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Barrett A. Lee is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on health professions and social sciences. The main areas of study include general health professions, sociology and political science, finance, urban studies, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics. These include homelessness and social issues, food security and health in diverse populations, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, urban and rural development challenges, housing market and economics, as well as names, identity, and discrimination research.

Recent publications by Barrett A. Lee reflect these interests. Notable papers include:

  • "Homelessness as a Moving Target," 2021, published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • "Forced to move: Patterns and predictors of residential displacement during an era of housing insecurity," 2020, published in Social Science Research
  • "Neighborhood reputations as symbolic and stratifying mechanisms in the urban hierarchy," 2020, published in Sociology Compass
  • "Adult and Child Food Insecurity Among Homeless and Precariously-Housed Families at the Close of the Twentieth Century," 2020, published in Population Research and Policy Review

Barrett A. Lee has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. These include Megan Evans, Marybeth Shinn, Dennis P. Culhane, and Adam M. Lippert.

Their work appears in various publication venues that reflect their interdisciplinary interests. Frequent venues include The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Social Science Research, Sociology Compass, and Population Research and Policy Review.

Best Publications

  • The New Homelessness Revisited

    Barrett A. Lee;Kimberly A. Tyler;James D. Wright

  • Neighborhood context and residential mobility.

    Barrett A. Lee;R. S. Oropesa;James W. Kanan

  • Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales.

    Barrett A. Lee;Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh;Chad R. Farrell

  • Name generators in surveys of personal networks

    Karen E. Campbell;Barrett A. Lee

  • The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Stephen A. Matthews;David O’Sullivan;Barrett A. Lee

  • Sources of Personal Neighbor Networks: Social Integration, Need, or Time?

    Karen E. Campbell;Barrett A. Lee

  • Heterolocalism: an alternative model of the sociospatial behaviour of immigrant ethnic communities.

    Wilbur Zelinsky;Barrett A. Lee

  • Revisiting the contact hypothesis: The case of public exposure to homelessness

    Barrett A. Lee;Chad R. Farrell;Bruce G. Link

  • Danger on the Streets Marginality and Victimization Among Homeless People

    Barrett A. Lee;Christopher J. Schreck

  • Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime? Homelessness, Panhandling, and the Public

    Barrett A. Lee;Chad R. Farrell

  • Is neighborhood racial succession place-specific?

    Barrett A. Lee;Peter B. Wood

  • Racial differences in urban neighboring

    Barrett A. Lee;Karen E. Campbell;Oscar Miller

  • Public Beliefs About the Causes of Homelessness

    Barrett A. Lee;Sue Hinze Jones;David W. Lewis

  • Sentiment and Evaluation as Ecological Variables

    Avery M. Guest;Barrett A. Lee

  • Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction: A Metropolitan-Level Analysis*

    Barrett A. Lee;Avery M. Guest

  • How urbanites define their neighborhoods

    Avery M. Guest;Barrett A. Lee

  • Racial Diversity and Change in Metropolitan Neighborhoods.

    Chad R. Farrell;Barrett A. Lee

  • Determinants of Homelessness in Metropolitan Areas

    Barrett A. Lee;Townsand Price-Spratlen;James W. Kanan

  • Common ground? Urban neighborhoods as survey respondents see them

    Barrett A. Lee;Karen E. Campbell

  • GENDER DIFFERENCES IN URBAN NEIGHBORING

    Karen E. Campbell;Barrett A. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen A. Matthews
Stephen A. Matthews Pennsylvania State University
Glenn Firebaugh
Glenn Firebaugh Pennsylvania State University
Sean F. Reardon
Sean F. Reardon Stanford University
Paul A. Toro
Paul A. Toro Wayne State University
Debra Umberson
Debra Umberson The University of Texas at Austin
Marybeth Shinn
Marybeth Shinn Vanderbilt University
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane University of Pennsylvania

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