Publications

 Field, E. & Bruch, E. 2026. The Coupled Dynamics of Neighborhood and School Change. American Journal of Sociology,  131(6):1314–1344.  

Field, E. 2025. Understanding the 'Package Deal': Disentangling Parents' Intertwined Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods. Social Forces, soaf104. 

Field, E. 2020. Material Hardship and Contraceptive Use During the Transition to Adulthood. Demography, 57:2057–2084.

Xiaodong, Z., Griffith, J., Sun, J., Malakoff, L., Pershing, J., Marsland, W., Peters, K., & Field, E. 2017. Strengthening Organizational Capacity and Practice for High-performing Nonprofit Organizations: Evidence from the National Assessment of the Social Innovation Fund – A Public-Private Partnership. Public Administration Quarterly, Fall 2017, 424-461.

Field, E.  “As long as my kids are safe”: How Neighborhood Crime Rates Shapes Perceptions of Local Public Schools. R&R.

"Explaining Distributional Group Disparities: A Generalized Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition” with Derick S. Baum, Esther Fanelli, Susan E. Short, and Megan Zacher.

“Linked Fates: How Charter and Private School Availability Shapes Neighborhood and School Demographic Change.” Available upon request.

“Loss of Oversight: How School Districts Respond to the Release of Court-Ordered Desegregation.” In Progress.

“Boundaries of Exclusion: A Computational Simulation Model of School District Secessions” with Joshua Almes and Alexandra Cooperstock. In progress. Grant under review at the Spencer Foundation.

March 2026  —  University of Chicago  Crown School Consortium on School Research 

September 2025  —  Brown University, Annenberg Institute Research Seminar

November 2024  —  University of Wisconsin, Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences

October 2024  —  Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center