My CV in PDF, last updated November 5, 2024.
Paul A. Jargowsky, Ph. D.
Rutgers University – Camden Voice: 856-225-2729
Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE) Fax: 856-225-6785
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Twitter: @CureCamden Twitter: @Paul_Jargowsky
EDUCATION
1991 Ph.D. in Public Policy, Harvard University. Dissertation Committee: Mary Jo Bane, David T. Ellwood, Paul E. Peterson. Dissertation: Ghetto Poverty: The Neighborhood Distribution Framework.
1986 Master’s in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Policy Analysis Exercise (with Mark X. Cronin), Child Support in New York State: Making the System Work, prepared for the New York State Department of Social Services.
1980 A.B., Princeton University, Philosophy, magna cum laude. Senior Thesis: Free Will and Determinism: A Study of Two Conflicting Points of View. Principal Advisor: Thomas Nagel. Second Reader: Margaret Dauler Wilson.
EMPLOYMENT
Fall 2024 Program Head, Public Affairs MS and PhD Program, Rutgers University –Camden.
2011-present Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University – Camden.
2011-2023 Founding Director, Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE), Rutgers University – Camden.
2016-2017 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, in residence from Sept. 2016 to June 2017.
2010-2011 Program Head, Public Policy and Political Economy Program, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
2007-2011 Professor of Public Policy, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UTD.
Spring 2009 Visiting Scholar, Urban Institute.
2003-2008 Director, Texas Schools Project at UTD, an ongoing multi-year panel study of elementary, secondary, and higher education in Texas.
2002-2008 Director, Bruton Center for Development Studies, UTD.
Fall 2004 Visiting Scholar, Centre de Sciences Humaines, Cultural Section of the French Embassy, New Delhi, India.
1997-2007 Associate Professor of Political Economy, UTD.
1997-1998 Visiting Associate Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1991-1997 Assistant Professor of Political Economy, UTD.
Summer 1993 Visiting Scholar, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C.
1987‑1991 Teaching Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1983-84 Research Associate for Dr. Amitai Etzioni, Center for Policy Research, George Washington University.
1981-82 Research Associate, National Association of State Boards of Education.
1980-81 Paralegal, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam, and Roberts. New York, NY.
Summer 1979 Intern, Legal Aid Society of Mercer County, Trenton NJ.
PUBLICATIONS (Sole-authored unless noted)
Books, Reports, and Monographs
2023 CURE: A Time for Reflection, A Time for Moving Forward. Summary of CURE’s activities, 2011-2023.
2019 Paul A. Jargowsky, Lei Ding, and Natasha Fletcher, co-editors. Housing Policy Debate: Special Issue on the Fair Housing Act at 50. Vol. 29, No. 5.
2018 Christopher Wheeler and Paul Jargowsky, Promoting Inclusive Communities: How Cities can Utilize Local Housing Policy to Combat Economic Segregation. Policy Brief. 21st Century Cities Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, June 2018.
2017 Jargowsky, Paul A. and Christopher Wheeler, Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2010. Prepared for the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, November 2017.
2015 Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy. Century Foundation, New York, and Center for Urban Research and Education, Rutgers-Camden, August 9, 2015.
2014 Jargowsky, Paul A., Deborah J. Rog, and Kathryn J. Hendersen. “Suburban Poverty and Racial Segregation.” Prepared for Madeleine Solan, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Westat, Inc. and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University.
2013 Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium: Changes in Prevalence, Composition, and Location of High-Poverty Neighborhoods. The Century Foundation, New York, and the Center for Urban Research and Education, Rutgers-Camden, December 2013.
2010 Karina Fortuny, Ajay Chaudry, and Paul Jargowsky. “Immigration Trends in Metropolitan America, 1980–2007,” Immigration and Neighborhood Change, Brief #1. Washington DC, Urban Institute. [http://urbn.is/1JCt5FV]
2009 Paul A. Jargowsky and Todd Swanstrom. Economic Integration: Why It Matters and How Cities Can Get More of It. Chicago, Illinois: CEOs for Cities, City Vitals Series.
2006 Paul A. Jargowsky and Isabelle Sawhill. “The Decline of the Underclass.” Policy Brief #36, Center on Children and Families. Washington DC: Brookings Institution.
2003 Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s. Living Cities Census Series, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Studies. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, May 2003.
1997 Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. With an Introduction by William Julius Wilson. (Issued in paperback, 1998.)
Refereed Publications: Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
Forthcoming Paul Jargowsky, Patrick Brandt, and Wenyi Wang. “Statistical Inference: the Frequentist Approach.” In Sandip Sinharay, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2nd edition.
Forthcoming Patrick Brandt, Wenyi Wang, and Paul Jargowsky. “Bayes Rule and Bayesian Inference.” In Sandip Sinharay, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2nd edition.
Forthcoming “Omitted Variable Bias.” In Sandip Sinharay, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2nd edition.
Forthcoming “Descriptive Statistics.” In Sandip Sinharay, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2nd edition.
2021 “Disastrous Inferences? The Ecological Fallacy in Disaster and Emergency Management Research.” Pp. 48-66 in Jason D. Rivera, ed., Research Methods of Disaster and Emergency Management. New York: Routledge. [Working paper version.]
2020 “Racial and Economic Segregation in the U.S.: Overlapping and Reinforcing Dimensions.” Pp. 151-169 in Sako Musterd, ed., Handbook on Urban Segregation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020.
2018 Paul A. Jargowsky and Christopher Wheeler. “Estimating Income Statistics from Grouped Data: Mean-Constrained Integration over Brackets.” Sociological Methodology, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 337-374.
2018 “The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century.” Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 36, pp. 207-230. [http://bit.ly/2zFLNl6]
2018 Beth Rabinowitz and Paul A. Jargowsky. “Rethinking Coup Risk: Rural Coalitions and Coup-proofing in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 322-346.
2016 “Neighborhoods and Segregation.” Pp. 20-40 in Susan Wachter and Lei Ding, eds., Building Shared Prosperity in America’s Communities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2016 Paul A. Jargowsky, Zachary D. Wood, Cameron Anglum, and David N. Karp. “Expanding Educational Opportunity in Urban School Districts.” Pp. 102-117 in Susan Wachter and Lei Ding, eds., Building Shared Prosperity in America’s Communities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2015 Paul A. Jargowsky and Lorraine C. Minnite. “The Underclass.” Pp. 728-732 in James D. Wright, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier.
2015 Paul A. Jargowsky and Natasha O. Tursi. “Concentrated Disadvantage.” Pp. 525-530 in James D. Wright, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier.
2014 “Segregation, Neighborhoods, and Schools.” Pp. 97-136 in Annette Lareau and Kimberly Goyette, eds., Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Residential Segregation and the Search for a Good School. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2011 “Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban Policy.” Pp. 292-317 in Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerritt Knaap, eds., Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning. New York: Oxford University Press.
2011 Paul A. Jargowsky and Mohamed El Komi. “Before or After the Bell: School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement.” Pp. 50-72 in Harriet Newburger, Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Federal Reserve Board and Penn Institute for Urban Research.
2009 “Immigrants and Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation?” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 35, pp. 1129-1151.
