2072 ISR
426 Thompson
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1248
Joe’s research uses survey and administrative data to examine the roots of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary United States. Currently, he primarily focuses on racial inequalities in housing and wealth.
Joe has published on the causes of class gaps in parental investments in children, and in exposure to precarious working conditions.
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2021
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
BA, Mathematics, Pomona College, 2012
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.”