Samantha Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8412-9618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
‘Because if you get it right at that level, then you’re getting it right for everybody’
The transition to primary school is typically more challenging for children with additional support needs (ASN). This is notable, as a positive experience at the transition to school is associated with greater wellbeing, school engagement, and academic outcomes. Practices and support for this transition are common and varied; however, the extent to which practices are appropriate or modified to support children with ASN to flourish during their f…
Exploratory analysis of inter-connected factors related to secondary school absenteeism
Secondary school absenteeism in the UK arises from complex, interconnected issues within and beyond school systems, making it difficult for some pupils to attend full-time. This study adopted an ecosystemic approach to examine factors related to pupils' absence from caregivers’ perspectives. Caregivers ( N = 198) completed online surveys. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine how school participation, absenteeism, pupil …
‘I want to go to the bat den. . . are you coming?’ Investigating opportunities for intergenerational participation in Forest School’
Internationally, there is a growing interest in both intergenerational practice and outdoor learning opportunities such as those provided in Forest School settings. This participatory action research project, planned by a university researcher and early years educators working together as co-researchers, set out to investigate intergenerational practice in an urban outdoor environment with children aged under 5 years, and older adults. The focus …
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Housing Insecurity
The growing body of research of the eviction process and forced moves in general is mixed regarding racial/ethnic differences, likely resulting from focusing on past experiences with eviction, potential sampling undercoverage, and no controls for housing arrears. Our paper builds on this research and examines racial/ethnic disparities in housing insecurity—time spent in rent arrears and perceived likelihood of expulsion—using data on renters from…
Practitioner perspectives on nature-based learning for autistic children
Despite the documented benefits of nature-based learning (NBL), research around the use of NBL with autistic children from a strengths-based perspective remains sparse. To understand how practitioners perceive the experience of engaging in NBL with autistic children, we interviewed 14 practitioners from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Using reflexive thematic analysis and framed through the neurodiversity paradigm, we developed thr…
‘A deep, empathetic, wondrous connection’
Connection to nature is an important concept for understanding human‐nature relationships, interests in nature and pro‐environmental behaviours. However, conceptualisations of this relationship thus far have excluded autistic perspectives. Through this reflexive thematic analysis of survey responses from 108 autistic participants in the UK, we sought to understand how autistic people define and experience connection to nature. Towards this aim, w…
Mapping the Vulnerability of Older-Adult Neighborhoods
We examined neighborhood-level demographic, economic, and social characteristics and food and health-services access to gauge the vulnerability of older-adult neighborhoods in New York State (NYS), which is understudied and is significant given the rapid aging of populations worldwide. We conducted descriptive ecological analyses using data from the American Community Survey, historical redlining maps, Social Capital Instruments, U.S. Department …
The Residential Segregation of the Middle Eastern and North African and South Asian Populations from the White Population in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2012–2016
We examine the residential segregation of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) population, South and East Asian people, and Black from white people in the U.S. Using data from the 2012–2016 American Community Survey (ACS) and the 2012–2016 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS) at the metropolitan level, descriptive analyses of segregation reveal that Black–white segregation is significantly greater than the segregation of MENA and…
Examining the Impact of College Roommate Race and Ethnicity on Future Residential Choices
This article leverages the quasi-random assignment of college roommates among freshmen enrolled at a large university in the Northeast between 2012 and 2016 to examine how the racial and ethnic background of first-year roommates shapes subsequent residential choices. Specifically, we investigate the influence of freshman-year roommate composition on the racial and ethnic diversity of students’ sophomore-year dorm rooms and their post-graduation n…
Moving towards inclusion and connection
Response
"Response: An invitation to conversation across disciplines." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2This article responds to:The state of urban research: Views across the disciplines Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Tracking temporal variations of fatality and symptomology correlated with Covid-19 dominant variants and vaccine effectiveness in the United States
Introduction: We described how COVID-19 fatality and symptoms varied by dominant variant and vaccination in the US. Methods: Using the Restricted Access Dataset from the US CDC (1/1/2020-10/20/2022), we conducted a cross-sectional study assessing differences in COVID-19 deaths, severity indicators (hospitalization, ICU, pneumonia, abnormal X-ray, acute respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation) and 12 mild symptoms by dominant variant…
Nature connection in adulthood
Nature connection describes our relationship with the rest of the natural world. Promoting nature connection in children and adults has been identified as a worthwhile focus for education and public health, given the positive associations between nature connection, well‐being and pro‐environmental behaviours. Prior research has looked at activities that promote an individual's connection to nature, reporting that a variety of interventions can be…
