Before settling in Charm City for a position in sociology at Johns Hopkins, I spent all of my life in the Windy City. My undergraduate work was done at the University of Chicago (AB'97), where I studied psychology and sociology, and I completed my Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University in 2002.

I am interested in the way social context (e.g. family, school, neighborhood, peers) affects the outcomes of disadvantaged young people, primarily in adolescence and at the transition to adulthood. Using interdisciplinary frameworks and multiple methodologies to examine these issues, my current research focuses on the sociology of education, urban sociology, neighborhoods and social inequality in the life course. My research also involves the sociological consideration of education and housing policy. I am motivated by an interest in rigorous research designs for causal inference using both experimental and non-experimental data, as well as the use of qualitative work to understand causality and the effectiveness of social policies. My research has been made possible by generous support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Abell Foundation, Spencer Foundation, National Academy of Education, William T. Grant Foundation, Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame, American Educational Research Association, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education.

One major area of research has focused on the determinants of educational attainment, such as social class, high school courses, noncognitive skills and the timing of educational investments. In a project funded by the Department of Education, we examined the state of vocational education, in light of legislation passed in the 1990s intended to reform vocational training into “career and technical education”. In a recent Sociology of Education article, we move beyond traditional research on curricular tracking and show how a balance of academic and career preparation courses might reduce high school dropout. We suggest that the ‘new’ vocational education has potential to keep youth in school by engaging them with courses relevant for both work and college. In a recent Social Forces piece, we tested whether being a “day late” is worse than being “a dollar short” in terms of college enrollment. Even in an era of community college expansion, proprietary schools and evening programs, we found that it matters when you enroll in college; after accounting for socioeconomic, life course and institutional factors, youth who delay college significantly reduce their chances of attaining a bachelor’s degree, even within eight years. I have also been pursuing research that considers the role of noncognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-discipline, risk taking), how patterns of noncognitive skills vary by levels of cognitive skills, and how different combinations of cognitive and noncognitive skills predict educational, occupational and delinquent pathways into adulthood.

An additional program of research examines transitions to work for young people who do not attend college, and more generally to question whether promoting college attendance for all is the best policy for students in America. A recent paper with Robert Bozick suggests heterogeneity in the motives of non-enrolled youth; these motives are partly driven by planful orientations toward work, economic resources and local labor market opportunities. Other papers in progress considers the transition to work and college for African American youth growing up in Baltimore. In a number of papers, I am considering the role of career education, trade schools and communities colleges in the employment and postsecondary pathways of these urban youth.

Understanding the role of housing, neighborhood and social context on youth and family outcomes. For the last fourteen years, I have studied the long-term effects of the Gautreaux residential mobility program in Chicago, which helped residents of public housing relocate to safer neighborhoods through housing vouchers. With colleagues, I assessed the impacts of changes in neighborhood quality on child and family outcomes such as welfare use, employment, special education, and subsequent mobility. Federal interest in the Gautreaux program led to the design and implementation of the Moving To Opportunity program in the 1990s, a randomized housing voucher experiment funded by HUD. In 2003-2004, I conducted interviews with mothers and teenagers from the Baltimore site of this MTO program, as well as teacher interviews and classroom observations for the younger children in those families. In 2010, my team (with Kathryn Edin and Susan Clampet-Lundquist) conducted fieldwork with 150 of the children of the Baltimore MTO site as they became young adults, and we are currently working on a book about their pathways into adulthood. In 2006, I was hired by the Maryland ACLU to give expert witness testimony in a housing desegregation case (Thompson v HUD) very similar to the Gautreaux case in Chicago. Eligible families receive vouchers to move to communities that are less than 10% poor, less than 30% African American and have less than 5% of households receiving subsidized housing. I am currently following the relocation of these public housing residents to more advantaged neighborhoods in the metro area, with attention to how these moves create educational opportunities for their children.

Based on my experience studying these mobility programs, I have become interested in not only the ‘effects’ of environmental change, but also how families select into and move between neighborhoods. In 2008, I won a William T. Grant Foundation Scholars award that has given me the opportunity to map out detailed patterns of youth residential mobility and how mobility relates to changes in family, school, and neighborhood context. I am examining how housing interventions affect the mobility of poor families, and how mobility affects adolescent educational attainment, delinquency and health, once family, school and neighborhood contexts are considered. I use national data, as well as data from the multi-city MTO experiment. Another major contribution of this work is the use of a panel study of youth in disadvantaged communities in Mobile, Alabama—a region of the country often overlooked by urban sociologists. The research design includes advanced statistical techniques to infer causality from observational data, and quasi-experimental analyses using exogenous events that affect mobility. Since 2009, I have also been carrying out fieldwork with 100 families in Mobile, following their residential relocations, neighborhood choice, family dynamics and how these families use moving as a strategy for youth well being.

Funding

2023-2025. Russell Sage Foundation. “How Do High-Achieving Low-Income Students Make Postsecondary Decisions? Identifying Mechanisms and Understanding Heterogeneity in the HAIL Financial Aid Intervention.” ($182,867). (PI with Elizabeth Burland)

2023-2024. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation/Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. “Social Capital and the Mechanisms that Produce Upward Mobility.” (PI, $203,412).

2020-2024. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Seattle Housing Authority Mobility from Poverty Pilot.” (PI, partnership with Seattle and King County Housing Authorities) ($543,361).

2021-2023. Smith Richardson Foundation. “How High-Achieving Low-Income Students Respond to Targeted Financial Aid.” (PI w Susan Dynarski) ($50,000).

2020-2021. University of Michigan, Poverty Solutions. “College Decision-Making and Financial Aid.” (Co-PI w Susan Dynarski) ($20,000).

2019-2021. Overdeck Family Foundation/Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Understanding Experimental Outcomes through Family Experiences.” (PI, $345,280).

2019-2022. Russell Sage Foundation. “Rational Responses to Uncertainty: Understanding Disadvantaged Youths’ Post-Secondary Education Choices.” (Co-PI w Nicholas Papageorge) ($171,182).

2019-2020. William T. Grant Foundation. “Creating Moves to Opportunity for Families and Children: Using Mixed Methods to Understand Policy Mechanisms.” (PI) ($49,077).

2018-2019. Annie E. Casey Foundation/Poverty and Race Research Action Council. “Tempting the Opportunity Landlord: What Convinces Landlords to Accept Voucher Holders in Low-Poverty Areas?” (PI) ($20,000).

2016-2019. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Who Is Moving In? Repopulation, Reinvestment, and Pathways to Revitalization in East Baltimore and Greater Homewood (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin, Philip Garboden, Christine Jang) ($839,429)

2016-2019. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Mobility from Poverty: A Pilot Intervention in Seattle and King County.” (Co-PI w Raj Chetty, Lawrence Katz, Nathan Hendren, Peter Bergman, Christopher Palmer, Seattle Housing Authority, King County Housing Authority) ($3M, all costs for intervention only)

2015-2017. MacArthur Foundation. “How Parents House Kids and How Landlords Broker the Geography of Opportunity.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($100,000)

2015-2018. Spencer Foundation. “Switching Schools and Navigating Neighborhoods: Can Housing Vouchers Improve Educational Achievement for Low Income Minority Youth?” (PI) ($292,000)

2015-2016. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Hearing Their Voices: Baltimore Youth’s Perceptions After Freddie Gray.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($79,000)

2014-2016. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Divestment and Abandonment in Baltimore, MD.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($99,000)

2014-2015. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Moving to Opportunity: Platform for Improving Health.” (Co-PI with C. Pollack and R. Thornton) ($76,000).

2013-2017. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($401,000).

2012-2017. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “How Parents House Kids: Residential Decisions, Financial Tradeoffs and Parenting Among Low to Moderate Income Families with Young Children”. (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($750,000)

• 230.310 Becoming An Adult: Life Course Perspectives on School, Work and Family Transition
• 230.313 Space, Place, Poverty & Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods and Public Housing
• 230.320 Education and Inequality: Individual Contextual, and Policy Perspectives
• 230.601 Research Design (doctoral students)
• 230.640 Field Methods for Studying Urban Poverty
• 230.641 Urban Youth and Inequality
• 360.357 Baltimore as an Urban Laboratory (Social Policy)

Books

DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin. 2016. Coming of Age in the Other America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Articles and Chapters

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2023. “Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research.” Sociological Methods and Research 52:1073-1085.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Lawrence S. Katz and Sarah Oppenheimer. 2023. “‘When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless’: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Confidence in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 179-211.

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. 2023. “The association of a housing mobility program with asthma symptoms and exacerbations.” Journal of the American Medical Association

Pollack, Craig, Debra G. Bozzi, Amanda L. Blackford, Stefanie DeLuca, Rachel Thornton, Bradley Herring. 2023. “Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions & Type of Service.” Housing Policy Debate 33: 269-289.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Eva Rosen.* 2022. “Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today.” Annual Review of Sociology 48: 343-71.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Christine Jang-Trettien. 2020. “‘Not Just a Lateral Move’: Residential Decisions and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality.” City and Community 19(3): 451-488.

Harvey, Hope, Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin and Stefanie DeLuca. 2020. “Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: How Housing Search Perceptions Shape Residential Selection.” Social Forces 98: 1498-1523.

Pollack Craig, Blackford Amanda, Du Shawn, DeLuca Stefanie, Thornton Rachel, Herring Brad. 2019. “Association of receipt of a housing voucher with subsequent hospital utilization and spending.” Journal of the American Medical Association 322: 2215-2124.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Holly Wood and Peter Rosenblatt.* 2019. “Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Reactive Mobility and Residential Decisions.” City and Community 18:556-593.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2019. “Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Chicago.” Housing Policy Debate. 29: 213-216.

Garboden, Philip, Eva Rosen*, Stefanie DeLuca and Kathryn Edin. 2018. “Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” Housing Policy Debate 28:979-1003.

Pollack, Craig E., Shawn Du, Amanda L Blackford, Rachel Thornton, Stefanie DeLuca, Bradley Herring. 2018. “What Are the Effects of Neighborhood Poverty on Healthcare Utilization? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 33: S392-S392.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2017. “Walking Away From The Wire Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore.” Housing Policy Debate 27: 519-546.

Boyd, Melody L. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2017. “Fieldwork with In-Depth Interviews: How to Get Strangers in the City to Tell You Their Stories.” In Michael J. Oakes and Jay Kaufman (Eds.), Methods In Social Epidemiology (Wiley/Jossey-Bass).

Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “Why Wait Years to Become Something_Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs” Sociology of Education 89: 261-278.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “What Happened in Sandtown-Winchester_Understanding the Impacts of a Comprehensive Community Initiative.” Urban Affairs Review 1-32.

Condliffe, Barbara, Melody Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “Stuck in School_How School Choice Policies Interact with Social Context to Shape Inner City Students.” Teachers College Record 117: 1-36.

Darrah, Jennifer and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “‘'Living Here Has Changed My Whole Perspective'_How Escaping Inner City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 33: 350-384.

Rhodes, Anna and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “Residential Mobility and School Choice Among Poor Families.” Chapter 5 in Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Annette Lareau and Kim Goyette, (Eds.), Pp. 137-166. Russell Sage Foundation: New York.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden and Peter Rosenblatt. 2013. “Segregating Shelter_How Housing Policies Shape the Residential Locations of Low Income Minority Families.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647:268-299.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. 2012. “We Don't Live Outside, We Live in Here_Neighborhoods and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low-Income Families.” City and Community 11:254-284.

Edin, Kathryn, Stefanie DeLuca and Ann Owens*. 2012. “Constrained Compliance_Solving the Puzzle of MTO's Lease-Up Rates and Why Mobility Matters.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 14: 163-178.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2012. “What is the Role of Housing Policy? Considering Choice and Social Science Evidence.” Journal of Urban Affairs 34: 21-28.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Greg Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall and Micere Keels. Forthcoming, 2011. “The Notable and the Null: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Diverse Impacts of Residential Mobility Programs.” in Maarten Van Ham (Ed.), Neighborhood Effects: New Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer.

Gasper, Joseph, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. Forthcoming. “Switching High Schools_Reconsider Reconsidering the Relationship between School Mobility and Dropout.” American Educational Research Journal 49:487-519.

Bozick, Robert and Stefanie DeLuca. 2011. “Not Making the Transition to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of American Youth.” Social Science Research 40: 1249-1262.

Deil-Amen, Regina and Stefanie DeLuca. 2010. "The Underserved Third: How Our Educational Structures Populate an Educational Underclass." Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 15:27-50

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2010. “Does Moving To Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program.” Teachers College Record 112(5):1441-1489.

