Jennifer’s work is guided more generally by understanding connections between people and places, with a broad research agenda that investigates dynamics of neighborhood and urban change and inequality, as well as how social and spatial contexts, like neighborhoods and schools, shape opportunities and produce racial/ethnic, health, and economic inequality.
Current work investigates:
- the demographic processes and mechanisms of neighborhood change
- gentrification and school choice
- spatial and temporal dimensions of urban inequality
- changing neighborhood dynamics over time
- effect heterogeneity in neighborhood and school research
- residential and school sorting of households with and without children
- connections between individual processes and macro-level trends.
You can find her current CV here.
Peer-Reviewed Publications (Selected)
*Denotes graduate student co-author
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Brazil, Noli and Jennifer Candipan. 2025. “A Demographic Bridge to Diversity? Segregation and Diversity of Millennial Young Adult Neighborhoods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Population Research and Policy Review. [pub version]
Brazil, Noli, Jennifer Candipan, Brian L. Levy [equal second author], and Thalia Tom*. 2025. “Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks.” Social Science and Medicine. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer, Karl Vachuska*, and Brian L. Levy. 2025. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Child Health: The Role of Neighborhood Mobility Networks. Health and Place, 91, 103402. [online first Dec 2024] [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer, Nicole Hair, and Katrina Walsemann. 2024. “How Long-Term Changes in Neighborhood and School Racial Composition Shape Children's Mental Health” Social Science and Medicine. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer and Robert J. Sampson. 2023. “Diverging Trajectories of Neighborhood Disadvantage by Race and Birth Cohort from Childhood through Young Adulthood.” PLOS-ONE. 18(4): e0283641. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283641 [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer, Alicia Riley, and Janeria Easley. 2023. “While Some Things Change, Do Others Stay the Same? The Heterogeneity of Neighborhood Health Returns to Gentrification.” Housing Policy Debate. 33 (1):129-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2022.2076715 [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer and Michael D.M. Bader. 2022. “The Dual Role of Race and Immigration Among Ascending Neighborhoods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Population Research and Policy Review. 41, 1725–1756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09706-6. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer and Noli Brazil. 2022. “The Neighborhood Context of School Openings: Charter School Expansion and Socioeconomic Ascent in the United States.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 44(9): 1244-1269. doi:10.1080/07352166.2020.1814153. [pub version]
Brazil, Noli and Jennifer Candipan. 2022. “The Neighborhood Ethnoracial and Socioeconomic Context of Public Elementary School Closures in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” Social Science Research. 103, 102655 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102655 [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer, Nolan E. Phillips, Robert J. Sampson and Mario Small. 2021. “From Residence to Movement: The Nature of Racial Segregation in Everyday Urban Mobility.” Urban Studies. 58(15): 3095–3117. doi:10.1177/0123456789123456 [pub version]
Rich, Peter, Jennifer Candipan and Ann Owens. 2021. “Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link?” Demography. 58(2): 471–498. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer. 2020. “Choosing Schools in Changing Places: Examining School Enrollment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” Sociology of Education. 93(3):215-237. [pub version]
- cited by U.S. Department of Education in its State of School Diversity report that served as justification for its new Fostering Diverse Schools Demonstration program
Candipan, Jennifer. 2019. “Neighborhood Change and the Neighborhood-School Gap.” Urban Studies. 56(15): 3308-3333. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer. 2019. “Change Agents on Wheels: Cycling and Spatial Justice in Los Angeles.” City & Community. 18(3): 965-982. [pub version]
Owens, Ann and Jennifer Candipan (equal authorship). 2019. “Racial Hierarchy and Racial Transition of Ascending Neighborhoods.” Urban Affairs Review. 55(6): 1550-1578. [pub version]
Owens, Ann and Jennifer Candipan. 2019. “Social and Spatial Inequality of Educational Opportunity: A Portrait of Schools Serving High- and Low-Income Neighborhoods.” Urban Studies. 56(15): 3178-3197. [pub version]
Other Refereed Publications (Book chapters and Journal essays)
Candipan, Jennifer, and Jonathon Tollefson*. 2024. " Machine Learning and Large-scale Data for Understanding Urban Inequality," In The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning (Borch, C. and Pardo-Guerra, J.P., eds.). Oxford University Press. [pub version]
Sampson, Robert J., and Jennifer Candipan. 2023. "A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility," pp. 175-184 in The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies (Robinson, J. and LeGale, P., eds.). Routledge. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer. 2015. “A Women-of-Color Ride through Los Angeles.” Metropolitics. p.1-8. [pub version]
Candipan, Jennifer, Roberta Cordeau, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riordan, Bengisu Peker, Danielle Shallow and Gregory Smithsimon. 2012. "Revising Canarsie: Racial Transition and Neighborhood Stability in Brooklyn," Pp. 379-405 in DeSena, J. and T. Shortell, eds. The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. New York: Lexington Books. Book Chapter. [pre-print]
Working Paper Series
Brazil, Noli and Jennifer Candipan. 2023. “A Demographic Bridge to Diversity? Segregation and Diversity of Millennial Young Adult Neighborhoods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.” APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2302. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4jbre