The world is your oyster’
Linda Allin - ORCID: 0000-0002-8101-6631 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8101-6631
The messy middle
Today’s adolescents have grown up with technology as a main element in their lives and are particularly susceptible to experiencing mental health challenges, so-called nature-deficit disorder, and eco-anxiety around the climate crisis. This unique developmental context may necessitate a reconceptualising of adolescents’ relationships with the environment including their connection to nature. We identified nine adolescents from North Carolina who …
Disaster Preparedness and Housing Tenure
Homeowners are significantly more prepared for disasters than renters. However, disaster preparedness among subsidized renters is an understudied topic despite their increased vulnerability to negative disaster outcomes. Previous research shows that one in three subsidized units is at risk for exposure to disasters, relative to one in four unsubsidized rental units, and one in seven owner-occupied units. Subsidized housing residents often fall in…
Spatial Variation in Covid-19 Mortality in New York City and Its Association with Neighborhood Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Status
We examined the association between variation in COVID-19 deaths and spatial differences in the racial, ethnic, and nativity-status composition of New York City neighborhoods, which has received little scholarly attention. Using COVID-19 mortality data (through 31 May 2021) and socioeconomic and demographic data from the American Community Survey at the Zip Code Tabulation Area level as well as United-Hospital-Fund-level neighborhood data from th…
Understanding changes to children's connection to nature during the Covid‐19 pandemic and implications for child well‐being
While psychological connection to nature is known to be associated with both pro‐environmental behaviours and well‐being, there is an urgent need to extend this research to consider impacts from the COVID‐19 lockdown period. Examining whether children's connection to nature changed during this period, identifying the drivers of these changes and determining the links between connection to nature and child well‐being can each serve to guide post‐l…
Guyanese Immigration, Homeownership, and Crime in Schenectady, NY
The immigrant-crime relationship remains among the most intensely debated and contentious public policy concerns. In contrast to hypotheses under social disorganization theory and consistent with hypotheses under the immigrant revitalization perspective, most studies find the relationship of percent foreign-born with crime to be nonsignificant at the neighborhood level. Previous research focuses mostly on the importance of overall immigration or …
The state of urban research
An "urban" subfield exists in virtually every social science discipline, but these subfields seldom engage one another. We asked scholars from five urban subfields to respond to questions about the state of urban research within their discipline. This article consists of their consequent essays and reflections on their responses. The questions posed included the discipline's conception of "urban," the main concerns motivating the subfield, the pr…
“I just want to stay out there all day”
School is often stressful for autistic students. Similarly, special educators are susceptible to burnout because of the unique demands of their jobs. There is ample evidence that spending time outside, particularly in nature, has many positive effects on mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. In this case study of two special educators and five autistic students in a social skills group at an elementary school in the southeastern United State…
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation by Family Structure and the Presence of Children in Metropolitan America
Residential segregation by educational status in Turkey, 2013
No research has examined the association between political preferences and residential segregation by educational status. In Turkey, affective polarisation is very high and warrants an examination of whether political preferences are associated with educational residential segregation. This study uses data on Turkey from the 2013 Address‐Population Based Registry, the 2011 Census of Population and Housing and voting archives maintained by the Sup…
Covid-19 Mortality in New York City Across Neighborhoods by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Status
New York City has lost more lives from covid-19 than any other American city. This study examines variation in covid-19 deaths across neighborhoods as it relates to variation in the racial, ethnic, and nativity-status composition of neighborhoods. This topic has received little scholarly attention and is imperative to explore, given the absence of racial and ethnic specific covid-19 mortality rates by neighborhood. New York City is a racially and…
Housing Outcomes in Turkey
Despite the doubling in size of the middle class and the significant housing increase in Turkey, little research has examined housing outcomes of middle–income households, particularly relative to affluent households. The housing increase and 2007 Mortgage Law could have reduced housing differences between middle–income and affluent households, but the rise in gated communities could have increased these differences. Using data from Turkey's 2012…
Do declines in residential segregation mean stable neighborhood racial integration in metropolitan America? A research note
County child poverty rates in the US
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
Differences in the locational attainment of immigrant and native-born households with children in New York City
In this paper we use a data set created especially for New York City to evaluate whether the locational attainment of households with children, as indicated by the context of the neighborhoods in which they live, varies by their immigrant status. In addition, we evaluate whether the relationship between immigrant status and neighborhood conditions varies by the householder’s race/ethnicity. Overall, when compared with native-born households with …
