Peer Reviewed Publications

Evans, Megan. Forth. “Race, Crime, and Lending Risk in Chicago: The Relevance of Crime and Disorder for HOLC’s Neighborhood Assessments.” Race and Social Problems.

Evans, Megan, Corina Graif, and Anna Newell†. 2025. “Criminal Arrests and the Opioid Epidemic: An Investigation into the Spatial and Social Spillover of Opioid Overdoses in Chicago” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-025-09612-y

Evans, Megan, and Lauren Newmyer. 2025. “A State-Level Examination into Structural Racism and Racialized Disparities in Sexually Transmitted Infections.” Spatial Demography. 13(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-025-00136-4

Wirth, Bianca† and Megan Evans. 2024. “From an Election to and Insurrection: Comparing Sentiment Shifts in the #DefundthePolice and #DefendthePolice Networks on Twitter.” PLoS ONE. 19(3): e0289041. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289041

Evans, Megan* and Alexander Chapman*†. 2024. “Residential Immobility and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Quality.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 10(1): 31-50. DOI: 10.1177/23326492231207603

Evans, Megan, Corina Graif, and Stephen A. Matthews. 2023. “The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Inter-Neighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 64(4): 555-577. DOI: 10.1177/00221465231172176

Newmyer, Lauren*†, Megan Evans*, and Corina Graif. 2022. “Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections.” Demography. 59 (4): 1299-1323. DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10054898

Evans, Megan, Jonathan Daw, and S. Michael Gaddis. 2021. “The Generational Boundaries of Educational Advantage: Does Great-Grandparent Educational Attainment Predict Great-Grandchild Early Academic Achievement?” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 7 DOI: 10.1177/23780231211060573

Siskar, Thomas†, and Megan Evans. 2021. “Predicting Mobility: Who is Forced to Move.” City & Community. 20(2): 141-159. DOI: 10.1177/1535684120981010

Evans, Megan. 2020. “The Unequal Housing and Neighborhood Outcomes of Displaced Movers.” Journal of Urban Affairs. 43(9): 1214-1234. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2020.1730697

Evans, Megan and Barrett A. Lee. 2020. “Neighborhood Reputations as Symbolic and Stratifying Mechanisms in the Urban Hierarchy.” Sociology Compass. 14(10): 1-15 e12831. DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12831

Lee, Barrett A., and Megan Evans. 2020. “Forced to Move: Patterns and Predictors of Residential Displacement during an Era of Housing Insecurity.” Social Science Research, 87: 102415. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102415

Daw, Jonathan, Alexander Chapman†, and Megan Evans. 2018. “What Can Sociogenomics Learn from Social by Nature?” Biodemography and Social Biology. 64(3/4): 237-250. DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2019.1597622