Research Area: Population Dynamics:
Urbanization, Segregation, Suburbs, Cities

Recent Publications

Books

Knodel, John E., Jiraporn Kespichayawattana, Suvinee Wiwatwanich, and Chanpen Saengtienchai. 2007. Migration and Intergenerational Solidarity: Evidence from Rural Thailand. Bangkok: UNFPA.

Journal Articles

2008

Xie, Yu, Yang Jiang, and Emily Greenman. 2008. "Did send-down experience benefit youth? A reevaluation of the social consequences of forced urban-rural migration during China's Cultural Revolution." Social Science Research, 37(2): 686-700.

2005

Frey, William H. 2005. "Metro America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts since 2000." Brookings Institution, Living Cities Census Series, September. Reprint No. 612.

Sampson, R.J., Jeffrey Morenoff, and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 2005. "Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence." American Journal of Public Health, 95(2): 224-232.

Galea, Sandro, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "Urban Health: Evidence, Challenges, and Directions." Annual Review of Public Heath, 26: 341-365.

Galea, Sandro, N. Freudenberg, and D. Valhov. 2005. "Cities and Population Health." Social Science & Medicine, 60(5): 1017-1033.

Freudenberg, N., Sandro Galea, and D. Vlahov. 2005. "Beyond urban Penalty and Urban Sprawl: Back to Living Conditions as the Focus of Urban Health." Journal of Community Health, 21(3): 949-957.

2004

Logan, John R., B.J. Stults, and Reynolds Farley. 2004. "Segregation of Minorities in the Metropolis: Two Decades of Change." Demography, 41(1): 1-22.

Lynch, John W., G.D. Smith, S. Harper, and Marianne M. Hillemeier. 2004. "Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. Us National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality." Milbank Quarterly, 82(2): 355-+.

Frey, William H. 2004. "Micropolitan America." Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter: 12-15.

Ompad, D.C., Sandro Galea, C.M. Fuller, D. Phelan, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Club Drug Use Among Minority Substance Users in New York City." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 36(3): 397-399.

2003

Frey, William H. 2003. "Boomers and Seniors in the Suburbs: Aging Patterns in Census 2000." The Brookings Institution: The Living Cities Census Series, January. Reprint No. 600.

Park, Albert F., L. Brandt, and J. Giles. 2003. "Competition Under Credit Rationing: Theory and Evidence From Rural China." Journal of Development Economics, 71(2): 463-495.

Campbell, Cameron D., and James Z. Lee. 2003. "Social Mobility From a Kinship Perspective: Rural Liaoning, 1789-1909." International Review of Social History, 48(part1): 1-26.

Page, Marianne E., and Gary Solon. 2003. "Correlations between Brothers and Neighboring Boys in Their Adult Earnings: The Importance of Being Urban." Journal of Labor Economics, 21(4): 831-855.

Hannum, Emily. 2003. "Poverty and Basic Education in Rural China: Villages, Households, and Girls' and Boys' Enrollment." Comparative Education Review, 47(2): 141-159.

Metzler, M.M., D.L. Higgins, C.G. Beeker, N. Freudenberg, Paula M. Lantz, K.D. Senturia, A.A. Eisinger, and E.A. Viruell-Fuentes. 2003. "Addressing Urban Health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle Through Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships." American Journal of Public Health, 93(5): 803-811.

2002

Berube, Alan, and William H. Frey. 2002. "A Decade of Mixed Blessings: Urban and Suburban Poverty in Census 2000." The Brookings Institution: The Living Cities Census Series, August. Reprint No. 599.

Farley, Reynolds, and Maria Krysan. 2002. "The Residential Preferences of Blacks: Do They Explain Persistent Segregation?" Social Forces, 80(3): 937-980.

Frey, William H. 2002. "Three Americas: The Rising Significance of Regions." Journal of the American Planning Association, 68(4): 349-355. Reprint No. 595.

Hannum, Emily, and Albert F. Park. 2002. "Educating China's Rural Children in the 21st Century." Harvard China Review, 3(2): 8-14.

