David J. Harding
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

CV (PDF)
Work in Progress
Recent and Forthcoming
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David J. Harding. "Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: The Role of Older Peers." Revised version of Population Studies Center Research Report No. 05-586, December 2005.

David J. Harding. "Neighborhood Violence and Adolescent Friendships."

David J. Harding. "Cultural Heterogeneity, College Goals, and College Enrollment in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods."

David J. Harding. "Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods."

David J. Harding and Christopher Winship. "Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the US from 1940 to 1990." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003.

David J. Harding and Rebecca Karb. "Neighborhood Context and Romantic Relationships: Competing Models of Adolescent Relationships in Disadvantaged Communities."

Jessica Wyse, David J. Harding, and Jeffrey Morenoff. "Romantic Relationships and Criminal Desistance: Moving Beyond Marriage."

David J. Harding. Living the Drama: Why Neighborhoods Matter for Inner-City Boys. (book manuscript under contract)

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

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.

See CV(PDF) for earlier publications.