Social capital—the strength of an individual's social network and community—has been
identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health …

Although trends in the racial segregation of schools are well documented, less is known
about trends in income segregation. We use multiple data sources to document trends in …

Past research shows that income segregation between neighborhoods increased over the
past several decades. In this article, I reexamine income segregation from 1990 to 2010 in …

The growth in macro‐level income inequality in the United States is well established, but
less is known about patterns of inequality at subnational scales and how they vary between …

This article foregrounds housing in the study of residential segregation. The spatial
configuration of housing determines the housing opportunities in each neighborhood, the …

Researchers often estimate income statistics from summaries that report the number of
incomes in bins such as $0 to 10,000, $10,001 to 20,000,..., $200,000+. Some analysts …

We analyze the effect of an increase in knowledge-intensive activities on spatial inequality in
US cities. We leverage a predetermined network of patent citations to instrument for local …

Objectives: We evaluate the extent to which subjective and objective measures of economic
distress account for differences in substance abuse between the mid-1990s and early …

Does democracy curb domestic political violence? To study this, we focus on the United
Kingdom's Representation of the People Act of 1867—which is a critical juncture in the …

Flooding remains a major problem for the United States, causing numerous deaths and
damaging countless properties. To reduce the impact of flooding on communities, the US …