Prof. Stefanie Deluca, Johns Hopkins University, on Neighbourhoods and Child Social Mobility

How do neighbourhoods shape economic opportunities for children?
Listen to Jason Mitchell discuss with Professor Stefanie Deluca,
Johns Hopkins University, about why neighbourhoods matter for
creating social mobility; some of the outcomes and challenges in
her recent paper, “Creating Moves to Opportunity”; and what it
takes to create more high-opportunity zones, so families don’t have
to continually uproot and move. Professor Stefanie DeLuca is the
James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Johns
Hopkins University, director of the Poverty and Inequality Research
Lab, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard
University. She is one of the foremost qualitative mixed methods
researchers on housing and higher education policy. Professor
DeLuca co-authored Coming of Age in the Other America, which was
named an Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library
Association, and won the William F. Goode Award from the American
Sociological Association. Stefanie has also been awarded a National
Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellowship and a William T.
Grant Foundation Scholars Award. She serves on a Federal Research
Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and was named Scholar of the Year by the National
Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing.