Christopher Weiss

Lecturer and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program Director Weiss’ (PhD, Pennsylvania 1999) primary research interests center on the influence of organizations and institutions on children and adolescents. His recent published work has focused on understanding how organizational features of schools shape student outcomes and on how parental education in later life influences intergenerational educational patterns. With Jennifer Hill, he is using new statistical tools to examine the effect of grade retention on student outcomes. Weiss also participates in the Health and Society Scholars working group on physical activity and obesity, and is involved in Andrew Rundle's NIH-funded project on the built environment, physical activity, and body size. He has also worked extensively with multiple datasets, in particular the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study.

• Christopher C. Weiss and E. Christine Baker-Smith. (Forthcoming). Eighth grade school form and resilience in the transition to high school: A comparison of middle schools and K-8 schools. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 
• Andrew Rundle, Yoosun Park, Kathryn Neckerman, Lance Freeman, James W. Quinn, and Christopher C. Weiss. (Forthcoming). Personal and neighborhood socio-economic status and Body Mass Index in New York City. Social Science and Medicine. 
• Marnie Purciel, Kathryn M. Neckerman, Gina S. Lovasi, James W. Quinn, Christopher C. Weiss, Reid Ewing, and Andrew Rundle. (Forthcoming). Creating and validating GIS measures of urban design for health research. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 
• Christopher C. Weiss, Carolan, B. and Baker-Smith, E.C. (2010). “Big School, Small School: (Re)Testing Assumptions about High School Size, School Engagement and Mathematics Achievement.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 39 (2).
• Christopher C. Weiss and E. Christine Baker-Smith. (2009). Assessing the Civic Attitudes and Participation of Urban Elementary Students.  Journal of Youth Development 4(2).
• Andrew Rundle, Kathryn M. Neckerman, Lance Freeman, Gina S. Lovasi, Marnie Purciel, James W. Quinn, Catherine Richards, Neelanjan Sircar, and Christopher C. Weiss. (Forthcoming). Neighborhood Food Environment and Walkability Predict Obesity in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives. 
• Gina S Lovasi, Kathryn M Neckerman, James W Quinn, Christopher C Weiss, and Andrew Rundle. (2009). Effect of individual or neighborhood disadvantage on the association between neighborhood walkability and body mass index. American Journal of Public Health. 99(2): 
• Andrew Rundle, Samuel Field, Yoosun Park, Lance Freeman, James W. Quinn, Kathryn Neckerman, Christopher C. Weiss. (Forthcoming). Interactions between personal and neighborhood socio-economic status and body mass index in New York City. Obesity Research. 
• Yoosun Park, Kathryn Neckerman, James W. Quinn, Christopher C. Weiss, Andrew Rundle. 2008. Place of birth, duration of residence, neighborhood immigrant composition and body mass index in New York City. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 5(19).
• Christopher C. Weiss and Peter S. Bearman. 2007. Fresh starts: Reinvestigating the effects of the transition to high school on student outcomes. American Journal of Education. 113(3): 395-421. Also ISERP Working Paper 04-05. 
• Andrew Rundle, Ana Diez Roux, Lance Freeman, Douglas Miller, Kathryn Neckerman Christopher C. Weiss. 2007. The urban built environment and obesity in New York City: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Health Promotion 21: 326-334. 
• Christopher C. Weiss and Lindsay B. Kipnes. 2006. Re-examining middle school effects: American Journal of Education 112(2): 239-272.
• Christopher C. Weiss. 2001. Difficult starts: Turbulence in the school year and its impact on urban students’ achievement. American Journal of Education 109(2): 196-227.
• Eric Widmer and Christopher C. Weiss.  2000.  Do older siblings make a difference?  The effects of older sibling support and older sibling adjustment on the adjustment of socially disadvantaged adolescents.  Journal of Research on Adolescence 10(1): 1-27.
• Julien O. Teitler and Christopher C. Weiss. 2000. Effects of neighborhood and school environments on transitions to first sexual intercourse.  Sociology of Education 73 (April): 112-132. 
• Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Christopher C. Weiss.  2000.  Intergenerational transmission of fathering roles in at risk families.  Marriage and Family Review.  29(2/3): 181-202.  Also in FATHERHOOD: Research, Interventions, and Policies (ed. H. Elizabeth Peters and Randal D. Day). The Hawthorne Press, Inc. (pp. 181-202).
• Ingrid Waldron, Christopher C. Weiss, and Mary Elizabeth Hughes.  1998.  Interacting effects of multiple roles on women’s health.  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 39 (3): 216-236.
• Ingrid Waldron, Christopher C. Weiss, and Mary Elizabeth Hughes.  1997.  Marital status effects on health: Are there differences between never married women and divorced and separated women? Social Science and Medicine 45 (9): 1387-1397.
• Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Lynne Maziarz Geitz, Julien O. Teitler, and Christopher C. Weiss.  1997.  Does condom availability make a difference? An evaluation of Philadelphia’s health resource centers. Family Planning Perspectives 29 (3): 123-127.
  