2009 Paul A. Jargowsky and Jeongdai Kim. “The Information Theory of Segregation: Uniting Segregation and Inequality in a Common Framework.” Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, pp. 3-31.
2009 Paul A. Jargowsky and Yoonhwan Park. “Cause or Consequence? Suburbanization and Crime in U.S Metropolitan Areas.” Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 55, pp. 28-50.
2009 Jeongdai Kim and Paul A. Jargowsky. “The GINI Coefficient and Segregation on a Continuous Variable.” Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, pp. 57-70.
2006 Paul A. Jargowsky and Rebecca Yang. “The ‘Underclass’ Revisited: A Social Problem in Decline.” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 28, pp. 55-70.
2006 Rebecca Yang and Paul A. Jargowsky. “Suburban Development and Economic Segregation in the 1990s.” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 28, pp. 253-273.
2005 “Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s.” Pp. 137-171 in Alan Berube, Bruce Katz and Robert Lang, eds., Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
2005 “Chaos or Community: Directions for Public Policy.” Pp. 233-251 in Nancy Kleniewski, ed., 2005. Cities and Society (Blackwell Readers in Sociology). Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
2005 “The Ecological Fallacy.” Pp. 715-722 in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol. 1., San Diego, California: Academic Press.
2005 “Omitted Variable Bias.” Pp. 919-924 in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol. 2., San Diego, California: Academic Press.
2005 Paul A. Jargowsky, Robert Crutchfield, and Scott Desmond. “Is Suburban Sprawl a Juvenile Justice Issue?” Pp. 167-201 in Darnell Hawkins and Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds., Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Race and Ethnic Differences in American Criminal Justice. Chicago: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
2005 Paul A. Jargowsky and Rui Yang. “Descriptive and Inferential Statistics.” Pp. 659-658 in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, ed., Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol. 1. San Diego, California: Academic Press.
2002 “Sprawl, Concentration of Poverty, and Urban Inequality.” Pp. 39-72 in Gregory Squires, ed., Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
2002 Kristine A. Lykens and Paul A. Jargowsky. “Medicaid Matters: Children’s Health and Medicaid Eligibility Expansions.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 21, pp. 219-238.
1998 “Urban Poverty, Race, and the Central City: The ‘Bitter Fruit’ of 30 Years of Neglect.” In The Millennium Breach: Richer, Poorer and Racially Apart — A Thirty Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the “Kerner Report”). Washington, D.C.: The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation and the Corporation for What Works, 1998. Reprinted in Fred R. Harris, ed., Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
1997 “Metropolitan Restructuring: Implications for Urban Policy.” Stanford Law and Policy Review, Vol. 8, pp. 47-60.
1996 “Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, pp. 984-998.
1996 “Beyond the Street Corner: The Hidden Diversity of High-Poverty Neighborhoods.” Urban Geography, Vol. 17, pp. 579-603.
1995 Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Discussion Paper No. 1056-95 (January 1995). Madison, Wisconsin: Institute for Research on Poverty. [http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp. Includes a technical appendix not included in American Sociological Review version.]
1994 “Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 13, pp. 288-310.
1991 Paul A. Jargowsky and Mary Jo Bane. “Ghetto Poverty in the United States, 1970-1980.” Pp. 235-273 in Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson, eds., The Urban Underclass. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
1990 Paul A. Jargowsky and Mary Jo Bane. “Ghetto Poverty: Basic Questions.” Pp. 16-67 in Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Michael T. McGeary, eds., Inner‑City Poverty in the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences Press.
1990 Amitai Etzioni and Paul A. Jargowsky. “The False Choice between High Technology and Basic Industry.” Pp. 304-318 in Kai Erikson and Steven Peter Vallas, eds., The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
1988 Mary Jo Bane and Paul A. Jargowsky. “The Impact of Government Policy on Family Structure.” Pp. 219-261 in Andrew Cherlin, ed., The Changing American Family and Public Policy. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
1988 Mary Jo Bane and Paul A. Jargowsky. “A New Framework for Democratic Poverty Policy.” Pp. 368-379 in Robert Levin, ed., Turning Points: Democratic Blueprints for the Future. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc.
1985 Amitai Etzioni and Paul A. Jargowsky. “The Two-Track Society.” Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 2, pp. 75–81.
1984 Amitai Etzioni and Paul A. Jargowsky. “High Technology, Basic Industry, and the Future of the American Economy.” Human Resources Management, Vol. 23, pp. 229-240.
Book Reviews, Op-Eds, Blog Posts, and Other Non-refereed Publications
2022 Guide to Logarithms and Exponents. February 18, 2022.
2020 Remarks on the Occasion of William Julius Wilson’s Retirement. Posted February 13, 2020. [https://jargowsky.camden.rutgers.edu/2020/02/13/remarks-on-the-occasion-of-william-julius-wilsons-retirement/]
2019 “What World a New Kerner Commission Conclude Today?” Pathways: a Magazine on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy. Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University. Winter 2019, pp. 33-40.
2019 Jargowsky, Paul A., Lei Ding, and Natasha Fletcher. Introduction to the Special Issue: “The Fair Housing Act at 50: Successes, Failures, and Future Directions.” Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 694-703.
2019 “Remarks on the Occasion of William Julius Wilson’s Retirement.” Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University. September 12, 2019.
2019 “The Durable Architecture of Segregation.” Pp. 61-63 in Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil, eds., The Dream Revisited: Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Columbia University Press.
2017 Jargowsky, Paul A., Christopher A. Wheeler, and Howard Gillette. “Poverty.” In Charlene Mires, et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Camden, NJ: Rutgers University, Camden. [http://bit.ly/2E3S0b4]
2016 Jargowsky, Paul A. “Billion Dollar Baby: The Camden Redevelopment Scam.” Courier-Post. December 6, 2016. [http://on.cpsj.com/2k4WnvL]
2016 Are Minority Neighborhoods a Disaster? Commentary, Race and Inequality, Century Foundation. October 14, 2016. [http://bit.ly/2kdRu0e].
- In response to this piece, I received the following note: “Dear Paul Jargowsky: Applause for bringing data and sense to this maligned subject in the new TCF posting. Jack Rosenthal, President Emeritus, The New York Times.”
2014 “The Durable Architecture of Segregation.” In The Dream Revisited: Discussion 9, Residential Income Segregation. Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University. November 20, 2014. [http://bit.ly/2kRJ3Xj]
2014 Concentration of Poverty: An Update. Commentary, Social Insurance, Century Foundation. [http://bit.ly/conpovupdate]
2013 Review of Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes (Eds.), “The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies.” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 651-653.
2013 Marie Isabelle Chevrier and Paul A. Jargowsky. “A prescription for ending the war crimes.” The Courier Post, September 12, 2013. Reprinted as “Time to Stop the War Crimes.” The Huffington Post. September 12, 2013.
2013 “Disinvestment.” In Cyril Reade, ed., Visions of Camden Exhibition at the Rutgers-Camden Stedman Gallery, January 14-March 1, 2013.
2012 “Attractions work, but haven’t saved Camden.” The Courier Post, December 23.
2012 “Race is still leading line of demarcation.” The Courier Post, December 12.
