Research

Lewis, Michael A. “Covid 19, Vaccines, and Decision Theory.” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, vol. 12, Issue 1 (2022).

Lewis, Michael A. “Employment and Unemployment: Macro Social Work Perspectives.” Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, January, 2022.

Lewis, Michael A. “Economics and Social Welfare.” Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, January, 2022.

Bragin, Martha; Mikulka, Joseph; George, Wirefred Opira; Lewis Michael A.; Guzzardi, Sam. “Thinking and Learning Together: Applying an Educational Intervention for Children Affected by Violence in Northern Uganda for a U.S. Classroom. Child Welfare, (In Press). 

Ringland, Valerie; Lewis, Michael A.; Dunleavy, Daniel. “Beyond the P-Value: Bayesian Statistics and Causation.” Journal of Evidence Based Social Work, (October, 2020).

Lewis, Michael A. “COVID-19 and Quantitative Literacy: Focusing on Probability.” Numeracy, 14, Issue 1 (2021).

Lewis, Michael A. “Are Math and Logic Relevant to Social Debates?” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics vol. 10, issue 1, (January, 2020).

Lewis, Michael A. “Comments on Frameworks for Causal Inference.” Journal of Family Violence, (March, 2019).

Caputo, Richard and Lewis, Michael A (guest editors of symposium on basic income). Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 43, no. 3, (October, 2016)

Caputo, Richard and Lewis, Michael A. “Introduction to Symposium on Basic Income Guarantee.” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 43, no. 3, (October, 2016)

Lewis, Michael A. and Kuerbis, Alexis. “An Overview of Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs for Substance Abuse Researchers.” Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research (2016). 

Lewis, Michael A. “An Overview of Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs for Social Work Researchers.” Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods (September 2015).

Lewis, Michael A. “Econometrics of Estimating Causal Effects: An Overview for Social Work Researchers.” Research on Social Work Practice (June, 2015).

Lewis, Michael A. and Ferguson-Colvin, Kristin. “Comparison of Decision Rules and Logistic Regression Classification Algorithms to Predict Methamphetamine use among Homeless Youths who attend High School.” Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, vol. 5, issue 2, (March, 2014).

Lewis, Michael A. (guest editor of special issue on the right to income and the right to employment). Basic Income Studies, vol. 7, issue 2, (December 2012).

Lewis, Michael A. “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Right to Work and Basic Income.” Basic Income Studies, vol. 7, issue 2, (December, 2012).

Lewis, Michael A. “Cost, Compensation, Freedom, and the Basic Income – Guaranteed Jobs Debate.” Basic Income Studies, vol. 7, issue 2, (December, 2012).

Lewis, Michael A. “Mathematics and the Hunger Games.” The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, vol. 2, issue 2, (July, 2012).

Lewis, Michael A. “The Spending Explosion: Positional Externalities and Exponential Consumption Growth.” Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, vol. 7, issue 1, (March, 2012).

Lewis, Michael A. “What to do if the Gold Standard Can’t be Realized? Propensity Scoring to Adjust for Attrition in Random Experiments.” Sociology Study, vol. 1, number 1, (June, 2011).

Lewis, Michael A. “The Physics of Inflation: Newton’s Law of Cooling and the Consumer Price Index.” Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, vol. 5, issue 1, (March, 2010) 106-11.

Lewis, Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “Logistic Regression to Describe How the Relationship Between Social Connection and Self-Rated Health Varies by Gender.” Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, vol. 14, issue 2, June (2009), 166-174.

Lewis, Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “My Neighbors Made Me Do It: An Exploration of a Neighborhood Network Model of Activism.” Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, no. 8 (August 2008).

Lewis, Michael A. “Economics and Social Welfare,” in The Social Work Encyclopedia. Mizrahi. Terry (editor).  New York: Oxford University Press (2008).

Lewis, Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “The Female Corp of Volunteers: How Gender and Labor Supply Interact to Affect Civic Participation.” Race, Class, and Gender, vol 13, no.3-4 (2007), 255-267.

Widerquist, Karl and Lewis, Michael A. “An Efficiency Argument for the Basic Income Guarantee.” International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, vol. 2, no. 1 (2006), pp. 21-43.

Lewis. Michael A.; Pressman, Steven; and Widerquist, Karl (guest editors). Review of Social Economy, vol. 63 (December, 2005).

Lewis. Michael A.; Pressman, Steven; and Widerquist, Karl. “The Basic Income Guarantee and Social Economics,” Review of Social Economy, vol. 63 (December, 2005), pp. 587-593.

Lewis, Michael A. “Some Questions about Harvey’s Discussion of the Relative Merits of the Basic Income and the Right to Work.” Rutgers School of Law Journal of Law and Urban Policy, vol. 2, issue 1, (2005).

Lewis Michael A. “Perhaps there can be too Much Freedom.” The Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 34, issue 1, (2005), pp. 17-26.

Berger, Candyce S.; Robbins, Charles; Lewis, Michael A.; Mizrahi, Terry; and Fleit, Shelly. “The Impact of Organizational Change on Social Work Staffing in a Hospital Setting: A National Longitudinal Study of Social Work in Hospitals,” Social Work in Health Care, vol. 37, (2003), pp. 1-18.

Battle, Juan and Lewis, Michael A. “The Increasing Significance of Class: The Relative Effect of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Academic Achievement,” Journal of Poverty, vol. 6, (2002), pp. 21-35.

Lewis, Michael A. “A Time Series Analysis of the Effect of Welfare on Earnings,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 28, (December 2001), pp. 161-171.

Lewis, Michael A. “A Path Analysis of the Effect of Welfare on Infant Mortality,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 24, (September 1999), pp. 125-136.

Lewis, Michael A. “A Few Contributions of Economic Theory to Social Welfare Policy Analysis,” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 24, (December 1998), pp. 145-156.

Lewis, Michael A. Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Lewis, Michael A., Pressman Steve, and Widerquist, Karl (editors). The Economics and Ethics of the Basic Income Guarantee. England: Ashgate, 2005.

Lewis, Michael A. and Widerquist, Karl. Economics for Social Workers, New York: Columbia University Press, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.