Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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George Farkas
Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Education; Graduate Officer of Sociology
614 Oswald Tower Dr. Farkas' Population Research Institute web page: www.pop.psu.edu/~farkas/ |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University, 1973
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Stratification; Poverty and Inequality; Sociology of Education; Social Policy; Program Interventions and Evaluation; Quantitative Research Methods; Labor Markets; Gender
PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Editor, Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association, 1996 – 99
Creator, Reading One-to-One Tutoring Program, a model for President Clinton’s American Reads initiative
Elected Member, Sociological Research Association, 1996
Editorial Boards, American Sociological Review and other journals
Book Series Editor (with P. England and K. Lang), Sociology and Economics: Controversy and Integration, Aldine de Gruyter
Research grants from the National Science Foundation, the NICHD, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Corporation for National Service, the Texaco
Foundation, many local school districts, and other foundations and agencies
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
1996
George Farkas. Human Capital or Cultural Capital?: Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 216 pages.
1988
George Farkas and Paula England (eds.). Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches. New York: Plenum. 368 pages. Expanded edition published by Aldine de Gruyter in 1994.
1986
Paula England and George Farkas. Households, Employment, and Gender: A Social, Economic, and Demographic View. New York: Aldine. 237 pages.
1980
Ernst W. Stromsdorfer and George Farkas (eds.). Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume Five. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications. 800 pages
Articles
Forthcoming
George Farkas. “How Educational Inequality Develops.” To appear in David Harris and Ann Lin (eds.) The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
Hall, Matthew and George Farkas. “Does Human Capital Raise Earnings for Immigrants in the Low Skill Labor Market?” To appear in Demography.
Hibel, Jacob, Susan Faircloth, and George Farkas. “Unpacking the Placement of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Special Education Programs and Services in the Early Grades: School Readiness as a Predictive Variable.” To appear in Harvard Education Review.
Bodovski, Katerina and George Farkas. “ ‘Concerted Cultivation’ and Unequal Achievement in Elementary School.” To appear in Social Science Research.
George Farkas. “Human Capital.” To appear in Deborah Carr (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sociology of the Life Course. Macmillan Reference.
George Farkas. “Closing Achievement Gaps.” To appear in D. Plank, B. Schneider, and G. Sykes (eds.) Handbook on Education Policy Research. American Educational Research Association.
Morgan, P.L., M. Frisco, G. Farkas, and J. Hibel. “Effects of Special Education Services on Children’s Learning and Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis.” To appear in Journal of Special Education.
Morgan, P.L., G. Farkas, Q. Wu. “Early Risk Factors for Later Psychopathology.” To appear in Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
Morgan, P.L., G. Farkas, and J. Hibel. “Matthew Effects for Whom?” To appear in Learning Disabilities Quarterly.
Morgan, P.L., G. Farkas, P. A. Tufis, and R. A. Sperling. “Are Reading and Behavior Problems Risk Factors For Each Other?” To appear in J. Learning Disabilities.
2008
George Farkas. “Quantitative Studies of Oppositional Culture: Arguments and Evidence.” Pp. 312 - 347 in John Ogbu (ed.), Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling. New York: Routledge.
George Farkas and Jacob Hibel. “Being Unready for School: Factors Affecting Risk and Resilience.”Pp.3-30 in Alan Booth and Ann Crouter (eds.), Disparities in School Readiness: How Families Contribute to Transitions into School. New York: Erlbaum.
2007
Durham, Rachel, George Farkas, Carol Scheffner Hammer, J. Bruce Tomblin, and Hugh W. Catts. “Kindergarten Oral Language Skill: A Key Variable in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 294 – 305.
George Farkas and Rachel Durham. “The Role of Tutoring in Standards-Based Reform.” Pp. 201 – 228 in Adam Gamoran (ed.), Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for “No Child Left Behind.” Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Bodovski, Katerina, and George Farkas. “Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction.” The Elementary School Journal 108 (2): 115 – 130.
