Papers and Data
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ARTICLES AND REPORTS
(with Gian Maria Campedelli, Zubin Jelveh, Aaron Chalfin, Daniel Semenza, Eric Piza, Ariadna Albors Zumel and Bruno Lepri), Nature 655(8122): 315-326, 2026 PDF
(with Oludamilare Aboaba, Aaron Chalfin, Michael LaForest-Tucker and Lucie Parker), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 45(2): e70092, 2026
(with Varsha Menon and Chloe Shawah), Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2026 PDF
(with Timothy Ittner), Annual Review of Criminology 9: 81-100, 2026 PDF
(with Mohammed Aleinzi, Gwilym Pryce and Nathan Hughes), Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2025 PDF
(with Shannon Rieger and Angela Li), Urban Studies, 2025
(with Gerard Torrats-Espinosa), Demography 62(2): 599-627, 2025 PDF
Sociological Science 11: 553-578, 2024 PDF
(with Juan Camilo Cristancho and Daniel Semenza), JAMA Network Open 7(8): e2427683, 2024 PDF
(with Oludamilare Aboaba, Aaron Chalfin, Michael LaForest Tucker and Lucie Parker), NBER Working Paper 32455, 2024 PDF
(with Megan Kang), Epidemiology 34(6): 796-797, 2023
(with Megan Kang), Epidemiology 34(6): 786-792, 2023 PDF
(with Yinzhi Shen), Preventive Medicine 165: 107184, 2022
(with Alisabeth Marsteller), University of Chicago Law Review 89(2): 349-?, 2022 PDF
(with Amy Ellen Schwartz, Agustina Laurito, Johanna Lacoe and Ingrid Gould Ellen), Urban Studies 59(14): 3005-3021, 2022 PDF
(with Yinzhi Shen), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(23): e2100846118, 2021 PDF
(with Daniel Aaronson, Jacob Faber, Daniel Hartley and Bhashkar Mazumder), Regional Science and Urban Economics 86: 103622, 2021 PDF
(with Elizabeth Glazer), The Square One Project, Executive Session on the Future of Justice Policy, March 2021, 2021
(with Agustina Laurito, Johanna Lacoe, Amy Ellen Schwartz and Ingrid Gould Ellen), RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(2): 141-166, 2019 PDF
(with Max Besbris and Jacob Faber), City & Community 18(2): 529-555, 2019
(with Michael Friedson), Demography 56(2): 645-663, 2019 PDF
In Antidemocracy in America, ed. Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom, and Sharon Marcus. Columbia University Press: 135-142, 2019
Annual Review of Criminology 1: 85-102, 2018 PDF
(with Jennifer Heissel, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Kathryn E. Grant and Emma K. Adam), Child Development 89(4): e323-e331, 2018 PDF
(with Max Besbris, Jacob Faber and Peter Rich), In Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, ed. S. Michael Gaddis. Springer: 159-177, 2018
(with Felix Elwert), In Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader, ed. David B. Grusky and Jasmine Hill. Routledge: 155-161, 2018
(with Gerard Torrats-Espinosa and Delaram Takyar), American Sociological Review 82(6): 1214-1240, 2017
(with Gerard Torrats-Espinosa), Journal of Urban Economics 102: 22-33, 2017
(with George Galster), RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(2): 1-33, 2017 PDF
(with Max Besbris and Michael Friedson), In The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty, ed. David Brady and Linda M. Burton. Oxford University Press: 623-636, 2017
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(2): 159-177, 2016 PDF
(with Johanna Lacoe), Sociological Science 3: 116-134, 2016 PDF
(with Robert D. Putnam and Margery Turner), Closing the Opportunity Gap Report. The Saguaro Seminar, Harvard Kennedy School, 2016
(with Max Besbris, Jacob Faber and Peter Rich), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(16): 4994-4998, 2015 PDF
(with Michael Friedson), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 660(1): 341-358, 2015
Demography 52(1): 209-231, 2015 PDF
(with Dana Charles McCoy and C. Cybele Raver), Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56(1): 19-36, 2015 PDF
(with Robert J. Sampson), In Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society, ed. Russell K. Schutt, Larry J. Seidman, and Matcheri S. Keshavan. Harvard University Press: 320-339, 2015
(with Jacob W. Faber), In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Elsevier: 443-449, 2015
Social Service Review 89(2): 407-412, 2015
American Journal of Sociology 119(4): 903-954, 2014
(with Amy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Johanna Lacoe), Sociological Science 1: 199-220, 2014 PDF
