new on the bucket problem: on latroy hawkins and sherrone moore, another sexual misconduct scandal at michigan, warde manuel's negligence, the media's complicity, and the need to take action into our own hands thebucketproblem.beehiiv.com/p/fire-warde...
Quote from Lan Deng, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, advocating for zoning reform to diversify housing and help young households and first-time homebuyers.
Our own Stone Center Faculty Affiliate of @um-taubmancollege.bsky.social Lan Deng was quoted in in a Detroit @freep.com article exploring why rent costs are rising across Michigan’s mid-size cities. #HousingAffordability #RealEstate #AcademicSky
Read the story: myumi.ch/qZ7zE
🧵 New paper out! Married couples have long been wealthier, on average, than cohabiting couples. But does this still hold as unmarried cohabitation becomes increasingly common? Find out in my latest paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social available in #OA: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇
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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!
New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!
edopportunity.org/segregation/
Event flyer featuring “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation.” Scheduled for Tuesday, February 17 from 10:30 am to 12 pm at ISR 6050, 426 Thompson Street. The speaker is Ségal Le Guern Herry. A prompt to learn more directs to inequality.umich.edu.
We’re looking forward to hosting #economist Ségal Le Guern Herry tomorrow at 10:30 am EST! He will be in Ann Arbor as he presents, “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” at #Umich. Join us at @umisr.bsky.social.
Get the details & RSVP: myumi.ch/mRQpN
#AcademicSky #EconSky
Urban sociologists! I'm organizing a Community and Urban Sociology Section session at the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting titled "Housing as an Asset." Please submit extended abstracts or full papers related to topics on homeownership, house values, taxation, mortgages, etc. Deadline is 2/25. bit.ly/3Zx2eez
While overall segregation has declined in recent decades, nearly half of its durability in 2020 is accounted for by this macro-segregation. Suburban NIMBYism is a likely culprit.
New piece in the March issue of Social Forces tracing 120 years of segregation.
We note the emergence of a new kind of segregation starting the 1950s: macro-segregation.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
@sfjournal.bsky.social
We found, for example, racial disparities in upward mobility —that is, the rate at which people move to higher-income areas varies according to the racial composition of their current area of residence, even after controlling for income levels. 6/9
Abstract Front-line workers mediate law on the books and law in action, translating higher-level laws into local policy. One important mediating institution is the police. Whereas most research analyzes how the law empowers police to label certain denizens “criminals” – both within and outside criminal legal contexts – this article demonstrates how policing also affects who is recognized as an innocent crime victim. Synthesizing existing scholarship, I theorize three paths through which police can affect legal recognition of crime victims: criminalization, minimization, and legal estrangement. I then test the extent to which these processes affect victims’ access to public benefits provided under victim compensation law. Drawing on never-before-analyzed administrative data from 18 U.S. states (N = 768,382), I find police account for more than half of all victim benefits denials. These denials are racialized and gendered: Police are significantly more likely to criminalize and be estranged from Black male victims and significantly more likely to minimize the injuries of Black female victims. Additional qualitative data suggest police systematically perceive Black men as not truly innocent and Black survivors of gender-based violence as not truly victims. These findings advance our understanding of the expansive role of police in society as well as the porous boundary between social provision and social control.
Figure 6. Predicted probability of “failure to cooperate” denials.
Proud to share my recently published article in Law & Society Review: "Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent
victimhood in victim compensation law". The article explores how policing affects the recognition of crime victims under victim compensation law. 🔗👇: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Excited to share the findings from Therese Christensen's and my article! In a nutshell: living in Denmark doesn't prevent you from experiencing a motherhood earnings penalty, but it does give you access to government benefits that help offset those financial losses.
#A2Council Ann Arbor should stack, pack and tax the rich: sstrudeau.com/posts/how-an...
Testimonial from Alexander Adames praising the Stone Center for its role in his decision to start his career as a wealth scholar at Michigan, with university and center branding.
We’re thrilled to share that @umichstonecid.bsky.social has received a new $5M gift from the Stone Foundation to continue our critical work to produce research on social inequality and train the next generation of #inequality scholars. Learn more:
myumi.ch/e35w2
On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics speaker series: Joe LaBriola presents "The Tax Treatment of Housing as a Source of Racial Inequality" on Wed., 1/14/26 at ISR Thomspson 6050, from noon to 1:30
@joelabriola.bsky.social has shown that the mortgage interest deduction has contributed to growth of the White-Black wealth gap in recent decades. LaBriola presents findings next week in the @umichstonecid.bsky.social speaker series! inequality.umich.edu/speaker-seri...
Specific to people in Ann Arbor: I will be giving a talk next Tuesday at the Stone Center on Inequality Dynamics seminar series. I'll be presenting new research on the intergenerational transmission of housing wealth in the US, more details here: inequality.umich.edu/john-voorheis/
The extended public comment & review period for the third draft of Ann Arbor’s proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan ends tomorrow (Monday, January 5) at 9 A.M.
To review the plan and submit public comment, please visit a2gov.org/CLUP. #A2Council
100%. I think it will only take a few cases of developers successfully suing under the builder’s remedy for cities to start actually zoning for the needed development in cities, so they get to decide where it goes instead of developers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Check out this great opportunity at @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social!
#GoBlue! #AcademicSky #NowHiring #Umich #SocialScience👇
The UCLA Housing Voice podcast now has a Substack! ✍🏻
It'll be a place for listeners to share comments and questions for book club and mailbag episodes, and to discuss regular episodes in a venue less ephemeral than social media.
Be a pal, subscribe + say hi!
uclahousingvoice.substack.com
1/5 Is there a gender wealth gap in Canada? In my latest paper with Mamadou Diallo and @dianapenaruiz.bsky.social, we provide some answers. We also compare gender wealth gaps across provinces and over time to assess whether Québec’s adoption of a family policy reduced these gaps. rdcu.be/eOvwS 🧵
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I'm excited to share this big report, a few years in the making, which contemplates how policy and financial reforms could make it possible for tenants to build wealth through renting. I call it Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing.
Thanks for your causal inference readings suggestions! Next Q: what's a paper that (mostly) convinced you of causal relationships *without* an exogenous shock? My students seek examples of good work when using an IV or RD or something isn't an option. (Again, I appreciate RTs to crowd source.)
A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168
Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?
1. City traffic-deaths pitch hits a wall: Ann Arbor promised in 2021 it would eliminate serious injuries and deaths from traffic accidents by the end of 2025, aka next month, and instead the number of incidents so far this year has hit an eleven-year high. On November 19, Transportation Commission members eagerly awaited a year-end report and some promised new ideas, but transportation engineer Cynthia Redinger failed to impress. Her two big “asks” were for the commission’s support in a budget request to council for a driver-education campaign and to push for legal permission to set up red-light cameras and other “automated enforcement” techniques. Crashes In Ann Arbor author and safety advocate Peter Houk was especially dismayed, telling Redinger, “We have been trying unsuccessfully for a very long time to change driver behavior through driver education and messaging, and what we need to do is change our facilities to encourage drivers to interact in them the way we want them to. … We’re not going to get there by asking them nicely.” Council member Dharma Akmon tells a2view she’s also disappointed; she’s been pushing for quick-build traffic-slowing fixes like the recent redesign of Pauline Ave. Persuading Lansing lawmakers to reverse the current ban on automated enforcement — if it were likely to succeed, which she doubts — is not a fast-moving solution, she says. Watch the key part of the meeting here (https://youtu.be/PLdne7vIK9g?si=D9vQnt4ZupWdYkIA&t=7473)
The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a... ).
But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)