Bodovski, Katerina and George Farkas. “Do Instructional Practices Contribute to Inequality in Achievement? The Case of Mathematics Instruction in Kindergarten.” The Journal of Early Childhood Research 5 (3): 301 – 322.
2006
Catherine Riegle-Crumb, George Farkas, and Chandra Muller. “The Role of Gender and Friendship in Advanced Course-Taking.” Sociology of Education 79 (July): 206 – 228.
George Farkas. Entry on “Literacy/Illiteracy” for the section on Education in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK:Blackwell.
Laura Tach and George Farkas. “Learning-Related Behaviors, Cognitive Skills, and Ability Grouping When Schooling Begins.” Social Science Research 35 (4) (December): 1048 – 1079.
2005
George Farkas. “Learning by Doing, or Learning by Studying the History of Statistics?” Teaching Sociology (July) 33 (3): 272 – 74.
George Farkas. “Fixed Effects Models.” Pp. 45 – 50 in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Volume 2. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
2004
Inga-Dora Sigfusdottir, George Farkas, and Eric Silver. “The Role of Depressed Mood and Anger in the Relationship between Family Conflict and Delinquent Behavior.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 33 no. 6 (December): 509 – 22.
George Farkas. “School Readiness: Characteristics and Attributes.” In James W. Guthrie (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition. New York: Macmillan Reference.
George Farkas. “The Black-White Test Score Gap.” Contexts 3: 12 - 19. Reprinted in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper (eds.) The Contexts Reader (2008: W.W. Norton).
Kurt Beron and George Farkas. “Oral Language and Reading Success: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.” Structural Equation Modeling 11 (1):110-31.
George Farkas and Kurt Beron. “The Detailed Age Trajectory of Oral Vocabulary Knowledge: Differences by Class and Race. Social Science Research 33: 464 – 97.
2003
George Farkas. “Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits and Behaviors in Stratification Processes.” Annual Review of Sociology 2003 (J. Hagan and K. Cook, eds.) 29: 541 – 62.
George Farkas. “Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, And What Do We Need to Know?” Teachers College Record 105 no. 6: 1119 – 1146.
George Farkas. “Human Capital and the Long-Term Effects of Education on Late-Life Inequality.” Pp. 138 – 154 in S. Crystal and D. Shea (eds.) Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 22, 2002. New York: Springer.
2002
George Farkas, Christy Lleras, and Steve Maczuga. “Does Oppositional Culture Exist in Minority and
Poverty Peer Groups?” American Sociological Review (Feb.) 67: 148-155.
2000
George Farkas. “Teaching Low-Income Children to Read at Grade Level.” Symposium on Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century. Contemporary Sociology 29, number 1 (January): 53-62.
George Farkas and L. Shane Hall. “Can Title I Attain Its Goal?” Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2000 : 59 - 103.
George Farkas. “Tutoring for Low-Income Children Via Vouchers to Their Parents.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19, number 1 (Winter 2000): 143-45.
1998
George Farkas, Jim Fischer, Keven Vicknair, and Ralph Dosher. "Can All Children Learn to Read at Grade Level By the End of Third Grade?" In D. Vannoy and P. Dubeck (eds.) Challenges for Work and Family in the 21st Century. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
George Farkas. "Reading One-to-One: An Intensive Program Serving a Great Many Students While Still Achieving Large Effects." Pp. 75-109 in J. Crane (ed.) Social Programs That Work. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
1997
George Farkas. "Ten Propositions About Schooling, The Inheritance of Poverty, and Interventions to Reduce This Inheritance." Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 6: 125-169.
George Farkas, Paula England, Keven Vicknair, and Barbara Kilbourne. "Cognitive Skill, Skill Demands of Jobs, and Earnings Among Young European-American, African-American, and Mexican-American Workers." Social Forces 75 (3): 913-940.
