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Articles by Karl Vachuska
High School Employment and Intergenerational Mobility in Education: A Causal Decomposition Approach in a Period of Widespread Teenage Work
A substantial body of sociological research highlights the increasing significance of educational attainment in shaping life opportunities in the United States. Since the 1970s, income inequality has been on the rise, with the most pronounced disparities appearing in the returns to education (Autor 2014; Song, Lachanski, and Coleman 2021). Today, the United States stands out globally for offering some of the highest returns to cognitive skills (Hanushek et al. 2015).
Racial Composition, Residential Mobility, and the Spread of Urban Violence
ABSTRACT Scholars have long debated about the roots of the relationship between race and crime. In regard to neighborhoods, research has posited both that racial transition drives changing crime rates as well as that changing crime rates drive racial transition.
The Significance of Name-Based Racial Composition in Analyzing Neighborhood Disparities
Neighborhood inequality contributes to inequality in life chances in the United States (Sharkey and Faber 2014). Spatial inequality stems from decades of racial and economic segregation and even longer periods of racial disenfranchisement (Massey and Denton 1993). Black Americans, in particular, are more likely to live in the most impoverished neighborhoods (Sharkey 2008).
Increased homicide played a key role in driving Black-White disparities in life expectancy among men during the COVID-19 pandemic
Citation: Light MT, Vachuska K (2024) Increased homicide played a key role in driving Black-White disparities in life expectancy among men during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 19(8): e0308105. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308105 Editor: Claudio Alberto Dávila-Cervantes, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Mexico, MEXICO Received: December 19, 2023; Accepted: July 12, 2024; Published: August 21, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Light, Vachuska.
The color of water: Racial and income differences in exposure to floods across US neighborhoods
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no competing or conflicts of interest. There was no external funding support for this research.
Racial Segregation in Everyday Mobility Patterns: Disentangling the Effect of Travel Time
Abstract Nascent research documents that U.S. racial segregation is not merely a residential phenomenon but is present in everyday mobility patterns. Better understanding the causes of mobility-based segregation requires disentangling the spatial macrosegregation, which constitutes an obvious confounding factor.
Measuring the Digital Divide: A Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Racial Inequality in Internet Speed during the COVID-19 Pandemic
3. Results Figure 1 presents results for upload speeds for majority Black neighborhoods. The x-axis represents the quarter and year of observation, while the y-axis represents differences in logged average upload speed between majority Black and majority White neighborhoods. Since the models include county-level fixed effects, these results are not absolute nationwide differences but account for inter-county variation in internet speed.
A new COVID study that examined Wisconsin, Seattle, and San Francisco could help predict where caseloads are likely to be the highest Original
Wisconsin hit another pandemic milestone last month: 1.5 million COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began. Disturbingly, there are strong disparities by income and race in these infections, following the pattern of crime and other inequalities. In Milwaukee County, for example, 33 of the first 45 COVID deaths were among Black residents; yet, only one in four county residents are Black.
A new COVID study that examined Wisconsin, Seattle, and San Francisco could help predict where caseloads are likely to be the highest
Wisconsin hit another pandemic milestone last month: 1.5 million COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began. Disturbingly, there are strong disparities by income and race in these infections, following the pattern of crime and other inequalities. In Milwaukee County, for example, 33 of the first 45 COVID deaths were among Black residents; yet, only one in four county residents are Black.
A new COVID study that examined Wisconsin, Seattle, and San Francisco could help predict where caseloads are likely to be the highest
Wisconsin hit another pandemic milestone last month: 1.5 million COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began. Disturbingly, there are strong disparities by income and race in these infections, following the pattern of crime and other inequalities. In Milwaukee County, for example, 33 of the first 45 COVID deaths were among Black residents; yet, only one in four county residents are Black.
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