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    Making a place in the metropolis: Locational attainment in cities and suburbs

    What accounts for the differences in the kinds of communities within the metropolis in which members of different racial and ethnic groups live? Do socioeconomic advancement and acculturation provide greater i...

    John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, Tom McNulty, Brian Fisher in Demography (1996)

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    Point Blank and the evidence: A rejoinder to Gary Kleck

    Richard D. Alba, Steven F. Messner in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1995)

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    Point blank against itself: Evidence and inference about guns, crime, and gun control

    This essay considers the empirical foundations for some of the more important and controversial conclusions concerning guns, crime, and gun control advanced in Gary Kleck’s highly influential treatise,Point Blank

    Richard D. Alba, Steven F. Messner in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1995)

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    Locational returns to human capital: Minority access to suburban community resources

    The suburbanization of racial and ethnic minorities is analyzed in terms of the locational resources provided by their communities of residence. In suburbs in the New York CMSA, non-Hispanic whites and Asians,...

    John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba in Demography (1993)

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    Intermarriage and ethnicity among European Americans

    Increasing intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles is taking place at a time when marriage across lines defined by European ancestry has risen sharply. This paper examines the prevalence and social significanc...

    Richard D. Alba in Contemporary Jewry (1991)

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    Variations on two themes: Racial and ethnic patterns in the attainment of suburban residence

    To investigate racial and ethnic diversity in suburbanization, we draw on two complementary theoretical traditions, which we label “assimilation” and “stratification.” Our analytic model is multilevel, and inc...

    Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan in Demography (1991)

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    The convergence between the common-sense method of reading a contingency table and regression-based models of its structure

    Richard D. Alba in Quality and Quantity (1982)

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    Organized crime and American life

    Dwight C. Smith, Richard D. Alba in Society (1979)