1996
George Farkas and Keven Vicknair. "Appropriate Tests of Racial Wage Discrimination Require Controls for Cognitive Skill: Comment on the Paper by Cancio, Evans, and Maume". American Sociological Review 61 (August): 557-560.
George Farkas, Peter M. Hall, Richard M. Ingersoll, and Amy Stuart Wells. "Systemic Reform - Issue Sheet." Pp. 33-40 in K. Borman, P. Cookson, A. Sadovnik and J. Spade (eds.) Implementing Educational Reform: Sociological Perspectives on Educational Policy. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
1994
Barbara Kilbourne, Paula England, George Farkas, Kurt Beron and Dorothea Weir. "Returns to Skill, Compensating Differentials, and Gender Bias: Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Wages of Women and Men," American Journal of Sociology 100 (No. 3): 689-719. Reprinted in David Grusky (ed.) Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective. 2001: Westview Press.
George Farkas, Kevin Lang, and Paula England. "Economic Sociology and Social Economics: Where Are We Now?" In G.Farkas and P. England (eds.) Industries, Firms and Jobs, Expanded Edition. New York, Aldine de Gruyter.
1993
George Farkas. "Structured Tutoring for At-Risk Children in the Early Years." Applied Behavioral Science Review 1: 69-92.
1991
Randall J. Olsen and George Farkas. "Employment Opportunity Can Decrease Adolescent Childbearing Within the Underclass". Evaluation and Program Planning 14: 27-34.
P. Neenan, G. Bowen, and G. Farkas. "The Application of Time Series Designs to the Evaluation of Social Service Program Initiatives: The Recycling Fund Concept" Social Work Research & Abstracts (September), 27 (no.3): 9-15.
1990
George Farkas, Robert Grobe, Daniel Sheehan, and Yuan Shuan. “Cultural Resources and School Success: Gender, Ethnicity, and Poverty Groups Within an Urban School District.” American Sociological Review 55 (February): 127-142.
George Farkas, Daniel Sheehan, and Robert Grobe. “Coursework Mastery and School Success: Gender, Ethnicity, and Poverty Groups Within an Urban School District.” American Educational Research Journal 27 No. 4 (Winter): 807-827.
Randall J. Olsen and George Farkas. “The Effect of Economic Opportunity and Family Background on Adolescent Fertility Among Low-Income Blacks.” Journal of Labor Economics 8 Number 3 (July): 341-362.
1989
Lori McCreary, Paula England, and George Farkas. "The Employment of Central City Male Youth: Nonlinear Effects of Racial Composition." Social Forces (September) 68 (No. 1): 55-75.
Randall J. Olsen and George Farkas. "Endogenous Covariates in Duration Models and the Effect of Adolescent Child-Birth on Schooling." Journal of Human Resources 1989, XXIV, No. 1 (Winter): 39-53.
George Farkas. "Sociology as Giant Killer: What Should we do with Goliath's Armor?" The American
Sociologist 20, No. 2 (Summer): 170-175.
George Farkas and Lawrence Hotchkiss. "Incentives and Disincentives for Subject Matter Difficulty and
Student Effort: Course Grade Determinants Across the Stratification System." Economics of Education
Review 8 (No. 2): 121-132.
George Farkas, Lawrence Hotchkiss, and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer. "Vocational Training, Supply Constraints, and Individual Economic Outcomes" Economics of Education Review 8 (No. 1):17-30.
1989
Lori McCreary, Paula England, and George Farkas. "The Employment of Central City Male Youth: Nonlinear Effects of Racial Composition." Social Forces (September) 68 (No. 1): 55-75.
Randall J. Olsen and George Farkas. "Endogenous Covariates in Duration Models and the Effect of Adolescent Child-Birth on Schooling." Journal of Human Resources 1989, XXIV, No. 1 (Winter): 39-53.
George Farkas. "Sociology as Giant Killer: What Should we do with Goliath's Armor?" The American Sociologist 20, No. 2 (Summer): 170-175.
