B L Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 38358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B L Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | B L |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5784-2204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond the residential neighborhood
An emerging framework has expanded the neighborhood effects perspective by recognizing that exposure to, and the impact of, neighborhood conditions extend beyond the residential environment. This framework conceptualizes neighborhoods as embedded within a citywide network, with ties based on the durable, aggregated, and socially meaningful connections linking residents across a city. Measuring neighborhood conditions solely within residential are…
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and child health
Exploring the influence of behavioral factors on depression and anxiety scores during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study demonstrates the longitudinal changes in behaviors within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings may facilitate the design of preventative population-based health approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic or future pandemics
Does Cumulative Exposure to High-Poverty Schools Widen Test-Score Inequality
Although there is an abundance of research on the association of school poverty (or socioeconomic status) and test score level, there is very little rigorous longitudinal evidence on the cumulative effects of exposure to differing school contexts. Drawing from methods used first in epidemiology and then in neighborhood effects research, we use population-level longitudinal data from North Carolina to estimate a structural nested mean model that p…
LGBTQ+ people’s religious and spiritual experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic
Personal religion and spirituality can be sources of strength during a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from a larger study of LGBTQ+ wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article reports on the faith and spirituality of LGBTQ+ adults in the United States. Nearly 700 diverse LGBTQ+ individuals were recruited via Qualtrics Panel. Analysis showed that those who prayed more and who were religious or spiritual prior to the pandemic w…
Wealth, Race, and Place
Do neighborhood conditions affect wealth accumulation? This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort and a counterfactual estimation strategy to analyze the effect of prolonged exposure to neighborhood (dis)advantage from emerging adulthood through middle adulthood. Neighborhoods have sizable, plausibly causal effects on wealth, but these effects vary significantly by race/ethnicity and homeownership. White homeowners rece…
The Social Integration of American Cities
The social integration of a city depends on the extent to which people from different neighborhoods have the opportunity to interact with one another, but most prior work has not developed formal ways of conceptualizing and measuring this kind of connectedness. In this article, we develop original, network-based measures of what we call 'structural connectedness' based on the everyday travel of people across neighborhoods. Our principal index cap…
Triple Disadvantage
This article develops and assesses the concept of triple neighborhood disadvantage. We argue that a neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but also on the conditions of neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by, connections that form through networks of everyday urban mobility. We construct measures of mobility-based disadvantage using geocoded patterns of movement estimated from hundreds of mill…
The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation
This study estimates the effect of neighborhood disadvantage on bachelor's degree attainment with data from a long-term follow-up of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. We focus on heterogeneous effects by race and class as well as individual and neighborhood mechanisms that might explain observed patterns, including parents' educational expectations, collective efficacy, social relationships, and neighborhood violence. Usi…
Heterogeneous Impacts of Concentrated Poverty During Adolescence on College Outcomes
This research analyzes how living in concentrated poverty during adolescence affects future college outcomes. Using Add Health data and propensity score methods to explore effect heterogeneity, I find that concentrated poverty has little direct impact on college matriculation. It does, however, strongly reduce the odds of graduating from college for adolescents least likely to reside in concentrated poverty. This indicates an advantage-leveling m…
Why Did People Move During the Great Recession? The Role of Economics in Migration Decisions
Labor migration offers an important mechanism to reallocate workers when there are regional differences in employment conditions. Whereas conventional wisdom suggests migration rates should increase during recessions as workers move out of areas that are hit hardest, initial evidence suggested that overall migration rates declined during the Great Recession, despite large regional differences in unemployment and growth rates. In this paper, we us…
When love meets hate
Bayou Blues
This study assesses the effects of Hurricane Katrina by applying the environmental racism-classism and residential segregation literatures. Disasters offer a new perspective for these literatures in that they provide insight into how individuals are concentrated into areas with pre-existing risk. Nearly all environmental racism-classism and residential segregation research investigates how environmental problems occur in areas already inhabited b…
Triple Disadvantage
This article develops and assesses the concept of triple neighborhood disadvantage. We argue that a neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but also on the conditions of neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by, connections that form through networks of everyday urban mobility. We construct measures of mobility-based disadvantage using geocoded patterns of movement estimated from hundreds of mill…
The Social Integration of American Cities
The social integration of a city depends on the extent to which people from different neighborhoods have the opportunity to interact with one another, but most prior work has not developed formal ways of conceptualizing and measuring this kind of connectedness. In this article, we develop original, network-based measures of what we call 'structural connectedness' based on the everyday travel of people across neighborhoods. Our principal index cap…
The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation
This study estimates the effect of neighborhood disadvantage on bachelor's degree attainment with data from a long-term follow-up of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. We focus on heterogeneous effects by race and class as well as individual and neighborhood mechanisms that might explain observed patterns, including parents' educational expectations, collective efficacy, social relationships, and neighborhood violence. Usi…
When love meets hate
Does Cumulative Exposure to High-Poverty Schools Widen Test-Score Inequality