Gasper, Joseph, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. 2010. "Coming and Going: The Effects of Residential and School Mobility on Delinquency." Social Science Research 39:459-476.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Dayton. 2009. “Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes.”  Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 35.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Greg Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall and Micere Keels. 2010. “Gautreaux Mothers and Their Children: An Update.” Housing Policy Debate  20: 7-25

Plank, Stephen, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. 2008. “High School Dropout and the Role of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School.” Sociology of Education, 81: 347-370.

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2008. “Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives? The Chicago Gautreaux Housing Program.” In David Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Race, Class and Gender in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. Pp. 393-399.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2007. “All Over the Map: Explaining Educational Outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity Program.” Education Next Fall Issue: 29-36.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Robert Bozick. 2005. "Better Late Than Never? Delayed Enrollment in the High School to College Transition." Social Forces 84: 528-550.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca and Tammy Tuck. 2005. "Crossing Borders and Adapting: How Low-Income Black Families Acquire New Capabilities in Suburban Neighborhoods."In Xavier de Souza Briggs (Ed.), Metro Dilemma: Race, Housing Choice and Opportunity in America. Brookings Institution. Pp 150-175

Mendenhall, Ruby, Stefanie DeLuca and Greg Duncan. 2006. “Neighborhood Resources and Economic Mobility: Results from the Gautreaux Program” Social Science Research 35:892-923.

Keels, Micere*, Greg J. Duncan, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall*, and James E. Rosenbaum. 2005. “Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide a Permanent Escape from Neighborhood Crime and Poverty?” Demography 42 (1): 51-73.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2003. "Do Blacks Prefer Integrated Neighborhoods? Testing Survey Opinions with Quasi-Experimental Residential Mobility Data."Housing Policy Debate, 14: 305-346.

Rosenbaum, James E., Lisa Reynolds and Stefanie DeLuca. 2002. "How Do Places Matter? The Geography of Opportunity, Self-Efficacy, and a Look Inside the Black Box of Residential Mobility." Housing Studies, 17:71-82.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2001. "Individual Agency and the Life Course: Do Low SES Students Get Less Long-Term Pay-Off For Their School Efforts?"Sociological Focus , 34, 357-376.

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2000. “Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform? Lessons from Chicago’s Gautreaux Program.” Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Survey Series.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca, Shazia R. Miller, and Kevin Roy. 1999. Pathways into Work: Short and Long Term Effects of Personal and Institutional Ties." Sociology of Education , 72, 179-196.

Working Papers

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

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jennifer Darrah-Okike* and Kiara Nerenberg. Forthcoming. “’I Just Had to Go With it Once I Got There:’ Income Differences in How Parents Find Housing and Schools.” City and Community.

Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer (alpha order). Forthcoming. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice.” American Economic Review.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, and Joseph Boselovic. Forthcoming, 2024. “Exploring the Tradeoff between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneity in Adversity among Disadvantaged Black Youth.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients.” (Revise and resubmit at American Economic Review, also NBER Working Paper # w26164)

DeLuca, Stefanie, Kiara Nerenberg and Joseph Boselovic. “‘Getting Knocked Back’: How the Anticipation of Instability Shapes Post-Secondary Decision-Making.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jennifer Darrah* and Kiara Nerenberg. “I Can Fill in the Gaps”: Social Class Differences in How Parents Make School Choices.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Andrew Gray and Nicholas Papageorge (alpha order). “Rational Responses to Uncertainty? Understanding Disadvantaged Youths' Post-Secondary Educational Choices.”

Young, Allison and Stefanie DeLuca. “I Don’t Want to Rush Everything and End Up Where I Started” Disadvantaged Youth, College Choice, and the Reverse Life Course.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden, and Anna Rhodes. “Expanding the Geography of Educational Opportunity: Can Housing Policy Improve the Achievement of Minority Youth?”

Garboden, Philip M.E. and Stefanie DeLuca. “I Came Straight Here”: How Poor Families Search For Housing.

Rhodes, Anna and Stefanie DeLuca. “Families without Borders: Understanding Child Mobility across Households.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Anna Rhodes and Robert Bozick. “Mind the Gap (Year): College Delay, Time Use and Postsecondary Pathways.”

Condliffe, Barbara, Siri Warkentien and Stefanie DeLuca. “Shaken Up? When and Why Family Instability Can Be A Good Thing For Children."

Warkentien, Siri, Barbara Condliffe and Stefanie DeLuca. “Measuring Family Complexity in Low-Income African American Families.”

EMPLOYMENT 

Johns Hopkins University

2017-present: James S. Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy
                           Director, Poverty and Inequality Research Lab

2017-2022: Director, Social Policy Program

2009-2017: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

2009-present: Associate, Hopkins Population Center

2002-2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Harvard University

2023-present: Research Principal, Opportunity Insights

2018-present: Visiting Scholar/Affiliate, Opportunity Insights/Department of Economics

University of Notre Dame

2006 (Fall): Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Research on Educational Opportunity

EDUCATION

2002: Northwestern University; Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy

1997: University of Chicago; B.A. Honors in Sociology and Psychology

RESEARCH AREAS

• Poverty, education, housing, and neighborhood inequality, economic and racial segregation
• Housing and education policies to reduce inequality and segregation
• Young adulthood, especially transitions to postsecondary education and work
• Decision-making in the context of uncertainty and opportunity
• Mixed & interdisciplinary methods, longitudinal qualitative methods, experimental interventions

FUNDING

External Research Grants, Fellowships and Funding Awards

2024-2025. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “A Mixed Methods Study of Race and Class Changes in Economic Mobility.” (PI, collaboration grant with Raj Chetty and Opportunity Insights) ($325,000).

2024-2025. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “A Mixed Methods Study of Race and Class Changes in Economic Mobility.” (PI, collaboration grant with Raj Chetty and Opportunity Insights) ($325,000).

2024-2026. Smith Richardson Foundation. “Increasing Opportunity and Upward Mobility: What Can We Learn from Communities.” ($283,000).

2023-2025. Russell Sage Foundation. “How Do High-Achieving Low-Income Students Make Postsecondary Decisions? Identifying Mechanisms and Understanding Heterogeneity in the HAIL Financial Aid Intervention.” (PI with Elizabeth Burland) ($182,867).

2023-2024. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation/Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. “Social Capital and the Mechanisms that Produce Upward Mobility.” (PI, $203,412).

2020-2024. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Seattle Housing Authority Mobility from Poverty Pilot.” (PI, partnership with Seattle and King County Housing Authorities) ($543,361).

2021-2023. Smith Richardson Foundation. “How High-Achieving Low-Income Students Respond to Targeted Financial Aid.” (PI w Susan Dynarski) ($50,000).

2020-2021. University of Michigan, Poverty Solutions. “College Decision-Making and Financial Aid.” (Co-PI w Susan Dynarski) ($20,000).

2019-2021. Overdeck Family Foundation/Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Understanding Experimental Outcomes through Family Experiences.” (PI, $345,280).

2019-2022. Russell Sage Foundation. “Rational Responses to Uncertainty: Understanding Disadvantaged Youths’ Post-Secondary Education Choices.” (Co-PI w Nicholas Papageorge) ($171,182).

2019-2020. William T. Grant Foundation. “Creating Moves to Opportunity for Families and Children: Using Mixed Methods to Understand Policy Mechanisms.” (PI) ($49,077).

2018-2019. Annie E. Casey Foundation/Poverty and Race Research Action Council. “Tempting the Opportunity Landlord: What Convinces Landlords to Accept Voucher Holders in Low-Poverty Areas?” (PI) ($20,000).

2016-2020. Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Who Is Moving In? Repopulation, Reinvestment, and Pathways to Revitalization in East Baltimore and Greater Homewood” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin, Philip Garboden, Christine Jang) ($539,429).

2016-2021. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Mobility from Poverty: A Pilot Intervention in Seattle and King County.” (Co-PI w Raj Chetty, Lawrence Katz, Nathan Hendren, Peter Bergman, Christopher Palmer, Seattle Housing Authority, King County Housing Authority) ($3M, all direct costs for intervention).

2015-2018. MacArthur Foundation. “How Parents House Kids and How Landlords Broker the Geography of Opportunity.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($100,000).

2015-2019. Spencer Foundation. “Switching Schools and Navigating Neighborhoods: Can Housing Vouchers Improve Educational Achievement for Low Income Minority Youth?” (PI) ($292,000).

2015-2016. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Hearing Their Voices: Baltimore Youth’s Perceptions After Freddie Gray.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($79,000).

2014-2016. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Divestment and Abandonment in Baltimore, MD.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($99,000).

2014-2015. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Moving to Opportunity: Platform for Improving Health.” (Co-PI w Craig. Pollack and Rachel Thornton) ($76,000).

2013-2017. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($401,000).

2013-2014. Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University. “The Gatekeepers of Geography, How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Opportunity Among Moderate- to Low-Income Renters.” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($25,000).

2012-2015. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. “The Interface of Mobility and Sustainability: Thompson v HUD.” (Co-PI w AREA, Inc.; The Urban Institute).

2012-2018. The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “How Parents House Kids: Residential Decisions, Financial Tradeoffs and Parenting Among Low to Moderate Income Families with Young Children”. (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin) ($750,000).

 2012-2015. Abell Foundation. “Connecting Housing and Education Policy: Examining Educational Outcomes for the Children of the Baltimore Mobility Program”. (PI) ($197,000).

2011-2014. MacArthur Foundation. Research Network on Housing and Families with Children (Member).

2011-2013. National Science Foundation. “Creating School Choice through Housing Choice: How Increased Housing Opportunity Affects Educational Access for Poor Children.” (PI) ($220,000).

2011-2012. Abell Foundation. “Do Place-Based Policy Interventions Increase Neighborhood Opportunity? The Case of Sandtown-Winchester in Baltimore”. (PI) ($31,300).

2010-2012. William T. Grant Foundation. “Low-Income Youth, Neighborhoods, and Housing Mobility in Baltimore” (Co-PI w Kathryn Edin and Susan Clampet-Lundquist) ($460,938).                                         

2008-2013. William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award. “Moving Matters:  Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Family in the Lives of Poor Adolescents.” (PI) ($350,000).

2008-2009. Spencer Foundation. “Should Everyone Go to College? Reconsidering the Risks and Rewards of Postsecondary Education in the United States” (Co-PIs w E. Grodsky, R. Warren, R Deil-Amen) ($11,000).

2008. Spencer Foundation. “Reconsidering College Enrollment for All: Exploring Multiple Pathways to Successful Adulthood” (Co-PIs w E. Grodsky, R. Warren, R. Deil-Amen) ($11,000).

2008-2009. Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Residential Mobility and Opportunity: Following the Families of Baltimore’s Thompson Housing Voucher Program” (PI) ($25,000).

2008-2009. Spencer Foundation. “Soft and Hard Skill Sets:  Measuring Readiness in Young Adulthood with Cognitive Skills and Noncognitive Traits” (PI) ($40,000).

2008-2009. American Educational Research Association Grants Program. “The Decision Not to Attend College: School, Work and Opportunities in the Lives of Contemporary High School Students” (Co-PI w Robert Bozick) ($20,000).

2007-2008. Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Residential Mobility and Opportunity: Following the Families of Baltimore’s Thompson Housing Voucher Program” (PI) ($57,000).

2006. Center for Research on Education Opportunity, University of Notre Dame. Visiting Faculty Fellowship.

2005-2006. National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. Postdoctoral Fellowship. “Coming and Going: The Neighborhood and Educational Contexts of Mobile Students.” (PI) ($55,000).

2003-2005. National Center for Career and Technical Education, Office of Vocational Education, United States Department of Education. “Opportunity, Exposure, and Outcomes: Analyses of the Career and Technical Educational Experiences of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Participants.” (Co-PI w Stephen Plank) ($144,000).

2003-2005. Annie E. Casey Foundation. Graduate research support for foundation research priorities (PI) ($20,000).

Other Funding Awards

2023-2028. National Institutes of Health, NIDDK. Co-PI. “The Mobility Opportunity Voucher to Eliminate Disparities (MOVED) Study: Obesity and Diabetes Risk in HUD’s Community Choice Demonstration” (R01DK136610) PI: Craig Pollack (total: $7.5M, 5% effort).

2023-2024. Hopkins Population Center.  “Sub-baccalaureate Swirling: Understanding the Trajectories of Community College Students and Take-Up in Programs Aimed to Increase Degree Completion.” ($20,000)

2019-2020. Johns Hopkins University, Internal Research Award. “What Happens When an Elite University Announces It Is Need-Blind? Attracting, Retaining and Advancing Economically Disadvantaged Students.” (co-PI with Nick Papageorge) ($100,000).

