Stephen L Ross

Stephen L Ross, Professor, PhD, 1994, Syracuse University: Focus on understanding experiences of disadvantaged groups, especially African-Americans, in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. Research primarily studies peer effects and social interactions, neighborhood effects, residential and school segregation, housing and mortgage lending discrimination, urban labor markets, racial profiling and local government. Published in the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, American Economic Journals: Economic Policy and Applied Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. His book, the Color of Credit, was published with MIT Press in 2002. Funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Ford, MacArthur, WT Grant and FannieMae Foundations. Recent funded research includes: effects of foreclosure crisis on children’s educational outcomes, effects of school peers on immigrants, and impact of attending Connecticut’s State Technical High Schools. Appointed to the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, University of Chicago in 2011 and Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Regular invitee to NBER Education program meetings. Co-editor for Regional Science and Urban Economics and Education Finance and Policy, and serves on the editorial boards for five journals in urban economics.