SpotlightTricia Ruiz - New CSDE Fellow 2007-2009
In a recent project with Suzanne Withers (UW Geography) and William A.V. Clark (UCLA Geography), they have used data from the Census and PUMS (2000) to study the effects of housing affordability on the size, direction and demography of inter-metropolitan migration. This work has resulted in a paper which has been invited to be part of a special issue in the journal Population, Space and Place. Currently, the team is extending this analysis to examine Latino migration and housing status, and to consider what these results might suggest for Latino assimilation within the housing market. Also underway is a collaborative project with Mark Ellis (UW Geography) focusing on the use of scale in measuring school quality in the U.S. |
Tricia's research interests focus on the relationship between demography, housing and school quality in the U.S. During this first year in the Geography Ph.D. program, her work synthesizes ideas from spatial demography, political geography and the history of education to construct a theoretical framework for my research. Earlier this year, for her thesis, Tricia merged data from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data with Census data tabulated at the district level to model the relationship between school segregation and residential segregation. 
