Derick S. Baum

Research interests:

• Quantitative and computational social science
• Social network analysis
• Bayesian methods
• Survey methodology
• Decomposition methods
• Causal inference
• Social capital and social resources
• Social inequality and segregation

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:

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

• 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. 

Under review

• Baum, Derick S., Ester Fanelli, Elly Field, Susan E. Short, Meghan Zacher. “Explaining Distributional Group Disparities Across Contexts: A Generalized Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition.”

• Baum, Derick S., Craig M. Rawlings, Clayton Childress. “Affinity and Avoidance: Assessing the Social Reality of Political Mega-Identities.”

Working papers (drafts available upon request):

• Baum, Derick S., Rafael H. M. Pereira, Dennis M. Feehan. “The Determinants of Segregation in Acquaintanceship: A Multi-Level Framework.”

• 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.”

• Clay-Warner, Jody, Derick S. Baum, and Justine Tinkler. 2026. “Estimating Network Size with Aggregate Relational Data: Does Mode of Survey Administration Matter?”

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

• Fekete, Maleah, and Derick S. Baum. “Fundamental Causes Across the Health Hierarchy: Analyzing Heterogeneity in Health Stratification.”