2012 “Region Best Served by Preserving Rutgers.” The Courier Post, April 24. Reprinted as “Why Rutgers-Rowan Merger Would Fail,” The Atlantic City Press, April 27, 2012.
2010 Review of More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City, by William Julius Wilson. City and Community, Vol. 9, pp. 225-226.
2009 “Comment on Robert Hutchens, ‘Occupational Segregation with Economic Disadvantage: An Investigation Using Decomposable Indexes’.” Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, pp. 121-124.
2008 “Immigrants and Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation?” Poverty Research Flash, July-August 2008
2006 “Concentration of Poverty Declined in the 1990s.” Chapter 17 in Chester Hartman, ed., Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas. Lexington, MA: Lexington Press. Reprinted from the Poverty and Race Action Council (PRRAC) newsletter.
2005 “Response to George Galster, ‘Unexpected Consequences from the Reduction in Poverty’.” Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 133-135.
2005 “Comparative Metropolitan Development.” Pp. 21-37 in Véronique Dupont, ed., Peri-Urban Dynamics: Population, Habitat and Environment on the Peripheries of Large Indian Metropolises: A Review of Concepts and General Issues. Centre de Sciences Humaines Occasional Paper No. 14 (December 2005).
2004 “Die Metropolitanen Gebiete der USA: Strukturwandel und Stadtpolitik.” Pp. 122-147 in Hartmut Häußermann; Martin Kronauer; Walter Siebel (eds.), An den Raenderner Staedte: Armut and Ausgrenzung. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
2003 “Concentration of Poverty Declines in the 1990.” Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Vol. 12, No. 4 (July/August), pp. 1-2.
2002 “Disrupting my dinner has a price.” Dallas Morning News, March 20, 2002, p. 23A.
2001 Comparative review essay of four books from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI): The Atlanta Paradox, edited by D. Sjoquist; Detroit Divided, by R. Farley et al.; The Boston Renaissance, by Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson; and Prismatic Metropolis, edited by L. D. Bobo, et al. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 20, pp. 581-588.
2001 Review of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century, by Peter Drier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2001). Urban Affairs Review.
2000 Review of Who’s Not Working and Why, by Richard Pryor and David Schaffer. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 19, pp. 169-171.
2000 “Public Housing Sale Raises Larger Issues.” The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, February 27, 2000, p. 1M.
1999 “High Court Should Reverse Housing Ruling.” The Dallas Morning News, March 29, 1999, p. 11A.
1999 Review of The Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working-Class Young Adults, by Michelle Fine and Lois Weis. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, pp. 549-551.
1997 “Response to Loïc J.D. Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto’.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22, pp. 160‑63.
1997 Review of Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from France, by Barbara Bergmann. Sociological Research Online, Vol. 2, no. 4. [http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/4/jargowsky.html]
1987 Review of Fighting Poverty: What Works and What Doesn’t, edited by Sheldon Danziger and Daniel Weinberg. Governance: the Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Winter/Spring Issue. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1986 Contributing author and editor of A New Social Contract: Rethinking the Nature and Purpose of Public Assistance. Report to Governor Mario M. Cuomo, Task Force on Poverty and Welfare, State of New York.
1986 “Industrial Ownership in New York.” Governance: the Harvard Journal of Public Policy. Summer/Fall Issue. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government.
1985 Lana Muraskin and Paul A. Jargowsky. Creating and Implementing Family Life Education in New Jersey. Alexandria, VA: National Association of State Boards of Education.
Working Papers (not published elsewhere)
2018 Wheeler, Christopher A. and Jargowsky, Paul A., Race, Land Use Regulation, and Housing Affordability (June 19, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3199298.
2012 Rodney Andrews, Paul A. Jargowsky and Kristin Kuhne. “The Effects of Texas’s Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance.” National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, Working Paper 84. Washington, DC, November 2012. Also issued as Working Paper No. 18598, National Bureau of Economic Research. Cambridge, MA: December 2012.
2010 Paul A. Jargowsky and Karina Fortuny. “Decomposing the Impact of Immigration on Metropolitan Area Poverty Rates: 1980-2007.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, 3/12/2010, Honolulu, Hawaii and the Annual Research Meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, 11/5/2010, Boston, Massachusetts.
2005 John F. Kain, Dan O’Brien, and Paul Jargowsky. “Hopwood and the Top 10 Percent Law: How Have They Affected the College Enrollment Decisions of Texas High School Graduates.” Texas Schools Project Working Paper. June 22, 2005.
2005 Isaac McFarlin, Paul A. Jargowsky, and Vera Holovchenko. “Who attends Community Colleges in Texas? And Why?” Texas Schools Project Working Paper.
2004 Paul A. Jargowsky and Jeongdai Kim. “A Measure of Spatial Segregation: The Generalized Neighborhood Sorting Index.” Political Economy Working Paper 10/04. School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
2004 Paul A. Jargowsky, Isaac McFarlin, and Vera Holovchenko. “Community College: Help or Hindrance to Senior College Graduation.” Texas Schools Project Working Paper. October 2004.
2002 “The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, Twenty Years Later: Has the Commission’s ‘City of the Future’ Come to Pass?” Political Economy Working Paper 22/02. School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
2001 “The Social Consequences of Income Inequality and Economic Segregation for Young Adults: Estimates Using Metropolitan Level Data,” unpublished paper.
1996 The End of Urban Policy as We Know It? Political Economy Working Paper 96-01. School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
1991 The State and the Child: Improving the Services System for Children. Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Working Paper Series, #ES-91-1. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1990 Paul A. Jargowsky and David T. Ellwood. Ghetto Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Framework. Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Working Paper Series, #H-90-7. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
AWARDS, HONORS, AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
2021 Named IRP Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2017 Invited to join the Poverty and Geography Thematic Research Network, Institute for Research on Poverty and U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Research Centers.
2016 Named 2016-2017 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University.
2016 First Annual Faculty Research Fellow, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University – Camden.
2015 Chancellor’s Award for Academic Civic Engagement, awarded to the Center for Urban Research and Education, Rutgers-Camden.
2013 Named Penn IUR Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research, Philadelphia PA.
2013 Named Century Foundation Fellow, The Century Foundation, New York, NY.
2012 Civic Engagement Faculty Fellow, Rutgers-Camden.
2009 Named Affiliated Scholar, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
2006 Yang and Jargowsky (2006) named best article in Volume 28 of the Journal of Urban Affairs by the Urban Affairs Association.
2006 Elected Member, Policy Council, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association.
2005 Chapter 7 of Poverty and Place reprinted in an anthology of “20 of the most important classic and contemporary readings on cities and society,” including “classic and first-rate contemporary writings that have had a major impact on the field of urban sociology and urban studies.” (Nancy Kleniewski, ed. Cities and Society. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2005.)
2003 Named Senior Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
2002 Jargowsky (1994) identified as one of the most frequently cited articles published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management in Peter Rueter and Jeri Smith-Ready, “Editor’s Note: Assessing JPAM After 20 Years,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21: 339-353.
2001-2004 Elected Member, Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
1999 Awarded “Best Book in Urban Affairs” by the Urban Affairs Association for Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City. First biennial award; presented at the Urban Affairs Association 29th Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 1999.