2017-2018. Johns Hopkins University, 21^st Century Cities Initiative Seed Grant Program. “How Information and Future Expectations Affect Educational Investments among Low-Income Youth in Baltimore.” (co-PI with Nick Papageorge and Seth Gershenson) ($25,000).

 2017. Undergraduate Summer Training and Research Program (STAR), Johns Hopkins, for Jillian Pak 2016-2017. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “The Effects of Neighborhood Poverty on Health Care Utilization and Spending for Low-income Adults and Children: Linking the Moving to Opportunity Participants to Medical Claims Data.” (PI Craig Pollack) (total: $132K; 5% effort).

2016-2023. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. “The effect of a housing mobility program on environmental exposures and asthma morbidity among low-income minority children.” (Co-PI with PIs Craig Pollack and Elizabeth Matsui) ($3M total costs; 5% effort).

2011. Hopkins Population Center. “Comparative effectiveness of moving to a low- versus remaining in a high-poverty neighborhood for health care utilization and costs.” (Co-PI with PIs Craig Pollack and Rachel Thornton, JHU School of Medicine). ($25,000).
2012. Hopkins Population Center. “Understanding Family Instability in the Lives of Poor Youth” ($15,000).
2013. 2009. Provost Undergraduate Research Award Grant, Johns Hopkins University
2014. 2009. Center for Educational Resources Technology Fellows Grant, Johns Hopkins University
2015. 2003. Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Incentive Grant for Junior Faculty, Johns Hopkins University

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Finalist, 2024
• Paper of the Year Award, Housing Policy Debate, 2024
• Stanford University, Center on Longevity Future Project, Fellow 2024-2025
• Publicly Engaged Scholar Award, American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2021
• University of Wisconsin, Institute for Policy Research, Faculty Affiliate, 2022-
• Sociological Research Association, Elected 2020
• University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research Scholar, 2019-
• Scholar of the Year Award, National Alliance for Residents of Assisted and Affordable Housing, 2017
• William F. Goode Book Award from the American Sociological Association for Coming of Age in the Other America, 2017
• The Century Foundation Non-Resident Research Fellowship, 2012-2020
• William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award, 2008-2013
• Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2010 (also nominated 2006)
• Spencer Foundation, Resident Fellowship, 2008
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006
• Phi Delta Kappa, Best Dissertation Award (Northwestern University), 2003

BOOKS
DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin. 2016. Coming of Age in the Other America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association
• Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association
• Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, City and Community, Journal of Economic Literature, Social Service Review, Journal of the American Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Education Next, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development  
• Featured in New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, The Nation, New York Post, Next City, Baltimore Sun, The 74, Fusion, Trace, NPR, WYPR Baltimore, KPFK Los Angeles, BBC Newsday, PBS

 PAPERS
(graduate student co-authors noted by **; postdoctoral & junior faculty co-authors noted by *; alpha order noted)

DeLuca, Stefanie and Jacqueline Groccia**. 2024. “Improving Residential Outcomes for Housing Choice Voucher Holders: The Importance of Supportive Staff for Families and Landlords.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research. 26:123-144.

• Featured in The Baltimore Banner

Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer (alpha order). 2024. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice.” American Economic Review 114: 1281-1337.

• Featured in New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Vox, USA Today

Pollack, Craig, Debra G. Bozzi, Amanda L. Blackford, Stefanie DeLuca, Rachel Thornton, Bradley Herring. 2023. “Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions & Type of Service.” Housing Policy Debate 33: 269-289.

• Paper of the Year Award, Housing Policy Debate, 2024

Holland, Megan* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “Why Wait Years to Become Something? Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs.” Sociology of Education 89: 261-278.

• Featured in The Atlantic, NPR, MarketWatch, Chicago Tribune, Inside HigherEd

Darrah, Jennifer* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “‘Living Here Changed My Whole Perspective’: How Escaping Inner City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice.” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. 33: 350-384.

• Featured in Washington Post, Atlantic, Baltimore Sun, Washington City Paper, Governing Magazine

 Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jennifer Darrah-Okike* and Kiara Nerenberg. 2024. “’I Just Had to Go with It Once I Got There’: Inequality, Housing, and School Re-optimization.” City and Community. Online first.

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

Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer (alpha order). 2024. “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice.” American Economic Review 114: 1281-1337.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, and Joseph Boselovic. 2024. “Exploring the Tradeoff between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneity in Adversity among Disadvantaged Black Youth.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10:103-131

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2023. “Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research.” Sociological Methods and Research 52:1073-1085.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Lawrence S. Katz and Sarah Oppenheimer. 2023. “‘When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless’: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Confidence in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences  9(5): 179-211.

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. 2023. “The association of a housing mobility program with asthma symptoms and exacerbations.” Journal of the American Medical Association.

Pollack, Craig, Debra G. Bozzi, Amanda L. Blackford, Stefanie DeLuca, Rachel Thornton, Bradley Herring. 2023. “Using the Moving to Opportunity Experiment to Investigate the Long-Term Impact of Neighborhoods on Healthcare Use by Specific Clinical Conditions & Type of Service.” Housing Policy Debate 33: 269-289.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Eva Rosen.* 2022. “Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today.” Annual Review of Sociology 48: 343-71.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Christine Jang-Trettien. 2020. “‘Not Just a Lateral Move’: Residential Decisions and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality.” City and Community 19(3): 451-488.

Harvey, Hope, Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin and Stefanie DeLuca. 2020. “Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: How Housing Search Perceptions Shape Residential Selection.” Social Forces 98: 1498-1523.

Pollack Craig, Blackford Amanda, Du Shawn, DeLuca Stefanie, Thornton Rachel, Herring Brad. 2019. “Association of receipt of a housing voucher with subsequent hospital utilization and spending.”  Journal of the American Medical Association 322: 2215-2124.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Holly Wood and Peter Rosenblatt.* 2019. “Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Reactive Mobility and Residential Decisions.” City and Community 18:556-593.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2019. “Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Chicago.” Housing Policy Debate. 29: 213-216.

Garboden, Philip, Eva Rosen*, Stefanie DeLuca and Kathryn Edin. 2018. “Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program.” Housing Policy Debate 28:979-1003.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt.* 2017. “Walking Away from The Wire: Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore.” Housing Policy Debate 27: 519-546.

Holland, Megan* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “Why Wait Years to Become Something? Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs.” Sociology of Education 89: 261-278.

Rosenblatt, Peter* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “What Happened in Sandtown-Winchester? Understanding the Impacts of a Comprehensive Community Initiative.” Urban Affairs Review 1-32.

Condliffe, Barbara, Melody Boyd* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “Stuck in School: How School Choice Policies Interact with Social Context to Shape Inner City Students’ Educational Careers.” Teachers College Record 117: 1-36.

Darrah, Jennifer* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “‘Living Here Changed My Whole Perspective’: How Escaping Inner City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice.” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management. 33: 350-384.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden and Peter Rosenblatt*. 2013. “Segregating Shelter: How Housing Policies Shape the Residential Locations of Low-Income Minority Families.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647:268-299.

Rosenblatt, Peter* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2012. “We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here”: Neighborhoods and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low-income Families.” City and Community 11:254-284.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2012. “What is the Role of Housing Policy? Considering Choice and Social Science Evidence.” Journal of Urban Affairs 34: 21-28.

Edin, Kathryn, Stefanie DeLuca and Ann Owens*. 2012. “Constrained Compliance: Solving the Puzzle of MTO’s Lease-Up Rates & Why Mobility Matters.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research 14: 163-178.

Gasper, Joseph*, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. 2012. “Switching High Schools: Reconsidering the Relationship between School Mobility and Dropout” American Educational Research Journal 49: 487-519.

Bozick, Robert* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2011. “Not Making the Transition to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of American Youth.” Social Science Research 40: 1249-1262.

Deil-Amen, Regina and Stefanie DeLuca (alpha order). 2010. “The Underserved Third:  How Our Educational Structures Populate an Educational Underclass.” Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 15:27-50.

Gasper, Joseph*, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. 2010. “Coming and Going: The Effects of Residential and School Mobility on Delinquency.” Social Science Research 39: 459-476.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2010. “Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program.” Teachers College Record 112 (5) 1441-1489.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Greg Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall and Micere Keels. 2010. “Gautreaux Mothers and Their Children: An Update.” Housing Policy Debate 20: 7-25.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Dayton. 2009. “Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes.”  Annual Review of Sociology 35: 457-491.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca and Anita Zuberi. 2009. “When Does Residential Mobility Benefit Low-income Families? Evidence from Recent Housing Voucher Programs.” Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 17: 113-123.

Plank, Stephen, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. 2008. “High School Dropout and the Role of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School.” Sociology of Education 81: 345-370.

Mendenhall, Ruby, Stefanie DeLuca and Greg Duncan. 2006. “Neighborhood Resources and Economic Mobility: Results from the Gautreaux Program” Social Science Research 35:892-923.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Robert Bozick (alpha). 2005. “Better Late Than Never? Delayed Enrollment in the High School to College Transition.” Social Forces 84(1): 527-550.

Keels, Micere*, Greg J. Duncan, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall*, and James E. Rosenbaum. 2005. “Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide a Permanent Escape from Neighborhood Crime and Poverty?” Demography 42 (1): 51-73.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2003. “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.” Housing Policy Debate, 14: 305-346.

Rosenbaum, James E., Lisa Reynolds and Stefanie DeLuca. 2002. “How Do Places Matter? The Geography of Opportunity, Self-Efficacy, and a Look Inside the Black Box of Residential Mobility.” Housing Studies, 17:71-82.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2001. “Individual Agency and the Life Course: Do Low SES Students Get Less Long-Term Pay-Off for Their School Efforts?” Sociological Focus, 34, 357-376.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca, Shazia R. Miller, and Kevin Roy. 1999. “Pathways into Work: Short and Long Term Effects of Personal and Institutional Ties.” Sociology of Education, 72, 179-196.

Book Chapters

DeLuca, Stefanie, Anna Rhodes,* Allison Young. 2020. “How Parents and Children Adapt to New Neighborhoods: Some Considerations for Future Housing Mobility Programs.” Chapter 8 (Pp. 187-218) in Laura Tach, Rachel Dunifon and Douglas L. Miller (Eds.), Confronting Inequality: How Policies and Practices Shape Children’s Opportunities. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2019. “Why Don’t More Voucher Holders Escape Poor Neighborhoods?” In Ingrid Ellen and Justin Steil (Eds.), The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity. New York: Columbia University Press.

Boyd, Melody L.* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2017. “Fieldwork with In-Depth Interviews: How to Get Strangers in the City to Tell You Their Stories.” In Michael J. Oakes and Jay Kaufman (Eds.), Methods in Social Epidemiology (Wiley/Jossey-Bass).

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. (updated chapter, 2014). “Does Changing Neighborhoods Change Lives? The Chicago Gautreaux Housing Program.” In David Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Race, Class and Gender in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. Pp. 393-399.

Rhodes, Anna and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “Residential Mobility and School Choice Among Poor Families.” Chapter 5 in Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools, Annette Lareau and Kim Goyette, (Eds.), Pp. 137-166. Russell Sage Foundation: New York.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Greg Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall and Micere Keels.2012. “The Notable and the Null: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Diverse Impacts of Residential Mobility Programs.” Chapter 9 in Maarten Van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson and Duncan Maclennan (Eds.), Neighborhood Effects Research: New Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer. Pp. 195-223.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2009. “Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” In Gregory Squires and Chester Hartman (Eds.), The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities. Routledge Press. Ch. 13.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca and Tammy Tuck. 2005. “New Capabilities in New Places: Low-Income Black Families in Suburbia.” In Xavier de Souza Briggs (Ed.), The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution. Pp. 150-175. (Book Winner of the 2007 Paul Davidoff Award for Top Publication in Urban Planning).

Papers Under Review and Working Drafts

Under Review/R&R

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, Andrew Gray, Seth Gershenson, Joseph L., Boselovic, Kiara M. Nerenberg, Jasmine Sausedo, and Allison Young. 2021. “When Anything Can Happen”: Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making.” NBER #29472 (Under review)

Chenoweth, Erica, Stefanie DeLuca, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Stephen Roll, Matthew V. Zahn. “Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?” (Under review)

Young, Allison and Stefanie DeLuca. “I Don’t Want to Rush Everything and End Up Where I Started:” Disadvantaged Youth, College Choice, and the Reverse Life Course. (Under review)

Working Papers

Burland, Elizabeth and Stefanie DeLuca. “Risk, Social Mobility and Postsecondary Choices: Leveraging a Financial Aid Experiment to Understand the College Decisions of Low-Income Students.”

