Excited to share that I'm joining the faculty at @teacherscollege.bsky.social this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education. Grateful to my many mentors & colleagues at Cornell, Brown, and beyond who have advocated for me and supported my work. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ac62...

Alexandra Cooperstock | Faculty Profile | Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation's best.

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📄 How has federal place-based policymaking evolved over the past three decades? New research employing a novel dataset from Annenberg Postdoc Alexandra Cooperstock and coauthors explores this topic. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/KmbLlru @acooperstock.bsky.social

We started collecting the data for this project almost ten (!!!) years ago. Very happy to finally be able to share this paper coauthored with Laura Tach, @microsamonomics.bsky.social, & @acooperstock.bsky.social

📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019

Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

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