M J Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 20828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8968-1532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 680 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Unequal exposure: Community climate change vulnerabilities of new homebuyers in the United States
Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves
Shelter from the storm: The growing threats from climate change to housing in the United States
Climate change and its related impacts are fast becoming the dominant force in the housing market. The fundamental role that housing plays in people's lives makes these effects particularly pernicious, often impacting employment, school attendance, undermining physical and mental health, disrupting social networks, and contributing to food insecurity. The complexity of addressing these issues is compounded by the cyclical and reciprocal relations…
Shelter at Home, if You Can: Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020
This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with …
New Faces, New Neighbors? How Latino Population Growth and Lending Expansion Shapes the Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Composition for White and Latino Homebuyers
Fueled by increased socioeconomic status (SES), geographic mobility, and access to lending, Latino home buying expanded during the recent housing boom. However, less is known about the types of neighborhoods Latino homebuyers accessed during this time. To address this gap, we explore how SES, mortgage type, and the metropolitan racial and ethnic context affected the racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods for new white and Latino homeowner…
Spatial Inequality
Neighborhoods reflect social inequalities, but also serve as locations for perpetuating inequalities because of the multiplex ways in which resources and opportunities are tied to spatial locations. This entry explores the theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques used to understand the relationship between social inequality and location in residential space. It also discusses some of the latest research on the intergenerational tran…
Military Veterans and Neighborhood Racial Integration: VA Mortgage Lending Across Three Eras
Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvement at Elementary School
This article examines the relationship between parental networks and parental school involvement during the elementary school years. Using a large, nationally representative data set of elementary school students-the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort-and contextual data from the 2000 U.S. Census, our multilevel analysis shows that higher levels of parental networks in first grade are associated with higher levels of parental …
Black and white homebuyer, homeowner, and household segregation in the United States, 1990-2010
Why they leave: The impact of stereotype threat on the attrition of women and minorities from science, math and engineering majors
Interracial contact and changes in the racial attitudes of white college students
Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality: Higher Education in America
Can Institutional Networks Mitigate Labor Market Disadvantages? Evidence from College Summer Job Searches
Objective. This study examines whether the use of institutional (school‐based) networks may help students from disadvantaged backgrounds secure summer employment opportunities that are on a par with those of their more advantaged classmates who may possess more resource‐rich personal and familial networks. Methods. The study draws on unique data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen to examine the strategies that a national representa…
Immigrant educational outcomes in new destinations: An exploration of high school attrition
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
A longitudinal examination of the role of stereotype threat and racial climate on college outcomes for minorities at elite institutions
Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation
This article explores the relationship between Black shifts to the suburbs and metropolitan segregation using the decompositional properties of the entropy index. This method reveals that much of the decline in metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others is because of declining central city segregation; suburban segregation has much lower average declines. Furthermore, a growing proportion of Black/other segregation is explained by residential…
The effects of affirmative action in higher education
International Migration and Gender in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
We review census data to assess the standing of five Latin American nations on a gender continuum ranging from patriarchal to matrifocal. We show that Mexico and Costa Rica lie close to one another with a highly patriarchal system of gender relations whereas Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are similar in having a matrifocal system. Puerto Rico occupies a middle position, blending characteristics of both systems. These differences yield diffe…
The effect of childhood segregation on minority academic performance at selective colleges
In this study we draw upon data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a representative survey of nearly 4,000 men and women entering college in the autumn of 1999, to consider the effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college. We show that black and Latino college students, even those enrolled in the nation's most selective academic institutions, display large differences in background …
Stereotype Threat and Academic Performance: New Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample of College Freshmen
The theory of stereotype threat was developed to account for persistent minority underachievement in American colleges and universities. It hypothesizes that members of minority groups underperform academically because of unconscious fears of living up to negative group stereotypes. While evidence pertaining to stereotype threat has been positive, it mostly comes from small experimental studies of selected undergraduate subjects at a few universi…