DeLuca, Stefanie. “How Commensuration Leads to Stratification: An Analysis of Low-Income Renters’ Credit Scoring Experiences.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jacqueline Groccia and Gorana Ilic. “Developing a More Comprehensive Measure of Housing Insecurity: Insights from the Residential Histories of Housing Voucher Recipients.” 

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jasmine Sausedo, and Robert Bozick. “Time Waits For No One: Delayed Enrollment and Bachelor’s Degree Attainment.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, Jacqueline Groccia and Mark Drozd. “Sub-baccalaureate Swirling: Understanding Timing, Trajectories and Degree Completion for Community College Students.”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden, Anna Rhodes and Xiao Yu. “Expanding the Geography of Educational Opportunity: Can Housing Policy Improve the Achievement of Minority Youth?”

DeLuca, Stefanie, Kiara Nerenberg, Jasmine Sausedo and Joseph Boselovic. “We Came So Close in Finding a Place”: Residential Choice, Barriers, and Tradeoffs in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment.”

Garboden, Philip M.E. and Stefanie DeLuca. “I Came Straight Here”: How Poor Families Search for Housing.”

Other Publications

Cossyleon, Jennifer,* Philip Garboden* and Stefanie DeLuca. 2020. Recruiting Opportunity Landlords: Lessons from Landlords in Maryland. Poverty and Race Research Action Council/Mobility Works Report.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge and Emma Kalish. 2020. “The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing.” Blog for the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. (Reprinted in InReach! Amerihealth)

Pollack, Craig, Rachel Thornton and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “Targeting housing mobility vouchers to help families with children.” Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics. (June: pp. E1-E2).

DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin. 2016. “Want to improve your qualitative research? Try using representative sampling and working in teams.” Contexts Magazine.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden and Peter Rosenblatt.* 2012. “Why Don’t Vouchers Do a Better Job of Deconcentrating Poverty? Insights from Fieldwork with Poor Families.” Poverty and Race 21: 1-2, 9.

Bills, David, Stefanie DeLuca and Stephen Morgan. 2013. “Altered States of the Collective Mind: A Response to Brint.” Sociology of Education 86: 286-288.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2008. “Neighborhood Matters: Do Housing Vouchers Work?” Boston Review, Jan./Feb.

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2008. “What kinds of neighborhoods change lives? The Chicago Gautreaux Housing Program and Recent Mobility Programs.” Indiana Law Review 41:653-662.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. 2008. “Escaping Poverty: Can Housing Vouchers Help?” Pathways: A Magazine on Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy, from the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. Winter: 29-32.

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2007. “Gautreaux Residential Mobility Program.” In William A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2^nd Edition. Cengage Gale.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2007. “All Over the Map: Explaining Educational Outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity Program.” Education Next Fall: 29-36.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2005. “The Continuing Relevance of the Gautreaux Program for Housing Mobility”. In Philip Tegeler, Mary Cunningham, & Margery Austin Turner (Eds.) Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Conference Report of the Third National Conference on Housing Mobility. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute. 

Keels, Micere*, Greg J. Duncan, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall*, and James Rosenbaum. 2003. “How Permanent Are Successes in Residential Relocation Programs?” Joint Center for Poverty Research Policy Briefs 5 (2).

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2000. “Is Housing Mobility the Key to Welfare Reform?  Lessons from Chicago’s Gautreaux Program.” Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Survey Series.

Multimedia Reports

“Finding Home: Voices of the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program,” report with The Century Foundation.  http://apps.tcf.org/finding-home

Selected Research and Policy Reports

Garboden, Philip,* Eva Rosen,* Meredith Greif,* Stefanie DeLuca, Kathryn Edin. 2018. Urban Landlords and the Housing Choice Voucher Program: A Research Report. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Policy Development and Research Division.

Bell, Monica,* Hana Clemens,* Stefanie DeLuca, Brittany Dernberger,* Kathryn Edin, and Allison Young.* 2017. “Set-Up City: The Voices of Baltimore Youth After the April 2015 Unrest.” Poverty and Inequality Research Lab Report, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Anna Rhodes* and Philip ME Garboden.* 2016. “The Power of Place: How Housing Policy Can Boost Educational Opportunity.” Report for the Abell Foundation.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt.* 2013. “Do Place-Based Policy Interventions Increase Neighborhood Opportunity? The Case of Sandtown-Winchester in Baltimore.” A Report for the Abell Foundation. The Abell Report Volume 26, Number 8.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2011. “Increasing Access to High Performing Schools in an Assisted Housing Voucher Program.” Report prepared for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Education report, Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Support Racial and Economic Integration. http://www.prrac.org/pdf/HousingEducationReport-October2011.pdf

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2006. “Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills and Other Individual Determinants of Educational Outcomes” White paper in preparation for “Advancing the Understanding of the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Outcomes” sponsored by NORC and the Spencer Foundation. Chicago, IL, October 13^th.

DeLuca, Stefanie. 2006. “The Significance of Neighborhoods, Housing Policy and Residential Segregation for School Integration and Educational Outcomes” Report prepared for the American Sociological Association’s Spivack Workshop on School Desegregation. Arlington, VA, June 9-11^th.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Stephen Plank and Angela Estacion. 2006. Does Career and Technical Education Affect College Enrollment? St. Paul, MN: National Research Center for Career and Technical Education.

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Invited Academic Talks

 2025

• University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, TBD 2025
• Invited Speaker, Family and Education Workshop (organized by David Figlio and Susan Dynarski), Napa CA, March 2-3, 2025
• Yale University, March 27th, 2025
• University of Kentucky, Martin School and Dept. of Economics, April 25th, 2025
• UCLA and California Population Center, October, 2025

2024

• University of Chicago, Stone Center, November 15th, 2024
• University of Buffalo, Department of Sociology, November 20th, 2024
• Community College of Carroll County, MD, “How Social Science Can Shape Better Social Policy: The Value of Interdisciplinary and Mixed Methods Research for Housing and Education Policy”, April 15th, 2024
• Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients,” March 27th, 2024
• Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Feb 15th, 2024

2023

• University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy, Poverty Solutions, “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients,” October 27^th, 2023
• National Bureau of Economic Research, Behavioral Public Economics Bootcamp, Cambridge, MA. “The Value of Mixed Methods Research for Policy,” October 12^th, 2023
• Paris School of Economics, “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients” May 26^th 2023
• Cornell University, Keynote Speaker, “Residential Mobility, Housing, and Neighborhood Opportunity: Learning from Qualitative Methods & Policy Experiments,” Conference on The New Demography of Migration and Mobility, May 4^th 2023
• University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy, Education Policy Institute, “How High-Achieving Low-Income Students Respond to Targeted Financial Aid”, February 16^th, 2023
• Invited Speaker, Family and Education Workshop (organized by David Figlio and Susanna Loeb), San Juan, PR, March 1^st, 2023

2022

• Harvard University (Opportunity Insights), “When Anything Can Happen”: Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making” May 4^th, 2022
• Swansea University, Wales, UK, “When Anything Can Happen”: Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making” March 17^th, 2022;
• Stanford University Pathways Lab, “When Anything Can Happen”: Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making” March 2^nd, 2022.
• Russell Sage Foundation, “Disruptions During Childhood” conference for special journal issue. “DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, Joseph Boselovic. “Exploring the Tradeoff between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneity in Adversity among Disadvantaged Black Youth.” June 2022.

2021

• Pasadena City College, Research to Practice Partnership Seminar, December 3^rd, 2021.
• Russell Sage Foundation, “Administrative Burdens” conference for special journal issue. “DeLuca, Stefanie, Lawrence S. Katz and Sarah Oppenheimer. “‘When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless’: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Confidence in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment.”; February 25^th, 2022.
• University of Chicago, Mansueto Institute, “How do we properly measure K-12 school quality, and do these measures plausibly mediate neighborhood effects on kids”, October 6^th, 2021
• George Washington University, “The Segregated City” October 1st, 2021
• National Association for Housing and Redevelopment Officials, “Future of the Housing Choice Voucher Program”, July 13^th, 2021
• Robin Hood Foundation and The Century Foundation, Housing Roundtable for Next NYC Mayoral Administration, March 22, 2021

2020

• National Apartment Association, “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Increasing Housing and Neighborhood Quality and Working with Landlord,” November 10^th, 2020
• J-PAL North American State and Local Innovation Initiative, “Incorporating qualitative research and interdisciplinary perspectives in randomized evaluations.” Sept. 30^th, 2020
• Keynote Speaker, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Design, March 5^th 2020
• Keynote Speaker, National Association of Realtors, February 6^th 2020
• Fireside Chat with Mayor Muriel Bowser, National Press Club, February 6^th 2020
• “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients”

21^st Century Cities Initiative, Johns Hopkins, November 12^th, 2020; Washington University St. Louis, Oct. 19^th, 2020; University of Southern California, Oct. 13^th, 2020; Urban Institute, July 13^th, 2020; University of Washington, April 2020;

 2019

• “Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients”

Georgetown University, keynote at Sociology of Housing Conference, Oct. 4^th, 2019

2017

• American University, Panel on Inequality, November 9^th, 2017
• Urban Institute Roundtable on Housing Instability October 3^rd, 2017
• National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing Keynote, Sept 22^nd, 2017
• Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition “Know Before You Enroll” Keynote, Sept 25^th, 2017

 2016

• Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute, “Decision-Making Among the Urban Poor”, Dec. 14-15^th, 2016.
• The Century Foundation, “The Cycle of Poverty is Not Inevitable,” June 15^th, 2016

2015

• The Century Foundation, “The Neighborhood Divided: Housing, Schools & Race in America.” July 22^nd, 2015.

 2014

• Cornell University, “Why Poor People Move: Residential Mobility, Selection & Segregation”, March 2014

2013

• University of Wisconsin, “Racial Segregation, Schools and Neighborhoods: The Pitfalls and Promise of Choice Based Policies.” November 8^th, 2013.
• University of Maryland, College Park. “Studying Selection (Bias): The Challenges & Rewards of Research on Residential Mobility, Housing & Neighborhoods Effects”. April 2013.
• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine “Housing Policy and Family Well-Being”. February 2013.
• “Why Poor People Move: Residential Mobility, Selection and Segregation”

University of Minnesota, November 2013; Rutgers University, Camden, January, 2013;

2012

• “Why Poor People Move: Residential Mobility, Selection and Segregation”

Columbia University, Oct 2012; Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, September, 2012; New York University, February 2012; University of Wisconsin, February 2011.; Northwestern University, January 2011.

• Homeless Persons Representation Project, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, October 2012.
• The Century Foundation, “Housing Policy Since The Truly Disadvantaged.” Invited Panelist for Symposium on the 25^th Anniversary of The Truly Disadvantaged. September 28^th, 2012 (DC); October 26^th, 2012 (New York).

2011

• “Why Poor People Move: Residential Mobility, Selection and Segregation” University of Wisconsin, February 2011.; Northwestern University, January 2011.
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Invited Scholar for “The Scholar Is In: RACE: Are We So Different?” Part of the “Let’s Talk about Race—At the Smithsonian” Series. Nov. 16^th, 2011.
• Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, “Families, Neighborhoods, Housing Policy.” Philadelphia, Oct. 2011.
• Brown University, “Navigating Urban Space: Housing the Poor in a Post-HOPEVI Era.” March 18^th, 2011.
• University of Chicago, Rethinking Urban Poverty for the 21st Century: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives. “Residential Dynamics, Neighborhood Quality and Housing Policy: Selection and the Stratification of Poor Minority Families”, March 10-11^th, 2011.
• University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, “Education and Housing Instability”, February 2011.
• Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History. “Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment”, January 8^th, 2011.

2003-2010

• “Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities?” University of Chicago, May 2010; University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April, 2009; University of Virginia, February 2009; University of Washington, April 2009.
• University of Notre Dame, “Should Everyone Go to College”, invited symposium for book prospectus, November 13^th, 2009.
• Towson University, “The Effects of Housing Mobility Programs” Towson, MD, March 5^th, 2008.
• University of Minnesota, “Inferring Neighborhood Effects from Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Housing Voucher Studies”, St. Paul, MN, January 24^th, 2008.
• University of Minnesota, Department of Epidemiology, “Switching Social Contexts: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and Youth”, St. Paul, MN, March 8^th, 2007.
• Doug and Maria DeVos Foundation, “The Role of Social Contexts: Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Effects on Education Outcomes” Grand Rapids, MI, November 16^th, 2006.
• Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, “American Neighborhoods”, Baltimore, August 2^nd, 2006.
• Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, “American Neighborhoods”, New York City, April 25^th, 2006.
• Women’s Research and Education Institute, Rayburn House, Washington, D.C., June 28^th, 2004.
• Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, “Preparing for Postsecondary Life: The New ‘Vocationalism’ and Educational Stratification”, Baltimore, MD May 10^th, 2004.
• Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, “Assessing the College for All Philosophy: The Role of Career and Technical Education in Early Education Outcomes”, Baltimore, MD Oct. 9^th, 2003.