(with Jacob Faber), Annual Review of Sociology 40: 559-579, 2014 PDF
(with Bryan Graham), The Pew Charitable Trusts, Economic Mobility Project, 2013
Social Service Review 87(2): 386-391, 2013
Cityscape 14(3): 9-31, 2012 PDF
(with Nicole Tirado-Strayer, Andrew V. Papachristos and C. Cybele Raver), American Journal of Public Health 102(12): 2287-2293, 2012 PDF
Sociological Methods & Research 41(2): 251-293, 2012
Demography 49(3): 889-912, 2012 PDF
Cities and Communities
(with Max Besbris), Chapter 8 in The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination, ed. Jeff Manza, Lynne Haney, and Richard Arum. Pearson, 2012
(with Felix Elwert), American Journal of Sociology 116(6): 1934-1981, 2011 PDF
(with Julia Burdick-Will, Jens Ludwig, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Robert J. Sampson and Lisa Sanbonmatsu), In Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, ed. Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane. Russell Sage Foundation: 255-276, 2011
(with Robert J. Sampson), Criminology 48(3): 639-681, 2010 PDF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(26): 11733-11738, 2010 PDF
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Economic Mobility Project, 2009
American Journal of Sociology 113(4): 931-969, 2008
(with Robert J. Sampson), Demography 45(1): 1-29, 2008 PDF
(with Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(3): 845-852, 2008 PDF
Contemporary Sociology 37(4): 324-326, 2008
Journal of Black Studies 37(4): 482-501, 2007
(with Caroline Ratcliffe and Demetra Smith Nightingale), The American Review of Public Administration 37(1): 65-90, 2007
American Sociological Review 71(5): 826-846, 2006
Were Whites Really More Likely to Die in Katrina? A Re-analysis of Data on Race and the Casualties of Katrina
New Vision: An Institute for Policy and Progress, 2006
(with Scott Winship, Matissa Hollister, Joel Horwich and Christopher Wimer), Center for American Progress and New Vision, 2005
(with Julia Lane, Kelly S. Mikelson and Doug Wissoker), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(4): 581-598, 2003
(with Laudan Y. Aron), The Urban Institute (for HHS/ASPE), 2002
(with Martha Burt), The Urban Institute, 2002
(with Martha Burt, Dave Pollack, Abby Sosland, Kelly Mikelson, Elizabeth Drapa and Kristy Greenwalt), The Urban Institute (for HUD), 2002
(with Caroline Ratcliffe and Demetra Nightingale), The Urban Institute, 2002
(with Julia Lane, Kelly Mikelson and Doug Wissoker), The Urban Institute (for HHS/ASPE), 2001
Against the Tide: Welfare Reform in Rhode Island
(with Thomas Anton, Jack Coombs and Richard Francis), Brown University Policy Reports, 2001
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
(with Shamus Khan and Gwen Sharp), sociologyexperiment.com, 2023
(with George Galster), RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(2), 2017
The Sociology Project: Social Problems
(with Jeff M. Manza), Pearson, 2017
University of Chicago Press, 2013
ESSAYS AND OP-EDS
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2024
The Atlantic, November, 2022
Washington Post, May, 2022
Washington Post, April, 2021
(with Elizabeth Glazer), Dissent, Summer 68(3): 91-93, 2021
(with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Yaryna Serkez), New York Times, June, 2020
The Atlantic, June, 2020
Washington Post, June, 2020
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April, 2020
CityLab, March, 2020
New York Times, January, 2018
Los Angeles Times, January, 2018
Public Books, October, 2017
Chronicle of Higher Education, July, 2017
The Atlantic, June, 2016
The Dream Revisited, NYU Furman Center (reprinted 2019 in The Dream Revisited, Columbia University Press, pp. 40-43), 2014
The Guardian, August, 2014
(with Elaine Weiss), Huffington Post, 2014
New York Times, April 29, 2013
The Effects of Community Violence on Children's Cognitive Performance and Self-Regulation
Early Childhood Matters 119: 10-12, 2012
Neighborhoods and Health over Generations
Health & Society News (RWJ Health & Society Scholars), 5(1), 2009
Boston Review, January/February, 2008
DATA
Neighborhood-level data on shootings and homicides in U.S. cities
Harvard Dataverse, 2026
AEA RCT Registry, 2024
Harvard Dataverse, 2021
Harvard Dataverse, 2018