Peer-Reviewed Articles
Torrats-Espinosa, Gerard. 2020. “Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States.” Demography 57: 123–145
⊕ Replication files: Some data require special access and can’t be shared publicly.
Ellen, Ingrid G. and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2020. “Do Vouchers Protect Low-Income Households from Rising Rents?” Eastern Economic Journal 46: 260–281
Ellen, Ingrid G., Michael Suher, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2019. “Neighbors and Networks: The Role of Social Interactions on the Residential Choices of Housing Choice Voucher Holders.” Journal of Housing Economics 43: 56-71
Ellen, Ingrid G. and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2019. “Gentrification and Fair Housing: Does Gentrification Further Integration?” Housing Policy Debate 29(5): 835-851
Balcells, Laia and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2018. “Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Electoral Consequences of Terrorist Attacks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
⊕ Press coverage: Washington Post, The Print
⊕ Replication files: Harvard Dataverse
Heissel, Jennifer A., Patrick Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Kathryn Grant, and Emma K. Adam. 2018. “Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol.” Child Development: 89(4): 323-331
Sharkey, Patrick, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, and Delaram Takyar. 2017. “Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime.” American Sociological Review 82(6): 1214–1240
⊕ Press coverage: NYTimes, Minnesota Post, Bloomberg, Curbed
⊕ Replication files: Harvard Dataverse
Sharkey, Patrick and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2017. “The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility.” Journal of Urban Economics 102: 22-33
⊕ Press coverage: Washington Post, CityLab
Book Chapters
Ellen, Ingrid G., Brian J. McCabe, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2020. “How Can Historic Preservation Be More Inclusive?” in Preservation and Social Inclusion. Columbia University Press.
Weiss, Christopher, Emma Garcia, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. 2015. “A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Learning Environments and Educational Performance in Japan and the United States” Pp. 211-240 in Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Yoneyuki Sugita. Lexington Books.
Work in Progress
Torrats-Espinosa, Gerard. “Business Improvement Districts and Crime: Evidence from Chicago”
Torrats-Espinosa, Gerard and Patrick Sharkey. “The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods.”
De Filippo, Alexandra, Michael Kaemingk, Katherine Rodrigues, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa. “Reducing Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment. Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Refugee Camp.”