  

• David F. Weiman and Christopher C. Weiss. 2009. “The Origins of Mass Incarceration in New York State: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Local War on Drugs.” In Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll (Eds.) Do Prisons Make Us Safer: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom. Russell Sage Foundation 
• Christopher C. Weiss. 2008. “Academic Performance.” In V. Parillo (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Problems. SAGE Publications. 
• Christopher C. Weiss and E. Christine Baker-Smith. 2007. “Macrostructural conditions of interpersonal relationships: How schools shape interactions from early to late adolescence.” In J. Suitor and T. Owens (Eds.) Advances in Life Course Volume 7:  Interpersonal Relations across the Life Course. Elsevier. 
• Christopher C. Weiss and Julien O. Teitler. 2006. “Parenting Practices as Modifiers and Moderators of Adolescents’ Educational Outcomes” Chapter 3 (pp. 45-73) in Y. Sugita (Ed.) Fluctuation in American Values. Tokyo: Sanwa Shoseki. Translated into Japanese by Ikuro Fujiwara. 
   

• The war on drugs and mass incarceration, with David Weiman and Jenna Fulton. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
• Reaping what we sow: Early 20^th Century state school policies, cognitive skills, and elder health, with Jennifer Manly and Maria Glymour. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
• The impact of parental marital disruption on children’s performance in school, with Deirdre Bloome and Kathleen A. Foley. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
• High school size and mathematics achievement, with Brian V. Carolan and E. Christine Baker-Smith. April 2008. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Finance Association, Denver, Colorado 
• The effects of school size on students’ engagement and mathematics achievement, with Brian V. Carolan and E. Christine Baker-Smith. March 2008. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. 
• NYC Parks and childhood overweight: An examination of network proximity and quality, with Andrew Rundle, Kathryn Neckerman, James Quinn, and Neelanjan Sircar. June 2007. Presented at the annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, California. 
• Does park access and park quality predict adult obesity in New York City? with Andrew Rundle, Kathryn Neckerman, James Quinn, and Neelanjan Sircar. April 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California. 
• Urban students’ risks and academic consequences of incarceration, with E. Christine Baker-Smith. April 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois. 
• Eighth grade school form and resilience in the transition to high school: A comparison of middle schools and K-8 schools, with E. Christine Baker-Smith. March 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Finance Association, Baltimore, Maryland. 
• Does the food environment predict obesity in New York City? with Andrew Rundle, Ana Diez Roux, Samuel Field, Lance Freeman, Shang-min Liu, Kathryn Neckerman, Marnie Purciel, and James Quinn. March 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New York, New York. 
• Observational validation of urban design measures in New York City with Marnie Purciel, Kathryn Neckerman, James Quinn, and Andrew Rundle. February 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the Active Living Research Program, Coronado, California.
• Gender, Friendship Networks, and Violence in American High Schools, with Jennifer Booher-Jennings. February 2007. Presented at the annual meetings of the Sociology of Education Association, Asilomar, California. 
• Grade retention: A solution for turning failure into success?, with Jennifer L. Hill. November 2006. Presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Madison, Wisconsin. 
• Do nearby neighborhoods affect BMI? Spatial spillovers in the influence of land use on obesity, with Samuel Field, James Quinn, Kathryn M. Neckerman, and Andrew G. Rundle. November 2006. Presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Madison, Wisconsin. 
• What research says about… Re-examining middle school effects: Comparing eighth grade outcomes for middle schools with K-8 schools. November 2006. National Middle School Association 33^rd Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. 
• The intergenerational effects of non-traditional pathways to the high school diploma, with Shihui Janice Lee. March 2006. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Finance Association, Denver, Colorado. 
• The neglected importance of connections: The role of student engagement in the transition to high school. October 2005. Philadelphia Education Fund Distinguished Lecture Series.