David Rigby
Biographic Data
| ID | 248538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Rigby |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigby |
| SIGNATURE | RIGBY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-8735-2008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Residential Segregation and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Older-Age Black and White Americans
Our study tests residential segregation as an explanation for biological aging disparities between Black and White Americans. We analyze data from 288 Black and White older-age adults who participated in Wave 6 (2019) of the Americans' Changing Lives study, a nationally representative cohort of adults in the contiguous United States. Our outcome of interest is epigenetic age acceleration assessed via five epigenetic clocks: GrimAge, PhenoAge, Ski…
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Capital Punishment and the Legacies of Slavery and Lynching in the United States
Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of the murder of Whites are much more likely to receive the death penalty than those convicted for the murder of Blacks. Capital punishment is more commonly practiced in places where lynching of Blacks occurred more frequently and in states in which slavery was legal as of 1860. Accordingly, scholars have debated whether capital punishment reflects a legacy of lynching or a le…
National Crimes: A New National Data Set of Lynchings in the United States, 1883 to 1941
Historians are increasingly studying lynching outside of the American Southeast, but sociologists have been slow to follow. We introduce a new public data set that extends existing data on lynching victims to cover the contiguous United States from 1883 to 1941. These data confirm that lynching was a heterogeneous practice across the United States. We differentiate between three different regimes over this period: a Wild West regime, characterize…
The Principle of Relatedness
You have to (Br)enter to (Br)exit: The EU collaboration space
Co-inventor data gathered from EU patents are used to measure collaboration in knowledge production between all pairs of nuts2 regions in the EU15 between 1980 and 2005. Gower's similarity index is employed to visualize the inter-regional collaboration space. National borders exert a strong influence on inter-regional collaboration in the first period examined as regions within countries tend to cluster together. Over time, these national border …
The Geography of Complex Knowledge
There is consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is one of the key drivers of long-run economic growth. It is also clear from the literature that not all knowledge has the same value. However, too often in economic geography and cognate fields we have been obsessed with counting knowledge inputs and outputs rather than assessing the quality of knowledge produced. In this article we measure the complexity of knowledge, we map the…
Regional industrial evolution in China
US Wage Inequality and Low‐Wage Import Competition
This paper revisits the link between trade and wage inequality motivated by two changes in the structure of trade. First, trade today is shaped as much by the exchange of components as finished goods. Second, low‐wage country imports into advanced economies like the US have risen dramatically since the early 1990s. We pay special attention to the timing of trade impacts. Consistent with prior work, technological change is confirmed as the key dri…
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis Using Matched Employer–Employee Data
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
Competition, Variety and the Geography of Technology Evolution
Change in evolutionary economics proceeds through the creative destruction of variety in firm characteristics. Firm routines, relational assets and the institutional environments in which firms operate shape the creation and destruction of variety. Despite the centrality of the concept of variety in evolutionary economics, analysis of the extent and the persistence of firm heterogeneity is rare. Notwithstanding the theoretical pronouncements of e…
The Geography of Complex Knowledge
There is consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is one of the key drivers of long-run economic growth. It is also clear from the literature that not all knowledge has the same value. However, too often in economic geography and cognate fields we have been obsessed with counting knowledge inputs and outputs rather than assessing the quality of knowledge produced. In this article we measure the complexity of knowledge, we map the…
National Crimes: A New National Data Set of Lynchings in the United States, 1883 to 1941
Historians are increasingly studying lynching outside of the American Southeast, but sociologists have been slow to follow. We introduce a new public data set that extends existing data on lynching victims to cover the contiguous United States from 1883 to 1941. These data confirm that lynching was a heterogeneous practice across the United States. We differentiate between three different regimes over this period: a Wild West regime, characterize…
Regional industrial evolution in China
Competition, Variety and the Geography of Technology Evolution
Change in evolutionary economics proceeds through the creative destruction of variety in firm characteristics. Firm routines, relational assets and the institutional environments in which firms operate shape the creation and destruction of variety. Despite the centrality of the concept of variety in evolutionary economics, analysis of the extent and the persistence of firm heterogeneity is rare. Notwithstanding the theoretical pronouncements of e…
Capital Punishment and the Legacies of Slavery and Lynching in the United States
Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of the murder of Whites are much more likely to receive the death penalty than those convicted for the murder of Blacks. Capital punishment is more commonly practiced in places where lynching of Blacks occurred more frequently and in states in which slavery was legal as of 1860. Accordingly, scholars have debated whether capital punishment reflects a legacy of lynching or a le…
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis Using Matched Employer–Employee Data
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
Competition, Variety and the Geography of Technology Evolution
Change in evolutionary economics proceeds through the creative destruction of variety in firm characteristics. Firm routines, relational assets and the institutional environments in which firms operate shape the creation and destruction of variety. Despite the centrality of the concept of variety in evolutionary economics, analysis of the extent and the persistence of firm heterogeneity is rare. Notwithstanding the theoretical pronouncements of e…
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis Using Matched Employer–Employee Data
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
US Wage Inequality and Low‐Wage Import Competition
This paper revisits the link between trade and wage inequality motivated by two changes in the structure of trade. First, trade today is shaped as much by the exchange of components as finished goods. Second, low‐wage country imports into advanced economies like the US have risen dramatically since the early 1990s. We pay special attention to the timing of trade impacts. Consistent with prior work, technological change is confirmed as the key dri…
Regional industrial evolution in China
The Geography of Complex Knowledge
There is consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is one of the key drivers of long-run economic growth. It is also clear from the literature that not all knowledge has the same value. However, too often in economic geography and cognate fields we have been obsessed with counting knowledge inputs and outputs rather than assessing the quality of knowledge produced. In this article we measure the complexity of knowledge, we map the…
The Principle of Relatedness
You have to (Br)enter to (Br)exit: The EU collaboration space
Co-inventor data gathered from EU patents are used to measure collaboration in knowledge production between all pairs of nuts2 regions in the EU15 between 1980 and 2005. Gower's similarity index is employed to visualize the inter-regional collaboration space. National borders exert a strong influence on inter-regional collaboration in the first period examined as regions within countries tend to cluster together. Over time, these national border …
National Crimes: A New National Data Set of Lynchings in the United States, 1883 to 1941
Historians are increasingly studying lynching outside of the American Southeast, but sociologists have been slow to follow. We introduce a new public data set that extends existing data on lynching victims to cover the contiguous United States from 1883 to 1941. These data confirm that lynching was a heterogeneous practice across the United States. We differentiate between three different regimes over this period: a Wild West regime, characterize…
Capital Punishment and the Legacies of Slavery and Lynching in the United States
Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of the murder of Whites are much more likely to receive the death penalty than those convicted for the murder of Blacks. Capital punishment is more commonly practiced in places where lynching of Blacks occurred more frequently and in states in which slavery was legal as of 1860. Accordingly, scholars have debated whether capital punishment reflects a legacy of lynching or a le…
Residential Segregation and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Older-Age Black and White Americans
Our study tests residential segregation as an explanation for biological aging disparities between Black and White Americans. We analyze data from 288 Black and White older-age adults who participated in Wave 6 (2019) of the Americans' Changing Lives study, a nationally representative cohort of adults in the contiguous United States. Our outcome of interest is epigenetic age acceleration assessed via five epigenetic clocks: GrimAge, PhenoAge, Ski…
Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (3 works) · Regional science (3 works)