Derick S. Baum

Research

Research interests:

Quantitative and computational methods
Social network analysis
Social capital
Social network segregation
Bayesian inference
Decomposition methods
Causal inference
Survey methods

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:

Derick S. Baum. 2025. “Explaining Contact Patterns in Acquaintanceship Networks: A New Covariate-Based Model.” Social Networks 83:79-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2025.05.005.

Marsden, Peter V., and Derick S. Baum. 2024. “Occupational Selection and the Reliability of Position Generator Measures of Social Capital.” Social Networks 79:34–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.05.001.

Baum, Derick S., and Peter V. Marsden. 2023. “Uses and Limitations of Dichotomous Aggregate Relational Data.” Social Networks 74:42–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2023.02.001.

Baum, Derick S., and Xiang Zhou. 2022. “rbw: An R Package for Constructing Residual Balancing Weights.” The R Journal 14(3):174–92. https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2022-049.

Marsden, Peter V., Maleah Fekete, and Derick S. Baum. 2021. “Egocentric Network Studies within the General Social Survey: Measurement Methods, Substantive Findings, and Methodological Research.” Pp. 519–52 in Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis, edited by B. Pescosolido, B. L. Perry, E. B. Smith, and M. L. Small. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878296.038.

Working papers (drafts available upon request):

Baum, Derick S., and Xiang Zhou. “Explaining Disparities at Quantiles: An Augmented Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition.” Revise & Resubmit at Sociological Methodology.

Baum, Derick S. “Assessing the Goodness of Fit of Models for Analyzing Aggregate Relational Data.”

Baum, Derick S. “The Reliability of Items and Measures for Aggregate Relational Data.”

Short, Susan E., Ester Fanelli, Meghan Zacher, and Derick S. Baum. “The Contribution of Education to the Growing Gender Divide in Feelings Towards Feminists.”