About me

Welcome!

I am a doctoral candidate in the Sociology and Demography program at Penn State. My primary research interests include demography, religion and health with specialties in immigration, religious growth/decline, religion-health connection and diet. I also specialize in demographic, quantitative and spatial methods in utilizing secondary data sets. On this site you will find descriptions of my research projects, as well as the accompanying code, appendices, and other resources associated with my published works. These are hosted here for the purpose of transparency, replication, and hastening others’ work that may build off some small part of my own.

Check out the projects tab for descriptions of my research and links to supplemental materials, the coding tab to view/download Stata codes related to my projects, and the contact me tab to drop me a line or find me and my research on other platforms. Below is a list of published works taken from my CV, which you can download here.

 

Bacon, Rachel J., Roger Finke, and Dale Jones. Forthcoming. “Merging the Religious Congregations and Membership Studies: A Data File for Documenting American Religious Change”.  Review of Religious Research.

Matthews, Stephen, Ellis Logan, and Rachel J. Bacon. 2015. “Spatial Analysis” Oxford Bibliographies Online – Sociology.

Perez, Victor W., Joel Best, and Rachel J. Bacon. 2015. “Cancer Clusters in Delaware? How One Newspaper Turned Official Statistics into News”. Numeracy 8(1):Article 7.

Bacon, Rachel J. 2012. “In the Shadow of Saturated Fat: The Struggle to Get Trans Fats Noticed”.  Pp 233-250 in Making Sense of Social Problems: New Images, New Issues, Edited by Joel Best and Scott Harris. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.