Jared N. Schachner

Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children

Jared N. Schachner, Robert J. Sampson

Demography- Duke University Press

Year: 2020

Highly skilled parents deploy distinct strategies to cultivate their children’s development, but little is known about how parental cognitive skills interact with metropolitan opportunity structures and residential mobility to shape a major domain of inequality in children’s lives: the neighborhood. … Continue reading →

Are Public Housing and Homelessness Linked? Evidence from Over 150 Large U.S. Metros and 9 International Case Studies

Jared N. Schachner, Gary Painter, Junmin Byon

Homelessness Policy Research Institute

Year: 2024

Why does the severity of the contemporary homelessness crisis vary so sharply across U.S. metropolitan areas? Lay explanations, implicating everything from differences in law enforcement to weather to social service provision to poverty to rental housing costs, abound. But careful … Continue reading →

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