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Dr. Toby L Parcel

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Professor

Interests

  • Work and Family
  • Social Stratification
  • Social Capital
  • Children and Families

Publications

  • Parcel, Toby L. Forthcoming.  "Children." In Oxford Bibliography in Sociology.  Jeff Manza, Ed. New York: Oxford.  

    Parcel, Toby L. and Joshua A. Hendrix. Forthcoming. "Family transmission of social and cultural capital."  In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families. Edited by Jackie Scott, Martin Richards and Judith Treas. 

    Dufur, Mikaela J., Toby L. Parcel, and Kelley Troutman.  2013. “Does capital at home matter more than capital at school?:  Social capital effects on academic achievement.”  Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 31:1-21. 

  • Dufur, Mikaela J., Toby L. Parcel and Benjamin A. McKune.  2013. "Does capital at home matter more than capital at school?:  The case of adolescent alcohol and marijuana use."  Journal of Drug Issues 43:85-102.

  • Parcel, Toby L. , Lori Ann Ampbell and Wenxuan Zhong. 2012.  "Children's behavior problems in Great Britain and the United States." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53:165-182. 
  • Parcel, Toby L. and Joan Pennell. 2012.  "Child and family teams building social capital for at-risk students."  Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 32:75-91. 
  • Parcel, Toby L., Mikaela Dufur, and Rena Cornell Zito.  2010.  "Capital at home and at school:  A review and synthesis."  Journal of Marriage and Family 72:828-846.
  • Lori Ann Campbell and Toby L. Parcel. 2010. "Children's home environments in Great Britain and the United States." Journal of Family Issues 31:559-584.
  • Parcel, Toby L. and Mikaela Dufur. 2009.  "Family and school capital explaining regional variation in reading and math achievement."  Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 27:157-176.
  • Dufur, Mikaela, Toby L. Parcel, and Benjamin A. McKune.  2008.   “Capital and context:  Using social capital at home and at school to predict child social adjustment.”  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49:146-161. 
  • Parcel, Toby L.  2007. Capital at home and at school as determinates of child social adjustment.” Pp.139-161 in Olivia Sanchero and Bernard Spodek (Eds.)  Contemporary Perspectives on Social Learning in Early Childhood Education.  Information Age Publishing.
  • Haurin, Donald R., Toby L. Parcel and R. Jean Haurin.  2002. “Does homeownership affect child outcomes?”  Real Estate Economics 30:635-666.
  • Haurin, Donald, Toby L. Parcel and R. Jean Haurin.  2002.   "The impact of home ownership on child outcomes."  Pp. 427-446 in Low Income-Home Ownership:  Examining the Unexamined Goal.  Brookings Institution.
  • Parcel, Toby L. and Mikaela Dufur.  2001. "Capital at home and at school:  Effects on student achievement."  Social Forces 79:881-912.
    Parcel, Toby L. and Mikaela Dufur.  2001. “Capital at home and at school: Effects on child social adjustment.” Journal of_Marriage and Family  63:32-47.
  • Powell, Mary Ann and Toby L. Parcel.  1997.   “Parental work, family size and social capital effects on early adolescent educational outcomes: The U.S. and Great Britain compared.”  Pp. 1-30 in T. L. Parcel (Ed). Research in the Sociology of Work. Work and Family.  Vol. 7. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  • Toby L. Parcel and Elizabeth G. Menaghan. 1994. "Early parental work, family social capital and early childhood outcomes." American Journal of Sociology 99:972-1009.


Education

  • Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Washington
  • M.A. in Sociology from University of Washington
  • B.A. in Sociology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill