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About Mike Vuolo

Mike Vuolo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. I joined the faculty at Purdue in 2011 after completing the following degrees from the University of Minnesota: a PhD in sociology (June 2009), an MS in statistics (June 2007), and an MS in Mathematics (May 2011). My research and teaching interests include crime, law, and deviance; sociology of work and education; and statistics and methodology. Examples of my work can be found in journals such as Social Forces, Law and Society Review, British Journal of Sociology, Developmental Psychology, and Work and Occupations. For more information, see below and use the navigation tabs above.

Sociology Research Interests

Crime, law, and deviance
- How variation in laws affect individual level substance use outcomes
- Effect of low-level criminal offenses on hiring practices
- Diffusion of criminal justice policy to front-line workers
- Clustering of deviance and other cultural forms, such as music
- Cross-national differences in inmate mental health
Sociology of work and education, life course
- Pathways of transitions to adulthood
- Trajectories of education and career attainment
- Intergenerational transmission of deviance and substance use
Statistics and research methods
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Statistical and Mathematical Interests

Hierarchical models, Mixed effects models
Latent class analysis
Social experimental design
Time series modeling, Longitudinal analysis
Monte Carlo simulation
Social network analysis

Computer Expertise

C#, R, SPSS, MATLAB, HLM, SAS, Stata, Latent Gold, UCINET

Mike Vuolo's Webpage

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Purdue University

About Mike Vuolo

Sociology Research Interests

Statistical and Mathematical Interests

Computer Expertise