Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center. My research uses survey and administrative data to examine the roots of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary United States. My current work primarily focuses on racial inequalities in housing and wealth. I have also published on the causes of class gaps in parental investments in children, and in exposure to precarious working conditions.
At Michigan, I am faculty at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, and 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.
Before moving to Michigan, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021.
Projects
Stone Center for Inequality DynamicsFunded Research
Publications
- Joe LaBriola, Jake Hays. 2024. Absolute Wealth Mobility in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Population Research and Policy Review 43(4):1-19.
- Joe LaBriola. 2024. Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap. Social Problems
- Joe LaBriola. 2023. Housing Supply as a Social Process. The Sociology of Housing :179-190.
- Hastings, Orestes P., Joe LaBriola. 2023. 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.
- Joe LaBriola, Schneider, Daniel. 2021. Class Inequality in Parental Childcare Time: Evidence from Synthetic Couples in the ATUS. Social Forces 100(2):680-705.
- Joe LaBriola. 2020. Post-prison Employment Quality and Future Criminal Justice Contact. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(1):154-172.
- Joe LaBriola, Schneider, Daniel. 2020. Worker Power and Class Polarization in Intra-Year Work Hour Volatility. Social Forces 98(3):973-999.
- Joe LaBriola. 2019. Risky Business: Institutional Logics and Risk Taking at Large U.S. Commercial Banks. Social Science Quarterly 100(1):389-404.
- Martin Bodenstein, Luca Guerrieri, Joe LaBriola. 2019. Macroeconomic policy games. Journal of Monetary Economics 101:64-81.
- Daniel Schneider, Orestes P. Hastings, Joe LaBriola. 2018. Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments. American Sociological Review 83(3):475-507.