David J. Harding, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Population Studies Center Survey Research Center University of Michigan

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David J. Harding. Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys. 2010. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Boston Globe article, May 16, 2010 Boston Phoenix article, June 10, 2010 Boston Neighborhood News interview, July 28, 2010 Detroit Free Press Op-Ed, August 26, 2010 CBS Detroit Blog, May 2, 2011

David J. Harding, Michele Lamont, and Mario Luis Small, eds. “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” Volume 629 of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 2010 Mario Luis Small, David J. Harding, and Michele Lamont. 2010. “Introduction: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 629: 6-27. Policy Briefing Podcasts Available on the Academy Blog. (See also, ASA Footnotes article) NPC Policy Brief Review Essay in La vie des idees by Nicolas Duvoux [English translation] New York Time article on culture and poverty -- October 18, 2010 Mario Small's response to recent Boston Review article Spotlight on Poverty Commentary: A Fresh Approach to Culture

Katherine Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth. 2004. Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings. New York: Basic Books.

Geoff Wodtke, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert. 2011. "Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective." American Sociological Review

David J. Harding. 2011. “Rethinking the Cultural Context of Schooling Decisions in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: From Deviant Subculture to Cultural Heterogeneity.” Sociology of Education (Online Appendices)

David J. Harding, Lisa Gennetian, Christopher Winship, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, and Jeffrey Kling. 2011. “Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research.” In Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children. Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, eds. New York: Russell Sage. (web appendix) (see also NBER Working Paper 16055)

David J. Harding. 2009. “Invited Comment: Recent Advances in Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Social Science and Medicine 69: 1449-1451.

David J. Harding. 2009. “Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” Social Forces 88(2): 757-782. (Online Supplement)

David J. Harding. 2009. "Violence, Older Peers, and the Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." American Sociological Review 74(3): 445-464. (Online Supplement)

David J. Harding. 2008. "Neighborhood Violence and Adolescent Friendships." International Journal of Conflict and Violence 2(1): 28-55. (special issue on Neighborhoods and Violence).

Christopher Winship and David J. Harding. 2008. "A General Strategy for the Identification of Age, Period, Cohort Models: A Mechanism Based Approach." Sociological Methods and Research 36(3): 362-401.

David J. Harding. 2007. "Cultural Context, Sexual Behavior, and Romantic Relationships in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." American Sociological Review 72(3): 341-364. (Online Supplement)

David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer. 2007. "Family Background and Income in Adulthood, 1961-1999." pp. 442-453 in The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. David Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Stephen L. Morgan and David J. Harding. 2006. "Matching Estimators of Causal Effects: Prospects and Pitfalls in Theory and Practice." Sociological Methods and Research. 35(1): 3-60.

David J. Harding. "Urban Poverty." 2006. Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer, ed. Blackwell.

Cybelle Fox and David J. Harding. 2005. "School Shootings as Organizational Deviance." Sociology of Education 79(1): 69-97

David J. Harding. 2003. "Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenage Pregnancy." American Journal of Sociology 109(3): 676-719. (Mathematica Command File for Sensitivity Analysis) (Stata Command File for Sensitivity Analysis)

David J. Harding, Jane Rochmes, and D. Diego Torres. “For-Profit Colleges and Educational Attainment.”

David J. Harding and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. “Incarceration, Prisoner Reentry and Communities.” In preparation for Annual Review of Sociology, 2013.

David J. Harding and Kristin Seefeldt. “Mixed Methods and Causal Analysis.” In preparation for Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Stephen L. Morgan, ed. Springer.

David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Claire Herbert. “Returning Home After Prison? Residential Mobility, Intermediate Sanctions, and Neighborhood Context among Parolees.” Presented at Conference on Rethinking Urban Poverty for the 21st Century City: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives, March 2011, University of Chicago.

David J. Harding, Yasamin Kusunoki, Lloyd D. Grieger, and Rebecca Karb. "Neighborhood Context and Romantic Relationships: Competing Models of Adolescent Relationships in Disadvantaged Communities."

Lloyd D. Grieger, Yasamin Kusunoki, and David J. Harding. “The Social Context of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: School and Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Relationship Formation.”

Jessica Wyse, David J. Harding, and Jeffrey Morenoff. "Romantic Relationships and Criminal Desistance: Processes and Pathways."

Jeffrey Morenoff, David J. Harding, and Amy Cooter. “The Neighborhood Context of Prisoner Reentry.”

David J. Harding and Christopher Winship. "Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the US from 1940 to 1980."

David J. Harding and Christopher Winship. “Population Change, Arrests, Sentencing and the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the U.S., 1940-1980.”