Journal Articles

Forthcoming

Under Review

"Improving Residential Outcomes for Housing Choice Voucher Holders: The Importance of Supportive Staff for Families and Landlords.” –– DeLuca, Stefanie and Jacqueline Groccia, Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research.

"Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients. (American Economic Review; NBER #26164)--Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer (alpha order).

"'I just had to Go With it Once I Got There:' Income Differences in How Parents Find Housing and and Schools."––DeLuca, Stefanie, Jennifer Darrah-Okike, and Kiara Nerenberg.

"'I Don't Want to Rush Everything and End Up Where I Started:' Disadvantaged Youth, College Choice, and the Reverse Life Course."––Young, Allison, and Stefanie DeLuca.

Peer Reviewed Journals

"The Association of a Housing Mobility Program with Asthma Symptoms and Exacerbations." (2023) –– Pollack, Craig, Laken C. Roberts, Roger D. Peng, Pete Cimbolic, David Judy, Susan Whaley, Torie Grant, Ana Rule, Stefanie DeLuca, Meghan Davis, Rosalind J. Wright, Corinne Keet, Elizabeth Matsui, Journal of the American Medical Association.

"Exploring the tradeoff between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneity in Adversity among Disadvantaged Black Youth."––DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, and Joseph Boselovic, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

"Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research" -- DeLuca, Stefanie, Sociological Methods and Research. 

"'When Someone Cares About You, It's Priceless': Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Confidence in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment" (2023) -- DeLuca, Stefanie, Lawrence S. Katz and Sarah Oppenheimer, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

"Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today" (2022) -- DeLuca, Stefanie and Eva Rosen, Annual Review of Sociology.

"Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions and Type of Service" (2021) -- Pollack, Craig, Debra G. Bozzi, Amanda L. Blackford, Stefanie DeLuca, Rachel Thornton, and Bradley Herring, Housing Policy Debate.

"Not Just a Lateral Move": Residential Decisions and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality (2020)--DeLuca, Stefanie and Christine Jang-Trettien, City and Community 

“A Choice Too Far: Transit Difficulty and Early High School Transfer” (2020)—Stein, Marc L., Julia Burdick-Will, and Jeffrey Grigg, Educational Researcher

“Student Mobility and Violent Crime Exposure at Baltimore City Public Schools” (2020)—Burdick-Will, Julia, Kiara M. Nerenberg, Jeffrey A. Grigg, and Faith Connolly, American Educational Research Journal

Socially Structured Mobility Networks and School Segregation Dynamics: The Role of Emergent Consideration Sets" (2020)—Burdick-Will, Julia, Jeffrey A. Grigg, Kiara M. Nerenberg, and Faith Connolly, American Sociological Review 

"Association of receipt of a housing voucher with subsequent hospital utilization and spending" (2019)—Pollack, Craig, Amanda Blackford, Shawn Du, Stefanie DeLuca, Rachel Thornton, Brad Herring, Journal of the American Medical Association 

“Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: How Housing Search Perceptions Shape Residential Selection" (2019)—Harvey, Hope, Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin and Stefanie DeLuca, Social Forces 

“Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Reactive Mobility and Residential Decisions" (2019)—DeLuca, Stefanie, Holly Wood and Peter Rosenblatt, City and Community  

"Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Chicago" (2019)—DeLuca, Stefanie, Commentary in Housing Policy Debate 

"Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program" (2019)—Garboden, Philip, Eva Rosen, Stefanie DeLuca and Kathryn Edin, Housing Policy Debate 

"Walking Away from The Wire: Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore" (2017)—DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt, Housing Policy Debate

“Why Wait Years to Become Something? Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs" (2016)—Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca, Sociology of Education

"What Happened in Sandtown-Winchester? Understanding the Impacts of a Comprehensive Community Initiative" (2015)—Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca, Urban Affairs Review

“Stuck in School: How School Choice Policies Interact with Social Context to Shape Inner City Students’ Educational Careers" (2015)—Condliffe, Barbara, Melody Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca, Teachers College Record

"Living Here Changed My Whole Perspective’: How Escaping Inner City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice" (2014)—Darrah, Jennifer and Stefanie DeLuca, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

"Segregating Shelter: How Housing Policies Shape the Residential Locations of Low Income Minority Families" (2013)—DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden and Peter Rosenblatt, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

"We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here”: Neighborhoods and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low-income Families" (2012)—Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca, City and Community

"What is the Role of Housing Policy? Considering Choice and Social Science Evidence" (2012)—DeLuca, Stefanie, Journal of Urban Affairs

"Constrained Compliance: Solving the Puzzle of MTO's Lease-Up Rates & Why Mobility Matters" (2012)––Edin, Kathryn, DeLuca, Stefanie, and Owens, Ann. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research

"Switching High Schools: Reconsidering the Relationship between School Mobility and Dropout" (2012)—Gasper, Joseph, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion, American Educational Research Journal 

"Not Making the Transition to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of American Youth" (2011)—Bozick, Robert and Stefanie DeLuca, Social Science Research

"The Underserved Third:  How Our Educational Structures Populate an Educational Underclass" (2010)—Deil-Amen, Regina and Stefanie DeLuca, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk

"Coming and Going: The Effects of Residential and School Mobility on Delinquency" (2010)—Gasper, Joseph, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion, Social Science Research 

"Does Moving To Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program" (2010)—DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt, Teachers College Record

"Gautreaux Mothers and Their Children: An Update" (2010)—DeLuca, Stefanie, Greg Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall and Micere Keels, Housing Policy Debate

"Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes" (2009)—DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Dayton, Annual Review of Sociology 

"When Does Residential Mobility Benefit Low-income Families? Evidence from Recent Housing Voucher Programs" (2009)—Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca and Anita Zuberi, The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

"High School Dropout and the Role of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School" (2008)—Plank, Stephen, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion, Sociology of Education

"Neighborhood Resources and Economic Mobility: Results from the Gautreaux Program" (2006)—Mendenhall, Ruby, Stefanie DeLuca and Greg Duncan, Social Science Research

"Better Late Than Never? Delayed Enrollment in the High School to College Transition" (2005)—DeLuca, Stefanie and Robert Bozick, Social Forces

"Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide a Permanent Escape from Neighborhood Crime and Poverty?" (2005)—Keels, Micere, Greg J. Duncan, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall, and James E. Rosenbaum, Demography

"If Low Income Blacks Are Given A Chance to Live In White Neighborhoods, Will They Stay? Examining Mobility Patterns in a Quasi-Experimental Program with Administrative Data" (2003)—DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum, Housing Policy Debate

"How Do Places Matter? The Geography of Opportunity, Self-Efficacy, and a Look Inside the Black Box of Residential Mobility" (2002)—Rosenbaum, James E., Lisa Reynolds and Stefanie DeLuca, Housing Studies

"Individual Agency and the Life Course: Do Low SES Students Get Less Long-Term Pay-Off for Their School Efforts?" (2001)—DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum, Sociological Focus

"Pathways into Work: Short and Long Term Effects of Personal and Institutional Ties" (1999)—Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca, Shazia R. Miller, and Kevin Roy, Sociology of Education