Although there is an abundance of research on the association of school poverty (or socioeconomic status) and test score level, there is very little rigorous longitudinal evidence on the cumulative effects of exposure to differing school contexts. Drawing from methods used first in epidemiology and then in neighborhood effects research, we use population-level longitudinal data from North Carolina to estimate a structural nested mean model that p…
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and child health
Wealth, Race, and Place
Do neighborhood conditions affect wealth accumulation? This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort and a counterfactual estimation strategy to analyze the effect of prolonged exposure to neighborhood (dis)advantage from emerging adulthood through middle adulthood. Neighborhoods have sizable, plausibly causal effects on wealth, but these effects vary significantly by race/ethnicity and homeownership. White homeowners rece…
Bayou Blues
This study assesses the effects of Hurricane Katrina by applying the environmental racism-classism and residential segregation literatures. Disasters offer a new perspective for these literatures in that they provide insight into how individuals are concentrated into areas with pre-existing risk. Nearly all environmental racism-classism and residential segregation research investigates how environmental problems occur in areas already inhabited b…
Why Did People Move During the Great Recession? The Role of Economics in Migration Decisions
Labor migration offers an important mechanism to reallocate workers when there are regional differences in employment conditions. Whereas conventional wisdom suggests migration rates should increase during recessions as workers move out of areas that are hit hardest, initial evidence suggested that overall migration rates declined during the Great Recession, despite large regional differences in unemployment and growth rates. In this paper, we us…
Bayou Blues
This study assesses the effects of Hurricane Katrina by applying the environmental racism-classism and residential segregation literatures. Disasters offer a new perspective for these literatures in that they provide insight into how individuals are concentrated into areas with pre-existing risk. Nearly all environmental racism-classism and residential segregation research investigates how environmental problems occur in areas already inhabited b…
Why Did People Move During the Great Recession? The Role of Economics in Migration Decisions
Labor migration offers an important mechanism to reallocate workers when there are regional differences in employment conditions. Whereas conventional wisdom suggests migration rates should increase during recessions as workers move out of areas that are hit hardest, initial evidence suggested that overall migration rates declined during the Great Recession, despite large regional differences in unemployment and growth rates. In this paper, we us…
When love meets hate
Heterogeneous Impacts of Concentrated Poverty During Adolescence on College Outcomes
This research analyzes how living in concentrated poverty during adolescence affects future college outcomes. Using Add Health data and propensity score methods to explore effect heterogeneity, I find that concentrated poverty has little direct impact on college matriculation. It does, however, strongly reduce the odds of graduating from college for adolescents least likely to reside in concentrated poverty. This indicates an advantage-leveling m…
The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation
This study estimates the effect of neighborhood disadvantage on bachelor's degree attainment with data from a long-term follow-up of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. We focus on heterogeneous effects by race and class as well as individual and neighborhood mechanisms that might explain observed patterns, including parents' educational expectations, collective efficacy, social relationships, and neighborhood violence. Usi…
Triple Disadvantage
This article develops and assesses the concept of triple neighborhood disadvantage. We argue that a neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but also on the conditions of neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by, connections that form through networks of everyday urban mobility. We construct measures of mobility-based disadvantage using geocoded patterns of movement estimated from hundreds of mill…
The Social Integration of American Cities
The social integration of a city depends on the extent to which people from different neighborhoods have the opportunity to interact with one another, but most prior work has not developed formal ways of conceptualizing and measuring this kind of connectedness. In this article, we develop original, network-based measures of what we call 'structural connectedness' based on the everyday travel of people across neighborhoods. Our principal index cap…
LGBTQ+ people’s religious and spiritual experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic
Personal religion and spirituality can be sources of strength during a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from a larger study of LGBTQ+ wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article reports on the faith and spirituality of LGBTQ+ adults in the United States. Nearly 700 diverse LGBTQ+ individuals were recruited via Qualtrics Panel. Analysis showed that those who prayed more and who were religious or spiritual prior to the pandemic w…
Wealth, Race, and Place
Do neighborhood conditions affect wealth accumulation? This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort and a counterfactual estimation strategy to analyze the effect of prolonged exposure to neighborhood (dis)advantage from emerging adulthood through middle adulthood. Neighborhoods have sizable, plausibly causal effects on wealth, but these effects vary significantly by race/ethnicity and homeownership. White homeowners rece…
Exploring the influence of behavioral factors on depression and anxiety scores during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study demonstrates the longitudinal changes in behaviors within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings may facilitate the design of preventative population-based health approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic or future pandemics
Does Cumulative Exposure to High-Poverty Schools Widen Test-Score Inequality
Although there is an abundance of research on the association of school poverty (or socioeconomic status) and test score level, there is very little rigorous longitudinal evidence on the cumulative effects of exposure to differing school contexts. Drawing from methods used first in epidemiology and then in neighborhood effects research, we use population-level longitudinal data from North Carolina to estimate a structural nested mean model that p…
Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and child health
Beyond the residential neighborhood
An emerging framework has expanded the neighborhood effects perspective by recognizing that exposure to, and the impact of, neighborhood conditions extend beyond the residential environment. This framework conceptualizes neighborhoods as embedded within a citywide network, with ties based on the durable, aggregated, and socially meaningful connections linking residents across a city. Measuring neighborhood conditions solely within residential are…
Sociology (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works)