Within more than a century’s worth of literature on housing inequalities, a new wave of research has emerged on the residential mobility process, which scholars frame as a key mechanism for understanding racial/ethnic residential stratification. The social structural sorting per…
Educational attainment in the U.S. continues to be marred by racial and socioeconomic (SES) disparities. Despite decades of research on the predictors of attainment and the decreases in dropout rates, minority-race and low-income youth continue to dropout at higher rates than th…
The archaeological site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh), located in south-central Anatolia, in the present-day Republic of Turkey, was the capital city of a native Anatolian kingdom during the early Middle Bronze Age (20th - late 18th c. BC). Uninterrupted archaeological excavations…
Chapter 1: Using a novel combination of administrative and proprietary data from 2007 to 2011 on King County, WA (metro Seattle), I estimate the effect of owner-occupants' home equity on their probability of sale and, indirectly, mobility. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation…
Archaeological research in the Oaxaca Valley has focused on the development of an administrative hierarchy during pre-state Monte Alban. This study is primarily concerned with the factors that contributed to a change from a valley defined by kinship to one ruled by regional elit…