L Mclafferty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Mclafferty |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclafferty |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAFFERTY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8413-7562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 427 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Associations between food retailer availability and violent crime by neighborhood SES in Chicago, IL
Violent crime continues to be a public health issue in the U.S. Prior research has associated greater availability of certain food retailers (i.e., convenience stores, liquor stores, dollar stores) with higher violent crime rates at the community level. There is limited understanding of how these retailers, and others, are associated with violent crime across the spectrum of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). To further explore this topic, …
Exposure to Crime at Food Stores
Crime is a public health issue that disproportionately affects racially-marginalized populations. Studies have reported that food stores (e.g., grocery stores, convenience stores) often attract crime due to their volume of cash transactions and limited security. Little is known about how exposure to crime at food stores affects nutrition or health. This study aimed to fill this research gap by exploring the lived experiences of Black Americans. I…
Place, politics and disease ecology
Making Space in Geographical Analysis
In this commentary we reflect on the potential and power of geographical analysis, as a set of methods, theoretical approaches, and perspectives, to increase our understanding of how space and place matter for all . We emphasize key aspects of the field, including accessibility, urban change, and spatial interaction and behavior, providing a high‐level research agenda that indicates a variety of gaps and routes for future research that will not o…
Local Indicator of Spatial Agglomeration between Newly Opened Outlets and Existing Competitors on a Street Network
Distance from competitors is a key factor in retail site selection and profitability. To understand the locational tendency that each newly opened outlet locates close to or far from existing competitors in a target area, a specific method is needed. Hence, this study aims first to develop a statistical method to discover the local spatial associations between newly opened and existing point‐like outlets on a street network. We achieve this objec…
Therapeutic landscapes and networks in restricted lives
This research explores the connections between therapeutic landscapes (TLs) and therapeutic networks (TNs) among women who work in domestic employment and experience severe space-time constraints in their everyday lives. Although these connections are often recognized, the links between TL and TN have not been widely investigated. Based on an online survey of 190 Indonesian female domestic workers (FDWs) in Hong Kong, therapeutic landscape locati…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs
Therapeutic landscapes, networks, and health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic
Winter Malaria, Urban Environmental Mismanagement and Climate Change in Khartoum City, Sudan
This study investigates malaria incidence during the hot-wet summer (June to September) and cool-dry winter (January to March) seasons in Khartoum, Sudan. Using data on malaria cases, LandScan gridded population data, and temperature data from the Global Historical Climatology Network, malaria incidence in Khartoum city in 2015 was 1,629.2 per 100,000 population in cool-dry winter months compared to 924.7 in hot-wet summer months, with temperatur…
County-level associations between food retailer availability and violent crime rate
Certain features of the retail food environment appear to be associated with county-level violent crime rates in America. These findings highlight the need for additional research on the influence of food retail and food landscape on violent crime occurrence at the community level
Spaces of Segregation and Health
Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment
Gender, Immigration and Commuting in Metropolitan Canada
Immigrant workers often commute by transit more than other workers. Although immigrants' reliance on transit is often attributed to the same factors as women's reliance on transit: low incomes, limited access to cars, and a tendency to work close to home, gender differences are discussed rarely in analyses of immigrant commuting. Using 2016 Census of Canada microdata, we examine the use of four commute modes: driving, transit, active commuting in…
Placing volunteered geographic health information
Disability, wages, and commuting in New York
Spatial Accessibility to Mammography Services in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region States
PURPOSE: To characterize spatial access to mammography services across 8 Lower Mississippi Delta Region (LMDR) states. These states include the Delta Region, a federally designated, largely rural, and impoverished region with a high proportion of black residents and low mammography utilization rates. METHODS: Using the enhanced 2-step floating catchment area method, we calculated spatial accessibility scores for mammography services across LMDR c…
Place and quantitative methods
Who has long commutes to low-wage jobs? Gender, race, and access to work in the New York region
Geographies of home and work have changed as public investment has favored central and distant suburban locations and as income inequality has increased. These changes result in shifting geographies of advantage that (dis)benefit gender and racial/ethnic groups unevenly. We examine commuting differentials by gender and race/ethnicity based on combinations of wages and commute times using data for the New York region.We find that Black, Asian, and…
Spatial Context
A rapidly expanding body of research investigates how social and environmental processes are shaped by the local settings in which they occur. These local settings – spatial contexts – are increasingly studied and modeled using geospatial data and methods. This entry summarizes opportunities and challenges for spatial contextual research. It reviews how spatial contexts are modeled, highlighting advances such as modeling of contexts in space and …
Green Streets