The Ecology of Racial Discrimination
In this article we build on prior studies that have used audit methods to document continued discrimination against African Americans in U.S. housing markets. Whereas prior work focused primarily on measuring racial disparities in housing access, here we seek to determine which personal, ecological, and agent factors raise or lower discrimination. Our data come from phone‐based audit studies of rental housing offered in the Philadelphia metropoli…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Conditions as Moderators of Family Resource Transmission: High School Completion among At-Risk Youth
We investigate how neighborhood socioeconomic conditions (SES), family resources during adolescence, and high school completion are related for a sample of at-risk youth. Borrowing from the 'neighborhood effects' and family literatures, we investigate whether the effects of family economic resources, connections to the community, school, and religious institutions and family structure on high school completion depend on levels of neighborhood SES…
The Relative Importance of Income and Race in Determining Residential Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000
The author uses the unique properties of the entropy index to explore trends in segregation by race/ethnicity and income class for families from 1970 to 2000. Declines in segregation by race and increases in segregation by income class were found until the 1990s, when segregation by income declined. Segregation among certain subgroups was then examined; some groups remain more segregated, even as segregation in general has declined. In particular…
The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CHAPTER ONE: The Puzzle of Minority Underachievement 1 CHAPTER TWO: Sample and Methodology 20 CHAPTER THREE: Family Origins 46 CHAPTER FOUR: Neighborhood Background 70 CHAPTER FIVE: Prior Educational Experiences 87 CHAPTER SIX: The Social World of High School 109 CHAPTER SEVEN: Racial Identity and Attitudes 133 CHAPTER EIGHT: Pathways to Preparation 155 CHAPTER NINE: Sink or Swim: The First Semest…
How segregation concentrates poverty
In this article, we argue that segregation interacts with a variety of structural transformations in society to determine the spatial concentration of poverty. Based on this argument, we then specify a statistical model overcoming methodological problems that have hampered earlier work. Estimates based on US data confirm that racial/ethnic segregation interacts with structural shifts in society to concentrate poverty. By 1990, a powerful interact…
The Relative Importance of Income and Race in Determining Residential Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000
The author uses the unique properties of the entropy index to explore trends in segregation by race/ethnicity and income class for families from 1970 to 2000. Declines in segregation by race and increases in segregation by income class were found until the 1990s, when segregation by income declined. Segregation among certain subgroups was then examined; some groups remain more segregated, even as segregation in general has declined. In particular…
The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CHAPTER ONE: The Puzzle of Minority Underachievement 1 CHAPTER TWO: Sample and Methodology 20 CHAPTER THREE: Family Origins 46 CHAPTER FOUR: Neighborhood Background 70 CHAPTER FIVE: Prior Educational Experiences 87 CHAPTER SIX: The Social World of High School 109 CHAPTER SEVEN: Racial Identity and Attitudes 133 CHAPTER EIGHT: Pathways to Preparation 155 CHAPTER NINE: Sink or Swim: The First Semest…
Does Rising Income Bring Integration? New Results for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in 1990
International Migration and Gender in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
We review census data to assess the standing of five Latin American nations on a gender continuum ranging from patriarchal to matrifocal. We show that Mexico and Costa Rica lie close to one another with a highly patriarchal system of gender relations whereas Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are similar in having a matrifocal system. Puerto Rico occupies a middle position, blending characteristics of both systems. These differences yield diffe…
The Ecology of Racial Discrimination
In this article we build on prior studies that have used audit methods to document continued discrimination against African Americans in U.S. housing markets. Whereas prior work focused primarily on measuring racial disparities in housing access, here we seek to determine which personal, ecological, and agent factors raise or lower discrimination. Our data come from phone‐based audit studies of rental housing offered in the Philadelphia metropoli…
Stereotype Threat and Academic Performance: New Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample of College Freshmen
The theory of stereotype threat was developed to account for persistent minority underachievement in American colleges and universities. It hypothesizes that members of minority groups underperform academically because of unconscious fears of living up to negative group stereotypes. While evidence pertaining to stereotype threat has been positive, it mostly comes from small experimental studies of selected undergraduate subjects at a few universi…
Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation
This article explores the relationship between Black shifts to the suburbs and metropolitan segregation using the decompositional properties of the entropy index. This method reveals that much of the decline in metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others is because of declining central city segregation; suburban segregation has much lower average declines. Furthermore, a growing proportion of Black/other segregation is explained by residential…