1998 Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as “One of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1997.”
1986 Manuel C. Carballo Award for the best graduate student paper (with Mark X. Cronin) on the implementation and management of human services programs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1985 Executive Editor, Governance: The Harvard Journal of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1984-1986 John F. Kennedy Fellow, John E. Thayer Scholarship, and Arthur Lehman Scholarship, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
1980 Class of 1869 Prize for Excellence in Ethics awarded for Senior Thesis in Moral Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University.
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
2016 Edsall, Thomas B. “Will the Democrats Ever Face an African-American Revolt?” New York Times. March 15, 2016. http://nyti.ms/1pt2UP4
2015 Extensive media coverage of “Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy,” including:
- Edsall, Thomas B. “Whose Neighborhood Is It?” New York Times. September 9, 2015. http://nyti.ms/1LWD0to
- The Editorial Board. “The Architecture of Segregation.” New York Times. September 6, 2015. http://nyti.ms/1Sx3lRb
- Badger, Emily. 2015. “Black Poverty Differs from White Poverty.” The Washington Post, August 12. http://wapo.st/1Ou5oXu
- Florida, Richard. 2015. “America’s Biggest Problem Is Concentrated Poverty, Not Inequality.” CityLab. August 10. http://bit.ly/1PfCDxO
- Semuels, Alana. 2015. “The Resurrection of America’s Slums.” The Atlantic, August 9. http://bit.ly/1PfCDxO
- Siegel, Harry. 2015. “The Architecture of Segregation.” NY Daily News, August 12. http://nydn.us/1MgFrVN
2015 Isquith, Elias. “‘It’s Really Long Overdue’: Why Obama’s New Anti-Segregation Rules Are Coming Decades Late.” Salon. Accessed September 2. http://bit.ly/1DBUwgz.
2013 Claudia Vargas, “Amid crushing poverty and crime, Camden fights on.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2013. http://bit.ly/1MCY5X1
2013 NBC News, “What’s the matter with Camden?” March 7, 2013.
2006 “Q&A with Paul A. Jargowsky (Interview).” Banking and Community Perspectives 2006, 2 (November), pp. 4-5. Dallas, TX: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
2006 Robert Miller, “Getting to the Facts on Education.” The Dallas Morning News, July 30, 2006.
2005 Quoted in numerous newspaper articles regarding social and economic aspects of Post-Katrina resettlement, including The Chicago Tribune, The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Sacramento Bee.
2003 Extensive media coverage of “Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: Concentration of Poverty in the 1990s,” including:
- Robert Pear, “Smaller Percentage of Poor Live in High-Poverty Areas,” The New York Times, May 18, 2003, p. 20. http://nyti.ms/1MNKbYy
- Guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal, May 20, 2003, 7:30-8:00am EDT.
- Voice of America, May 21, 2003.
2000 Work discussed in David Finkel, “In the Shadows of Prosperity; For a Seemingly Intractable Underclass, Hope and Dreams Persist,” The Washington Post (January 17, 2000, p.1) and Craig Flournoy, “Buchmeyer Rules Sunnyvale Zoning Excludes Minorities,” The Dallas Morning News (August 3, 2000, p. 1).
1999 Subject of featured interview, The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, April 4, 1999, p. 1J (Interviewed by Chris Kelley).
1999 Guest on The Kathleen Dunn Show, WHAD-FM, October 21, 1999. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999 Guest on Science Update (#1454: Economic Segregation), nationally syndicated radio program produced by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
1997 Guest on The Exchange, New Hampshire Public Radio, May 22nd, 1997.
1997 Press Briefing regarding Poverty and Place for Washington Press Affiliates, Brookings Institution, March 25. Washington, D.C.
1996 Golden, Dan. 1996. “The Geography of Poverty.” The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (Boston, Massachusetts), June 2nd, p. 9.
1993 David Whitman, “The Shifting State of Black Ghettos,” U.S. News and World Reports, January 18, 1993, pp. 33-37.
1986 The New Social Contract praised in a lead editorial in the New York Times, December 18, 1986. http://nyti.ms/1FSgblH
PUBLIC LECTURES AND SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Mar. 12, 2024 Guest Lecture, “Case Selection and Sampling Issues.” Research Methods in Public Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York.
Nov. 29, 2023 “Public Policy and Neighborhood Inequality.” Invited public lecture, Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy, University of Delaware.
Sep. 17, 2023 Remarks in Memory of Rodney Andrews. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.
Oct. 3, 2021 “Poverty, Segregation, and Neighborhood Inequality.” Invited Presentation at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Vatican City.
Mar. 5, 2020 “The Determinants of Rising Neighborhood Disparities, 1970-2015.” Research Seminar, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Jan. 22, 2020 Appearance regarding the importance of the U.S. Census on the television program “In Focus” on WPHL, Channel 17.
Oct. 11, 2019 “Dismantling the Architecture of Segregation.” Conference opening remarks and research presentation. Sponsored by the Center for Urban Research and Education, Rutgers University – Camden. Camden, NJ.
Sep. 12, 2019 “Neighborhood Inequality.” Remarks on the Occasion of the Retirement of William Julius Wilson, Hutchens Center on African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
May 3, 2019 “Segregation: Trends, Causes, and Consequences.” 2019 Summit for Civil Rights, Rutgers Labor Education Center, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.
Apr. 25, 2019 “Exclusionary Zoning Policies and School Segregation.” Annual Research Conference, Urban Affairs Association. Los Angeles, CA.
Nov. 16, 2018 “Fair Housing for the Next 50 Years.” Geographies of Poverty Conference, Center for Poverty Research, University of California, Davis. Davis, California.
Nov. 9, 2018 “What Causes Unequal Neighborhoods? The Role of Rising Inequality and Economic Segregation.” Annual Research Conference, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). Washington, DC.
Oct. 25, 2018 “Fair Housing II: A Systematic Approach.” Annual Research Conference, American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Buffalo, NY.
July 19, 2018 “What Causes Unequal Neighborhoods? the Role of Rising Inequality and Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas, 1970-2010.” 2018 International Conference. Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). Mexico City, Mexico.
July 12, 2018 “Urban Segregation and the Rise of Civil Unrest, Separatist Movements, and Terrorism.” Indonesia International Defense Seminar 2018. Jakarta, Indonesia.
May 17, 2018 “Separate and Unequal: Determinants of Economic Segregation in in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Research Symposium on Fair Housing, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Center for Urban Research and Education, Philadelphia, PA.
Nov. 27, 2017 “Economic and Racial Segregation in the United States.” Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam.
Nov. 11, 2017 “The End of the Segregated Century? Unfortunately, No.” Presentation at the Summit for Civil Rights, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN.
Aug. 13, 2017 “The Economic Integration Agenda.” Thematic Session, “Framing the Rise in Economic Segregation: Trends and Policies.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal Canada.
Apr. 26, 2016 Annual Faculty Research Fellow Lecture, “The Architecture of Segregation: Public Policy and the Origin of Spatial Inequality.” Rutgers University – Camden. Camden, NJ.
Apr. 21, 2016 Panelist, “Can Incentives Resurrect Camden?” Urban Land Institute, Council Day. Philadelphia, PA.
