Lee Rainwater

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Lee Rainwater is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Rainwater has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Gender Studies, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Lee Rainwater's work include Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 papers) and Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 papers). Lee Rainwater is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 papers) and Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 papers). Lee Rainwater collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Lee Rainwater's co-authors include Timothy M. Smeeding, William L. Yancey, A. B. Atkinson, Patricia Ruggles, Mark A. Chesler, Christopher Jencks, Lauri Perman, Andrew Hacker, Benjamin D. Wright and Richard P. Coleman and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Economic Review and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Lee Rainwater

82 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

EQUIVALENCE SCALES, WELL‐BEING, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY: ... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 1995 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lee Rainwater United States 31 2.3k 979 880 876 556 85 4.2k
Frank P. Stafford United States 32 1.9k 0.8× 1.4k 1.4× 676 0.8× 1.8k 2.0× 249 0.4× 102 5.1k
Bernard C. Watson United States 4 3.1k 1.4× 404 0.4× 1.3k 1.5× 542 0.6× 326 0.6× 9 4.2k
Moshe Semyonov Israel 39 4.2k 1.8× 749 0.8× 728 0.8× 635 0.7× 1.1k 2.0× 122 5.2k
Karl Ulrich Mayer Germany 31 2.5k 1.1× 550 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 679 0.8× 1.0k 1.8× 184 5.0k
Barbara Ehrenreich United States 22 2.3k 1.0× 889 0.9× 793 0.9× 201 0.2× 591 1.1× 69 4.5k
Geoff Payne United Kingdom 17 3.0k 1.3× 672 0.7× 634 0.7× 359 0.4× 383 0.7× 52 4.9k
Andrea Tyrée United States 15 3.8k 1.6× 917 0.9× 711 0.8× 870 1.0× 606 1.1× 29 5.9k
Heidi Hartmann United States 21 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 1.3× 508 0.6× 506 0.6× 401 0.7× 59 3.3k
Reynolds Farley United States 36 5.1k 2.2× 542 0.6× 1.5k 1.7× 1.7k 2.0× 294 0.5× 95 6.0k
Craig St. John United States 18 2.0k 0.9× 371 0.4× 675 0.8× 509 0.6× 185 0.3× 37 2.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Rein, Martin & Lee Rainwater. (2019). Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection. 2 indexed citations
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Garfinkel, Irwin, Lee Rainwater, & Timothy M. Smeeding. (2010). Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Rainwater, Lee & Timothy M. Smeeding. (2003). Doing Poorly: U.S. Child Poverty in Cross-National Context. Children Youth and Environments. 13(2). 1–30. 2 indexed citations
4.
Smith, Michael S. & Lee Rainwater. (2003). Applications of Scientific Ballooning Technology to High Altitude Airships. 44 indexed citations
5.
Rainwater, Lee & Timothy M. Smeeding. (1995). Doing Poorly: The Real Income of American Children in a Comparative Perspective. Luxembourg Income Study. Working Paper No. 127.. 49(1). 238–43. 30 indexed citations
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Rainwater, Lee & Timothy M. Smeeding. (1994). Le bien-etre economique des enfants europeens: une perspective comparative. Population. 49(6). 1437–1437. 3 indexed citations
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Coder, John, Lee Rainwater, & Timothy M. Smeeding. (1989). Inequality among Children and Elderly in Ten Modern Nations: The United States in an International Context. American Economic Review. 79(2). 320–324. 21 indexed citations
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Jencks, Christopher, Lauri Perman, & Lee Rainwater. (1988). What Is a Good Job? A New Measure of Labor-Market Success. American Journal of Sociology. 93(6). 1322–1357. 226 indexed citations
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Rein, Martin, Gøsta Esping‐Andersen, & Lee Rainwater. (1987). Stagnation and renewal in social policy : the rise and fall of policy regimes. 41 indexed citations
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Rainwater, Lee. (1986). A sociologist's view of the income maintenance experiments. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 30. 194–205. 2 indexed citations
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Jencks, Christopher & Lee Rainwater. (1977). The Effects of Family Background, Test Scores, Personality Traits and Education on Economic Success.. 3 indexed citations
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Rein, Martin & Lee Rainwater. (1977). How Large Is the Welfare Class?. Challenge. 20(4). 20–23. 2 indexed citations
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Block, Fred & Lee Rainwater. (1976). What Money Buys: Inequality and the Social Meanings of Income.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 5(3). 248–248. 4 indexed citations
14.
Moore, Robert & Lee Rainwater. (1973). Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum. British Journal of Sociology. 24(1). 123–123. 38 indexed citations
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Chesler, Mark A., Lee Rainwater, & William L. Yancey. (1970). The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy.. American Sociological Review. 35(3). 569–569. 242 indexed citations
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Haag, Ernest van den & Lee Rainwater. (1969). Feedback. Trans-action. 6(6). 62–64. 2 indexed citations
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Rainwater, Lee, William L. Yancey, & Daniel Patrick Moynihan. (1967). Moynihan report and the politics of controversy; a Trans-action social science and public policy report. MIT Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations
18.
Rainwater, Lee, et al.. (1966). Family Design, Marital Sexuality, Family Size and Contraception. Population. 21(4). 803–803. 114 indexed citations
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Rainwater, Lee, et al.. (1961). And the Poor Get Children: Sex, Contraception and Family Planning in the Working Class.. Journal of Health and Human Behavior. 2(2). 158–158. 2 indexed citations
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Cavan, Ruth Shonle, Lee Rainwater, Richard P. Coleman, Gerald Handel, & W. Lloyd Warner. (1959). Workingman's Wife: Her Personality, World and Life Style.. American Sociological Review. 24(6). 905–905. 44 indexed citations

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