Paul Maxim Professor of Sociology Faculty of Social Science Room 9403, Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 E-mail: maxim@uwo.ca Phone: (519) 661-2053        Fax: (519) 661-3200

• Demography of Aboriginal Peoples
• Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants and Minorities
• Patterns of Urban Residental Segregation
• Quantitative Research Methods

Cohort perspectives on educational attainment and timing of parenthood in Ghana. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 26:123-142, with S. Gyimah and J. White.

Residential segregation and socio-economic integration of visible minorities in Canada. Migration Letters, 2: 126-44, with T.R. Balakrishnan and R. Jurdi.

Impacts of social capital on educational attainment in Aboriginal communities: Lessons from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In Policy Research Initiative, Social Capital in Action: Thematic Policy Studies, September, 2005. Ottawa: Government of Canada.

Aboriginal Policy Research, Volumes I & II, Toronto: Thompson Educational Books., with Jerry P. White and Dan Beavon.

Permission to Develop, Toronto: Thompson Educational Books., with Jerry P. White and Dan Beavon.

"Classical statistics" and "Inferential statistics." In M.S. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman and T.F. Liao (Eds.) The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Vol. 1: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Aboriginal Conditions, Vancouver: UBC Press, with Jerry P. White and Dan Beavon.

Young Persons in Conflict with the Law, 2nd ed., Scarborough: ITP Nelson, with PC Whitehead.

Urban residential patterns of Aboriginal people in Canada. With C. Keane and J. White, in D. Newhouse and E. Peters (Eds.) Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa: PRI.

Labour force activity of women in Canada: A comparative analysis of Aboriginal and Non Aboriginal women. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 40: 391-415, with J. White and S. Gyimah.

Earnings implications of person years lost life expectancy among Canada's aboriginal peoples. Canadian Studies in Population, 30:271-95. With J. White, S. Gyimah and D. Beavon.

Copies of the First Nations Cohesion working papers are now available on-line as PDF documents. Click here for access.

Dispersion and polarization of income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 38: 465-76, with J. White, D. Beavon and PC Whitehead.

Young Persons in Conflict with the Law, Scarborough: ITP Nelson, with PC Whitehead.

Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences, New York: Oxford University Press.This book is also available from Oxford in Spanish as Méthodos cuantitativos: aplicados a las ciencias sociales (2002).

Explaining Crime 4th Ed., Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, with P.C. Whitehead.

Some patterns and social impacts of external migration on a below-replacement population: Denmark by the turn of the millennium. Yearbook of Population Research in Finland, 1996, with H.O. Hansen.

Estimating fertility differentials between immigrant and non immigrant women in Canada, Presented at the Canadian Population Society Meetings, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, June 2, 1996 (Available as a PDF download ).

Self-employment Among Immigrants: A Test of the Social Marginality Hypothesis. Canadian Studies in Population, 21: 81-96, with J.Z. Zhao and R. Beaujot.

Canadian Fertility Trends: A Further Test of the Easterlin Hypothesis (Chapter 13). Perspectives on Canada's Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. F. Trovato, and C.F. Grindstaff. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 173-188, with R. Wright.

Infertility, Sterilization and Contraceptive Use in Ontario. Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technology Reports, Volume 6, with T.R. Balakrishnan.

Self-employment vs. Wage labour and the impact of ascribed/achieved characteristics on income among immigrants to Canada. In D.V. Rao and J.W.Wicks (Eds.) Studies in Applied Demography, Bowling Green, Ohio: Population and Society Research Centre, Bowling Green State University.

Drinking and driving, self-control, and gender: testing a general theory of crime, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 30: 30-46, with C. Keane and J. Teevan.

Immigration policy and immigrant quality: Empirical evidence from Canada. Journal of Population Economics, 6: 337-352, with R. Wright.

Immigrants, visible minorities and self-employment, Demography, 29, 181-198.

Age, Gender and the Risk of violent death in Canada, 1950-1986, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 29: 329-345, with C.Keane.

Socioeconomic determinants of China's urban fertility, Population and Environment, 14: 133-57, with C. Cheng.

Regional variation in sentencing of young offenders in Canada. in L.A. Visano and K. McCormick, Canadian Penology: Advanced Perspectives and Applications. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, with C. Keane and M. Dow.

Theories of climate and social behaviour: an exhumation and serious reexamination, in B. Hamm, Progress in Social Ecology. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, with D. Henshel.