Feb. 16, 2016 Panelist, “The Impact of Federal Housing Assistance on High Poverty and Adjacent Neighborhoods.” U.S. Government Accountability Office conference, “Rental Housing: Key Issues and Challenges Facing Government.” Washington, DC.
Oct. 22, 2015 Invited Lecture, “Housing Policy and Schools: ‘The Architecture of Segregation.’” Education Writers Association national meeting, “In the Neighborhood: Covering Poverty’s Influence on Education.” Chicago, IL.
Sept. 27, 2015 Panelist, Daniel Burham Forum, “Pursuing Inclusive Growth: Placed-based Strategies for Economic Growth, Social Mobility and Housing Affordability.” Opening Plenary of the American Planning Association’s 2015 Policy and Advocacy Conference, in cooperation with the National Building Museum. Washington, DC.
May 8, 2015 Introductory remarks, Conference on “Violence and the City.” Co-sponsored by The Murphy Institute, CUNY, and the Center for Urban Research and Education, Rutgers University-Camden. New York, NY.
July 12, 2014 Speaker, “The Concentration of Poverty.” National Superintendents Roundtable, Summer 2014 Meeting, “Childhood Poverty and its Educational Correlates.” Chicago, IL.
Feb. 19, 2013 Presenter, Visions of Camden Exhibition. “Disinvestment.” Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, Camden.
Oct. 4, 2012 Speaker, “The Effects of Texas’s Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance.” University of Maryland-INVALSI Conference: Improving Education through Accountability and Evaluation – Lessons from around the world. Rome, Italy.
Sept. 14, 2012 Panelist, “How has the concentration of poverty changed since publication of The Truly Disadvantaged?” The Truly Disadvantaged after Twenty-Five Years, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Sept. 29, 2011 Public Lecture, “Demographic Trends in Urban Neighborhoods.” Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Aug. 27, 2009 Panelist, Plano Multicultural Outreach Roundtable. “Changing Demographics, Changing Neighborhoods in the Dallas Metropolitan Area.” Center for American and International Law, Plano, Texas.
May 21, 2009 Speaker, Thursday’s Child Public Policy Forum, “Immigrant Families, English Language Learners, and the Future of Education Reform,” The Urban Institute, Washington DC (co-sponsored by Chapin Hall, The University of Chicago).
Dec. 3, 2008 Speaker, Confronting Concentrated Poverty: A Policy Forum, The Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System, Washington DC.
Nov. 6, 2008 (with Todd Swanstrom) “Economic Integration: What can Cities Do about It?” presentation to CEOs for Cities Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Oct. 6, 2008 “Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Achievement.” Invited lecture, Harvard University Inequality Seminar, Cambridge, MA.
May 2, 2008 “Children of Immigrants and the Concentration of Poverty.” Demography Colloquium, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
Mar. 27, 2008 “Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Achievement.” Philadelphia Federal Reserve Board, conference on “Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter?” Philadelphia, PA.
Jul. 2, 2007 “A Measure of Spatial Segregation” with Jeongdai Kim. New Frontiers in the Field of Segregation Measurement and Analysis, Monte Verita, Switzerland.
Jul. 3, 2007 “Segregation, Inequality, and Information” with Jeongdai Kim. New Frontiers in the Field of Segregation Measurement and Analysis, Monte Verita, Switzerland.
Mar. 1, 2007 “Immigrants and Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty:
Assimilation or Stagnation?” Institute for Policy Studies Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD.
Dec. 11, 2006 “John Kain’s Contributions to Education Research.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 47th Annual Conference. Ft. Worth, TX.
Oct. 20, 2006 “Immigrants and the Concentration of Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation?” Conference on Local Contexts and the Prospects for the Second Generation, West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Sep. 29, 2006 “Concentration of Poverty and Metropolitan Development.” Workshop on Poverty and Place, The Cambridge/MIT Institute, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK.
Aug. 27, 2006 “Poverty and Concentration of Poverty.” Funders’ Exchange on Community Poverty Reduction and Prosperity Promotion, Aspen Institute. Aspen, CO.
Aug. 21, 2006 “Hurricane Katrina: A Window on the Concentration of Poverty.” National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics. Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
July 12, 2006 “Concentrated Poverty: What, Where and Why.” Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Policy Forum. Dallas, Texas.
June 5, 2006 “The Decline of the Underclass.” Ninth Annual National Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Arlington, VA.
May 9, 2006 “Concentration of Poverty and Metropolitan Development.” U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, Annual Community Affairs Officers Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.
Nov. 17, 2005 “The Structure of Poverty in the US.” Invited remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Conference, “Poverty, Race, and Policy: Strategic Advancement of a Poverty Reduction Agenda.” The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC.
June 20, 2005 “The ‘Underclass’ Revisited: A Social Problem in Decline.” With Rebecca Yang. Invitation only briefing, Welfare Reform and Beyond Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
Mar. 25, 2005 Plenary Address, “Overturning Tiebout: The Case for Regulating Suburban Development”, Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dec. 11, 2004 Plenary Address, “Segregation in US Cities,” Research Committee for the 21st Century (RC21) Conference, “Paths of Urban Change.” National University of Singapore.
Oct. 7, 2004 Public panel discussion, Centre de Science Humaines and Le Centre de ressource et d’information Française (FIRC) Café Scientifique, “Segregation & Fragmentation in large metropolises: An inevitable trend?” New Delhi, India.
Nov. 30, 2004 Public lecture, “Segregation by Race and Class in US Cities,” jointly sponsored with the India International Center and Centre de Science Humaines. New Delhi, India.
Sep. 28, 2004 Invited Lecture, “Is Segregation Dangerous?” University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Sep. 21, 2004 Presentation, “Suburban Sprawl and Central City Decline,” Dallas Interfaith Alliance, King of Glory Lutheran Church, Dallas, Texas, September 21, 2004.
Apr. 2, 2004 Plenary Speaker, “Cities as Divided Places: Comparative Racial and Social Segregation,” Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
Mar. 5, 2004 Invited Lecture, “Segregation, Suburban Sprawl, and the Future of Cities,” The RAND Graduate School.
Sep. 25, 2003 Invited Lecture, “Changes in Urban Form and Poverty Concentration in the 1990s,” Johns Hopkins University.
May 19, 2003 Public Lecture, “Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s.” The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (live webcast).
April 4, 2003 Seminar, “Help or Hindrance? Community College Attendance and Senior College Graduation.” Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, University of Texas at Dallas.
Nov. 1, 2002 Public lecture, “A Stunning Reversal: Concentrated Poverty in the 1990s.” University of California, Berkeley.
May 6, 2002 Public lecture, “Understanding the Urban System: Suburban Development and Central City Decline.” Texas Institute for Society and Health, Rice University. Houston, Texas.
Apr. 26, 2002 Invited presentation, “Spatial Dimensions of Poverty.” National Research Council, Workshop for the Committee to Review Research and Applications of GIS at the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Washington, D.C.
Nov. 14, 2001 Invited presentation, “Neighborhoods, Places, and Opportunity.” National Research Council, Workshop on Equality of Opportunity in Metropolitan Areas: The Importance of Place. Washington, D.C.
