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Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form: Disentangling Individual and Neighborhood-Level Change in Los Angeles

Robert J. Sampson, Jared N. Schachner, Robert D. Mare
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2017, 3 (2) 102-128; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.05
Robert J. Sampson
aHenry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
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bPhD candidate in sociology and social policy at Harvard University
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Robert D. Mare
cDistinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles
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    • SPATIAL DYNAMICS IN THE AGE OF INCOME EXTREMES
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    • INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
    • RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY AND THE GREAT RECESSION
    • INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND LIFE-COURSE CHANGE
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