Jennifer Candipan

• Brown University

Few studies examine how school and neighborhood composition in the U.S. correspond over time, particularly in a context of neighborhood change. As neighborhoods diversify along racial and economic lines, do public schools also diversify or grow increasingly dissimilar from their surrounding areas? Drawing on novel data linking neighborhoods and sch...

School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment system, decoupling residential and school enrollment decisions for some families. Recent work suggests the neighborhood-school link is weakening the most in neighborhoods experiencing gent...

While research on racial segregation in cities has grown rapidly over the last several decades, its foundation remains the analysis of the neighborhoods where people reside. However, contact between racial groups depends not merely on where people live, but also on where they travel over the course of everyday activities. To capture this reality, w...

The racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of immigrants to the United States grew since the 1990s along with growing neighborhood socioeconomic inequality. Few studies explain how race/ethnicity and immigration interact to influence neighborhoods’ socioeconomic ascent—increases in residents’ household income, rents, property values, educational...

This study examines links between gentrification and neighborhood health. Gentrification is associated with decreases in neighborhood poverty and crime, increases in amenities and services, among other benefits—all identified as structural determinants of health. However, gentrification is also associated with population-level replacement of the ex...

As young adults, the Millennial generation emerged as the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history. These unique demographic characteristics, along with more progressive self-reported views on racial and ethnic issues, prompted some to label this generation as a demographic bridge to America’s diverse future. This...

As young adults, the Millennial generation arrived as the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history. These unique demographic characteristics, along with more progressive self-reported views on racial and ethnic issues, have prompted some to label this generation as a demographic bridge to America’s diverse future....

Despite a large body of work on neighborhood effects on health, past studies are limited in their treatment of neighborhoods as largely static spaces, defined primarily by the average characteristics of their residents. In this study, we draw on the triple neighborhood disadvantage perspective to explore how socioeconomic disadvantage in a neighbor...

Relatively few neighborhood-focused studies explicitly model the relationship between neighborhood change— i.e., racial change within a neighborhood—and individual mental health, instead focusing on the current composition of the neighborhood or on the outcomes of individuals that switch neighborhood contexts via moves. Further, while neighborhoods...

Advances in machine learning and the proliferation of big data are shifting how sociologists understand urban inequality and governance. This chapter outlines how scholars in recent years have paired increasingly advanced predictive analytic tools with new sources of urban data to expand a sociological understanding of cities. The chapter focuses o...

This article presents a theoretical and methodological framework for comparative urban studies grounded in the proposition that a neighborhood depends not only on its own conditions, as typically conceived, but also the conditions of the neighborhoods to which its residents are connected, through networks of everyday urban mobility. Based on this f...

As young adults, the Millennial generation arrived as the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history. These unique demographic characteristics, along with more progressive self-reported views on racial and ethnic issues, have prompted some to label this generation as a demographic bridge to America’s diverse future....

Prior research has established the greater exposure of African Americans from all income groups to disadvantaged environments compared to whites, but the traditional focus in studies of neighborhood stratification obscures heterogeneity within racial/ethnic groups in residential attainment over time. Also obscured are the moderating influences of b...

Sociological research has established the greater exposure of African Americans from all income groups to disadvantaged environments compared to whites, but the traditional focus in studies of neighborhood stratification obscures heterogeneity within racial/ethnic groups in residential attainment over time. Also obscured are the moderating influenc...

Public school closures are increasing in number and size in U.S. cities. When public schools close, heated debates typically ensue. A central argument within this debate asserts that schools being closed are more likely to be located in minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, and thus their abandonment has the potential for widenin...

Residential and school segregation historically mirrored one another, with school segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns due to neighborhood-based school assignment policy. We argue that the relationship is circular, with school options also influencing residential outcomes. To explore this, we examine what happens when neighbor...

In this study, we examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic ascent from 1990 to 2010 and charter school openings from 2010 to 2016 using a national sample of school attendance boundaries in the U.S. We first index school attendance boundaries into typologies according to their demographic profiles in 2010, and changes along multipl...

This article examines the racial/ethnic population dynamics of ascending neighborhoods—those experiencing socioeconomic growth. Drawing on Census and American Community Survey data from 1990 to 2010, we first explore whether changes in racial/ethnic composition occur alongside ascent. We find that, while most neighborhoods’ racial/ethnic compositio...

Neighborhoods and schools are both important contexts for children’s well-being, including educational outcomes. While often posited, little evidence documents inequalities in schools serving high- and low-income neighborhoods. In this article, we use geospatial techniques to combine five administrative datasets to examine the characteristics of lo...

This study uses participant observation to examine how an all-female collective in Los Angeles uses urban cycling culture as a way to contest inequalities and advocate for social change in communities of color. Bridging the literatures on gentrification and social movements, I examine how the collective uses the bicycle as a unifying tool to draw d...

In Metropolitics ( editorially peer-reviewed journal): Every year in the summer, a group of women, women of color, and women-identified riders cycle through the city of Los Angeles to reclaim space and visibility in a city that too often ignores them and their needs. This research essay uses participant observation to describe and analyze reasons a...