Allard, Scott W., and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2002. "Proximity and Opportunity: How Residence and Race Affect the Employment of Welfare Recipients." Housing Policy Debate, 13(4): 675-700.

Vlahov, D., and Sandro Galea. 2002. "Urbanization, Urbanicity, and Health." Journal of Urban Health, 79(Supplement1): S1-S12.

Chapters

Sampson, Robert J., and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "Durable Inequality: Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods." In Poverty Traps edited by Bowles, Samuel; Durlauf, Steven N.; Hoff, Karla . Princeton University Press.

Sampson, Robert J., and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2004. "Spatial (dis)advantage and homicide in Chicago neighborhoods." In Spatially Integrated Social Science edited by Michael F.Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle. New York: Oxford University Press.

Johnson, Nan. 2004. "Spatial Patterning of Disabilities among Adults." In Critical Issues in Rural Health edited by Nina Glasgow, Lois Wright Morton and Nan E. Johnson. Pp. 27-36. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell.

Frey, William H. 2004. "The Fading of City/Suburb and Metro/Nonmetro Distinctions in the United States." In New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy edited by A G Champion and Graeme Hugo. Pp. 67-88. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Farley, Reynolds. 2003. "Detroit in 2000: Racial, Economic, and Geographic Trends in a Polarized Metropolis." In Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America edited by Curtis Stokes and Theresa Meléndez. Pp. 295-324. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

Frey, William H., and Alan Berube. 2003. "City families and suburban singles : an emerging household story." In Redefining Urban and Suburban America : Evidence from Census 2000 edited by Bruce Katz and Robert Lang. Pp. 257-290. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

PSC Reports

Liaw, Kao-Lee, and William H. Frey. 2009. "Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995-2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and India: Characterization and Multivariate Explanation." PSC Research Report No. 09-687. August 2009.

Fussell, Elizabeth, Narayan Sastry , and Mark VanLandingham. 2009. "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Return Migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina." PSC Research Report No. 09-667. January 2009.

Farley, Reynolds, Couper, Mick P., and Maria Krysan. 2007. "Race and Revitalization in the Rust Belt: A Motor City Story." PSC Research Report No. 07-620. April 2007.

Wu, Xiaogang. 2006. "Socialist Workers in the Market Transition: Voluntary and Involuntary Job Mobility and Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1993-2000." PSC Research Report No. 06-613. December 2006.

Xie, Yu, Yang Jiang, and Emily Greenman. 2006. "Did Send-Down Experience Benefit Youth? A Reevaluation of the Social Consequences of Forced Urban-Rural Migration during China’s Cultural Revolution." PSC Research Report No. 06-603. August 2006.

Knodel, John E., and Chanpen Saengtienchai. 2005. "Rural Parents with Urban Children: Social and Economic Implications of Migration on the Rural Elderly in Thailand." PSC Research Report No. 05-574. April 2005.

Frey, William H., and Dowell Myers. 2005. "Racial Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas and Cities, 1990–2000: Patterns, Trends, and Explanations." PSC Research Report No. 05-573. April 2005.

Frey, William H. 2005. "Immigration and Domestic Migration in US Metro Areas: 2000 and 1990 Census Findings by Education and Race." PSC Research Report No. 05-572. April 2005.

Frey, William H. 2002. "Census 2000 Reveals New Native-Born and Foreign-Born Shifts Across U.S." PSC Research Report No. 02-520. August 2002.

Frey, William H. 2002. "Metro Magnets for Minorities and Whites: Melting Pots, the New Sunbelt, and the Heartland." PSC Research Report No. 02-496. February 2002.

Other Reports

Frey, William H. 2006. "Diversity spreads out : metropolitan shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and black populations since 2000." .

Frey, William H., Jill H. Wilson, Alan Berube, and Audrey Singer. 2004. "Tracking Metropolitan America into the 21st Century." .

Frey, William H. 2003. "Metropolitan Magnets for International and Domestic Migrants." .


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