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9498
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2261
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1293

Overview

Stephen L. Ross is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans several main fields, including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. Within these broad areas, specific subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and Accounting.

Ross's academic contributions concentrate on topics such as Housing Market and Economics, School Choice and Performance, Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Financial Literacy, Pension and Retirement Analysis, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

The scientist has published in a variety of research venues. Frequent publication venues include the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have 17 publications, the Journal of Urban Economics with 2 papers, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Ross include:

  • Information value of property description: A Machine learning approach, 2020, Journal of Urban Economics
  • The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System, 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The consequences of friendships: Evidence on the effect of social relationships in school on academic achievement, 2020, Journal of Urban Economics
  • Information Value of Property Description: A Machine Learning Approach, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Measuring Social Interaction Effects When Instruments Are Weak, 2021, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Ross has collaborated frequently with several coauthors. These include Eric J. Brunner, Tingyu Zhou, Shaun M. Dougherty, Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, and Erdal Asker.

Best Publications

  • Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

    Patrick Bayer;Stephen L. Ross;Giorgio Topa

  • Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase I HDS 2000

    Margery Austin Turner;Stephen L. Ross;George C. Galster;John Yinger

  • Housing Discrimination in Metropolitan America: Explaining Changes between 1989 and 2000

    Stephen L. Ross;Margery Austin Turner

  • Sorting and voting: A review of the literature on urban public finance

    Stephen Ross;John Yinger

  • The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Post- Secondary Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health^

    Robert Bifulco;Jason M. Fletcher;Stephen L. Ross

  • Which school attributes matter?: The influence of school district performance and demographic composition on property values

    John M. Clapp;Anupam Nanda;Stephen L. Ross

  • Discrimination in Metropolitan Housing Markets: National Results from Phase 1 of the Housing Discrimination Study (HDS)

    Margery A. Turner;Stephen L. Ross;George C. Galster;John Yinger

  • The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement

    Stephen L. Ross;John Yinger

  • Public school choice and integration evidence from Durham, North Carolina.

    Robert Bifulco;Helen F. Ladd;Stephen L. Ross

  • What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High-Cost Mortgages? The Role of High-Risk Lenders

    Patrick Bayer;Fernando Ferreira;Stephen L Ross

  • Now You See it, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers?

    Jan Ondrich;Stephen A. Ross;John Yinger

  • School district quality and property values: Examining differences along school district boundaries

    Paramita Dhar;Stephen L Ross

  • The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

    Patrick Bayer;Fernando Ferreira;Stephen L. Ross

  • Racial differences in homeownership: the effect of residential location

    Yongheng Deng;Stephen L. Ross;Susan M. Wachter

  • The effects of public school choice on those left behind: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina

    Robert Bifulco;Helen F. Ladd;Stephen L. Ross

  • Change and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities

    Stuart S. Rosenthal;Stephen L. Ross

  • ECONOMICS AND POLICY PREFERENCES: CAUSAL EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON SUPPORT FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND OTHER BALLOT PROPOSALS

    Eric Brunner;Stephen L. Ross;Ebonya Washington

  • Equilibria with Local Governments and Commuting: Income Sorting vs. Income Mixing

    Charles A.M. de Bartolome;Stephen L. Ross

  • Redlining, the Community Reinvestment Act, and private mortgage insurance

    Stephen L. Ross;Geoffrey M.B. Tootell

  • Chapter 47 Sorting and voting: A review of the literature on urban public finance

    Stephen Ross;John Yinger

  • Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence

    Dhammika Dharmapala;Stephen L. Ross

  • The color of credit

    Stephen L. Ross

  • Lectures on Urban Economics

    Stephen L. Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Bayer
Patrick J. Bayer Duke University
Jason M. Fletcher
Jason M. Fletcher University of Wisconsin–Madison
John Yinger
John Yinger Syracuse University
John M. Clapp
John M. Clapp University of Connecticut
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Ingrid Gould Ellen New York University
Susan M. Wachter
Susan M. Wachter University of Pennsylvania
Helen F. Ladd
Helen F. Ladd Duke University
Yongheng Deng
Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou Monash University
Dhammika Dharmapala
Dhammika Dharmapala University of California, Berkeley

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