Book Events Coming of Age in the Other America

2020

Ohio State University, February 10^th, 2020

2019

University of California at Davis, November 2019; University of Chicago, April 2019; University of

Illinois at Chicago, March 2019; University of Pennsylvania, Feb 2019;

2018

Princeton University, November 2018; National Association of State Arts Agencies, October 2018; Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, May 22^nd 2018; Columbia University, April 19^th, 2018; SUNY-Cortland March 27^th, 2018; Bridgewater State University, March 15^th, 2018;

2017

Boston University, September 20^th, 2017; Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, Wisconsin State Fair Housing Conference, July 19^th, 2017;  American Ethical Union, June 2017; UCLA Department of Sociology, May 2017; Society for Prevention Research, May 31^st, 2017; Amazing Grace Fellowship Church and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, May 4^th, 2017; CityLit Festival, April 29^th, 2017; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, April 27^th, 2017; Stanford University CEPA, April 13^th, 2017; Lambert Foundation, April 12^th, 2017; Annapolis Book Fair, April 8^th, 2017; University of Notre Dame, April 2017; Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, D.C., March 23^rd, 2017; Arts Everyday March 11^th, 2017; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Sociology and Ed Policy), March 1^st, 2017; University of Maryland School of Medicine CURE Mentors, February 20^th, 2017; Baltimore Ethical Society, February 19^th, 2017; Federal Trade Commission, February 7^th, 2017; Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Baltimore Researchers Dinner, January 26^th, 2017

2016

Jobs of the Future, Baltimore, December 14^th, 2016; Central Scholarship of Baltimore, November, 2016; Baltimore Metropolitan Council, November 3^rd, 2016; University of Maryland Department of Epidemiology, October 20^th, 2016; America’s Promise, October 9^th, 2016; Barnes and Noble Baltimore, October 2016; United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, October 14^th, 2016; West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, September 30^th, 2016; Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle, September 14^th, 2016; Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, September 2016; Ivy Bookstore, July 2016; United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, D.C headquarters, August 23^rd, 2016; Abt Associates, August 10^th, 2016; Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, July 28^th, 2016; Horizons Community Center, Chestertown MD July 15^th, 2016; Dan Rodricks Roughly Speaking, June 8^th, 2016; Poverty and Race Research Action Council/Center for Law and Social Policy, May 2016; Johns Hopkins School of Education, May 4^th, 2016; American Association of Pediatrics, May 1^st, 2016; PBS To the Contrary, April 21^st, 2016; American Educational Research Association, Sociology of Education SIG, April 7^th, 2016; American University, February, 2016

2015

University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2015.

Selected Conference, Discussant and AMC Presentations

DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas Papageorge, Sarah Sullivan, Jacqueline Groccia and Mark Drozd. “Sub-baccalaureate Swirling: Understanding Timing, Trajectories and Degree Completion for Community College Students.” PAA 2025, Washington, D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Jacqueline Groccia**. “Using Navigators to Increase Access and Decrease Administrative Burden: A Cross-System and Government Perspective.” APPAM 2024, Washington D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Jacqueline Groccia**. “When Someone Cares about You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders.” APPAM 2024, Washington D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Burland. “Weighing Risk and Reward in the Postsecondary Choices of Low Income Students.” APPAM 2023, Atlanta.

Invited Panel Organizer. “The New Sociology of Housing: Precarity, Policy and Place.” ASA 2023, Philadelphia.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Burland. “New Insights into the Postsecondary Choices of College-Ready Students from Families with Low Incomes.” ASA 2023, Philadelphia.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jacqueline Groccia and Gorana Ilic. “Developing a More Comprehensive Measure of Housing Insecurity: Insights from the Residential Histories of Housing Voucher Recipients.” ASA 2022, Los Angeles.

Invited panel speaker. DeLuca, Stefanie. “Strengthening Randomized Evaluations with Qualitative Methods.” APPAM 2022, D.C.

Invited Session. DeLuca, Stefanie. “The Administrative State, Administrative Burdens, and the Consequences for Inequality.” Invited panel speaker, ASA 2022, Los Angeles.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jacqueline Groccia and Gorana Ilic. “Developing a More Comprehensive Measure of Housing Insecurity: Insights from the Residential Histories of Housing Voucher Recipients.” ASA 2022, Los Angeles.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jasmine Sausedo, and Robert Bozick. “Time Waits For No One: Delayed Enrollment and Bachelor’s Degree Attainment.” Paper presented at PAA, 2022, Atlanta.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jasmine Sausedo, Anna Rhodes and Robert Bozick. “Constraints or Cultivation? Postsecondary Delay Motivations and Degree Attainment.” Paper presented at AERA, 2022, San Diego.

DeLuca, Stefanie. Discussant. Author Meets Critics Session for Max Besbris Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices and Neighborhood Inequality, University of Chicago Press. ESS, 2022, Boston.

DeLuca Stefanie, Jasmine Sausedo and Joseph Boselovic .”“I Got The Voucher and I’m Still Running Through Obstacles”: Residential Trade-Offs Under Relaxed Constraints.” ASA, 2021, virtual.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jasmine Sausedo and Joseph Boselovic. “We Came So Close in Finding a Place”: Residential Choice, Barriers, and Tradeoffs in the Creating Moves to Opportunity Experiment.” PAA, 2021, virtual.

Young, Allison and Stefanie DeLuca. “I Don’t Want to Rush Everything and End Up Where I Started” Disadvantaged Youth, College Choice, and the Reverse Life Course. ASA, 2020, virtual.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Kiara Nerenberg and Joseph Boselovic. “‘Getting Knocked Back’: How the Anticipation of Instability Shapes Post-Secondary Decision-Making.” ASA, 2019, New York.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Kiara Nerenberg and Joseph Boselovic. “I might not even make it to the future: Negative Shocks and Post-Secondary Decision-Making.” ESS 2019, Boston.

DeLuca, Stefanie. Discussant. Author Meets Critics, Lower Ed, by Tressie McMillan Cottom. ASA 2018, Philadelphia.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Jennifer Darrah* and Kiara Nerenberg. “I Can Fill in the Gaps”: Social Class Differences in How Parents Make School Choices.” ASA, 2018, Philadelphia; ESS 2018, Baltimore.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden, and Anna Rhodes. “New Neighborhoods, New Schools: The Impact of Housing Mobility on Academic Achievement.” APPAM 2017, Chicago.

DeLuca, Stefanie. “How Housing Policy Can Increase Neighborhood and School Quality: Lessons from the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program.” Presidential Session on Housing Mobility at ESS 2017, Philadelphia.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden, and Anna Rhodes. “Can Housing Policy Improve the Achievement of Minority Youth?” ASA 2014, San Francisco.

Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca. “Vocational Education in the College-for-All Era: Low Income African American Youth Searching for Careers.” ASA 2014, San Francisco.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip Garboden, and Anna Rhodes. “Expanding the Geography of Educational Opportunity: Can Housing Policy Improve the Achievement of Minority Youth?” ESS 2014, Baltimore.

Garboden, Philip M.E. and Stefanie DeLuca. “How Poor Renters Search for Housing: Insights from Baltimore.” APPAM 2013, Washington.

Darrah, Jennifer* and Stefanie DeLuca. “New Neighborhoods, New Preferences: Baltimore’s Thompson Mobility Program and its impact on Residential Choice Frameworks.” ASA 2013, New York.

Condliffe, Barbara, Siri Warkentien and Stefanie DeLuca. “Shaken Up? When and Why Family Instability Can Be a Good Thing for Children.” ASA 2013, New York.

Warkentien, Siri, Barbara Condliffe and Stefanie DeLuca. “Measuring Family Complexity in Low-Income African American Families.” ASA 2013, New York.

Darrah, Jennifer and Stefanie DeLuca. “How Does Residential Mobility Impact Social Ties for Low-Income African-American Families?” ESS 2013, Boston.

Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca. “College or Careers? Postsecondary Institutions and Trade Schools in the Transition to Adulthood Among Low Income African American Youth.” AERA 2013, San Francisco.

Garboden, Philip M.E. and Stefanie DeLuca. “Housing Search Processes and the Limits of Choice in Subsidized Housing Programs.” UAA 2013, San Francisco.  DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. “School Choice Through Housing Choice: How Increased Housing Opportunity Affects Educational Access for Poor Children” APPAM, 2012.  

DeLuca, Stefanie. Discussant. Panel on Mixed Methods Educational Policy Research. APPAM 2012.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Melody Boyd* and Barbara Condliffe. “Stuck in School: How Family Dynamics, School Choice Policies and Residential Mobility Shape Educational Careers Among Inner City Students.” APPAM 2012.

DeLuca, Stefanie. Invited Discussant. Symposium on Residential Mobility. Urban Institute, April 2012.

Condliffe, Barbara, Siri Warkentien, and Stefanie DeLuca. “In Too Deep: Consequence of Water Bills in a Poor Southern City”. Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Association.

DeLuca, Stefanie. Invited Session. “Beyond Mobility? Contrasting Perspectives on Urban Policy and the Just City.” Urban Affairs Association 2012, Pittsburgh.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Anna Rhodes and Robert Bozick. “Mind the Gap (Year): College Delay, Time Use and Postsecondary Pathways.” AERA 2012, Vancouver.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. Invited Session.  “Housing, Education and Family Dynamics: How Poor Families Get Trapped in Low Performing Schools and What We Can Do About It.” Mini-conference at the ESS, 2012.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Peter Rosenblatt and Holly Wood. “Residential Dynamics, Neighborhood Quality and Housing Policy: Selection and the Stratification of Poor Minority Families.” APPAM 2011, Washington, D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Peter Rosenblatt and Holly Wood. “Why Poor People Move (and Where They Go): Residential Mobility, Selection and Stratification.” ASA 2011, Las Vegas.

 DeLuca, Stefanie, Barbara Condliffe and Siri Warkentien. “Shaken Up: Family, Residential and School Instability Among Poor Youth.” PAA 2011, Washington, D.C. 

DeLuca, Stefanie and Caren Arbeit. “Reconsidering the Role of Vocational Education: Stratification and Student Pathways.” AERA 2011, New Orleans.

DeLuca, Stefanie. Invited Talk on Thematic Panel, “Housing Rights”. ASA 2010, Atlanta.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. “We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here”: Residential Mobility Decisions of Low-income Families.” ASA 2010, Atlanta.

Gasper, Joseph*, Stefanie DeLuca, Angela Estacion. “Switching High Schools: Does Mobility Cause Dropout or Does Disengagement Cause Mobility?” AERA 2010, Denver.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. “Negotiating Neighborhoods: Residential Mobility Decisions of Low-income Families.” Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Boston, 2010.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. “Walking Away from The Wire: Residential Mobility and Opportunity in Baltimore.” ASA 2009, San Francisco.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Elizabeth Dayton. “Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes.”  ASA 2009, San Francisco.

 Bozick, Robert* and Stefanie DeLuca. “Not Making the Transition to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of Contemporary High School Graduates.” AERA 2009, San Diego.

Invited Thematic Session. DeLuca, Stefanie and Regina Deil-Amen.  “Post-Industrial Pathways: Redefining Secondary and Postsecondary Career Preparation and the Transition to Work” ASA 2008, Boston.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. “Can Poor Black Families Escape Segregated Neighborhoods? Residential Mobility Patterns and Opportunity in Three Housing Voucher Programs.” PAA 2008, New Orleans.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. “Leaving the Ghetto: Residential Relocation in Baltimore’s Thompson Housing Mobility Program.” Urban Affairs Association, 2008. Baltimore, MD.

 Invited Panelist.  “Neighborhoods, Residential Mobility and Educational Outcomes.” A Forum on Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools, Annie E. Casey Foundation. December 2007, Baltimore.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Rebecca Kissane & Peter Rosenblatt. “The Educational Effects of MTO: A New Look at Schooling Outcomes with Survey Data & Classroom Observations in Baltimore.” APPAM 2007, Wash., D.C.