The effect of childhood segregation on minority academic performance at selective colleges
In this study we draw upon data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a representative survey of nearly 4,000 men and women entering college in the autumn of 1999, to consider the effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college. We show that black and Latino college students, even those enrolled in the nation's most selective academic institutions, display large differences in background …
Why they leave: The impact of stereotype threat on the attrition of women and minorities from science, math and engineering majors
Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvement at Elementary School
This article examines the relationship between parental networks and parental school involvement during the elementary school years. Using a large, nationally representative data set of elementary school students-the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort-and contextual data from the 2000 U.S. Census, our multilevel analysis shows that higher levels of parental networks in first grade are associated with higher levels of parental …
The effects of affirmative action in higher education
Immigrant educational outcomes in new destinations: An exploration of high school attrition
Interracial contact and changes in the racial attitudes of white college students
A longitudinal examination of the role of stereotype threat and racial climate on college outcomes for minorities at elite institutions
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Conditions as Moderators of Family Resource Transmission: High School Completion among At-Risk Youth
We investigate how neighborhood socioeconomic conditions (SES), family resources during adolescence, and high school completion are related for a sample of at-risk youth. Borrowing from the 'neighborhood effects' and family literatures, we investigate whether the effects of family economic resources, connections to the community, school, and religious institutions and family structure on high school completion depend on levels of neighborhood SES…
Black and white homebuyer, homeowner, and household segregation in the United States, 1990-2010
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality: Higher Education in America
Shelter at Home, if You Can: Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020
This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with …
Residential Segregation and Ethnic Enterprise in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of minority group entrepreneurship that incorporates individual, household, and metropolitan-level factors. Among the metropolitan factors we consider is residential segregation, which might be thought to enhance business opportunities by concentrating demand and creating protected market niches. Whereas some degree of geographic concentration may be beneficial for certain types of entrepreneurship, …
Military Veterans and Neighborhood Racial Integration: VA Mortgage Lending Across Three Eras
The lost city of north‐west Queensland: A test of the model of giant Grikeland development in semi‐arid Karst
Jennings and Sweeting's (1963) model of landscape evolution in the Limestone Ranges of Western Australia has been proposed as a general scheme of semi‐arid karstification by Williams (1978) and Ford and Williams (1989). The model involves an initial plateau surface which undergoes progressive karstic dissection. The resultant landscape is characterised first by giant grikelands, then by box valleys and finally by karst towers. The depth of dissec…
Does Rising Income Bring Integration? New Results for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in 1990
Residential Segregation and Ethnic Enterprise in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of minority group entrepreneurship that incorporates individual, household, and metropolitan-level factors. Among the metropolitan factors we consider is residential segregation, which might be thought to enhance business opportunities by concentrating demand and creating protected market niches. Whereas some degree of geographic concentration may be beneficial for certain types of entrepreneurship, …
How segregation concentrates poverty
In this article, we argue that segregation interacts with a variety of structural transformations in society to determine the spatial concentration of poverty. Based on this argument, we then specify a statistical model overcoming methodological problems that have hampered earlier work. Estimates based on US data confirm that racial/ethnic segregation interacts with structural shifts in society to concentrate poverty. By 1990, a powerful interact…
The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CHAPTER ONE: The Puzzle of Minority Underachievement 1 CHAPTER TWO: Sample and Methodology 20 CHAPTER THREE: Family Origins 46 CHAPTER FOUR: Neighborhood Background 70 CHAPTER FIVE: Prior Educational Experiences 87 CHAPTER SIX: The Social World of High School 109 CHAPTER SEVEN: Racial Identity and Attitudes 133 CHAPTER EIGHT: Pathways to Preparation 155 CHAPTER NINE: Sink or Swim: The First Semest…
The Relative Importance of Income and Race in Determining Residential Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000
The author uses the unique properties of the entropy index to explore trends in segregation by race/ethnicity and income class for families from 1970 to 2000. Declines in segregation by race and increases in segregation by income class were found until the 1990s, when segregation by income declined. Segregation among certain subgroups was then examined; some groups remain more segregated, even as segregation in general has declined. In particular…
The Ecology of Racial Discrimination