Oct. 29, 2001 Invited Seminar, “Understanding the Urban System: Suburban Development and Central City Decline.” Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Baltimore, MD.
June 22, 2001 Invited lecture, “Suburban Sprawl and Central City Decline.” Growth Management Leadership Alliance. West Palm Beach, Florida.
Mar. 17, 2000 “Author Meets Critics” panel on Poverty and Place, Southwestern Social Science Association. Galveston, Texas.
Sep. 27, 1998 Invited speaker, “Changes in the Interaction of Segregation by Race and Class in the United States.” Workshop on the Dimensions of Social Exclusion, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, University of Bremen/University of Oldenburg. Delmenhorst, Germany.
Apr. 3, 1998 Participant and co-organizer with Christopher Jencks and Susan Mayer, “The Consequences of Inequality: The State of Current Research,” workshop sponsored by the Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago/Northwestern University, held at the Harvard Faculty Club. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mar. 28, 1998 “Crossing the Line: Poverty in the Suburbs.” Presented at “Suburban Racial Change,” a conference sponsored by the Harvard Civil Rights Project and the Taubman Center on State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mar. 23, 1998 “The Spatial Structure of Urban Poverty” (lead speaker), Child Health and Urban Poverty Colloquium, Georgetown University. Washington, D.C.
May 29, 1997 “The Expansion of Ghettos and Barrios in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: 1970-1990,” International Conference on Migration, Social Exclusion, and the Globalization of Urban Populations, Migrants in European Cities Network, University of Warwick. Warwick, U.K.
Apr. 1997 “Ghetto and Barrio Expansion in the United States,” public lecture and press briefing, University of Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Mexico.
Feb. 20, 1997 “Structural Economic Changes, Segregation by Race and Income, and the Expansion of Ghettos and Barrios, 1970 to 1990,” presented to the Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (sole PI unless noted)
2019 “Dismantling the Architecture of Segregation.” Conference and Symposium Funding Grant for “Dismantling the Architecture of Segregation.” Funding to support a national research conference on segregation help sponsored by the Center for Urban Research and Education, October 11, 2019. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University Camden, $8,500.
2017-2018 Paul A. Jargowsky and Christopher A. Wheeler. Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas. 21st Century Cities Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, $22,500.
2016 Paul A. Jargowsky and Katrin Anaker. Understanding the Determinants of Concentration of Poverty: The Spatial Dynamics of Urban and Suburban Housing Development. Award 1636520, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, National Science Foundation, $218,379. [http://bit.ly/2kNIPkT]
2012 Gwendolyn Harris, Paul A. Jargowsky, Stacia Gillard-Mathews and Robin Stevens (PI). South Jersey Strengthening Families Initiative Evaluation. Pascale Sykes Foundation, $4,000,000.
2010 The Reconcentration of Poverty. Brookings Institution, $25,000.
2010 Tim Bray, Principal Investigator, with Paul A. Jargowsky, Co-PI. Evaluation of the United Way 2020 Goals, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, $279,000.
2008 Laying the Foundation: An analysis of Pre-AP teacher training in Texas. The O’Donnell Foundation, $76,613.
2007 The UTD Education Research Center. State of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $900,000.
2006 David Figlio, Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway, Eric Hanushek, Paul A. Jargowsky, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Co-Principal Investigators. Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER). U.S. Department of Education, $10,000,000 total, $1.8 million for the Texas Schools Project (TSP).
2003 Eric Hanushek, Paul Jargowsky, Dan O’Brien, and Steve Rivkin, Co-Principal Investigators. Minority Access to Higher Education, Phase II. The Andrew Mellon Foundation, $350,000. Succeeded John F. Kain as Co-Principal Investigator upon his death.
2003 Succeeded John F. Kain as Principal Investigator upon his death. Core Support for the Texas Schools Project. The David Packard Humanities Institute, $1.1 million.
2002 Paul A. Jargowsky and John F. Kain, Co-Principal Investigators. The Middle Path: The Community College Experience in Texas. The Russell Sage Foundation, $137,000.
2002 Windows on Urban Poverty: Describing and Mapping Concentrated Poverty in the 2000 Census. The Brookings Institution, $15,000.
1998 Christopher Jencks, Susan Mayer, and Paul A. Jargowsky, Co-Principal Investigators. The Social Consequences of Economic Inequality and Economic Segregation. The Russell Sage Foundation, $204,000.
1997 Suburbs and Slums: Understanding the Evolving Structure of Metropolitan America. The Twentieth Century Fund, $80,000.
1993 Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. The Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, $15,000.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
I review articles from numerous academic journals, too numerous to list individually. Listed below are service to journal over and above reviewing.
Academic Journals
2022-2023 Associate Editor, Housing Policy Debate
2021- Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Affairs
2020- Editorial Board, Social Science Research
2018 Guest Editor (with Lei Ding and Natasha Fletcher), special issue of Housing Policy Debate on the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act
2013-present Member of the Editorial Board, Housing Policy Debate
2009-2021 Member of the Editorial Board, City and Community
1992-1997 Member, Advisory Board, Policy Studies Journal
Service to Professional Organizations
2020-2021 Treasurer, Urban Affairs Association.
2018-2021 Elected to the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association for a three-year term.
2018-2020 Chair, By-Laws Committee, Urban Affairs Association.
2015-2017 Research grant and book manuscript reviewer, Russell Sage Foundation.
2009-2017 External reviewer for promotion and tenure for various universities, including American University, Columbia University, Duke University, George Washington University, Georgia State University, Queens College, Temple University, the University of Buffalo, the University of Georgia, the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas at Dallas.
2010-2011 Chair, Best Book in Urban Affairs Selection Committee, Urban Affairs Association.
2006-2008 Elected Member, Policy Council, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
2007 Member, Best article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Selection Committee, Urban Affairs Association.
2008-present Member, Executive Committee, Texas Schools Project, University of Texas at Dallas.
2004-2006 Member, Committee on the Future of the Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
2004-2009 Member, Research Advisory Committee, Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project, Princeton University. Prof. Marta Tienda, Director.
2002-2003 Member, Best Book in Urban Affairs Award Selection Committee, Urban Affairs Association.
2001-2005 Member, Science Advisory Committee, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
2001-2004 Elected Member, Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
2000-2002 Chair (2001) and member (2000, 2002), Robert E. Park Award Selection Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
1999-2002 Member, National Advisory Board, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School.
1999, 2009 Proposal reviewer, Visiting Scholar Program, Russell Sage Foundation.
1996-present Book manuscript reviewer for the Russell Sage Foundation and Cambridge University Press.
1991-present Article Referee for numerous professional journals in several disciplines, including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City and Community, Demography, Geographical Analysis, Environment and Planning, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Journal, Regional Science and Economics, Sociological Methodology, and Urban Geography.
Miscellaneous
2009 Participant, Summer 2009 Workshop: Race and Inequality in Education, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, June 15-19.
