 2015.
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Go to the Cambridge UP website or Amazon to order a copy.
Click here for known errata.
Edited Volumes:
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Kalleberg, Arne L., Stephen L. Morgan, John F. Myles, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld, eds. 2004.
Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms: Essays in Honor of Aage B. Sørensen.
Published as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 21. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Go to the Elsevier website or Amazon to order a copy.
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Morgan, Stephen L., David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds. 2006.
Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Go to the Stanford UP website or Amazon to order a copy.
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Morgan, Stephen L., ed. 2013.
Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research. New York: Springer.
Go to the Springer website or Amazon to order a copy.
Click here for the Table of Contents and Introduction to the volume.
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Alexander, Karl and Stephen L. Morgan, eds. 2016.
The Coleman Report and Educational Inequality Fifty Years Later.
Volume 2, Issue 5, of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Go to the Russell Sage Foundation website to download the volume.
Articles and Book Chapters (chronological within substantive area):
Education
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Morgan, Stephen L. 1996.
"Trends in Black-White Differences in Educational Expectations, 1980-1992."
Sociology of Education 69:308-319.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 1998.
"Adolescent Educational Expectations: Rationalized, Fantasized, or Both?"
Rationality and Society 10:131-62.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sørensen. 1999.
"Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman's Social Capital Explanation of School Effects."
American Sociological Review 64:661-681.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Aage B. Sørensen. 1999.
"Theory, Measurement, and Specification Issues in Models of Network Effects on Learning."
American Sociological Review 64:649-700.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2000.
"Social Capital, Capital Goods, and the Producation of Learning"
Journal of Socio-Economics 29:591-5.
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Sørensen, Aage B. and Stephen L. Morgan. 2000.
"School Effects: Theoretical and Methodological Issues."
Pp. 137-160 in Maureen T Hallinan, ed., Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2001.
"Counterfactuals, Causal Effect Heterogeneity, and the Catholic School Effect on Learning."
Sociology of Education 74: 341-374.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2002.
"Modeling Preparatory Commitment and Non-Repeatable Decisions: Information Processing, Preference Formation, and Educational Attainment."
Rationality and Society 14:387-429.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2004.
"Methodologist as Arbitrator: Five Models for Black-White Differences in the Causal Effect of Expectations on Attainment."
Sociological Methods and Research. 33:3-53.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jal D. Mehta. 2004.
"Beyond the Laboratory: Evaluating the Survey Evidence for the the Disidentification Explanation of Black-White Differences in Achievement?"
Sociology of Education 77:82-101.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Young-Mi Kim. 2006.
"Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States."
Pp. 165-94 in Morgan, Stephen L, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results and details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2006.
"Expectations and Aspirations."
In George Ritzer, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Mark W. McKerrow. 2007.
"Human Capital Development and the Frontiers of Research in the Sociology of Education."
Pp. 185-225 in Garnett Picot, Ron Saunders, and Arthur Sweetman, eds., Fulfilling Potential, Creating Success: Perspectives on Human Capital Development. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jennifer J. Todd. 2009.
"Intergenerational Closure and Academic Achievement in High School: A New Evaluation of Coleman's Conjecture."
Sociology of Education 82:267-86.
See also the online Appendix with additional results and details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2012. "Models of College Entry in the United States and the Challenges of Estimating Primary and Secondary Effects."
Sociological Methods and Research 41:17-56.
[As of the publication date of this article, Sociological Methods and Research has required that authors post data and analysis code to a website in order to enable replication of all results in an article. A Stata 11 data (.dta) file and corresponding analysis (.do) file are available here as a zip file. These two files are also supposed to be available on the Sociological Methods and Research website, but last I checked they were not made available by the publisher.]
- Morgan, Stephen L., Michael W. Spiller, and Jennifer J. Todd. 2013.
"Class Origins, High School Graduation, and College Entry in the United States."
Pp. 279-305 in Michelle Jackson, ed., Determined to Succeed? Performance Versus Choice in Educational Attainment. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
See also the online Appendix with additional results and details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L., Dafna Gelbgiser, and Kim A. Weeden. 2013.
"Feeding the Pipeline: Gender, Occupational Plans, and College Major Selection."
Social Science Research 42:989-1005.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L., Theodore S. Leenman, Jennifer J. Todd, and Kim A. Weeden. 2013.
"Stutter-Step Models of Performance in School."
Social Forces 91:1451-74.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L., Theodore S. Leenman, Jennifer J. Todd, and Kim A. Weeden. 2013.
