Publications

Labor Market Areas

• Original article on commuting zones
• Broader article covering labor market delineations of multiple types (preprint at osf.io, final version in Environment and Planning A)

Segregation

• Multiscale segregation measures promote the idea that segregation is a process that has meaningful impacts at multiple scales from the households immediately around a person to the entire labor market. Multiscale segregation measures seek to incorporate the variation in segregation across scale as a means of capturing this multi-scaled impact.
• Places are administrative units that exist below the scale of the metropolitan area but above the scale of the neighborhood. In this paper we decompose diversity and segregation within metropolitan areas to look at the diverse roles played by Places in shaping broader segregation measures.

Diversity

• Stably diverse neighborhoods may rely on homogeneous micro-enclaves for their stability (with Dr. Audrey Lumley-Sapanski)
• There are complexities in measuring change in diversity over time

Census data and geographical uncertainty

• How do the units we use to describe neighborhoods shape what we can observe? (preprint, final version). It turns out Census tracts do a better job of describing context in some  places than others.
• More broadly, there are tools researchers can use to measure and incorporate that uncertainty into their analysis.

Contextual Effects

• Changes in the clustering of high and low poverty neighborhoods are associated with changes in the homicide rate
• Exposure to airborne lead associated with reduced executive function among children