The work @robertmanduca.bsky.social has been doing the last few years is huge for our understanding of race/place inequality. Just a total rockstar.

Abstract Many legal disputes are resolved through settlement. The dominant theory explaining settlements – known as “bargaining in the shadow of the law” – assumes that litigants are informed, rational actors inclined to bargain toward a settlement prior to court proceedings. Yet many settlements are negotiated after litigants have appeared in court expecting to go to trial. This article argues that court organizational mechanisms play an undertheorized role in facilitating settlement agreements. To build theory on organizational mechanisms, we examine the case of eviction settlements. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews in a California eviction court, we find that organizational rules and workgroup norms funnel mostly unrepresented tenants – sometimes, in coercive ways – into unregulated hallway conversations with landlord attorneys and/or participation in the court’s mediation program. Through relational interactions with legal professionals in these organizational spaces, tenants are taught the risks of trial and the benefits of settlement. As a result, most tenants in our sample come to recognize their legal culpability and view settlement agreements as legitimate, even as their negotiated settlements reproduce their housing insecurity. We discuss implications for bargaining theory and research on housing insecurity.

How do eviction courts funnel tenants into settlements with landlords that often reproduce housing insecurity? Check out our new article in LSR on the organizational mechanisms that compel settlements in a California eviction court.

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So excited to share that Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb is available for pre-order!

Use code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. www.ucpress.edu/books/divers... @ucpress.bsky.social

Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area.

(Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)

ICE Is Recruiting Your Children ICE is deporting immigrant children. ICE is deporting citizen children by deporting their parents. And, now, ICE will come as close as possible to hiring children to do it all.

Feels good to be writing again.

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Research that started in 2023 when I was in the Biden CEA.

Not did the 2021 CTC help millions of families, but when it ended families felt worse about their own financial situation AND ALSO about the economy as a whole

The US Administration has proposed a new rule that would bar almost all asylum-seekers from legally working, for at least a decade.

My colleagues and I have written and submitted a detailed analysis of how this act will impact the United States economy.

🧵—>

"Some have preferred to leave the country; many have decided they don’t want to come here, even with papers. The psychological, moral, and economic damage will take decades to repair.” El País U.S. has published the official English version of this article by Carla Gloria Colomé, worth a read.

For AU's Professor Ernesto Castañeda, Noem's footprint is significant. “Much of the Latino community in the United States is terrified, depressed and imprisoned, in either detention centers or their apartments and houses."

My latest #research on the impact of anti-Asian violence on mental health among low-income Chinese older adults in NYC, published in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

Read the paper here: rdcu.be/fb9H9.

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵

We're thrilled to share the latest publication in our interview series, ¡Hablemos!, with Dr. Mirian Martinez-Aranda.

Learn more about Dr. Martinez-Aranda and her innovative research here:

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We're pleased to share that the Im/migrant Lives podcast, hosted by Collaborative co-chair Dr. Elizabeth Aranda, has entered its 3rd season with the latest episode: “The Effects of 2025’s Executive Orders on Im/migrant Families in Florida.”

Listen to the episode here: rss.com/podcasts/imm...

In the NYT today, @daschloz.bsky.social and I write about how Democrats became policy-pilled and why policy can't substitute for organizational connections to ordinary people.

Screenshot of title and abstract of article, “Reconsideration of Secure Communities rollout reveals preemptive local-federal cooperation in immigration enforcement.”

NEW (and open access!) in @pnas.org:

We find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal county activation.

Joint with @cvargas100.bsky.social and @immigrationlab.bsky.social

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When the house finds you: unanticipated opportunities in the housing “search” ABSTRACT. Prior research on residential selection generally assumes households find housing by actively searching for it. This assumption has led scholars

Really enjoyed this excellent new residential mobility paper on "opportunity finds." We assume that families move through active housing searches. But many families find homes without actively searching, with consequences for residential inequality. Check it out!

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This research was featured in the New York Times—but the full story is much bigger.

It’s the basis of my book, 1 in 100, now available for preorder.

Link in bio.

This war may end up the most devastating thing that happens to the US and the world in the 21st century (or, maybe TACO Tuesday, though I doubt it). It's definitely a moment for people in institutions to do something. For us, is it time to panic? I'd love to hear theories of why not. 14/14

Living in Hell War crimes coming: A horrifying update

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

3/ I study this in Appalachian coal country, where communities have faced recurrent booms and busts for generations. Places that lost more college-educated workers following earlier shocks fared significantly worse when coal collapsed again after 2007.

Selective migration and regional decline: Evidence from coal country Why do regions decline? This paper explores how adverse shocks in one period affect regional adjustment to subsequent shocks, emphasizing the role of …

1/ New paper 🚨! (Ok, not quite new...) I'm very pleased to share that — after a long journey — my job market paper is finally out in the world.

It asks: Why do regions decline?

Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...

Of those who were deported from Minnesota, about 45 percent were labeled as collateral arrests, meaning federal agents encountered them in a public place or during an operation targeting another person, rather than targeting them explicitly. (5) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

1,700 Minnesotans who belong in their homes with their families

Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗ April 1, 2026 Abstract What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement"

The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

Place-Based Strategies: Strengthening Local Economies in Low-Income Communities Experts from research and policy will discuss how location affects job markets and can contribute to income inequality.

Giving my first talk at the Fed today!

Join @ 3pm EST for the Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series on place-based strategies in low-income communities:

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Really great review (0$) by @philiprocco.bsky.social of a really tremendous book, David Jones’s Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta. (If you need a great public health/social policy book to teach, look no further)

The Trump administration is scaling back its sweeping asylum freeze but only partially. Here's what's changing, what's staying, and what it means for hundreds of thousands of people. 🧵

My book, The Wage Standard, is dedicated to Frank Morley, someone who taught me a lot about economics when I was in grad school. Frank worked at the Harvard Economics Department.

It's pub day!

The Supreme Court hears this week the White House's petition to suspend our Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all US-born people.

I joined with 95 other social scientists to document the costs for the United States—>

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