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Published and Forthcoming Papers
Manduca, R. 2020. The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from LODES Data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (advance release).
- Open-access preprint
- Replication package
- Central Business District coordinates for the 100 largest MSAs
- Block to Business District crosswalks for the 100 largest MSAs
- Business District coordinates and summary statistics for the 100 largest MSAs
- Shapefiles of Business Districts for the 100 largest MSAs (75 mb)
Manduca, R. 2019. Antitrust Enforcement as Federal Policy to Reduce Regional Economic Disparities. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 685(1):156-171.
- Open-access preprint
- Media coverage: New York Times
Manduca, R., and Sampson, R.J. 2019. Punishing and Toxic Environments Independently Predict the Intergenerational Social Mobility of Black and White Children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(16):7772-7777.
- Media coverage: WBEZ, Science News, New York Times
Manduca, R.A. 2019. The Contribution of National Income Inequality to Regional Economic Divergence. Social Forces 98 (2): 578-621.
- Open-access version
- Online appendix
- Non-technical summary
- Intermediate results
- Replication package – coming soon (email me if interested)
- Media coverage: CityLab, Washington Post, New York Times
Manduca, R. 2018. Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities. Sociological Science 5:182-205.
- Non-technical summary
- Intermediate results
- Replication package
- Media coverage: Washington Post, Pacific Standard
Manduca, R. The US Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Datasets. REGION 5(3):R5-R12.
Small, M.L., Manduca, R.A., and Johnston, W.R. 2018. Ethnography, Neighborhood Effects, and the Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods. City and Community 17(3):565-589.
Folch, D., Spielman, S. and Manduca, R. 2017. Fast Food Data: Where User-Generated Content Works and Where it Does Not. Geographical Analysis.
Chetty, R., Grusky, D., Hell, M. Hendren, N., Manduca, R., and Narang, J. 2017. The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940. Science 356(6336):398-406.
- Non-technical summary
- Intermediate results
- Replication package
- Media coverage: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, Vox,NPR, Forbes, Star Tribune,
Green, B., Caro, A., Conway, M., Manduca, R., Plagge, T., and Miller, A. 2015. Mining Administrative Data to Spur Urban Revitalization. KDD ’15: The 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 1829-1838.
Working Papers
Manduca, R. 2019. Formative and Facilitative Information as Mechanisms of Human Capital Concentration.
Fritz, B. S. L., and Manduca, R. 2019. The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas.