Kathryn Neckerman
Affiliations
- Associate Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Member, Working Paper Editorial Board
Research
Kathryn Neckerman is the Associate Director of ISERP and of Columbia's Health & Society Scholars Program (H&SS). Neckerman is a sociologist specializing in the study of urban inequality and social policy. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, her research has examined topics including the role of race and ethnicity in urban labor markets, the institutional origins of inner-city schooling, and economic and racial/ethnic disparities in access to healthy neighborhood environments. Neckerman is a member of the interdisciplinary Built Environment and Health research group at Columbia, which is carrying out a series of projects on the health consequences of the urban environment. Among these projects is an NSF-funded study of inequality in neighborhood access to basic retail and services. With Peter Bearman and Leslie Wright, she is editing a series of commissioned research papers on the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy, funded by the American Legacy Foundation.
Selected Work
- Kathryn M. Neckerman. 2007. Schools Betrayed: Roots of Failure in Inner-City Education. University of Chicago Press.
- Kathryn M. Neckerman and Florencia Torche. 2007. "Inequality: Causes and Consequences." Annual Review of Sociology 33:335-57.
- Rundle, Andrew, Ana Diez Roux, Lance Freeman, Douglas Miller, Kathryn M. Neckerman, and Christopher Weiss. 2007. The urban built environment and obesity in New York City: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Health Promotion 21: 326-34.
- Kathryn M. Neckerman, editor. 2004. Social Inequality. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Kathryn M. Neckerman and Roberto Fernandez. 2003. "Keeping a Job: Network Hiring and Turnover in a Retail Bank." In Vincent Buskins, Werner Raub, and Chris Snijders, eds., The Governance of Relations in Markets and Organizations (special volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations).
- Kathryn M. Neckerman, Prudence Carter, and Jennifer Lee. 1999. "Segmented Assimilation and Minority Cultures of Mobility." Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(6): 945-965.
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Kathryn Neckerman
- Seed grant: Social Networks and Informal Job Training Among Non-College Workers
- Featured publications by Kathryn Neckerman
