Jonathan Rothwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3093395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Rothwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothwell |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHWELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9251-0029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When can individual partisanship be tempered? Mass behavior and attitudes across the Covid-19 pandemic
How do partisan differences in mass behavior and attitudes vary across contexts? Using new individual-level panel data on the COVID-19 pandemic from 54,216 US adults between March 2020 and September 2021, we consider how partisan differences vary according to the personal costs and benefits of behaviors, their public symbolism, and elite-level policy choices. Employing various panel data estimators, including difference-in-differences, we evaluat…
Global evidence on the economic effects of disease suppression during Covid-19
Governments around the world attempted to suppress the spread of COVID-19 using restrictions on social and economic activity. This study presents the first global analysis of job and income losses associated with those restrictions, using Gallup World Poll data from 321,000 randomly selected adults in 117 countries from July 2020 to March 2021. Nearly half of the world’s adult population lost income because of COVID-19, according to our estimates…
Information, partisanship, and preferences in a pandemic
We investigate the role of information exposure in shaping attitudes and behaviors related to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and whether baseline political affiliation and news diet mediate effects. In December 2020, we randomly assigned 5,009 U.S. adults to nine brief text-based segments related to the dynamics of the pandemic and the safety of various behaviors, estimating the effects on 15 binary outcomes related to COVID-19 policy prefere…
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from Covid-19: Evidence from the United States
We provide an empirical summary of the relationship between socioeconomic status and the economic and disease burden of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic in the United States. We rely on large-scale public data, including a zip code database we constructed from public records, to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of economic harm, COVID-19 infection, or COVID-19-related death. We find that low levels of education and inc…
A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Geographic Effects on Intergenerational Income Mobility
Research on intergenerational economic mobility often ignores the geographic context of childhood, including neighborhood quality and local purchasing power. We hypothesize that individual variation in intergenerational mobility is partly attributable to regional and neighborhood conditions-most notably access to high-quality schools. Using restricted Panel Study of Income Dynamics and census data, we find that neighborhood income has roughly hal…
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Trust and Volunteering in US Cities
A large body of recent research claims that racial diversity hinders the general trust of others, but these studies rarely consider how racial segregation mediates diversity. This article re-examines the issue by considering how the residential isolation of minorities alters general trust and one manifestation of trust: volunteering in cities. Using data from the US, the results from a regression analysis suggest that metropolitan-level racial se…
Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Objectives. Socioeconomic segregation rose substantially in U.S. cities during the final decades of the 20th century, and we argue that zoning regulations are an important cause of this increase. Methods. We measure neighborhood economic segregation using the Gini coefficient for neighborhood income inequality and the poor‐affluent exposure index. These outcomes are regressed on an index of density zoning developed from the work of Pendall for 50…
The Changing Bases of Segregation in the United States
The nature and organization of segregation shifted profoundly in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. During the first two-thirds of the century, segregation was defined by the spatial separation of whites and blacks. What changed over time was the level at which this racial separation occurred, as macro-level segregation between states and counties gave way steadily to micro-level segregation between cities and neighborhoo…
The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
The authors argue that anti-density zoning increases Black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in White jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and local regulatory indicators compiled by Pendall, the authors estimate a series of regression models to measure the effect of maximum density zoning on Black segregation. Results estimated using ordinary least squares indicate a strong and sig…
The Changing Bases of Segregation in the United States
The nature and organization of segregation shifted profoundly in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. During the first two-thirds of the century, segregation was defined by the spatial separation of whites and blacks. What changed over time was the level at which this racial separation occurred, as macro-level segregation between states and counties gave way steadily to micro-level segregation between cities and neighborhoo…
The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
The authors argue that anti-density zoning increases Black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in White jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and local regulatory indicators compiled by Pendall, the authors estimate a series of regression models to measure the effect of maximum density zoning on Black segregation. Results estimated using ordinary least squares indicate a strong and sig…
Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Objectives. Socioeconomic segregation rose substantially in U.S. cities during the final decades of the 20th century, and we argue that zoning regulations are an important cause of this increase. Methods. We measure neighborhood economic segregation using the Gini coefficient for neighborhood income inequality and the poor‐affluent exposure index. These outcomes are regressed on an index of density zoning developed from the work of Pendall for 50…
Geographic Effects on Intergenerational Income Mobility
Research on intergenerational economic mobility often ignores the geographic context of childhood, including neighborhood quality and local purchasing power. We hypothesize that individual variation in intergenerational mobility is partly attributable to regional and neighborhood conditions-most notably access to high-quality schools. Using restricted Panel Study of Income Dynamics and census data, we find that neighborhood income has roughly hal…
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Trust and Volunteering in US Cities
A large body of recent research claims that racial diversity hinders the general trust of others, but these studies rarely consider how racial segregation mediates diversity. This article re-examines the issue by considering how the residential isolation of minorities alters general trust and one manifestation of trust: volunteering in cities. Using data from the US, the results from a regression analysis suggest that metropolitan-level racial se…
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from Covid-19: Evidence from the United States
We provide an empirical summary of the relationship between socioeconomic status and the economic and disease burden of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic in the United States. We rely on large-scale public data, including a zip code database we constructed from public records, to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of economic harm, COVID-19 infection, or COVID-19-related death. We find that low levels of education and inc…
The Changing Bases of Segregation in the United States
The nature and organization of segregation shifted profoundly in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. During the first two-thirds of the century, segregation was defined by the spatial separation of whites and blacks. What changed over time was the level at which this racial separation occurred, as macro-level segregation between states and counties gave way steadily to micro-level segregation between cities and neighborhoo…
The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
The authors argue that anti-density zoning increases Black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the quantity of affordable housing in White jurisdictions. Drawing on census data and local regulatory indicators compiled by Pendall, the authors estimate a series of regression models to measure the effect of maximum density zoning on Black segregation. Results estimated using ordinary least squares indicate a strong and sig…
Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Objectives. Socioeconomic segregation rose substantially in U.S. cities during the final decades of the 20th century, and we argue that zoning regulations are an important cause of this increase. Methods. We measure neighborhood economic segregation using the Gini coefficient for neighborhood income inequality and the poor‐affluent exposure index. These outcomes are regressed on an index of density zoning developed from the work of Pendall for 50…
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Trust and Volunteering in US Cities
A large body of recent research claims that racial diversity hinders the general trust of others, but these studies rarely consider how racial segregation mediates diversity. This article re-examines the issue by considering how the residential isolation of minorities alters general trust and one manifestation of trust: volunteering in cities. Using data from the US, the results from a regression analysis suggest that metropolitan-level racial se…
Geographic Effects on Intergenerational Income Mobility
Research on intergenerational economic mobility often ignores the geographic context of childhood, including neighborhood quality and local purchasing power. We hypothesize that individual variation in intergenerational mobility is partly attributable to regional and neighborhood conditions-most notably access to high-quality schools. Using restricted Panel Study of Income Dynamics and census data, we find that neighborhood income has roughly hal…
A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Socioeconomic Status as a Risk Factor in Economic and Physical Harm from Covid-19: Evidence from the United States
We provide an empirical summary of the relationship between socioeconomic status and the economic and disease burden of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic in the United States. We rely on large-scale public data, including a zip code database we constructed from public records, to investigate the relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of economic harm, COVID-19 infection, or COVID-19-related death. We find that low levels of education and inc…
Information, partisanship, and preferences in a pandemic
We investigate the role of information exposure in shaping attitudes and behaviors related to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and whether baseline political affiliation and news diet mediate effects. In December 2020, we randomly assigned 5,009 U.S. adults to nine brief text-based segments related to the dynamics of the pandemic and the safety of various behaviors, estimating the effects on 15 binary outcomes related to COVID-19 policy prefere…
Global evidence on the economic effects of disease suppression during Covid-19
Governments around the world attempted to suppress the spread of COVID-19 using restrictions on social and economic activity. This study presents the first global analysis of job and income losses associated with those restrictions, using Gallup World Poll data from 321,000 randomly selected adults in 117 countries from July 2020 to March 2021. Nearly half of the world’s adult population lost income because of COVID-19, according to our estimates…
When can individual partisanship be tempered? Mass behavior and attitudes across the Covid-19 pandemic
How do partisan differences in mass behavior and attitudes vary across contexts? Using new individual-level panel data on the COVID-19 pandemic from 54,216 US adults between March 2020 and September 2021, we consider how partisan differences vary according to the personal costs and benefits of behaviors, their public symbolism, and elite-level policy choices. Employing various panel data estimators, including difference-in-differences, we evaluat…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)