Orestes P. Hastings

Keeping up with the Joneses: Lifestyle Competition and Housing Consumption in the Era of the Housing Price Bubble, 1999-2007

November 1, 2015 • Working Papers • By Adam Goldstein, Neil Fligstein and Orestes P. Hastings

Abstract Sociologists conceptualize lifestyles as structured hierarchically where people seek to emulate those higher up. Growing income inequality in the U.S. means those at the top bid up the price…

Socio-Economic Variation in the Effect of Economic Conditions on Marriage and Non-marital Fertility: Evidence from the Great Recession

March 1, 2015 • Working Papers • By Daniel Schneider and Orestes P. Hastings

Abstract The United States has become increasingly characterized by stark class divides in family structure. Poor women are less likely to marry than their more affluent counterparts, but far more…