"Occupational Plans, Beliefs About Educational Requirements, and Patterns of College Entry."
Sociology of Education 86:197-217.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Dafna Gelbgiser. 2014.
"Mexican Ancestry, Immigrant Generation, and Educational Attainment in the United States."
Sociological Science 1:397-422.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Alexander, Karl and Stephen L. Morgan. 2016.
"The Coleman Report at Fifty: Its Legacy and Implications for Future Research on Equality of Opportunity."
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(5):1-16.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix for additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Sol Bee Jung. 2016.
"Still No Effect of Resources, Even in the New Gilded Age?"
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(5):83-116.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix for additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Daniel T. Shackelford. 2018.
"School and Teacher Effects." Page 513-24 in Barbara Schneider, ed., Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. See also the online Supplementary Appendix for additional results.
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Weeden, Kim A., Dafna Gelbgiser, and Stephen L. Morgan. 2020.
"Pipeline Dreams: Occupational Plans and Gender Differences in STEM Major Persistence and Completion."
Sociology of Education 93:297-314.
Public Opinion
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Emily S. Taylor Poppe. 2012.
"The Consequences of International Comparisons for Public Support of K-12 Education: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment."
Educational Researcher 42:262-68.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Emily S. Taylor Poppe. 2015.
"A Design and a Model for Investigating the Heterogeneity of Context Effects in Public Opinion Surveys." Sociological Methodology. See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Minhyoung Kang. 2015.
"A New Conservative Cold Front? Democrat and Republican Responsiveness to the Passage of the Affordable Care Act."
Sociological Science 2:502-26. See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jiwon Lee. 2017.
"Social Class and Party Identification During the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies."
Sociological Science 4:394-423. See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jiwon Lee. 2017.
"The White Working Class and Voter Turnout in US Presidential Elections, 2004 to 2016."
Sociological Science 4:656-85. See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jiwon Lee. 2018.
"Trump Voters and the White Working Class."
Sociological Science 5:234-45. See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2018.
"Status Threat, Material Interests, and the 2016 Presidential Vote."
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 4:1-17.
See also the GitHub repository with code and data here or download as a zip file here.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2018.
"Correct Interpretations of Fixed-effects Models, Specification Decisions, and Self-reports of Intended Votes: A Response to Mutz."
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 4:1-7.
See also the Github repository with code and data here or download as a zip file here.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jiwon Lee. 2019
"Economic Populism and Bandwagon Bigotry: Obama-to-Trump Voters and the Cross Pressures of the 2016 Election."
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5:1-15.
See also the online Supplement with additional results.
Go to the opinion piece (Morgan, Stephen L. 2019. “How Democrats Can Win Back Obama-Trump Voters in 2020.” Bloomberg, published June 11, 2019), based on the prior version of this article posted on SocArxiv here.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2022.
“Prejudice, Bigotry, and Support for Compensatory Interventions to Address Black-White Inequalities: Evidence from the General Social Survey, 2006-2020.”
Sociological Science 9:1-26.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2023.
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A Double-Diamond Retrospective on Modeling Change in Attitudes and Opinions.”
Social Science Research 109:102809.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Jiwon Lee. 2024.
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A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey.”
Sociological Methods and Research 53:369-420.
Labor Markets, Wealth, and Stratification
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Mark W. McKerrow. 2004.
"Social Class, Rent Destruction, and the Earnings of Black and White Men, 1982-2000."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 21:215-51.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with updated tables, additional results, and details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2006.
"Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility."
Pp. 3-20 in Morgan, Stephen L, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Youngjoo Cha. 2007.
"Rent and the Evolution of Inequality in Late Industrial United States."
American Behavioral Scientist 50:677-701.
See also the online Supplementary Appendix with additional results and details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and John C. Scott. 2007.
"Wealth Inequality and the Prospects for Increasing Intergenerational Transfers."
Social Science Research 36:1105-34.
See also the online Appendix A with additional results and Appendix S with details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. and Zun Tang. 2007.
"Social Class and Workers' Rent, 1983-2001."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25:273-93.
See also the online Appendix B with additional results and Appendix S with details of the analysis.
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Morgan, Stephen L. 2008.
"Stratification."
In Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
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Cha, Youngjoo and Stephen L. Morgan. 2010.
"Structural Earnings Losses and Between-Industry Mobility of Displaced Workers."
Social Science Research 39:1137-52.
See also the online Appendix with additional results and details of the analysis.
International Development
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