Recent scholarship points to a protective association between green space and birth outcomes as well a positive relationship between blue space and wellbeing. We add to this body of literature by exploring the relationship between expectant mothers' exposure to green and blue spaces and adverse birth outcomes in New York City. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the NYC Street Tree Census, and access to major green spaces served as…
Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York
In the 1990s, many women commuted shorter distances and less time than men, and research underscored the pernicious effects of racial and ethnic segregation and access to transportation on minority women's commuting. Since then, growing income inequality and the bifurcation of employment between well-paid and secure jobs and a growing number of insecure and poorly paid jobs have been accompanied by the concentration of jobs at central and suburba…
Spatial Mismatch
Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities
How do the social and material characteristics of residential contexts in the host country affect immigrant maternal and infant health? We examine this question through the lens of the ethnic density hypothesis, a hypothesis that posits beneficial effects on immigrant health of living in areas of high ethnic density; that is, among a socially and linguistically similar population. We analyze the association between infant low birth weight and eth…
Farmer Attitudes Toward Production of Perennial Energy Grasses in East Central Illinois
Throughout the Midwestern United States, land owners and managers, mainly farmers, are increasingly considering the possibility of transforming industrial agricultural landscapes that currently are used almost strictly for food production to landscapes that include renewable energy production. Because most land in this region is privately owned and independently farmed, transformation of the landscape will be the product of myriad decisions by in…
Placing Pandemics
A prominent U.S. medical geographer explores the geographic dimensions of disease pandemics, examining their causes, movement over space, unequal impacts, and emergence of place-specific public health responses. She utilizes a political ecological approach to situate pandemics within a complex network of place-specific interactions among people, the physical and built environments, social institutions, and infectious agents that cause disease. Th…
Gender, Race, and the Determinants of Commuting
This research examines changing race and gender differences in commuting time and their relationships to social and economic restructuring in the New York metropolitan region. During the 1980s, the region's economic base and social fabric changed dramatically with a continued loss of manufacturing employment, rise of service employment, growth of households headed by women, and accelerated suburbanization. Using 1980 and 1990 PUMS data, we analyz…
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
Mapping Women's Worlds
(2002). Mapping Women's Worlds: Knowledge, power and the bounds of GIS. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 263-269
Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois∗
The variations of breast cancer mortality rates from place to place reflect both underlying differences in breast cancer prevalence and differences in diagnosis and treatment that affect the risk of death. This article examines the role of access to health care in explaining the variation of late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer. We use cancer registry data for the state of Illinois by zip code to investigate spatial variation in late diagnosis. …
The Impact of Family Status on Black, White, and Hispanic Women's Commuting
The relationship between women's domestic labor and employment in the paid labor force is central to current debates about gender inequities in occupations and incomes. Recent studies of gender differences in commuting argue that women reduce the journey to work to accommodate the demands of family responsibilities. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. Equal numbers of studies have reported significant andinsignificant relationships between…
Who has long commutes to low-wage jobs? Gender, race, and access to work in the New York region
Geographies of home and work have changed as public investment has favored central and distant suburban locations and as income inequality has increased. These changes result in shifting geographies of advantage that (dis)benefit gender and racial/ethnic groups unevenly. We examine commuting differentials by gender and race/ethnicity based on combinations of wages and commute times using data for the New York region.We find that Black, Asian, and…
Segregation, Nativity, and Health
This research analyzes differences between immigrant and native-born Black women in the relationship between racial residential segregation and low birthweight risk. Differences in nativity are investigated because sociocultural diversity may affect women's exposure to environmental and psychosocial stressors associated with living in highly segregated neighborhoods and in the presence of protective "ethnic density" effects. Using vital statistic…
Geographical Barriers to Employment for American-born and Immigrant Workers
Residential segregation interacts with the changing geography of transport and employment in urban areas to restrict access to workplaces. A growing literature suggests that spatial barriers limit the job opportunities of minority women and men in American cities. This study examines the nature and extent of geographical barriers for minority immigrants by analysing their commuting behaviour. Information from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample …
Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures
Placing Pandemics
A prominent U.S. medical geographer explores the geographic dimensions of disease pandemics, examining their causes, movement over space, unequal impacts, and emergence of place-specific public health responses. She utilizes a political ecological approach to situate pandemics within a complex network of place-specific interactions among people, the physical and built environments, social institutions, and infectious agents that cause disease. Th…
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
Breast cancer in West Islip, NY
Urban Structure and Geographical Access to Public Services