Career Trajectories and Older Men's Retirement
The idea of a long and stable career rewarded by retirement is a fixture of the American social ethos and political economy. The paradox is that many Americans' careers do not fit this image. Here, we examined how the structure of the career, as compared to only those circumstances proximate to retirement, is important for understanding career endings. Based on labor force histories drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, we obs…
Does suburban residence mean better neighborhood conditions for all households? Assessing the influence of nativity status and race/ethnicity
Globalization from Below
Immigration to major cities is an important dimension of cultural globalization, one that has been largely ignored in the global cities literature. Rates of immigration to major world cities are an important indicator of global city status and should be included in determining urban hierarchy indexes. Our study considers immigration in more than 100 metropolitan areas, using data from national censuses from more than 50 countries. We rank major c…
The World Settles in
This study examines the ethnic geography of a new immigrant gateway, Washington, DC. According to Census 2000, more than 832,000 foreign-born individuals reside in the Washington metropolitan region. This research uses Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data in an effort to map the residential decisions of immigrant newcomers by zip code from 1990 to 1998. Spatially, a very diverse, dispersed, and suburbanized pattern of newcomer settle…
Experiencing Residential Segregation
Explicit considerations of race and unlawful racial discrimination persist as critical factors in the continuing segregation of urban housing markets. On the basis of a telephone survey of Washington, D.C. area households, the authors find that current black households were almost twice as likely as white households to not get their first choice when they moved into their current homes, more than one-fourth of black householders report that they …
Spatial inequality and poverty among American children
Race Inequities in Men's Retirement
A multistate life table model is used to identify how labor force experiences and mortality determine the labor force participation rates (LFPRs) and the qualities of the retirement life cycle of Black and White older men. LFPRs and the life cycle measures are compared to assess inequities of retirement access for the racial groups. The results show that Blacks' lower LFPRs are a function of disability. Despite lower LFPRs than Whites, however, B…
Housing Tenure and Residential Segregation in Metropolitan America
Homeownership, a symbol of the American dream, is one of the primary ways through which families accumulate wealth, particularly for blacks and Hispanics. Surprisingly, no study has explicitly documented the segregation of minority owners and renters from whites. Using data from Census 2000, this study aims to fill this gap. Analyses here reveal that the segregation of black renters relative to whites is significantly lower than the segregation o…
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Help Minorities Access Traditionally Inaccessible Neighborhoods
Recent research has established that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has increased mortgage lending in low-income and minority communities. This study examines the extent to which the CRA has helped racial minorities purchase homes in predominantly white neighborhoods from which they traditionally have been excluded. We use 2000 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reports (HMDA) and 2000 decennial census data to examine the relationship between min…
Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality
Race, Immigrants, and Residence
This study examines the residential patterns of immigrant newcomers within a relatively new immigrant destination, Washington, D.C. Particular attention is given to how these patterns are shaped by the newcomers' race and ethnicity. Our analysis is based primarily upon data on immigrant flows from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for the 1990–1998 period. Evidence from our study suggests a racial and ethnic hierarchy to the residen…
Generational Patterns in Home Ownership and Housing Quality among Racial/Ethnic Groups in New York City, 1999
We use survey data for 1999 to evaluate how well the spatial assimilation model characterizes the generational patterns in housing conditions for racial/ethnic groups in New York City. Focusing on home ownership, crowding, and housing quality, bivariate analyses reveal that housing conditions improve across generations, but mainly for whites and other Hispanics. Among blacks, we find patterns of generational decline in housing conditions and soci…
Bringing Proximate Neighbours into the Study of US Residential Segregation
The race and ethnicity of neighbours are thought to be critical in shaping household mobility underlying residential segregation. However, studies on this topic have used data at the census-tract level of analysis rather than at the proximate-neighbour level. Using a non-publicly available version of the neighbour-cluster sample within the American Housing Survey, this study incorporates data on the race, ethnicity and socioeconomic characteristi…
The state of urban research
An "urban" subfield exists in virtually every social science discipline, but these subfields seldom engage one another. We asked scholars from five urban subfields to respond to questions about the state of urban research within their discipline. This article consists of their consequent essays and reflections on their responses. The questions posed included the discipline's conception of "urban," the main concerns motivating the subfield, the pr…
Covid-19 Mortality in New York City Across Neighborhoods by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Status