George Farkas and Lawrence Hotchkiss. "Incentives and Disincentives for Subject Matter Difficulty and
Student Effort: Course Grade Determinants Across the Stratification System." Economics of Education Review 8 (No. 2): 121-132.
George Farkas, Lawrence Hotchkiss, and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer. "Vocational Training, Supply Constraints, and Individual Economic Outcomes" Economics of Education Review 8 (No. 1):17-30.
1988
Paula England, George Farkas, Thomas Dou, and Barbara Kilbourne. "Explaining Occupational Sex Segregation and Wages: Findings from a Model with Fixed Effects." American Sociological Review 53:544-558.
George Farkas, Paula England, and Margaret Barton. "Structural Effects on Wages: Sociological and Economic Views." In Farkas and England (eds.) Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches. New York: Plenum.
Paula England and George Farkas. "Economic and Sociological Views of Industries, Firms, and Jobs." In Farkas and England (eds.) Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches. New York: Plenum.
George Farkas, Margaret Barton, and Kathy Kushner. "White, Black, and Hispanic Female Youths in Central City Labor Markets." The Sociological Quarterly 29 (No.4):605-621.
1986
Randall J. Olsen, D. Alton Smith, and George Farkas. "Structural and Reduced‑Form Models of Choice Among Alternatives in Continuous Time: Youth Employment Under A Guaranteed Jobs Program." Econometrica 54 No. 2 (March): 375-394.
George Farkas and Paula England. "Integrating the Sociology and Economics of Employment, Compensation, and Unemployment." Research in the Sociology of Work, 3: 119-146.
1985
George Farkas, Margaret Barton, Kathy Kushner, and Lori McCreary. "White, Black, and Hispanic Male Youths in Central City Labor Markets." Social Science Research 14: 266-286.
1983
George Farkas, D. Alton Smith and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer. "The Youth Entitlement Demonstration: Subsidized Employment with a Schooling Requirement." Journal of Human Resources 18 (Fall): 557-573. Reprinted in Evaluation Studies Review Annual Volume 10 (Linda Aiken and Barbara Kehrer, eds.) Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications, 1985.
1982
Ernst W. Stromsdorfer and George Farkas. "Comment on 'Family Effects in Youth Employment.'"In The Youth Employment Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. Edited by R. Freeman and D. Wise. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press.
1981
George Farkas, Randall J. Olsen and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer. "Youth Labor Supply During the Summer: Evidence for Youths from Low‑Income Households." Research in Labor Economics 4: 151-190.
1980
Ernst W. Stromsdorfer and George Farkas. "Social Policies to Reduce Youth Unemployment: Lessons from Experience and the Potential for Recent Initiatives." In Problems of Youth Unemployment, Papers Prepared for the Committee on Education and Labor, U. S.House of Representatives. Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
George Farkas, Randall J. Olsen, and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer. "Reduced‑Form and Structural Models in the Evaluation of the Youth Entitlement Demonstration." Pp. 360-396 in E.W. Stromsdorfer and G. Farkas (eds.) Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume Five. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications.
John Bishop, George Farkas, Michael Keeley, C. Eric Munson, and Philip Robins. "A Research Design to Study the Labor Market Effects of the Employment Opportunity Pilot Projects." Pp. 759-800 in Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume Five. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE Publications.
1979
George Farkas. “The Recent Acceleration of Female Employment Growth and Its Implications for Projections Through 1990: Insights From a Cohort Model.” In R.E. Smith (ed.) Women in the Labor Force in 1990. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute.
1977
George Farkas. "Cohort, Age, and Period Effects Upon the Employment of White Females: Evidence for 1957-1968." Demography, 14 no. 1 (February): 33-42.
1976
George Farkas. "Education, Wage Rates, and the Division of Labor Between Husband and Wife." Journal of Marriage and the Family 38 (August): 473-483.
1974
George Farkas. "Specification, Residuals, and Contextual Effects." Sociological Methods and Research, 2 No. 3 (February): 333-364.