The spatial structure of urban areas limits the geographical accessibility of public services to some income groups. Simulation analyses show that this limiting effect—the spatial constraint—varies among study areas depending on the relative locations and densities of income groups. In typical Western cities, however, the spatial constraint implies that the bulk of possible service locations are physically more accessible to low-than to high-inco…
Ethnic Density and Maternal and Infant Health Inequalities
How do the social and material characteristics of residential contexts in the host country affect immigrant maternal and infant health? We examine this question through the lens of the ethnic density hypothesis, a hypothesis that posits beneficial effects on immigrant health of living in areas of high ethnic density; that is, among a socially and linguistically similar population. We analyze the association between infant low birth weight and eth…
Restructuring and women's reproductive health
Emptying beds
Mosquito politics
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Regionalization and Recent Immigrants’ Access to Jobs
Disability, wages, and commuting in New York
Locating diversity
Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services
Spaces of Segregation and Health
Placing volunteered geographic health information
Issues in Measuring Differential Access to Public Services
This paper discusses the problems in interpreting the correlation coefficient as a measure of geographical accessibility to public services by income groups. As an alternative a relative index is proposed which incorporates the unique limits to the correlation coefficient in any area and thus allows meaningful comparison of results between areas and services. To illustrate the use and interpretation of the relative index an empirical analysis of …
Urban Structure and Geographical Access to Public Services
The spatial structure of urban areas limits the geographical accessibility of public services to some income groups. Simulation analyses show that this limiting effect—the spatial constraint—varies among study areas depending on the relative locations and densities of income groups. In typical Western cities, however, the spatial constraint implies that the bulk of possible service locations are physically more accessible to low-than to high-inco…
Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures
Remaking the City
Urban Hospital Location
Predicting the effect of hospital closure on hospital utilization patterns
Location Strategies for Retail and Service Firms
(1988). Location Strategies for Retail and Service Firms. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 198-199
Health in the Inner City
Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services
Gender, Race, and Commuting Among Service Sector Workers∗
The generality that women work closer to home and have shorter commuting times than men needs to be assessed for racial groups. Statistical analysis of commuting times for a large sample of service workers in the New York metropolitan area shows that black and hispanic women commute as far as their male counterparts and their commuting times far exceed those of white men and women. Workplace factors, such as income, occupation, and job accessibil…
A weighted covering model to aid in dracunculiasis eradication
A Weighted Covering Model to Aid in Dracunculiasis Eradication
Health and the Urban Environment
Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women
Sara McLafferty, Valerie Preston, Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women, Economic Geography, Vol. 68, No. 4, Local Labor Markets (Oct., 1992), pp. 406-431
The Impact of Family Status on Black, White, and Hispanic Women's Commuting
The relationship between women's domestic labor and employment in the paid labor force is central to current debates about gender inequities in occupations and incomes. Recent studies of gender differences in commuting argue that women reduce the journey to work to accommodate the demands of family responsibilities. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed. Equal numbers of studies have reported significant andinsignificant relationships between…
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
PRESTON V. And MCLAFFERTY S. (1993) Income disparities and employment and occupational changes in New York, Reg. Studies 27, 223–235. To determine how deindustrialization and the growth of service employment have affected geographic disparities in income within urban areas, we examined empirically the spatial distribution of household income in the New York CMSA between 1960 and 1980 and the associations between income growth and employment and o…
Emptying beds
Variation in use of hospital care
Job Accessibility and the Employment and School Enrollment of Teenagers
Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the mismatch hypothesis for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have reduced the job opportunities of inner-city dwelling minorities. This book extends Ihlanfeldt's earlier work on spatial mismatch by incorporating school enrollment…
The politics of health policy
Restructuring and women's reproductive health
Gender, Race, and the Determinants of Commuting
This research examines changing race and gender differences in commuting time and their relationships to social and economic restructuring in the New York metropolitan region. During the 1980s, the region's economic base and social fabric changed dramatically with a continued loss of manufacturing employment, rise of service employment, growth of households headed by women, and accelerated suburbanization. Using 1980 and 1990 PUMS data, we analyz…
Geographical Barriers to Employment for American-born and Immigrant Workers
Residential segregation interacts with the changing geography of transport and employment in urban areas to restrict access to workplaces. A growing literature suggests that spatial barriers limit the job opportunities of minority women and men in American cities. This study examines the nature and extent of geographical barriers for minority immigrants by analysing their commuting behaviour. Information from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample …
Breast cancer in West Islip, NY
Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s
Geography (49 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Economics (24 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (20 works) · Demography (19 works) · Population (16 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (16 works) · Demographic economics (14 works)