Gasper, Joseph and Stefanie DeLuca. “Does Residential and School Mobility Increase the Likelihood of Delinquency?” ASA 2007, New York.  

DeLuca, Stefanie. “Gautreaux Mothers and their Children: An Update”. SRCD 2007, Boston.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Joseph Gasper. “Timing and Turbulence: A New Look at School Mobility and Attendance.” AERA 2007, Chicago.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. “Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program.” AERA 2007, Chicago.

Discussant. “New Results for the HOPE VI Program”. Panel discussion, APPAM 2006, Madison, WI.

Invited Panelist. “Housing, Residential Mobility and Educational Outcomes”.  National Housing Conference 75^th Anniversary Policy Summit. October 11^h, 2006 Chicago.

Invited Panelist. “Advancing the Understanding of the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Outcomes”. Workshop sponsored by the National Opinion Research Center and the Spencer Foundation. October 13^th, 2006 Chicago.

Invited Panelist. “MTO, Gautreaux and Beyond: Lessons from Baltimore and Chicago.” ASA 2006, Montreal.

Grodsky, Eric and Stefanie DeLuca. “The Role of Information in Postsecondary Enrollment Outcomes.” AERA 2006, San Francisco.

Estacion, Angela and Stefanie DeLuca. “Adolescent Employment and Delinquency: Considering Neighborhood Context for Disadvantaged Groups.” APPAM 2005, Washington, D.C.

Invited Book Critic. Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Keep Black Men out of Blue-Collar Jobs (by Deirdre Royster). Society for the Study of Social Problems. Philadelphia, PA. August, 2005.

Invited Panelist. “College Access and Success” Achievement Gap Institute at Harvard University. June 21st, 2005. Cambridge, MA.

Invited Panelist. “Beyond Achievement Scores: The Effects of Exit Exams on the Effort and Aspirations of Low SES Students.” Education, Diversity and Public Policy in California. May 19-20^th, 2005. Davis, CA.

DeLuca, Stefanie and Angela Estacion. “Coming and Going: The Effects of Residential and School Mobility on Neighborhood Characteristics, School Quality, and Student Outcomes”. AERA 2005, Montreal.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Stephen Plank and Angela Estacion. “Can Career and Technical Education Impact College Enrollment? An Examination of Specific Programs and Course Taking” ASA 2004, San Francisco.

 Plank, Stephen, Stefanie DeLuca and Angela Estacion. “High School Dropout and the Role of Career and Technical Education: A Survival Analysis of Surviving High School” ASA 2004, San Francisco.

Plank, Stephen, Stefanie DeLuca, Angela Estacion and Jeffrey Wayman. “School-to-work programs and adolescents’ expectations: Evidence from the NLSY97.” SRA 2004, Baltimore.

DeLuca, Stefanie. “What “Counts” As Hard Work? Comparing Teacher and Student Reports of Student Effort.” ASA 2003, Atlanta.

Discussant.  “How Do Women’s Educational Attainments Affect the Attainments of the Subsequent Generation (by Robert Mare).” Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Colloquia, May 2003.

Bozick, Robert and Stefanie DeLuca. “Better Late Than Never? An Examination of Delayed Enrollment in the High School to College Transition.” PAA 2003, Minneapolis.

Discussant. “What Are the Problems with The U.S. ”College for All” Policy? What Are the Alternatives?” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2002.

DeLuca, Stefanie. “Beyond Achievement Scores: The Effects of Exit Exams on the Effort and Aspirations of Low SES Students.” ASA 2002, Chicago.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Do Blacks Prefer Integrated Neighborhoods? Testing Survey Opinions with Quasi-Experimental Residential Mobility Data.” ASA 2002, Chicago.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Institutional Contexts and Historical Effects in Adolescent Lives”. Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) 2002, New Orleans.

DeLuca, Stefanie, Terri Pigott, and James E. Rosenbaum. “Are Dropout Decisions Related to Peer Threats, Social Isolation, and Teacher Disparagement Across Schools? A Multilevel Approach to Social Climate and Dropout” AERA 2002, New Orleans.

DeLuca, Stefanie. “The Importance of High School Effort and Student Behaviors for College Persistence: Comparing Student and Teacher Reports”. AERA 2002, New Orleans.

DeLuca, Stefanie. “Late Bloomers and Fade-outs: Does the Timing of School Performance Matter in the Long Run?” AERA 2001, Seattle.

Rosenbaum, James and Stefanie DeLuca. “Which High School Students Feel Unsafe and Rebellious? The Influence of Isolation and Teacher Rejection”. AERA 2001, Seattle.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Residential Mobility Effects on Women and Children.” Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) 2001, Minneapolis.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Which Residential Moves Persist? Long-term Follow-Up of Low-Income Blacks Who Move to White Suburbs.” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) 2001, Washington, D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Are Dropout Decisions Related to Safety Concerns, Social Isolation, and Teacher Disparagement?” Paper presented at “Dropouts in America: How Severe is the Problem? What Do We Know About Intervention and Prevention?”  A research conference co-sponsored by Achieve, Inc. and the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University: January, 2001.

Rosenbaum, James E., Stefanie DeLuca, and Shazia R. Miller. “Do Noncognitive Behaviors Affect School Grades, Educational Attainment and Earnings?” ASA 2000, Washington, D.C.

DeLuca, Stefanie and James E. Rosenbaum. “Special Education and Neighborhoods: Does Social Context Affect Diagnosis?” Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2000, New Orleans.

Rosenbaum, James E. and Stefanie DeLuca. “Do Low-SES Students Get Less Pay-Off for Their School Efforts?” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) 1999, Chicago.

POLICY AND PUBLIC SERVICE

National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Committee Member. Consensus Study on a Research Agenda for Improving Economic and Social Mobility in the United States. Committee on Population and Committee on National Statistics. 2023-2024

Legislative Impact of Research

Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act of 2019, 2023 (S 1991)

Housing Mobility Demonstration Act of 2018, 2019 (HR 5793)

Choice in Affordable Housing Act of 2021 (S 1820)

Congressional, Federal, State and Other Research Presentations and Policy Briefings

Congressional Briefing on Housing Policy. Bipartisan Policy Council. Washington, D.C. December 3rd, 2024.

Keynote, 50th Anniversary of Housing Choice Voucher Program. Department of Housing and Urban Development. October 16th, 2024

Presentation on 50^th Anniversary of Housing Choice Voucher Program. Department of Housing and Urban Development. October 16^th, 2024

“Improving Neighborhoods to Improve Lives: Re-Imagining the Power of Place.” Briefing for Federal policymakers, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. October 9^th, 2024.

Senate Staff Briefing on the Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act. Bipartisan Policy Council and the Offices of Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN). July 25^th, 2024.

“Frontiers of Benefit-Cost Analysis: Public Benefit Programs Workshop.” Invited meeting at Eisenhower Executive Building, sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee OMB, OIRA and OSTP. June 17^th 2024.

“Qualitative Research on Families and Financial Instability.” Invited presentation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. November 2^nd, 2023.

“What We Know About How Housing Mobility Matters and Where We are Headed Next.” Invited presentation at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council’s Conference on Housing Mobility, Washington, D.C., September 20^th, 2023.

Presentation to Housing Linkage Working Group of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, Los Angeles County, August 8^th, 2023.

Presentation to staff from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, on administrative burdens research at Georgetown University, July 17^th, 2023.

Presentation to Participating Housing Authorities in Department of Housing and Urban Development Moving to Work Demonstration, April 11^th, 2023.

Plenary speaker, White House, Summit on Evidence for Action, hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in partnership with the Office of Management and Budget (with Raj Chetty and Andria Lazaga). April 7^th, 2022.

Presentation to Participating Housing Authorities in HUD Housing Mobility Demonstration, October 6^th, 2021.

Research briefing podcast for Baltimore County Commissioner’s Office on HOME Act Bill, October 25^th, 2019.

Research briefing meeting with Secretary Ben Carson, Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 23^rd, 2019.

Presentation to Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, March 21^st, 2019.

Family Impact Seminar on Housing Policy. Briefing to Oregon State Legislators. September 24-25^th, 2018.

“Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” Briefing to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. November 18^th, 2016.

Briefing on Coming of Age in the Other America to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services. October 12^th, 2016.

Briefing on Coming of Age in the Other America to the Interagency Working Group on Youth. Department of Health and Human Services. October 12, 2016.

“What Does Poverty Mean for Children?” Briefing on youth and poverty for Representative Rosa DeLauro (D), Rayburn House, Washington D.C. June 23^rd, 2016.

Panel on Baltimore, Education and Integration, at interagency listening session on strategies to close racial and socioeconomic gaps, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Education, June 8^th, 2016.

Testimony on Housing Mobility, Neighborhoods and Families. Connecticut State Legislature Informational Hearing. February 29^th, 2016.

Testimony on HB 759 Maryland HOME Act, at the Maryland House of Delegates, February 23^rd, 2016

“Regional Housing Mobility Programs: Practitioner Convening.” Department of Housing and Urban Development, January 22^nd, 2015.

“Creating Moves to Opportunity”, Harvard University, December 7-8^th, 2015.

 “A Dialogue about the Intersection of School Choice & Housing Choice.” Invited panel at the Fordham Institute, Washington, September 29^th, 2015.

 “Understanding Voucher Families’ Search for Housing.” Invited presentation at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council’s Conference on Housing Mobility, Chicago, July 16^th, 2010.

“Leveraging Housing Opportunity for Educational Opportunity: Lessons from Families,” Briefing to the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA), Washington, D.C. March 28^th, 2014.

“Neighborhoods and Education: What Can Housing Mobility Accomplish?” After Thompson: Implications for the Wellbeing of Children, a symposium with local policymakers, practitioners and researchers, Annie E. Casey Foundation, February 7^th, 2014.

“Brokering the Geography of Opportunity: How Landlords Affect Access to Housing and Neighborhood Quality Among HUD Assisted Renters.” Briefing to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Jan. 30^th, 2014.

“How Housing Policy Intersects with the Lives of Poor Families: Reflections on Recent Fieldwork in Mobile, AL and Baltimore, MD.” Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development. July 24^th, 2012.

“Learning from Voucher Families: Close-ups of the Search Process in Mobile and Baltimore.” Invited talk at the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, sponsored by the Urban Institute and Poverty and Race Research Action Council. June 12^th, 2012.

“Housing Mobility and Access to Educational Opportunity.”  Invited talk at the Fifth National Conference on Assisted Housing Mobility, sponsored by the Urban Institute and Poverty and Race Research Action Council. June 12^th, 2012.

“Housing the Poor: Families, Subsidized Housing Programs and the Rental Market”. Policy briefing for local and state policymakers, sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. April 30^th, 2012.

 “Increasing Access to High Performing Schools in an Assisted Housing Voucher Program.” Invited Talk for the Research and Policy Roundtable: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Support Racial and Economic Integration. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Department of Education Joint Meeting. Washington, D.C. February 3^rd. 2011.

 “Housing Opportunity Through Assisted Mobility Programs” Invited presentation to state and local policymakers at the Connecticut Fair Housing Conference, Hartford. October 27^th, 2010.

“Sustaining and Promoting Opportunity Through Assisted Mobility: A Focus on Schools and Residential Stability.” Invited presentation at the Poverty and Race Research Action Council’s Conference on Housing Mobility, Urban Institute, Washington. DC. June 10^th, 2010.

“Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” Invited presentation at the Department of Housing and Community Development, Washington, D.C. April 6^th, 2010.

“Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Poverty: Results from the Chicago Gautreaux Program and the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.” Presented to the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, November 17^th, 2009.

