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Guttmacher Institute
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New York, New York 10038 http://guttmacher.org
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t: 646.438.8774 c: 347.400.6143
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E M P L O Y M E N T
Guttmacher Institute
Advancing sexual and reproductive health worldwide through research, policy analysis and public education
Senior Research Scientist, 2015—
E D U C A T I O N
New York University
Queens College
Macaulay Honors College
City University of New York
Ph.D., Sociology, 2015
M.A, Sociology, 2012
B.A., Political Science, 2008 summa cum laude , phi beta kappa minors in computer science and sociology
P E E R - R E V I E W E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
Bearak, Jonathan. 2014 .
“Casual Contraception in Casual Sex: Life-Cycle Change in
Undergraduates’ Sexual Behavior in Hookups.” Social Forces 93, 483-513.
Jennings, Jennifer & Jonathan Bearak. 2014. “Teaching to the Test in the NCLB Era.”
Educational Researcher 43, 381-389.
Killewald, Alexandra & Jonathan Bearak. 2014. “Is the Motherhood Penalty Larger for
Low-Wage Women? A Comment on Quantile Regression.” American Sociological Review
79, 350-357 .
England, Paula & Jonathan Bearak. 2014. “The sexual double standard and gender differences in attitudes toward casual sex among U.S. university students.”
Demographic Research 30, 1327-1338 .
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U N D E R R E V I S I O N
Bearak, Jonathan .
“Some Men Earn More, Some Men Earn Less; Which Men Earn
More When They Marry?” Under revision after invitation to revise and resubmit at
Demography.
England, Paula, Jonathan Bearak, Michelle Budig & Melissa Hodges. “How the
Motherhood Penalty Varies by Wage, Cognitive Skill and Race: A Reassessment.”
Under revision after invitation to revise and resubmit at American Sociological Review .
I N P R O G R E S S
Bearak, Jonathan. “Attracting Teenage Parenthood: Physical Attractiveness and
Students’ Risks of Becoming Teenage Parents.”
Jennings, Jennifer, Jonathan Bearak & Daniel Koretz. “Stellar Scores, Shortchanged
Students? Two Tales of Educational Progress in the Era of Accountability.”
Jennings, Jennifer, Jonathan Bearak, David Deming and Christopher Jencks. "Does school quality affect teenage parenthood?"
Bearak, Jonathan, Jennifer Jennings and Daniel Koretz. “Explaining Gender
Differences on Standardized Tests."
P R E S E N T A T I O N S
Queens College Department of Sociology (February 9, 2015)
Population Association of America (accepted for May 1, 2015)
“Some Men Earn More, Some Men Earn Less;
Which Men Earn More When They Marry?”
Sociology of Education Association, “Does school quality affect teenage parenthood?”
February 21, 2014. (with Jennifer Jennings)
American Sociological Association, “Do All Men Similarly Earn More When They
Marry? Economic Thresholds for Socially Respectable Marriage and Differences in the
Male Marriage-Earnings Differential.” August 10, 2013.
Population Association of America, “Casual Contraception in Casual Sex: Life-Cycle
Change in Undergraduate Non-Romantic Intimate Behavior.” April 13, 2013.
Population Association of America, “Gender, Meanings, and Casual Sex.” April 12,
2013. (with Paula England)
Sociology of Education Association, “Gender Differences on Standardized Tests.”
February 23, 2013. (with Jennifer Jennings) page 2 of 5
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Population Association of America, “Is the Motherhood Penalty Worse at the Top or
Bottom?” May 5, 2012. (with Paula England)
Sociology of Education Association. “Accountability and Equity in American
Education.” February 26, 2012. (with Jennifer Jennings)
Sociology of Education Association, “Accountability & the Reproduction of Inequality in American Education.” February 19, 2011. (with Jennifer Jennings )
American Sociological Association, “State Test Predictability & Teaching to the Test:
Evidence from Three States.” August 16, 2010. (with Jennifer Jennings)
S E R V I C E
Developed, maintain BBEdit plugins for R and Stata
- scripts for communicating between applications
- algorithms for recognizing language syntax
- https://files.nyu.edu/jmb736/public/code/text/
A W A R D S
2009—
Institute of Education Sciences-funded
Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship
New York University
MacCracken Fellowship
New York University
Michael Harrington Award
Queens College Department of Political Science
Luncille Lindberg Scholarship
Queens College
Chancellor’s Award for Student Leadership and Community Service
City University of New York
Distinguished Service Award
Queens College Department of Sociology
Horace W. Goldsmith Scholar
City University of New York
University Scholar
City University of New York
2009-2013
2009-2014
2008
2008
2007
2007
2005-2008
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P R E D O C T O R A L E X P E R I E N C E
Teaching Assistant & Discussion Section Instructor (graduate courses)
Fall 2014 ___
Spring 2014 ___
Fall 2013 ___
Applied Quantitative Analysis I, Prof. Florencia Torche
Applied Quantitative Analysis II, Prof. Mike Hout
Applied Quantitative Analysis I, Prof. David Greenberg
Research Assistantships
2011-2015 Dr. Paula England
New York University
2009-2014 Dr. Jennifer Jennings
New York University
Harvard Graduate School of Education
2009 Dr. Sophia Catsambis
Queens College and the Graduate Center
City University of New York
Internships
2005
2000-2001
United States Congress
Office of Congressman Gary Ackerman
Office of Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer
- Developed online content management system
- Revised website
Employment
2005-2009 Queens College Department of Sociology
- Managed computers; Linux, Solaris, Windows servers
- Developed WordPress plugin, “Active Directory Authentication”
Service
2005-2008 Queens College Academic Senate
• Committee on Technology & the Library
- oversaw Rosenthal Library, Department of Converging Technologies
- personally developed software for presenting class schedules,
teaching evaluations, adopted by the Academic Senate,
remains in use at courses.qc.cuny.edu
• Committee on Elections
- oversaw Academic Senate and Student Council elections
• Technology Fee Task Force
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R E F E R E N C E S
Paula England
New York University
Department of Sociology pe22@nyu.edu
212/992.9567
Jennifer Jennings
New York University
Department of Sociology jj73@nyu.edu
212/992.7465
Lawrence Wu
New York University
Department of Sociology lawrence.wu@nyu.edu
212/992.9565
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