New York City has lost more lives from covid-19 than any other American city. This study examines variation in covid-19 deaths across neighborhoods as it relates to variation in the racial, ethnic, and nativity-status composition of neighborhoods. This topic has received little scholarly attention and is imperative to explore, given the absence of racial and ethnic specific covid-19 mortality rates by neighborhood. New York City is a racially and…
Disability Status, Housing Tenure, and Residential Attainment in Metropolitan America
In 2010, 18.7 percent of the U.S. non-institutionalized population had a disability. Despite the existence of the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA), which prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of disability, recent research has found that individuals and/or families with disabilities live in poorer quality housing and neighborhoods than those without disabilities. However, no research has examined such disparities in residential attainme…
Assessing the Role of Family Structure in Racial/Ethnic Residential Isolation
Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, racial/ethnic residential segregation and discrimination persist in the housing market. In 2018, the National Fair Housing Alliance reported that the third and fifth largest discrimination complaints are made on the bases of familial status and sex, respectively. However, housing research has largely ignored how family structure may shape patterns of racial/ethnic residential segregation. By …
The Residential Segregation of the Middle Eastern and North African and South Asian Populations from the White Population in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 2012–2016
We examine the residential segregation of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) population, South and East Asian people, and Black from white people in the U.S. Using data from the 2012–2016 American Community Survey (ACS) and the 2012–2016 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS) at the metropolitan level, descriptive analyses of segregation reveal that Black–white segregation is significantly greater than the segregation of MENA and…
Differences in the Locational Attainment of Immigrant and Native-Born Households with Children in New York City
In this paper we use a data set created especially for New York City to evaluate whether the locational attainment of households with children, as indicated by the context of the neighborhoods in which they live, varies by their immigrant status. In addition, we evaluate whether the relationship between immigrant status and neighborhood conditions varies by the householder's race/ethnicity. Overall, when compared with native-born households with …
Race Inequities in Men's Retirement
A multistate life table model is used to identify how labor force experiences and mortality determine the labor force participation rates (LFPRs) and the qualities of the retirement life cycle of Black and White older men. LFPRs and the life cycle measures are compared to assess inequities of retirement access for the racial groups. The results show that Blacks' lower LFPRs are a function of disability. Despite lower LFPRs than Whites, however, B…
Career Trajectories and Older Men's Retirement
The idea of a long and stable career rewarded by retirement is a fixture of the American social ethos and political economy. The paradox is that many Americans' careers do not fit this image. Here, we examined how the structure of the career, as compared to only those circumstances proximate to retirement, is important for understanding career endings. Based on labor force histories drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men, we obs…
Spatial inequality and poverty among American children
Differences in the Locational Attainment of Immigrant and Native-Born Households with Children in New York City
In this paper we use a data set created especially for New York City to evaluate whether the locational attainment of households with children, as indicated by the context of the neighborhoods in which they live, varies by their immigrant status. In addition, we evaluate whether the relationship between immigrant status and neighborhood conditions varies by the householder's race/ethnicity. Overall, when compared with native-born households with …
Differences in the locational attainment of immigrant and native-born households with children in New York City
In this paper we use a data set created especially for New York City to evaluate whether the locational attainment of households with children, as indicated by the context of the neighborhoods in which they live, varies by their immigrant status. In addition, we evaluate whether the relationship between immigrant status and neighborhood conditions varies by the householder’s race/ethnicity. Overall, when compared with native-born households with …
Experiencing Residential Segregation
Explicit considerations of race and unlawful racial discrimination persist as critical factors in the continuing segregation of urban housing markets. On the basis of a telephone survey of Washington, D.C. area households, the authors find that current black households were almost twice as likely as white households to not get their first choice when they moved into their current homes, more than one-fourth of black householders report that they …
Generational Patterns in Home Ownership and Housing Quality among Racial/Ethnic Groups in New York City, 1999
We use survey data for 1999 to evaluate how well the spatial assimilation model characterizes the generational patterns in housing conditions for racial/ethnic groups in New York City. Focusing on home ownership, crowding, and housing quality, bivariate analyses reveal that housing conditions improve across generations, but mainly for whites and other Hispanics. Among blacks, we find patterns of generational decline in housing conditions and soci…
The World Settles in
This study examines the ethnic geography of a new immigrant gateway, Washington, DC. According to Census 2000, more than 832,000 foreign-born individuals reside in the Washington metropolitan region. This research uses Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data in an effort to map the residential decisions of immigrant newcomers by zip code from 1990 to 1998. Spatially, a very diverse, dispersed, and suburbanized pattern of newcomer settle…
