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Academic Papers
Fritz, B. S. L., and Manduca, R. A. 2021. The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas. Regional Studies (online first).
Manduca, R., and Sampson, R.J. 2021. Childhood Exposure to Polluted Environments and Intergenerational Income Mobility, Teenage Birth, and Incarceration in the USA. Population and Environment (online first).
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
- Census Block to Business District crosswalks
- Business District coordinates and summary statistics
- Shapefiles of Business Districts for the 100 largest CBSAs (75 mb)
- Slideshow of Maps of Business Districts in selected CBSAs.
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., 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.
- Non-technical summary
- Media Coverage: Bloomberg Stephanomics podcast
Manduca, R. 2019. Formative and Facilitative Information as Mechanisms of Human Capital Concentration.
Public Writing
Hong, C., Manduca, R., and Johnson, N. In the Common Interest. Boston Review. (Review of Grassroots Leviathan by Ariel Ron)
Johnson, N., Manduca, R., and Hong, C. 2021. The American Anti-Austerity Tradition. Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Manduca, R. 2021. The American Dream is less of a reality today in the United States, compared to other peer nations. Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Manduca, R. 2021. Place-Conscious Federal Policies to Reduce Regional Economic Disparities in the United States. In Boosting Wages for US Workers in the New Economy.
Manduca, R. 2019. Selling Keynesianism. Boston Review.
Manduca, R. 2019. To Fix Regional Inequality, Target the One Percent. Washington Monthly.
Manduca, R. 2019. How National Income Inequality in the United States Contributes to Economic Dis- parities Between Regions. Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Manduca, R. 2018. How Rising US Income Inequality Exacerbates Racial Economic Disparities. Washington Center for Equitable Growth.