In this article we build on prior studies that have used audit methods to document continued discrimination against African Americans in U.S. housing markets. Whereas prior work focused primarily on measuring racial disparities in housing access, here we seek to determine which personal, ecological, and agent factors raise or lower discrimination. Our data come from phone‐based audit studies of rental housing offered in the Philadelphia metropoli…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Conditions as Moderators of Family Resource Transmission: High School Completion among At-Risk Youth
We investigate how neighborhood socioeconomic conditions (SES), family resources during adolescence, and high school completion are related for a sample of at-risk youth. Borrowing from the 'neighborhood effects' and family literatures, we investigate whether the effects of family economic resources, connections to the community, school, and religious institutions and family structure on high school completion depend on levels of neighborhood SES…
Stereotype Threat and Academic Performance: New Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample of College Freshmen
The theory of stereotype threat was developed to account for persistent minority underachievement in American colleges and universities. It hypothesizes that members of minority groups underperform academically because of unconscious fears of living up to negative group stereotypes. While evidence pertaining to stereotype threat has been positive, it mostly comes from small experimental studies of selected undergraduate subjects at a few universi…
International Migration and Gender in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis
We review census data to assess the standing of five Latin American nations on a gender continuum ranging from patriarchal to matrifocal. We show that Mexico and Costa Rica lie close to one another with a highly patriarchal system of gender relations whereas Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are similar in having a matrifocal system. Puerto Rico occupies a middle position, blending characteristics of both systems. These differences yield diffe…
The effect of childhood segregation on minority academic performance at selective colleges
In this study we draw upon data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a representative survey of nearly 4,000 men and women entering college in the autumn of 1999, to consider the effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college. We show that black and Latino college students, even those enrolled in the nation's most selective academic institutions, display large differences in background …
The effects of affirmative action in higher education
Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation
This article explores the relationship between Black shifts to the suburbs and metropolitan segregation using the decompositional properties of the entropy index. This method reveals that much of the decline in metropolitan segregation of Blacks from others is because of declining central city segregation; suburban segregation has much lower average declines. Furthermore, a growing proportion of Black/other segregation is explained by residential…
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
A longitudinal examination of the role of stereotype threat and racial climate on college outcomes for minorities at elite institutions
Can Institutional Networks Mitigate Labor Market Disadvantages? Evidence from College Summer Job Searches
Objective. This study examines whether the use of institutional (school‐based) networks may help students from disadvantaged backgrounds secure summer employment opportunities that are on a par with those of their more advantaged classmates who may possess more resource‐rich personal and familial networks. Methods. The study draws on unique data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen to examine the strategies that a national representa…
Immigrant educational outcomes in new destinations: An exploration of high school attrition
Interracial contact and changes in the racial attitudes of white college students
Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality: Higher Education in America
Why they leave: The impact of stereotype threat on the attrition of women and minorities from science, math and engineering majors
Black and white homebuyer, homeowner, and household segregation in the United States, 1990-2010
Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvement at Elementary School
This article examines the relationship between parental networks and parental school involvement during the elementary school years. Using a large, nationally representative data set of elementary school students-the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort-and contextual data from the 2000 U.S. Census, our multilevel analysis shows that higher levels of parental networks in first grade are associated with higher levels of parental …
Military Veterans and Neighborhood Racial Integration: VA Mortgage Lending Across Three Eras
Spatial Inequality
Neighborhoods reflect social inequalities, but also serve as locations for perpetuating inequalities because of the multiplex ways in which resources and opportunities are tied to spatial locations. This entry explores the theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques used to understand the relationship between social inequality and location in residential space. It also discusses some of the latest research on the intergenerational tran…
New Faces, New Neighbors? How Latino Population Growth and Lending Expansion Shapes the Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Composition for White and Latino Homebuyers
Fueled by increased socioeconomic status (SES), geographic mobility, and access to lending, Latino home buying expanded during the recent housing boom. However, less is known about the types of neighborhoods Latino homebuyers accessed during this time. To address this gap, we explore how SES, mortgage type, and the metropolitan racial and ethnic context affected the racial and ethnic composition of neighborhoods for new white and Latino homeowner…
Sociology (21 works) · Demography (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (16 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Demography (9 works)