Race, Immigrants, and Residence
This study examines the residential patterns of immigrant newcomers within a relatively new immigrant destination, Washington, D.C. Particular attention is given to how these patterns are shaped by the newcomers' race and ethnicity. Our analysis is based primarily upon data on immigrant flows from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for the 1990–1998 period. Evidence from our study suggests a racial and ethnic hierarchy to the residen…
Globalization from Below
Immigration to major cities is an important dimension of cultural globalization, one that has been largely ignored in the global cities literature. Rates of immigration to major world cities are an important indicator of global city status and should be included in determining urban hierarchy indexes. Our study considers immigration in more than 100 metropolitan areas, using data from national censuses from more than 50 countries. We rank major c…
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Help Minorities Access Traditionally Inaccessible Neighborhoods
Recent research has established that the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has increased mortgage lending in low-income and minority communities. This study examines the extent to which the CRA has helped racial minorities purchase homes in predominantly white neighborhoods from which they traditionally have been excluded. We use 2000 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reports (HMDA) and 2000 decennial census data to examine the relationship between min…
County child poverty rates in the US
Does suburban residence mean better neighborhood conditions for all households? Assessing the influence of nativity status and race/ethnicity
Do declines in residential segregation mean stable neighborhood racial integration in metropolitan America? A research note
Bringing Proximate Neighbours into the Study of US Residential Segregation
The race and ethnicity of neighbours are thought to be critical in shaping household mobility underlying residential segregation. However, studies on this topic have used data at the census-tract level of analysis rather than at the proximate-neighbour level. Using a non-publicly available version of the neighbour-cluster sample within the American Housing Survey, this study incorporates data on the race, ethnicity and socioeconomic characteristi…
Housing Tenure and Residential Segregation in Metropolitan America
Homeownership, a symbol of the American dream, is one of the primary ways through which families accumulate wealth, particularly for blacks and Hispanics. Surprisingly, no study has explicitly documented the segregation of minority owners and renters from whites. Using data from Census 2000, this study aims to fill this gap. Analyses here reveal that the segregation of black renters relative to whites is significantly lower than the segregation o…
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality
Census Data and its Use in the Study of Residential Inequality
Disability Status, Housing Tenure, and Residential Attainment in Metropolitan America
In 2010, 18.7 percent of the U.S. non-institutionalized population had a disability. Despite the existence of the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA), which prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of disability, recent research has found that individuals and/or families with disabilities live in poorer quality housing and neighborhoods than those without disabilities. However, no research has examined such disparities in residential attainme…
Assessing the Role of Family Structure in Racial/Ethnic Residential Isolation
Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, racial/ethnic residential segregation and discrimination persist in the housing market. In 2018, the National Fair Housing Alliance reported that the third and fifth largest discrimination complaints are made on the bases of familial status and sex, respectively. However, housing research has largely ignored how family structure may shape patterns of racial/ethnic residential segregation. By …
Muslim–Non-Muslim Locational Attainment in Philadelphia
This study examines Muslim–non-Muslim disparities in locational attainment. We pool data from the 2004, 2006, and 2008 waves of the Public Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Survey. These data contain respondents’ religious identities and are geocoded at the census-tract level, allowing us to merge American Community Survey data and examine neighborhood-level outcomes to gauge respondents’ locational attainment. N…
Housing Outcomes in Turkey
Despite the doubling in size of the middle class and the significant housing increase in Turkey, little research has examined housing outcomes of middle–income households, particularly relative to affluent households. The housing increase and 2007 Mortgage Law could have reduced housing differences between middle–income and affluent households, but the rise in gated communities could have increased these differences. Using data from Turkey's 2012…
“I just want to stay out there all day”
School is often stressful for autistic students. Similarly, special educators are susceptible to burnout because of the unique demands of their jobs. There is ample evidence that spending time outside, particularly in nature, has many positive effects on mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. In this case study of two special educators and five autistic students in a social skills group at an elementary school in the southeastern United State…
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation by Family Structure and the Presence of Children in Metropolitan America
Sociology (32 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (29 works) · Geography (28 works) · Demographic economics (23 works) · Demography (23 works) · Economics (23 works) · Population (19 works) · Demography (16 works) · Ethnic group (15 works) · Political science (15 works)