 “Special Education and Race.” Briefing at the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, convened to address IDEA reauthorization. Rayburn House, March 7^th, 2003

Technical/Legal Advising

• Expert Witness, Center for Leadership and Justice and Named Plaintiffs v Department of Housing and Urban Development et al. CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:20-cv-1728-MPS. 2019-2022.
• Scientific Advisory Board Member, Strada Education Network, 2023-present
• Advisor, Evaluation of the HUD Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration (with Abt Associates and the Urban Institute), 2020-present
• Advisory Board Member, Regional Education Lab Northwest, 2018-present
• Federal Research Advisory Commission Member, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Moving to Work Demonstration Expansion. Appointed June 2016-present
• Advisory Board Member, Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety, New York City. January 2016
• Advisor, Small Area Fair Market Rent Demonstration Evaluation, Abt Associates Contract for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. January 2016-2018.
• Advisor, Housing Search Among Ethnic and Racial Minorities Study, The Urban Institute. Feb 2014-October 2016
• Advisory Board Member, Evaluation of the Atlanta Housing Authority’s Moving to Work demonstration, through Emory University. December 2013-2015
• Advisor, Fair Housing Center of Connecticut, Housing Choice Voucher Programs, New Haven, Stamford, Norwalk. January, 2013
• Board Member, The Reinvestment Fund, Policy Advisory Board, Philadelphia. December 2012-December 2019
• Member, Pay for Success Working Group. Office of the Mayor, Office of the Budget Director, Baltimore City. March 2012-2014
• Board Member, Chicago Regional Housing Choice Initiative. Metropolitan Planning Council, October 2011-2015
• Participant, Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change, September 2011.
• Board Member, Social Science Advisory Board. Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 2011-present
• Member, Technical Review Panel, National Center for Education Statistics, Career/Technical Education Statistics (CTES), 2009
• National Advisory Panel, Kent County Community Schools Initiative, Grand Rapids, MI, 2007-2008
• Advisory Board Member, Baltimore Career Academy, 2007-2010
• Research Consultant, Editorial Projects in Education, for Education Week, 2007-2009
• Technical advisor, National Center for Education Statistics, planning phase of the High School Longitudinal Study (HLSL: 09), December 2006
• Expert Witness, Thompson v. Department of Housing and Urban Development. CIVIL ACTION NO. MJG-95-309, 2005-2006
• Research Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Making Connections neighborhood research program and the Planning Research and Development Unit (PRDU), 2002-2004

MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS AND CITATIONS

Op-Eds and Invited Pieces

“Renters and landlords alike need more federal assistance to survive the pandemic.” OP-ED in the Baltimore Sun (with Meredith Greif, Philip Garboden, Eva Rosen and Kathy Edin), 2/3/2021.

“Section 8 needs updating.” Letter to the Editor (with Garboden, Greif, Edin and Rosen), Baltimore Sun, 11/8/2019.

“Are For-Profit Colleges Failing to Live Up to Their Promises?” OP-ED (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist), Newsweek 5/10/2017.

“Baltimore’s Youth Can Be More Successful Than Their Parents,” (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist), OP-ED in Washington Post Opinion, 4/29/2016.

“Dear Baltimore Youth: We See Your Incredible Promise. We Will Not Give Up On You.” Commentary, The Century Foundation.

“Mossburg Misrepresents Research on Housing Vouchers,” OP-ED Baltimore Sun, 5/6/2013.

“HUD Voucher Program Fails to Relocate Families From Poor Neighborhoods,” OP-ED. The Chattanoogan, 1/2/2013; North Dallas Gazette, 1/7/2013; InsightNews.

Letter to the Editor on Hanna Rosin’s “American Murder Mystery,” (with Susan Popkin), 9/2008, The Atlantic

“Delay is a disadvantage: Research shows those who put off college are less likely to graduate.” Invited opinion article, USA Today, 2/26/2008.

Media Citations and Interviews

“Housing vouchers help most when counselors are on hand.” The Baltimore Banner, 8/29/2024

“Voucher program is supposed to help poor families rent a home. Nearly half the time, it fails.” USA Today, 8/13/2024.

“What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find a Surprising Answer.” Wall Street Journal, 7/25/2024

“Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To.” New York Times, 7/25/2024

“Housing Policy and Vouchers.” PBS NewsHour 3/18/2024

“Record Rent Burdens Batter Low Income Life” New York Times, 12/11/2023

“Place Matters” Century Lives, Podcast with NPR’s Ken Stern, Stanford University 4/26/2023.

“What If the Government Had Decent Customer Service? New Experiment Suggests that Navigators Could Make Accessing Government Services Much Easier.” Vox 4/3/2023.

“Governor Moore’s Plan to End Child Poverty.” On the Record with Sheilah Kast, WYPR, 2/21/2023.

“Atlanta schools adjust to delayed relocation of Forest Cove residents.” The Atlanta Journal Constitution 9/4/2022.

“How landlords thwart America’s attempts to house poor people.” The Economist, 12/11/2021.

“When “anything could happen,” students opt for shorter programs.” WorkShift, 11/17/2021.

“The Simplest Fix to America’s Rent Problem.” The Atlantic, 10/20/2021.

“Flaws in the Section 8 program leave poor people trapped in ‘monstrous, depressing places.’ ”USA Today Network, 10/27/2021.

“Coons-Cramer Bill Is A Good Step Toward Housing Choice Reform.” Forbes, 6/1/2021.

“Race in America.” The Economist, 5/22/2021.

“The Incentives That Might Make Landlords Take Section 8 Tenants.” Bloomberg CityLab, 5/20/2021.

 “Research shows changing schools can make or break a student, but the wave of post-COVID mobility may challenge the systems in ways we’ve never seen.” The 74/LA School Report, 12/28/2020.

“Musical Chairs: When The Chairs Are Homes, No Fun When The Music Stops.” Affordable Housing Action, 10/29/2020.

“Youth leaders stand on the front lines of Baltimore protest.” Baltimore Sun, 6/6/2020.

“Segregation and poverty have declined among blacks since 1968: Yet deep disparities still persist.” The Economist, 6/4/2020.

“The Cities We Need.” New York Times, 5/11/2020.

“The Coronavirus Class Divide: Space and Privacy.” New York Times, 4/13/2020.

“Renters detail just how hard it can be to find a Baltimore County landlord who will take a housing voucher.” Baltimore Sun, 10/31/2019.

 “Liberals for Inequality: The Meaning of a Seattle Experiment.” New York Times, 8/8/2019.

“How a Section 8 Experiment Could Reveal a Better Way to Escape Poverty.” Atlantic CityLab, 8/4/2019.

“In Seattle, A Move Across Town Could Be a Path Out of Poverty.” National Public Radio, 8/4/2019.

“America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution.” Vox, 8/4/2019.

“A Better Address Can Change a Child’s Future: A low-cost experiment in Seattle is breaking the cycle of poverty.” New York Times, 8/3/2019.

“Freddie Gray’s death launched an unprecedented effort to heal Baltimore. It wasn’t enough.” Beaumont Enterprise, 8/1/2019.

“Clashes with teens have become a polarizing issue in Baltimore. As adults argue, some youth feel ignored. Baltimore Sun, 05/30/2019.

“Leaving Baltimore behind. Greater Baltimore is starkly segregated by race and class. A housing program is trying to change that” Vox, 11/30/2018.

“Student turnover slows academic growth, but many states aren’t tracking the churn.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/10/2018.

“In Search of Section 8: Why Some Will Move Across the Country for Help with Rent,” WABE Atlanta Public Radio/National Public Radio, 6/5/2018.

“Baltimore County police officer’s death ignites a racial firestorm.” Baltimore Sun, 5/25/2018.

“Segregation Still Exists. Here’s How Baltimore is Trying to Solve It.” VICE News, 4/18/2018.

“Once again, Baltimore’s mayor has fired a police commissioner. Will it make a difference?” Baltimore Sun, 1/20/2018.

 “Cold classrooms, patient dumping: Baltimore tries to put its best foot forward, stumbles.” Baltimore Sun, 1/12/2018.

“2 Years After Unrest, Baltimore’s Youth Are ‘Still Fighting for The Basics” NPR, All Things Considered, 4/27/2017.

“Integration Works. Can It Survive the Trump Era?” New York Times, 2/9/2017.

“Top Takeaways from HUD Secretary Nominee Ben Carson’s Senate Hearing.” Realtor.com, 1/12/2017.

“Ben Carson, Shaped by Poverty, Is Likely to Bring Tough Love to HUD.” New York Times, 1/11/2017.

“Housing groups fear Ben Carson will reverse efforts to improve low-income housing,” Tampa Bay Times 12/6/2016.

“When For-Profit Colleges Prey on Unsuspecting Students,” The Atlantic 10/24/2016.

“Why lower-income students are drawn to for-profit schools,” The Chicago Tribune 10/7/2016.

“Why many low-income people end up at expensive for-profit colleges,” MarketWatch 9/16/2016.

“Report: For-Profits Are Costly for Black Students.” Inside Higher Ed, 9/16/2016.

“When Only Some Kids Can Afford Summer Camp — Why We Must Close the ‘Enrichment Gap.’” The 74, 7/18/2016.

Time to Push Again for a Baltimore Dirt Bike Park,” Baltimore Sun, 7/9/2016.

“The Power of Identity Projects in Launching a Life,” Baltimore Sun, 6/11/2016.

“It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees,” New York Times. 5/10/2016.

“Baltimore Teens Find a Path Away from Violence Through ‘Identity Projects,’” Trace 5/3/2016.

“Coming of Age in the Other America,” WYPR Maryland Morning with Tom Hall, 4/29/2016.

“On the Fast Track to Adulthood with Limited Options,” The Atlantic, 4/28/2016.

“Cleveland Study Finds Bad Housing Associated with Poor Academic Performance,” Nonprofit Quarterly, 4/26/2016.

“Huge Baltimore study reveals the key for young people trying to escape poverty,” Fusion, 4/25/2016.

“After Freddie Gray, politics, policing and communities feel the difference,” Baltimore Sun, 4/23/2016.

“Freddie Gray, unrest brought federal money to Baltimore,” WYPR Maryland Morning, 4/22/2016.

“These Sociologists Say the Poverty Cycle Is Far From Inevitable,” Next City, 4/20/2016.

“Why Becoming An Adult Means Something Very Different When You’re Poor” Washington Post, 4/19/2016.

“Let’s Talk About Millenials That Aren’t Spoiled Rich White Kids,” New York Post 4/14/2016.

Australian Public Radio (ABC) interview on “Counterpoint”, 4/14/2016.

“Can Neighborhoods Be Revitalized Without Gentrifying Them?” The Nation, 4/12/2016.

“Coming of Age in the Other America” Rising Up with Sonali (Los Angeles, KPFK) 4/11/2016.

“Why Do Some Poor Kids Thrive?” The Atlantic, 4/6/2016.

“Will the Democrats Ever Face An African-American Revolt?” New York Times, 3/15/2016.

“Gov. Hogan announces $700M plan to target urban decay in Baltimore,” The Baltimore Sun, 1/5/2016.

“Housing policies still pin poor in Baltimore, but some escape to suburbs.” The Baltimore Sun, 12/15/2015.

“Starting Over: Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?” The New Yorker, 8/24/2015.

Baltimore’s Future with David Warnock, (interviews) 7/2/2015, 7/9/2015, 7/16/2015.

“Fair Housing” (interview) Midday with Dan Rodricks, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 7/8/2015.

“We Can’t Talk About Housing Policy Without Talking About Racism.” The American Prospect, 5/19/2015.

“Baltimore has more than 16,000 vacant houses. Why can’t the homeless move in?” Washington Post, 5/12/2015.

“How to Make Life Better in Baltimore” (quoted) The Daily Signal 5/11/2015.

 “Saving Sandtown-Winchester: decade-long, multimillion-dollar investment questioned” Baltimore Sun, 5/10/2015.

“The fire and the fuel; Black America,” The Economist, 5/9/2015.

“Why couldn’t $130 million transform one of Baltimore’s poorest places?” Washington Post, 5/2/2015.

“Conservatives Make Baltimore Riots a Case for Welfare Reform” US News and World Report 5/1/2015.

“Baltimore Riots Send Charm City Reeling” Yahoo! News, AP 4/29/2015.

“The long, painful and repetitive history of how Baltimore became Baltimore” Washington Post, 4/29/2015.

BBC NEWSDAY (interview). 4/29/2015.

 “Julian Castro Should Visit Baltimore on the Way to His New HUD Secretary Desk.” Next City, 7/10/2014.

“The Benefits (Mostly) of Moving Families From High-Poverty Neighborhoods” Washington City Paper, 4/24/2014.

“How to Sell Poor, Inner-City Families on a Life in the Suburbs,” The Atlantic, Cities, 3/28/2014.

“Is There a Better Model for Housing Vouchers?” Governing Magazine, 3/25/2014.

“What happens when the government tries to help poor people move to better neighborhoods?” Washington Post, Wonkblog, 3/24/2014.

“Baltimore 2014: Sandtown-Winchester Report” (interview) Midday with Dan Rodricks, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 1/8/2014.

“Study explores why some families return to poor neighborhoods,” Baltimore Sun, 3/17/2013.

“The Neighborhood Effect” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/5/2012.

“The Lines Between Us: Housing Mobility” (interview) Maryland Morning, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 10/26/2012.

“Study: Two-fifths of high school graduates are unprepared for college or the workforce,” Washington Post, College Inc., 12/12/2011.

“Moving Poor Kids to Affluent School Zones” (interview) Midday, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 7/11/2011.