2006 Member, Governor’s Business Council Education Advisory Group (Texas).
2002 Jeongdai Kim and I developed the pioneering web site, “Windows on Urban Poverty” (http://www.urbanpoverty.net), an interactive mapping tool providing easy access to neighborhood-level maps of poverty and basic demographic characteristics, based on census data from 1970 to 2000. Development of this web site was funded in part by The Brookings Institution. Launched in 2002, this site is provided free of any charge as a public service to students, faculty, community groups, city planners, journalists and others who have an interest in neighborhood change and urban development. Urbanpoverty.net has been a featured web site by both the “The Scout Report” and “EconData,” two services that highlight interesting and useful web sites.
1991, 1997 Judge, Family and Children’s Services Programs, Innovations Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government (a national awards competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation).
Aug. 1994 Invited participant, Advisors Forum for the President’s Fair Housing Council, August 11-12, Washington, D.C.
1988-1991 Participant and Organizer, Executive Session on Making the System Work for Poor Children, John F. Kennedy School of Government (an interdisciplinary task force sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Rutgers University
2020 Member, Search Committee for Senior Vice President for Research, Rutgers University (Hired: Michael Zwick.)
2020 Member, RCM Review Committee, Rutgers University, Subcommittee on Research
Rutgers-Camden
2023 Chair, Social Sciences Advisory Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Review of Kristin August for promotion to Professor I. (Agreed to chair while on sabbatical.)
2022-2025 Elected Member, Rutgers-Camden Faculty Council
2022-2023 Member, Search Committee for Vice Chancellor for Research (Hired: Tom Risch.)
2022-2023 Member, Rutgers-Camden Research Council
2022-2023 Member, Chancellor’s Dissertation Completion Award Committee
2022 Member, ad hoc Committee for Review of Lisa Lewis, Prevention Science Program
2021-2022 Member, Search Committee for the Dean of Arts and Sciences (Hired: John Griffin.)
2020 Elected Member, Peer Evaluation Committee, Faculty Compensation Program
2019 Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Community Development
2018-2019 Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Sciences
2018 Political Science Review Committee for Shauna Shames
2011-present Dept. of Public Policy and Administration (DPPA), PhD in Public Affairs Program Committee (Chair, 2011-2016)
2017 Political Science Review Committee for Maureen Donaghy
2015-2016 Rutgers-Camden Strategic Planning Committee for Research
2013-2015 Chair, Rutgers-Camden School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences Advisory Committee on Appointments and Promotions
2013-2014 DPPA Web Site Committee
2013 Rutgers-Camden Arts and Sciences Dean’s Awards Committee
2013 Faculty of Arts and Sciences NEH Summer Stipend Faculty Review Committee
2013 Rutgers-Camden Strategic Planning Committee, Research Subcommittee
2013 Rutgers University Strategic Planning Committee, Robust Core of the Arts and Humanities Subcommittee
2013 History Department Review Committee for Charlene Mires
2013 Psychology Department Review Committee for Charlotte Markey
2012-2013 Rutgers-Camden School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences Advisory Committee on Appointments and Promotions
2012-2013 DPPA Curriculum Committee
2012 Psychology Department Review Committee for Naomi Marmorstein
2011-2012 Chair, DPPA Community Development Search Committee
University of Texas at Dallas
2010-2011 Program Head, Public Policy and Political Economy Program
2010-2011 Member, Executive Committee, School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences
2010 Economics, Political, and Policy Sciences Computer Resources Committee
2009-2011 Vice Chair, Learning Management Systems Committee
2008-present Member, Executive Committee, Texas Schools Project
1991-2011 Committee on Examination in Methods, Doctoral Program in Political Economy
2009 Member, Third Year Review for Sherry Li (Economics)
2006 Chair, Program Review Committee for Math and Science Education
2005 Chair, Third Year Review Committee for Sheryl Skaggs (Sociology)
2005 Member, Tenure Review Committee for Fang Qiu (Geosciences)
2005 Elected Member, Faculty Advisory Committee
2002-2003 Member, Executive Committee for the School of Social Sciences
2002-2003 Chair, Political Economy Program Review Committee
2002-2008 Member, Graduate Studies Committee
2002 Chair, Third Year Review Committee for Fang Qiu (Geosciences)
2001-2002 Enrollment Management Task Force
2001-2002 Elected member, Faculty Senate
2001-2002 Search Committee in Sociology
2001 Ad Hoc Committee on the Selection of a Dean of the School of Social Sciences
2001 Ad Hoc Committee on the Potential Restructuring of the University
2001-2001 Search Committee in Economics
2000-2001 Search Committee in Geographic Information Sciences
2000-2001 Committee on the Core Curriculum
1999-2000 Committee on Educational Policy
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2015-2017 Volunteer, Crozer-Chester Burn Unit
2015-2017 Board Member, CamConnect.
2014-2016 Adviser to Camden High Education and Medical Institutions Task Force.
2010-2011 Volunteer, Parkland Hospital Burn Unit.
2009 Advisor to the United Way, consulting on goals for the “Live United” campaign.
2006-2009 Parent Volunteer, Golden Eagle Band, Richardson High School, Richardson, TX.
2005 Parent Volunteer, Academic Decathlon Team, Richardson High School.
2003 Assistant Coach, Canyon Creek Elementary Chess Team, Richardson Independent School District.
2002-2003 Member, Community Assessment Technical Advisory Committee, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
2001 Member, Community Needs Assessment Committee, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.
2001-2003 Coach, Youth Basketball, Spring Valley Athletic Association, 3rd/4th grade girls.
1999-2000 Coach, Youth Basketball, YMCA, 5th and 6th Grade Girls Basketball.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Doctoral Supervision: Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Committee (by date completed)
Rutgers Universty – Camden, Ph.D. in Public Affairs
In process Yanan Li
2024 Matthew McCaffrey, Representation in Postsecondary Education: Effects on Minority, Low-Income, and First-Generation Students.
2019 Straso Jovanovich, Concentrated Poverty, Racial Segregation, and Health: An Analysis of Metropolitan Areas.
2019 Thomas Dahan, The Community Effects of Service Learning.
2017 Christopher Wheeler, Finding a Place to Call Home: Land Use Regulation and Housing Affordability in Metropolitan America.
2016 Prentiss Dantzler, Temporary Housing Or Permanent Communities: the Determinants of Tenure among Public Housing Residents.
2015 Jason Rivera, Acquiring Federal Disaster Assistance: Investigating Equitable Resource Distribution within Fema’s Public Assistance Program.
University of Texas at Dallas, Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Economy
2010 Yu Xue, An Empirical Investigation of Occupational Choice with Human Capital Accumulation over the Life Course.
2010 Adam Guerrero, The Determinants of College Student Retention.
2008 Kristin Kuhne, Pre-school and Academic Achievement in Texas.
2007 Yoonhwan Park, Crime and Suburban Sprawl.
2007 Melissa Alvarez-Montgomery, The Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Children with Asthma (co-chair with Richard Scotch).
2005 Rebecca Yang, Suburban Sprawl and the Concentration of Poverty.
2004 Percy Galimbertti, The Effect of Dropping Out of High School Due to Pregnancy on Earnings.
1999 Kristine Anne Lykens, Child Health Status in the United States and Medicaid Expansions, 1986-1990.
Doctoral Supervision: Member of Doctoral Dissertation Committee
Rutgers University – Camden, Ph. D. in Childhood Studies
In process Galadriel Thoman
2021 Mary Mitsdarffer, Examining the Impacts of Federal and State Interior Immigration Enforcement: Policies on Latinx Children’s Educational Outcomes in the United States Using Difference-In-Difference Methodology. Chair: Daniel Hart.
