Research | Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Journal Articles

Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
Demography, 2020

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Do Vouchers Protect Low‐Income Households from Rising Rents?
Eastern Economic Journal, 2020 (with Ingrid Ellen)

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Neighbors and Networks: The Role of Social Interactions on the Residential Choices of Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Journal of Housing Economics, 2019 (with Ingrid Ellen and Michael Suher)

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Gentrification and Fair Housing: Does Gentrification Further Integration?
Housing Policy Debate, 2019 (with Ingrid Ellen)

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Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Electoral Consequences of Terrorist Attacks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 (with Laia Balcells)

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Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol
Child Development, 2018 (with Jennifer Heissel, Patrick Sharkey, Kathryn Grant, and Emma Adam)

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Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime
American Sociological Review, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey and Delaram Takyar)

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The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility
Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey)

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Working Papers

The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods
Working Paper, 2020 (with Patrick Sharkey)
Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effect of Racial Segregation on COVID-19 Mortality
Working Paper, 2020

Book Chapters

How Can Historic Preservation Be More Inclusive?
Preservation and Social Inclusion, 2020 (with Ingrid Ellen and Brian McCabe)
A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Learning Environments and Educational Performance in Japan and the United States
Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2015 (with Christopher Weiss and Emma Garcia)