Publications

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Published and Forthcoming Papers

Spicer, J., Manduca, R., and Kay, T. 2020. National Living Wage Movements in a Regional World: The Fight for $15 in the United States. In Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment (Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Research Volume).

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
• Supplementary Materials
• Replication package
• Coordinates for the city center (Central Business District) of every metropolitan area in the United States
  • Core-Based Statistical Areas
  • Commuting Zones
• Census Block to Business District crosswalks
  • Core-Based Statistical Areas
    
  • Commuting Zones
• Business District coordinates and summary statistics
  • Core-Based Statistical Areas
    
  • Commuting Zones
• Shapefiles of Business Districts for the 100 largest CBSAs (75 mb)

Maps of business districts by categories (email me if you’d like to see more metro areas added!):

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.

• Open-access version

Working Papers

Manduca, R., Hell, M., Adermon, A., Blanden, J., Bratberg, E., Gielen, A. C., van Kippersluis, H., Lee, K. B., Machin, S., Munk, M. D., Nybom, M, Ostrovsky, Y., Rahman, S., Sirniö, O. 2020. Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe.

• Media Coverage: Bloomberg Stephanomics podcast

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.