This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

Over the past two decades, population researchers have engaged in a far-reaching and
productive program of research on demographic responses to changes in the natural …

The Great Migration from the South and the rise of racial residential segregation strongly
shaped the twentieth-century experience of African Americans. Yet, little attention has been …

The literature on climate exposures and human migration has focused largely on assessing
short‐term responses to temperature and precipitation shocks. In this paper, we suggest that …

What status mechanisms underlie actors' public narratives to mobilize change? This study
examines the public narratives of a set of United States restaurant actors (2005–2016) that …

Research on neighborhood effects draws suggestive links between local spatial
environments and a range of social, economic, and public health outcomes. Here, we …

Introduction Research is beginning to examine the health outcomes of migrators of the Great
Migration, a movement of up to eight million African Americans from the South to the North …

Social scientists' use of linked decennial census data has grown extensively over the past
two decades. For US census data before 1950, a large body of linked data has been made …

This dissertation studies the social determinants of health and economic wellbeing in the
United States and how they contribute to observed outcome disparities. Chapter 1 …

This dissertation examines the dynamics of social factors in motivating geographic mobility
in the US in three separate essays. There is little doubt that people are inclined to live in …