Forthcoming book:

Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality (under contract with The University of Chicago Press).

Articles:

Sharkey, Patrick (in press). “An Alternative Approach to Addressing Selection into and out of Social Settings: Neighborhood Change and African American Children’s Economic Outcomes.” Sociological Methods & Research.

 

Sharkey, Patrick (in press). “Temporary Integration, Resilient Inequality: Race and Neighborhood Change in the Transition to Adulthood.” Demography.

Sharkey, Patrick and Felix Elwert. 2011. “The Legacy of Disadvantage: Multigenerational Neighborhood Effects on Cognitive Ability.” American Journal of Sociology 116: 1934-1981.  Click here to read.

Sharkey, Patrick and Robert J. Sampson. 2010.  “Destination Effects: Residential Mobility and Trajectories of Adolescent Violence in a Stratified Metropolis.”  Criminology 48: 639-681. Click here to read.

 

Sharkey, Patrick. 2010. “The Acute Effect of Local Homicides on Children's Cognitive Performance.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:11733-11738. Click here to read.

 

Sharkey, Patrick. 2009. “Neighborhoods and the Black-White Mobility Gap.”  Washington, D.C.: The Economic Mobility Project: An Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.  Click here to read.

Sharkey, Patrick. 2008. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Context.” American Journal of Sociology 113:4, 931-969.  Click here to read.

 

 Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. “Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality.” Demography 45:1, 1-29.  Click here to read.

 

Sampson, Robert J., Patrick Sharkey, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2008. “Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:845-852.  Click here to read.

 

Sharkey, Patrick. 2007. “Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Black Studies, Special Issue on Katrina, Race, Class, and Poverty 37:482-501.           Click here to read.

 

Sharkey, Patrick. 2006.  “Navigating Dangerous Streets: The Sources and Consequences of Street Efficacy.” American Sociological Review 71:826-846.  Click here to read.

Recent awards:

2010                Roger Gould Prize, American Journal of Sociology (for the best article published in previous two years)

2010                Jane Addams Award, ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section (co-winner for the best article in urban sociology published over the previous two years)

Recent media coverage of research:

On the impact of local violence on cognitive test scores:  

                

Shelton, Deborah. The Chicago Tribune, June 14, 2010. “Students take academic hit when a slaying is close to their home.” Click here to read.

 

Strauss, Valerie, “The Answer Sheet” blog. The Washington Post Online.  “How homicides affect test scores.” June 15, 2010. Click here to read.

           

The Boston Globe, “Be Well” Section, June 21, 2010. “Violent crime affects children's test scores.” Click here to read.

Fox, Maggie. Reuters Online. “Murder rates affect IQ tests scores: study.” Click here to read.

On neighborhoods and economic mobility:

           

National Public Radio’s “Tell me more” program. Click here to listen. 

           

The Kojo Nnamdi show.  Click here to listen. 

          

MacGillis, Alec. Washington Post, July 27, 2009.  “Neighborhoods Key to Future Income, Study Finds.” 

Click here to read. 

           

L.A. Times editorial, August 1, 2009. “The value of the neighborhood.”  Click here to read. 

On policy investments in neighborhoods:

           

Shulman, Robin.  Washington Post, August 2, 2009.  “Harlem Program Singled Out as Model.” 

Click here to read.  

On Sotomayor’s childhood neighborhood and public housing: