Megan Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1671-2665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The spatial logic of racial devaluation in the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
While scholars highlight the racial legacy of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) residential security maps, less is known about how race shaped HOLC appraisers’ perceptions of the neighborhoods they assessed. Drawing on racialized organizations theory, this study examines how racial schemas within the housing industry became institutionalized in appraisal practices. Using the case of Chicago and a mixed-method approach, it interrogates the …
Are aging parents and adult children living farther apart? Decomposing trends in intergenerational proximity and coresidence among Finnish parents aged 60–69 (2003–2023)
Closer distance between parents and their children facilitates intergenerational contact and exchanges of support in later life. There are mixed narratives and evidence regarding the divergence—or convergence—of intergenerational proximity in aging societies. In this study, we examine trends and structural drivers of intergenerational distance and coresidence in a rapidly aging high-income society. We analyze register data from Finland, a country…
Arrests and the Opioid Epidemic
Community-Based Intensive Treatment (CBIT)
Health Decline and Residential Transitions Among Older Adults in Europe
Residential mobility is a possible strategy to cope with health challenges in later life. However, little research has examined whether and how health decline triggers residential mobility and whether this relationship differs between parents and childless individuals. Using data on parents and non‐parents aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we perform multinomial logistic regression to examine how recent …
Race, Crime, and Lending Risk in Chicago
While scholars have documented the importance of race for decisions on lending risk and value in the U.S. housing market, less is known about how crime shaped lending risk assessments or how a neighborhood's racial composition influenced appraisers' perceptions of crime and disorder. Drawing on the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) residential security maps, this study examines appraisers' narratives around neighborhood crime and disorder, how…
Navigating the obstacles of carbon-negative technologies
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Peer Support Services Reaching People with Schizophrenia
This book provides a comprehensive view of peer support reaching people with schizophrenia. Interviews with experts in the field are presented.
Residential Immobility and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Quality
The research on residential mobility and residential displacement offers insight into racial and ethnic disparities in housing quality; however, scholars would benefit from contextualizing mobility and displacement within the overall housing picture. We expand the residential attainment framework by examining whether there are racial and ethnic differences in who makes residential moves and whether a higher immobility among Black and Hispanic hou…
Impacts of shrimp aquaculture on the local communities and conservation of the world’s largest protected mangrove forest
Mangrove forests are highly productive, biodiverse, and carbon-dense ecosystems that support the wellbeing of millions of people. Policies that seek to protect mangroves must, therefore, aim to ensure the socio-economic wellbeing of local communities. A clear example of this challenge is found in the Bangladesh Sundarbans—the world’s largest protected mangrove. The Sundarbans faces several anthropogenic challenges, including overharvesting of non…
Backloading to extinction
Policy‐makers are frequently required to consider and manage conflicting public values. An example of this in the environmental domain is biodiversity offset policy, which governments worldwide have adopted as a mechanism to balance environmental protection with socio‐economic development. However, little work has examined administrative practices underpinning biodiversity offset policy implementation, and how the adoption of coping strategies to…
Peer Support Services Reaching People with Schizophrenia
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods' embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics' O…
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human development are compensated by producing equitable gains elsewhere. The overarching goal of offsetting is to deliver no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. Assessing whether offsetting does indeed deliver NNL is, however, challenging because of a lack of clear and reliable i…
Community perceptions of carbon farming
International efforts to combat climate change are reflected in diverse national and subnational policies, the effects of which can stimulate fundamental changes in land use at the regional scale. Since 2012, the Australian Government has provided incentives for landholders to implement “carbon farming” through methods that either sequester or avoid the release of carbon emissions in vegetation and soils. While the factors leading to individual l…
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have been increasing at record levels and exhibit unequal spatial patterning across urban populations and neighborhoods. Research on the effects of residential and nearby neighborhoods on STI proliferation has largely ignored the role of socially connected contexts, even though neighborhoods are routinely linked by individuals' movements across space for work and other social activities.…
The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage
It remains unclear how far back the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage operates because most inquiries are limited to two or three generations. In this study, the authors use four generations of family data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the association of great-grandparents’ educational attainment with their great-grandchildren’s early academic achievement, net of intervening generations’ educational atta…
Predicting Mobility
We use the 2013 American Housing Survey to examine which households are more likely to experience a forced move compared to a voluntary move. We examine how household vulnerability varies by racial and socioeconomic stratification, as well as other household demographics among homeowners and renters. We analyze household-level predictors of experiencing an inclusively defined forced move, including moves caused by disasters, private and governmen…
Social Isolation and Mental Health
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy
Neighborhood effects research continues to advance sociological understanding of inequality. Here, we consider a complementary but lower profile body of work. Since 2000, scholars have shown increasing interest in neighborhood reputations, socially constructed place identities that reflect the relative position of neighborhoods in the urban status hierarchy. These reputations, which emerge from multiple sources, are correlated most consistently w…
The unequal housing and neighborhood outcomes of displaced movers
Involuntary housing displacement is a stress-inducing life event that can cause and exacerbate both psychological and material hardship. Forced moves may invoke a disattainment process, whereby displaced movers move into lower quality housing and neighborhoods, placing them in a precarious housing position. Employing propensity score analyses, this study uses data from the recent mover module of the American Housing Survey to match recent movers …
Forced to move
What Can Sociogenomics Learn from Social By Nature ? A review of social by nature, by Catherine Bliss
Social by Nature , the recent book by Catherine Bliss on the development and state of the field of sociogenomics, is far from perfect. Yet, this flawed book levies a mixture of erroneous and compelling questions about the state of the field of sociogenomics, many of which we as a field would benefit from considering: How should we bring the environment back in the post-GWAS era? How do the publication and funding incentives of our field influence…
The many meanings of no net loss in environmental policy
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy
Neighborhood effects research continues to advance sociological understanding of inequality. Here, we consider a complementary but lower profile body of work. Since 2000, scholars have shown increasing interest in neighborhood reputations, socially constructed place identities that reflect the relative position of neighborhoods in the urban status hierarchy. These reputations, which emerge from multiple sources, are correlated most consistently w…
Social Isolation and Mental Health
Forced to move
Predicting Mobility
We use the 2013 American Housing Survey to examine which households are more likely to experience a forced move compared to a voluntary move. We examine how household vulnerability varies by racial and socioeconomic stratification, as well as other household demographics among homeowners and renters. We analyze household-level predictors of experiencing an inclusively defined forced move, including moves caused by disasters, private and governmen…
The unequal housing and neighborhood outcomes of displaced movers
Involuntary housing displacement is a stress-inducing life event that can cause and exacerbate both psychological and material hardship. Forced moves may invoke a disattainment process, whereby displaced movers move into lower quality housing and neighborhoods, placing them in a precarious housing position. Employing propensity score analyses, this study uses data from the recent mover module of the American Housing Survey to match recent movers …
Backloading to extinction
Policy‐makers are frequently required to consider and manage conflicting public values. An example of this in the environmental domain is biodiversity offset policy, which governments worldwide have adopted as a mechanism to balance environmental protection with socio‐economic development. However, little work has examined administrative practices underpinning biodiversity offset policy implementation, and how the adoption of coping strategies to…
Community perceptions of carbon farming
International efforts to combat climate change are reflected in diverse national and subnational policies, the effects of which can stimulate fundamental changes in land use at the regional scale. Since 2012, the Australian Government has provided incentives for landholders to implement “carbon farming” through methods that either sequester or avoid the release of carbon emissions in vegetation and soils. While the factors leading to individual l…
Carbon farming via assisted natural regeneration as a cost-effective mechanism for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have been increasing at record levels and exhibit unequal spatial patterning across urban populations and neighborhoods. Research on the effects of residential and nearby neighborhoods on STI proliferation has largely ignored the role of socially connected contexts, even though neighborhoods are routinely linked by individuals' movements across space for work and other social activities.…
Effective incentives for reforestation
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Army Women's Reasons for Condom Use and Nonuse
Brand China” on the World Stage
Leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, multinational corporations such as McDonald's exploited jingju (Beijing opera) as an internationally legible marker of “Chinese-ness.” Though jingju received muddled exposure in the Olympics opening ceremony, post-Olympic deployments prove it persists as a central component of an emerging “Brand China” that emphasizes the synthesis of traditional and 21st-century elements
A Stubborn, Intractable Body’
Despite a recognition that Welsh poor law authorities were less than welcoming to many of the strictures of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, historians have tended to downplay the importance of their resistance in the context of the wider anti-poor law ‘movement’ across England and Wales. Instead, a general consensus has arisen that Welsh boards of guardians tended to resist the New Poor Law on the grounds of financial expediency or provincial…
Carbon farming via assisted natural regeneration as a cost-effective mechanism for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
What Can Sociogenomics Learn from Social By Nature ? A review of social by nature, by Catherine Bliss
Social by Nature , the recent book by Catherine Bliss on the development and state of the field of sociogenomics, is far from perfect. Yet, this flawed book levies a mixture of erroneous and compelling questions about the state of the field of sociogenomics, many of which we as a field would benefit from considering: How should we bring the environment back in the post-GWAS era? How do the publication and funding incentives of our field influence…
The many meanings of no net loss in environmental policy
Effective incentives for reforestation
Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy
Neighborhood effects research continues to advance sociological understanding of inequality. Here, we consider a complementary but lower profile body of work. Since 2000, scholars have shown increasing interest in neighborhood reputations, socially constructed place identities that reflect the relative position of neighborhoods in the urban status hierarchy. These reputations, which emerge from multiple sources, are correlated most consistently w…
The unequal housing and neighborhood outcomes of displaced movers
Involuntary housing displacement is a stress-inducing life event that can cause and exacerbate both psychological and material hardship. Forced moves may invoke a disattainment process, whereby displaced movers move into lower quality housing and neighborhoods, placing them in a precarious housing position. Employing propensity score analyses, this study uses data from the recent mover module of the American Housing Survey to match recent movers …
Forced to move
The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage
It remains unclear how far back the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage operates because most inquiries are limited to two or three generations. In this study, the authors use four generations of family data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the association of great-grandparents’ educational attainment with their great-grandchildren’s early academic achievement, net of intervening generations’ educational atta…
Predicting Mobility
We use the 2013 American Housing Survey to examine which households are more likely to experience a forced move compared to a voluntary move. We examine how household vulnerability varies by racial and socioeconomic stratification, as well as other household demographics among homeowners and renters. We analyze household-level predictors of experiencing an inclusively defined forced move, including moves caused by disasters, private and governmen…
Social Isolation and Mental Health
A step change needed to secure a nature-positive future—Is it in reach
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human development are compensated by producing equitable gains elsewhere. The overarching goal of offsetting is to deliver no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. Assessing whether offsetting does indeed deliver NNL is, however, challenging because of a lack of clear and reliable i…
Community perceptions of carbon farming
International efforts to combat climate change are reflected in diverse national and subnational policies, the effects of which can stimulate fundamental changes in land use at the regional scale. Since 2012, the Australian Government has provided incentives for landholders to implement “carbon farming” through methods that either sequester or avoid the release of carbon emissions in vegetation and soils. While the factors leading to individual l…
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States have been increasing at record levels and exhibit unequal spatial patterning across urban populations and neighborhoods. Research on the effects of residential and nearby neighborhoods on STI proliferation has largely ignored the role of socially connected contexts, even though neighborhoods are routinely linked by individuals' movements across space for work and other social activities.…
Peer Support Services Reaching People with Schizophrenia
This book provides a comprehensive view of peer support reaching people with schizophrenia. Interviews with experts in the field are presented.
Residential Immobility and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Quality
The research on residential mobility and residential displacement offers insight into racial and ethnic disparities in housing quality; however, scholars would benefit from contextualizing mobility and displacement within the overall housing picture. We expand the residential attainment framework by examining whether there are racial and ethnic differences in who makes residential moves and whether a higher immobility among Black and Hispanic hou…
Impacts of shrimp aquaculture on the local communities and conservation of the world’s largest protected mangrove forest
Mangrove forests are highly productive, biodiverse, and carbon-dense ecosystems that support the wellbeing of millions of people. Policies that seek to protect mangroves must, therefore, aim to ensure the socio-economic wellbeing of local communities. A clear example of this challenge is found in the Bangladesh Sundarbans—the world’s largest protected mangrove. The Sundarbans faces several anthropogenic challenges, including overharvesting of non…
Backloading to extinction
Policy‐makers are frequently required to consider and manage conflicting public values. An example of this in the environmental domain is biodiversity offset policy, which governments worldwide have adopted as a mechanism to balance environmental protection with socio‐economic development. However, little work has examined administrative practices underpinning biodiversity offset policy implementation, and how the adoption of coping strategies to…
Peer Support Services Reaching People with Schizophrenia
The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods' embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics' O…
Navigating the obstacles of carbon-negative technologies
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Economics (20 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Natural resource economics (7 works)