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Elizabeth Eve Bruch
Funded Research:
Asymmetrical Response to Positive and Negative Change in Neighborhood Composition (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Dynamic Models of Racial Residential Segregation (NCI)
Scaling and Segregation Dynamics (Weinberg Endowment Fund)
Unpacking Trends in Neighborhood Poverty, Affluence, and Economic Diversity, 1970-2010 (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
Assistant Professor, Sociology.
Assistant Professor, Complex systems.
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Bruch’s work spans a broad array of population phenomena in which the actions of individuals and other units (such as families, couples or neighborhoods) are dynamically interdependent. Most of her research blends statistical and agent-based methods to examine the relationship between individuals' decisions about where to live and patterns of residential segregation. Her article on racial tolerance and race-ethnic segregation, Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change, won the 2005-6 Gould Prize, the James S. Coleman Best Article award from the Mathematical Sociology section of the ASA, and the Robert Park Best Article award from the Community and Urban Sociology section of the ASA. She is currently working on problems related to income inequality and income segregation, statistical modeling of individuals’ decision-making strategies, and the relationship between mate preferences, opportunity structure, and patterns of assortative mating.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Bruch, Elizabeth Eve, and Robert Mare. 2012. "Methodological issues in the analysis of residential preferences, residential mobility, and neighborhood change." Sociological Methodology, 42(1): 103-154. PMCID: PMC3591474. DOI.
Bruch, Elizabeth Eve, and Robert D. Mare. 2009. "Preferences and Pathways to Segregation: Reply to Van de Rijt, Siegel, and Macy." American Journal of Sociology, 114(4): 1181-1198. DOI. Abstract. Public Access.
PSC Reports
Bruch, Elizabeth Eve, and Robert Denis Mare. 2011. "Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Residential Preferences and Residential Mobility." PSC Research Report No. 11-725. January 2011. Abstract. PDF.