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37
Citations
5685
World Ranking
6247
National Ranking
2985

Overview

Dowell Myers is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of social sciences, with specific expertise in subfields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and urban studies.

Their work covers several main topics including social and intergroup psychology, racial and ethnic identity research, housing market and economics, electoral systems and political participation, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, and urbanization and city planning.

They have published several recent papers, including:

  • Racial Projections in Perspective: Public Reactions to Narratives about Rising Diversity (2021, Perspectives on Politics)
  • Housing shortages and the new downturn of residential mobility in the US (2021, Housing Studies)
  • Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery (2025, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences)
  • Why Are Old Binary Descriptions of Race So Misleading in the Twenty-first Century? (2021, Sociological Forum)
  • Prophetic city: Houston on the cusp of a changing America, by Stephen L. Klineberg (2021, Journal of Urban Affairs)

Frequent coauthors in their work include JungHo Park, Morris Levy, Seongmoon Cho, and Hyojung Lee. The most common venues for their publications are the Journal of Urban Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, Housing Studies, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Sociological Forum.

Their research intersects various dimensions of social sciences, addressing important social dynamics such as racial identity, housing markets, urban development, and political participation. This interdisciplinary approach highlights connections between economic factors, social behavior, and spatial development in urban environments.

Best Publications

  • Current preferences and future demand for denser residential environments

    Dowell Myers;Elizabeth Gearin

  • Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America

    Dowell Myers

  • Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice

    Gary Painter;Stuart Gabriel;Dowell Myers

  • Building Knowledge about Quality of Life for Urban Planning

    Dowell Myers

  • The Changing Problem of Overcrowded Housing

    Dowell Myers;William C. Baer;Seong-Youn Choi

  • Immigrant trajectories into homeownership: a temporal analysis of residential assimilation.

    Dowell Myers;Seong Woo Lee

  • Constructing the Future in Planning: A Survey of Theories and Tools

    Dowell Myers;Alicia Kitsuse

  • Immigration cohorts and residential overcrowding in southern California.

    Dowell Myers;Seong Woo Lee

  • Community-Relevant Measurement of Quality of Life: A Focus on Local Trends

    Dowell Myers

  • Aging Baby Boomers and the Generational Housing Bubble: Foresight and Mitigation of an Epic Transition

    Dowell Myers;SungHo Ryu

  • Inclusion of Immigrant Status in Smoking Prevalence Statistics

    Kaari Flagstad Baluja;Julie Park;Dowell Myers

  • ANALYSIS WITH LOCAL CENSUS DATA: PORTRAITS OF CHANGE.

    Dowell Myers

  • Peak Millennials: Three Reinforcing Cycles That Amplify the Rise and Fall of Urban Concentration by Millennials

    Dowell Myers

  • Intergenerational mobility in the post-1965 immigration era: Estimates by an immigrant generation cohort method

    Julie Park;Dowell Myers

  • The Gradient of Immigrant Age-at-Arrival Effects on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the U.S.

    Dowell Myers;Xin Gao;Amon Emeka

  • Housing demography : linking demographic structure and housing markets

    Dowell Myers

  • Cohort Longitudinal Estimation of Housing Careers

    Dowell Myers

  • Toward Greater Heights for Planning: Reconciling the Differences between Profession, Practice, and Academic Field

    Dowell Myers;Tridib Banerjee

  • The Specification of Demographic Effects on Housing Demand: Avoiding the Age-Cohort Fallacy

    John R. Pitkin;Dowell Myers

  • Cohort Estimation of Homeownership Attainment among Native-Born and Immigrant Populations

    Dowell Myers;Isaac Megbolugbe;SeongWoo Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Frey
William H. Frey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William J. McCarthy
William J. McCarthy University of California, Los Angeles
Ann Forsyth
Ann Forsyth Harvard University
John M. Clapp
John M. Clapp University of Connecticut

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