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The relationship between union membership and self-rated health among racially diverse U.S. healthcare workers: The role of control over work schedules and locations Open

Alein Y. Haro‐Ramos, Ray Block, Gabriel R. Sánchez · 2024

This study provides empirical evidence of the relationship between labor union membership and health among U.S. healthcare workers. We demonstrate that control over schedules and location is an important mechanism by which unionization may…

Black Networks Matter Open

Matthew David Simonson, Ray Block, James Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, David Lazer · 2024

Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or we…

Preferred Information Source Correlates to COVID-19 Risk Misperception Open

Emilia V. Ezrina, Huamei Dong, Ray Block, Robert P. Lennon · 2023

Inaccurate perceptions of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) risk may decrease compliance with public health mitigation practices, in turn increasing disease burden. The extent to which public perceptions of COVID-19 risk are inaccurate i…

Race, employment, and the pandemic: An exploration of covariate explanations of COVID-19 case fatality rate variance Open

Christopher Griffin, Ray Block, Justin D. Silverman, Jason Croad, Robert P. Lennon · 2023

We derive a simple asymptotic approximation for the long-run case fatality rate of COVID-19 (alpha and delta variants) and show that these estimations are highly correlated to the interaction between US State median age and projected US un…

Evaluating Claims of Intersectionality Open

Ray Block, Matt Golder, Sona Golder · 2023

Over the last forty years, scholars have adopted many different approaches to studying intersectionality. A common refrain in the literature is that one cannot evaluate the implications of an intersectional theory with an interaction model…

Reply to Mitterer: Conceptual and empirical issues that arise when using correspondence audits to measure racial discrimination Open

Ray Block, Charles Crabtree, John Holbein, J. Quin Monson · 2022

Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms …

Parental COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Diverse Communities: A National Survey Open

Annabelle de St. Maurice, Ray Block, Gabriel R. Sánchez, Peter G. Szilagyi · 2022

Perceived risk, political polarization, and the willingness to follow COVID-19 mitigation guidelines Open

Ray Block, Michael Burnham, Kayla Kahn, Rachel X. Peng, Jeremy Seeman , et al. · 2022

Replication Data for Evaluating Claims of Intersectionality Open

Ray Block, Matt Golder, Sona Golder · 2022

Data, do-files, and log-files to replicate the results reported in the paper.

The Self-Appraisal of Masking Instrument Open

Ray Block, Eric Plutzer · 2022

We explore mask-wearing behavior during the coronavirus pandemic using the Self-Appraisal of Masking Instrument (SAMI). We situate this survey-based instrument within a theory in which the decision to mask reflects social identity, an asso…

Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people? Open

Ray Block, Charles Crabtree, John Holbein, J. Quin Monson · 2021

Significance Although previous attempts have been made to measure everyday discrimination against African Americans, these approaches have been constrained by distinct methodological challenges. We present the results from an audit or corr…

Underserved population acceptance of combination influenza-COVID-19 booster vaccines Open

Robert P. Lennon, Ray Block, Eric C. Schneider, Laurie Zephrin, Arnav Shah · 2021

Race, the Health Literacy Gap, and COVID-19: Reflections from a Social Scientist Studying “Pandemic Politics” Open

Ray Block · 2021

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African American Adherence to COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations Open

Ray Block, Arthur Berg, Robert P. Lennon, Erin L. Miller, Marcella Nuñez-Smith · 2020

By mid-May 2020, most of the United States had been under shelter-in-place orders for several weeks to decrease the spread of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). As states begin to lift these orders to reopen the economy, the risk of a resurgence…

Americanness and the “Other” Americans Open

Stacey Greene, Gabrielle Gray, Niambi Michele Carter, Ray Block · 2020

American identity has become a racialized norm that is primarily applied to those racially identified as White. We examine what it means to be an American from the perspective of racial and ethnic minorities who may not be viewed as protot…

Review of The Obama Legacy Open

Ray Block · 2020

Set in Stone? Predicting Confederate Monument Removal Open

Andrea Benjamin, Ray Block, Jared Clemons, Chryl N. Laird, Julian Wamble · 2020

Recent events have led to a renewed conversation surrounding the relevance and potential removal of Confederate monuments around the country, and several monuments have already been removed. However, we have little insight to explain why s…

Social Identity Theory and Public Opinion towards Immigration Open

Maruice Mangum, Ray Block · 2018

Several scholars have called upon social identity theory to investigate the relationship between an American national identity and American public opinion on immigration. Lacking a uniform measure of American identity, by and large, schola…

Briefs Open

Ray Block, Lashonda Brenson · 2016

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Replication Data for: Say Our Name (and Say It Right)! Extending Walton et al. on the Evolution of Race in Political Science Scholarship Open

Ray Block · 2016

Data and Stata code for replication. Abstract: To explore the evolution of political science research on race, Walton, Miller, and McCormick (1995), and Walton (1997, Chapter 4) do a systematic review of more than a century of publications…

Say our name (and say it right)! Extending Walton et al. on the evolution of race in political science scholarship Open

Harwood K. McClerking, Ray Block · 2016

To explore the evolution of political-science research on race, Walton et al., have done a systematic review of more than a century of publications appearing in the discipline’s oldest and most prestigious journals: Political Science Quart…

ScatterPlot2.txt Open

Ray Block · 2016

BarGraph.txt Open

Ray Block · 2016

KernelDensityPlots.txt Open

Ray Block · 2016

RevisedAnalyses.txt Open

Ray Block · 2016

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