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

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

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: Moving Beyond Marriage."

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

David J. Harding, Lisa Gennetian, Christopher Winship, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. “Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on School Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research.” In preparation for Social Inequality and Educational Disadvantage, Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, eds. Russell Sage, 2010.

David J. Harding and Christopher Winship. "Changes in the Racial Differential in Imprisonment in the US from 1940 to 1990."

David J. Harding. Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys. Forthcoming, 2010. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

David J. Harding, Michele Lamont, and Mario Luis Small, eds. “Culture and Poverty.” Volume in preparation for Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010

Mario Luis Small, David J. Harding, and Michele Lamont. Forthcoming, 2010. “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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

David J. Harding. 2009. “Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” Social Forces December 2009). (Online Supplement)

David J. Harding. 2009. "Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: The Role of Older Peers." 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.

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

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

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.