Stephen Ross

Professor, Economics, Urban and Community Studies, and Public Policy

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Primary Research Theme

People and the City

Secondary Research Themes

Healthy Cities, Economic and Community Development, Governance and Urban Services

Recent Cities-related Projects

• Foreclosure Spillovers in Broad Neighborhoods: The project examines whether the concentration of mortgage foreclosures in a neighborhood increases the likelihood of other housing in the same neighborhood entering foreclosure.
• Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling in Police Traffic Stops: This paper examines how test for racial discrimination in police stops can be biased away from finding discrimination because minority motorists reasonably drive more carefully if they believe that they are being discriminated in police stop decision.
• The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System: This study examines the causal impact of attending one of Connecticut’s Career and Technical High Schools by comparing students just above and just below the admissions threshold.

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Clapp J.M., Ross S.L., Zhou T. (2019). Retail Agglomeration and Competition Externalities: Evidence from Openings and Closings of Multiline Department Stores in the U.S. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Billings S.B., Deming D.J., Ross S.L. (2019). Partners in crime. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Ananat E., Shihe F., Ross S.L. (2018). Race-specific urban wage premia and the black-white wage gap. Journal of Urban Economics.

Fletcher J.M., Ross S.L. (2018). Estimating the effects of friends on health behaviors of adolescents. Health Economics (United Kingdom).

Ellen I.G., Ross S.L. (2018). Race and the City. Journal of Housing Economics.

Newman S., Holupka S., Ross S.L. (2018). There’s no place like home: Racial disparities in household formation in the 2000s. Journal of Housing Economics.

Courchane M.J., Ross S.L. (2018). Evidence and Actions on Mortgage Market Disparities: Research, Fair Lending Enforcement, and Consumer Protection. Housing Policy Debate.

Ross S.L. (2017). Measuring trends in discrimination with field experiment data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Bayer P., Ferreira F., Ross S.L. (2017). Corrigendum: The vulnerability of minority homeowners in the housing boom and bust [American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8, 1, (2016) (1-27)] DOI: 10.3386/w19020. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Ross S.L. (2017). Veil of Darkness Tests for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops when Minority Motorists Respond to Visibility. Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.

Ross S.L. (2017). Measuring Social Interaction Effects when Instruments are Weak. Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.

Ross S.L. (2016). Neighborhood Spillovers in Youth Crime: Are Social Interactions within Schools a Key Driver?. Vox: Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists.

Ross S.L. (2016). Partners in Crime: Schools, Neighborhoods and the Formation of Criminal Networks. Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.

Ross S.L. (2016). What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders. Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.

“Neighborhood Spillovers in Youth Crime: Are Social Interactions within Schools a Key Driver?” (with S. Billings and D. Deming). 2016. VOX CEPR Policy Portal: Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists, July 11, 2016.

“Segregation May Hurt Minorities, but Its Role in the Great Recession is Far Less Clear”. 2016. @FurmanCenterNYU’s #TheDreamRevisited 18, New York University, Feb 29, 2016. http://bit.ly/1RfHD1n

“Change and persistence in the economic status of neighborhoods and cities” (with S. Rosenthal). 2015. In The Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vol 5 (Eds. G. Duranton, V. Henderson, W. Strange). Elsevier Science/North Holland. http://real.wharton.upenn.edu/~duranton/Duranton_Papers/Handbook/Cycles_and_persistence_in_the_economics_status_of_neighborhoods_and_cities.pdf

“A novel explanation for the black-white wage gap: Productivity spillovers require social interactions between workers”. 2015. VOX CEPR Policy Portal: Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists, Jun 28, 2015.

Ross S.L. (2015). A novel explanation for the black-white wage gap: Productivity spillovers require social interactions between workers. Vox: Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists.

Ross S.L. (2015). Segregation May Hurt Minorities, but Its Role in the Great Recession is Far Less Clear. The Furman Center, New York University.

Brunner E.J., Ross S.L., Simonsen B.K. (2015). Homeowners, renters and the political economy of property taxation. Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Ross S.L. (2015). Accuracy and Efficiency in Simulating Equilibrium Land Use Patterns for Self-Organizing Citi. Journal of Economic Geography.

Rosenthal S.S., Ross S.L. (2015). Change and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics.

Dong X., Ross S.L. (2015). Accuracy and efficiency in simulating equilibrium land-use patterns for self-organizing cities. Journal of Economic Geography.

Ross S.L. (2015). Housing Discrimination among Available Housing Units in 2012: Do Paired Testing Studies understate Housing Discrimination?. Housing Policy Debate.