Stephen L. Ross is a Professor of Economics and holds the Phillip A. Austin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. Professor Ross's research has primarily focused on housing and mortgage lending discrimination, residential and school segregation, neighborhood and peer effects, and state and local governments. He has published in prestigious academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, the American Economic Journal-Economic Policy, Social Problems and the Journal of Urban Economics, and published The Color of Credit with MIT Press in 2002.
His research has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the FannieMae Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Institute for Education Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. Professor Ross also has consulted for Abt Associates, FannieMae, the National Consumer Law Center, the New York State Attorney General's office, and the Urban Institute. He also edits the Urban and Real Estate Economics working paper announcement service for New Papers in Economics (NEP).
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In my back yard: Neighbourhood spillovers in mortgage foreclosure
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- Global crisis
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Neighbourhood spillovers in youth crime: Social interactions matter
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- Education
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A novel explanation for the black-white wage gap: Productivity spillovers require social interactions between workers
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- Frontiers of economic research
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Minority mortgage market experiences leading up to and during the Financial Crisis
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- Financial Markets 
- Global crisis
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Minority mortgage market experiences leading up to and during the financial crisis
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- Global crisis 
- Poverty and Income Inequality