2017 Abigail Toddhunter-Reid, with Distinction, In-School Arts Education and Academic Achievement: Examining the Longitudinal Assocations using Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Fixed Effects Techniques. Chair: Daniel Hart.
Rutgers Universty – Camden, Ph.D. in Public Affairs
2022 Jazmyne McNeese, Two Americas: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Examining Racial Capitalism in Business Ownership. Chair: Stephen Danley.
2022 Tara Carr-Lemke, “It’s an Odyssey”: Centering the Experiences of Mexican and Central American Immigrant Entrepreneurs in an Examination of County-Level Sanctuary. Chair: Maureen Donaghy.
2020 Shourjya Deb, Exploring the Effects of Disparities on Subjective Well-Being in India. Chair: Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn.
2019 Spencer Clayton, Tax Abatements and Gentrification: How Government Policy Disrupts Communities. Chair: Richard Harris.
Rutgers University – Ph.D. in Social Work
2018 Sarah Gold, Housing Assistance and Children’s Educational Attainment: A Longitudinal Study. Chair: Lenna Nepomnyaschy.
University of North Texas, Ph.D. in Educational Administration
2005 Catherine Maloney, The Effect of Texas Charter High Schools on Diploma Graduation and General Educational Development (Ged) Attainment. Chair: Frank R. Kemerer.
University of Texas at Dallas, Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Economy
2011 Sherheryar Banuri, Three Essays on the Impacts of Anti-Corruption Policies: Lab Experiments in the US and Pakistan. Chair: Catherine Eckel.
2011 Jing Li, Three Essays on Human Capital. Chair: James Murdoch
2010 Mohamed El-Komi, Poverty: Alleviation through Microfinance and Implications for Education. Chair: Rachel Croson.
2009 Matthew Openshaw, The Health Impact of Limited Armed Conflict: Individual-Level Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Chair: Marie Chevrier.
2009 Teresa Dale Nelson, Hispanic Dropouts and Pregnancies in Texas Public High Schools. Chair: Nathan Berg.
2008 Carlos Mendiola, Harvesting Biotechnology Ventures: Modeling the Probabilities for Alternative Liquidity Events. Chair: Donald A. Hicks.
2007 Irene Ngugi, School Finance Equalization and Students Achievement. Chair: Wim Vijverberg.
2006 Steven R. Wolfson, Racial Profiling in Texas Vehicle Stops. Chair: Richard Scotch.
2005 Stephanie Martin, Traditional Practices in Native Alaskan Communities and the Social Control of Alcohol Abuse. Chair: Brian Berry.
2005 Sharon Wrobel, The Effectiveness of Language Minority Education Programs in a Large Texas School District: A Longitudinal Case Study. Chair: Paul Tracy.
2004 Mark Alan Mitchell, The Effect of Occupant versus Neighborhood Factors on Housing Modifications and Repairs: Planning and Evaluation of Urban Redevelopment Programs. Chair: Irving Hoch.
2003 Shungu K. Lokole, Human Capital Investments: Determinants of School Duration and Basic Cognitive Skills among Children in Cote D’Ivoire. Chair: Wim P. M. Vijverberg.
2003 Timothy McDonough, Digital Diffusion: Explaining Emerging Spatial Structure of Broadband Service Deployment. Chair: Donald Hicks.
2001 April Barclay, The Effects of Managed Care on the Utilization of Mental Health Services.
1999 Dan O’Brien, Three Essays on Early Academic Achievement of Minority and Disadvantaged Students. Chair: John F. Kain.
Courses Taught
Rutgers University – Camden, 2011-present
Public Affairs Doctoral Program
Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables
Inequality and Segregation
Quantitative Methods I (Descriptive and Inferential Statistics)
Quantitative Methods II (Regression Analysis)
Research Design
Research Practicum
Urban Studies Undergraduate Program
Camden and the Greater Philadelphia Region
John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1997-1998
Master in Public Policy Program
Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
Advanced Quantitative Methods
University of Texas at Dallas, 1991-2011
Graduate Program in Political Economy
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Advanced Regression Analysis
Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables
Domestic Social Policies
Undergraduate Programs in Economics and/or Sociology:
Principles of Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Tools for Economists
Poverty and Public Policy
Poverty and Unemployment
Social Welfare Policy
Research Methods
Other Teaching
Statistics and Public Policy. Seminar for Mexican Government Officials, University of Guanajuato/University of Texas at Dallas, Guanajuato, Mexico. April 25-26, 1997.
Guest Lecturer, European Online Seminar on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion, University of Urbino (Italy).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Consultant to Defendants, Dwayne Treece et al. v. Perrier Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. Consultant on disparate impact claim under the Fair Housing Act.
2015 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Sebastian Marcano and Millard Hill v. Sandcastle Towers Housing Development Fund Corp. Demographic analysis regarding housing discrimination litigation.
2010-2011 Consultant to the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium, University of Oregon.
2008-2009 Consultant to CEOs for Cities, a national network of urban leaders from the civic, business, academic, and philanthropic sectors, regarding policies to promote economic integration. With Todd Swanstrom, University of Illinois at St. Louis.
2006-2007 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Ideal Homes v. Midwest City, Oklahoma. Litigation concerning disproportionate impact of exclusionary zoning on minority residents seeking affordable housing.
2001, 2004 Consultant to Relman and Associates, a Washington D.C. law firm specializing in fair housing and discrimination law. Demographic and spatial analysis of 2000 census data.
2002 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Garza v. Dallas Independent School District. Litigation concerning the drawing of boundaries for School District Trustee elections.
1998 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Scheff v. O’Neill. School desegregation litigation. Segregation analyses and methodological critiques of plaintiff’s expert witnesses.
1994 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Young v. Cisneros. Fair housing litigation. Prepared a critique of HUD methodology for assessing racial concentrations of housing.
1994 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Dews v. Town of Sunnyvale. Fair housing litigation. Analyzed interrelationships of race, income, rents, home values, and housing ownership patterns.
1993 Consultant to Plaintiffs, Walker vs. HUD. Fair housing litigation. Analyzed effects on the concentration of poverty of alternative plans for housing persons on the Dallas Housing Authority waiting list.
1987‑1991 Project Coordinator, Children in Poverty Project, and Assistant to the Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
1986‑1987 Project Director, Task Force on Poverty and Welfare, State of New York. Albany, NY. Structured task force meetings and staff work to produce The New Social Contract.
Sum. 1985 Assistant to the Director of Management and Planning, Office for Economic Development, City of New York. New York, NY.
1983‑1984 Research Associate, National Association of State Boards of Education. Arlington, VA.
1982‑1983 Writer/Research Assistant, Center for Policy Research. Washington, DC. Principal research assistant to Dr. Amitai Etzioni, Director.
1980-1981 Paralegal, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam, and Roberts. New York, New York.
1979 Paralegal, Legal Aid of Mercer County. Trenton, NJ.
1977-78 Toll Collector, Garden State Parkway.
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