“Census: Fewer than 10 percent of city households are nuclear families” Baltimore Sun, 12/18/2010.

“Study of Montgomery County schools shows benefits of economic integration” Washington Post,       10/15/2010.

“After-School Activity” Time Magazine, 9/13/2010.

“The Gap Year” (interview) Midday, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 4/14/2010.

“Officials, experts divided on housing” Galveston County Daily News,  8/9/2009.

“Breaking Up (Poverty) is Hard to Do” (interview) Maryland Morning, WYPR Baltimore Public Radio, 8/13/2008.

 “Students See World During ‘Gap Year’” (interview) All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 7/2008.

“Gender Gap in Education” (interview) Mark Steiner Show, Baltimore Public Radio, 11/6/2007.

“Researchers Discuss Neighborhood Effects” (interview) Tell Me More, National Public Radio, 8/15/2007.

“Neighborhoods’ Effect On Grades Challenged” Washington Post, 8/14/2007.

“What Does Ready Mean?” Diploma Counts Report, Education Week, 6/12/2007.

“Making the Gap Year Work” Seattle Times, 10/27/2006.

 “Gap Year Student Numbers Increase” Baltimore Sun, July 9^th, 2006; Baltimore Sun, 3/31/2006.

“Vocational education gives students options” Florida Today, 3/2006.

“Teens taking time before college” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1/12/2006.

“Students who wait too long after high school may have tougher time” Argus Leader, 12/2005.

“College Chat: Advice from an Expert” LA Family, 12/2005.

“Still Separate: The Racial Divide in Housing Endures” Baltimore Sun, 1/31/2004.

(cited) Education Week, Feb. 2001.

(cited) Chicago Reader, Oct. 13, 2000.

Abridged Public Interviews

Paris School of Economics (“When Sociologists and Economists Team Up”)

2021 American Sociological Association Publicly Engaged Scholar Award Interview

https://comurb.org/2022/01/25/interview-w-stefanie-a-deluca/

 JPAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab)

https://www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/8-17-21/strengthening-randomized-evaluations-qualitative-research-part-3-creating-moves

 Opportunity Starts At Home

https://www.opportunityhome.org/resources/interview-the-qualitative-research-behind-opportunity-vouchers-with-dr-stefanie-deluca/

 Spotlight On Poverty

https://spotlightonpoverty.org/spotlight-exclusives/helping-families-move-to-opportunity-a-conversation-with-stefanie-deluca/

 New Books Network with Stephen Pimpare

https://newbooksnetwork.com/stafanie-deluca-et-al-coming-of-age-in-the-other-america-russell-sage-foundation-2016/

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

Professional Societies and Service

• Speaker, American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Mini-Conference on Building a Career for Social Change, May 16^th, 2023
• ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology Selection Committee, 2022-2025
• “Managing Research Teams Inside and Out.” Professional development talk given for the William T. Grant Foundation Reducing Inequality Convening, December 3^rd 2021
• Willard Waller Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2016
• Elected Council Member, Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association, 2015-2017
• Organizer, ASA Housing Session, 2018
• Panel Speaker, AERA Small Grants Program Conference, October, 2009
• Organizer, Population Association of America, “Educational Attainment, Determinants and Consequences” Section, 2007
• Reviewer, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Education Section, 2005, 2007
• Sociology of Education Section, David Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, 2005, 2006; Roundtable Organizer, 2008
• Elected treasurer, Sociology of Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2006-2008
• Elected Chair, Sociology of Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2009-2011
• MacArthur Foundation Workshop “How Housing Matters for Children Ages 0-8”. Chicago, Jan. 2007
• Spivack Workshop on School Desegregation, American Sociological Association, June 2006

Editorial Positions, Journal and Grant Reviewing

• Associate Editor, Sociological Research and Methods, 2023-
• Associate Editor, AERA Open, 2017-2018
• Associate Editor, Sociology of Education, 2010-2013
• Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2011
• Manuscript Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Sociology of Education, Social Problems, Social Forces, City and Community, Urban Education, Journal of Family Issues, Sociological Forum, American Journal of Education, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Urban Affairs, American Educational Research Journal
• Grant Reviewer: Spencer Foundation; Institute for Educational Sciences; National Science Foundation; William T. Grant Foundation; Russell Sage Foundation; Smith Richardson Foundation; Pew Charitable Trust
• Panel Reviewer: ITEST Program, National Science Foundation
• Report Reviewer: Institute for Educational Sciences; National Center for Educational Statistics

TEACHING, ADVISING AND MENTORING

Johns Hopkins, 2002-present         

• Undergraduate: Education and Inequality: Individual, Contextual and Policy Perspectives; Becoming an Adult: Life Course Perspectives on School, Work and Family Transitions; Space, Place, Poverty and Race: Sociological Perspectives on Neighborhoods and Housing Policy; Research Methods for the Social Sciences; Qualitative Research Methods Practicum; Introduction to Social Policy; Baltimore as an Urban Laboratory

• Graduate: Seminar on Social Policy and Inequality; Research Design for Causal Inference and Mixed Methods; Field Methods for Studying Urban Poverty; Social Inequality Research Writing Seminar; Educational Inequality and Social Context; Urban Youth and Inequality; Seminar on Social Inequality; In Our Backyard: Housing and Community Change in Baltimore

External Guest Lectures

Community College of Carroll County, Westminster, MD, April 15^th, 2024

PRE DOC Program, University of Chicago, June 29^th, 2023, “New Directions in Qualitative Research.”

American University, Nov 6-7^th, 2021, “How to conduct rigorous policy-relevant qualitative research”

University of Kansas, 2021

University of Chicago, 2019

Oregon State University, 2010-2019, 2021

Princeton University, 2018

University of Iowa, 2017

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012, 2015

Thesis Advising, Mentoring and Postdoctoral Fellows

Formal Junior Faculty Mentoring

Ann Owens, USC, William T. Grant Scholars Award Faculty Mentor (2019-2024)

Anita Zuberi, Duquesne University, Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Award (2019-2022)

Postdoctoral Fellows and Placements

Kaylee Matheny—McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University (2023-2024)

Allison Young—Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Washington, D.C. (2020-2021)

Jennifer Cossyleon—American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019)

Emily Warren—Council for Large Public Housing Authorities (2017-2018)

Eva Rosen—Assoc. Professor, Georgetown University (2017-2018) (co-advised with Kathy Edin)

Melody Boyd—Assoc. Professor, SUNY Brockport (2011) (co-advised with Kathy Edin)

Jennifer Darrah-Okike—Assoc. Professor, University of Hawaii (2012-2013)

Pre-Doctoral Fellows and Placements

2024-

Matthew Gannon

Angelica Qin

2023-2024

Sydney Sauer (Harvard University, Ph.D. program in Sociology)

2023-

Sarah Sullivan

2021-2023

Matthew Gonzalez (Bain Associates), Thelonious Goerz (Cornell University, Ph.D. program in Sociology), Claire Smith (Yale Law School)

Graduate Students and Placements

• Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology

Gorana Ilic, PhD (expected) (committee)

Jacqueline Groccia, PhD (expected) (Chair)

Jasmine Sausedo, PhD (expected) (Chair)

Jochebed Cadet, PhD (2024)

Joseph Boselovic, PhD (2024)—Postdoc Fellow, College of William and Mary

Rachel Butler, PhD (2023) (committee)

Kiara Nerenberg, PhD (2022) (Co-Chair)—Statistician, National Center for Education Statistics

Christine Jang, PhD (2020) (Chair)—Asst. Prof, Queens College CUNY

Allison Young, PhD (2020) (Chair)— Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Washington, D.C

Robert Francis, PhD (2019), (2^nd Reader)—Asst. Professor, Whitworth University

Phil Garboden, PhD (2018) (Chair)—Assoc. Professor, University of Chicago

Anna Rhodes, PhD (2017) (Chair)—Asst. Professor, Rice University

Siri Warkentien, PhD (2015) (Co-Chair)—RTI

Barbara Condliffe, PhD (2014) (Chair)—MDRC

Sika Koudou, PhD (2^nd Reader)—Social Security Administration

Elizabeth Dayton, PhD (2012) (Chair)—Stanford CEPA

Peter Rosenblatt, PhD (2011) (Chair)—Assoc. Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Angela Estacion, (2^nd Reader)—Quill Research Associates 

Robert Bozick, PhD (2005) (2^nd Reader)—Rice University, RAND, AED, AIR

• University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Sociology

            Allison Helmuth, PhD (2022) (Committee member)—Postdoc at Brown University

• University of Michigan, Department of Sociology

            Elizabeth Burland, PhD (2023) (Committee member)—Asst. Prof. University of Connecticut

• Additional graduate students supervised at Poverty and Inequality Research Lab: see website

Undergraduate Students

• Primary Advisor, Honors Thesis in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

            Bronte Nevins, BA 2019 (Winner of Best Public Health Thesis of the Year)

• Primary Advisor, Honors Thesis in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Allison Hardebeck, BA 2020

Hana Clemens, BA 2018

Kevin Wells, BA 2016

Sarah Barnard, BA 2005

• Advisor, Honors Thesis in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

            Margaret Tydings, BA 2024 (Winner Turner Award for Best Honors Thesis)

• Primary Advisor, 2009 Provost Undergraduate Research Award (Tanya Lukasik), JHU
• Primary Advisor, 2009 Center for Educational Resources Tech Fellows Grant (Jennifer Klein), JHU
• Primary Advisor, Woodrow Wilson Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University

Peace Obi, BA 2019

David Crandall, BA 2004

Elizabeth Krimmel, BA 2006

• Additional undergraduates supervised at Poverty and Inequality Research Lab: see website

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Elected Positions and Appointments

• Member, Inaugural University-Wide Tenure Advisory Committee, 2020-present
• Member, Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee, 2024-2027
• Member, Homewood Campus Academic Council, 2018-2020

Cross Campus Committees and Service

• Member, Search Committee, Inaugural Dean of the School of Government and Social Policy, 2024-
• Member, KSAS Committee on Community and Discourse, 2024
• Member, KSAS Committee on Academic Affairs, 2024
• Member, Search Committee, Inaugural Dean of the School of Government and Social Policy, 2024
• Director, Social Policy Program, Fall 2019-2022
• Co-Director, Social Policy Program, Policy Fellowship, 2014-2019
• Member, Social Policy Program Faculty Committee, 2011-2019
• Member, 21^st Century Cities Initiative Steering and Executive Committee, 2015-2020
• Member, SNF Agora Institute Multi-Ethnic Democracy Search Committee 2019-2020
• Graduate Board Examiner & Committee Member, Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Avery Davis 2023; Kerry O’Grady, 2017

• Graduate Board Examiner & Committee Member, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Geoff Dougherty, 2017

Julie Rajaratnam, 2004

Daniel Mercer, 2004, 2007

• Graduate Board Examiner & Committee Member, Johns Hopkins, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Travis Sullivan, 2005 (Political Science)

Xiaochen Xu, 2013 (Economics)

Andrew Gray, 2019 (Economics)

Emma Kalish, 2023 (Economics)

Avery Davis, 2024 (Education)

• Member, Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, 2011
• Member, University Library Committee, 2010-2012
• Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2009-2012
• Faculty Mentor, Baltimore Scholars Program, 2004
• Member, Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Committee, 2004-2005
• Member, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Committee, 2005-2006

Campus Events, Student Recruitment and Workshops

• Housing and Health, 21^st Century City Initiative Event, November 2020
• Centers for Civic Impact Community of Practice Presentation on Housing Policy, February 2020
• Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Report at 50, 21^st Century City Initiative Event, March 2018
• Spring Open House Overnight Program Admitted Student Events, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Hearing Their Voices, 21^st Century City Initiative Event, April 2017
• The Coleman Report at 50, JHU Institute for Education Policy Event, October 2016
• REDLINING BALTIMORE, 21^st Century City Initiative Event, April 2016
• Election 2016: Reflections and Implications event, JHU, November 17^th, 2016

Departmental Service and Committees:

• Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Space, Dept. of Sociology, 2023
• Diversity Champion, Dept. of Sociology, 2022-present
• Member, Graduate Education Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 2023-present
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Sociology, 2018-2019
• Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, Dept. of Sociology, 2021
• Member, Admissions Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 2009; Chair, 2010; 2012, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024
• Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 2009-2010, 2020, 2022
• Member, Urban Sociology Faculty Search Committee, 2019-2021
• Member, Sociology of Education Faculty Search Committee, 2012-2013
• Chair, Speakers’ Committee, 2003-2009, 2012, 2015, 2017
• Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, 2003-2004; 2007-2009; 2013, 2015; 2018, 2019