Joe LaBriola is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, where he is faculty at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. His research examines the roots of social stratification in the contemporary United States. His current work centers on the role of housing and housing policy in exacerbating racial and socioeconomic inequalities, with three main areas of focus: 1) the causes and consequences of residential growth controls, 2) the unequal effects of the tax treatment of homeownership, and 3) the effect of rising house prices on wealth inequality. At the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, Joe is a Co-Investigator on the Wealth and Mobility Study, which is using tax and administrative records to create a public data infrastructure detailing the geographic distribution of wealth in the United States. His research has been published in leading sociology journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Social Problems.
Joe LaBriola
Research Assistant Professor
2072 ISR
426 Thompson
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1248
Joe LaBriola
Research Assistant Professor
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2021
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
BA, Mathematics, Pomona College, 2012
Areas of Study
Related Projects
2024. Joe LaBriola. “Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap.” Social Problems. In press.
2024. Joe LaBriola and Jake J. Hays. “Absolute Wealth Mobility in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Population Research and Policy Review 43(47).
2024. Joe LaBriola. “The Race to Exclude: Residential Growth Controls in California Cities, 1970-1992.” Housing Policy Debate 34(2):180-206.
2023 Orestes P. Hastings and Joe LaBriola. “The Summer Parental Investment Gap? Socioeconomic Gaps in the Seasonality of Parental Expenditures and Time with School-Age Children.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 87:100846.
2021. Joe LaBriola and Daniel Schneider. “Class Inequality in Parental Childcare Time: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS.” Social Forces 100(2):680-705.
2020. Joe LaBriola and Daniel Schneider. “Worker Power and Class Polarization in Intra-Year Work Hour Volatility.” Social Forces 98(3):973-999.
2018. Daniel Schneider, Orestes P. Hastings, and Joe LaBriola. “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments.” American Sociological Review 83(3):475-507.
BLK News Now! Podcast. “Sociologist Joe LaBriola explains why rising U.S. house prices are widening the Black-white wealth gap.”
The Conversation. “Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap.”
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. “Get to know CID Faculty Joe LaBriola.”
London School of Economics American Politics and Policy blog. “Low-wage workers experience more volatility in hours worked, but increased worker power can help to narrow the gap.”