Dylan Connor

Preprint

Jang, J., Connor, D., Rogerson, P., & Tong, D. High resolution measures of preference-based local segregation for the United States, 2018-2023.OSF [preprint]

Connor, D., Sheehan, C., Jang, J., Kemeny, T., Suss, J., Molina, M., Xie, S., Gu, Z., & Saenz, J. Community wealth protects cognitive health for older adults SocArXiv [preprint]

Kemeny, T., Connor, D., Suss, J., Xie, S., Jang, J., & Gu, Z. Spatial wealth inequality in the United States: theory and evidence., OSF [preprint]

Xie, S., Gutmann, M., Leyk, S., Berg, A., Hoose, S., Holister, L., ... & Connor, D. S. Mapping Neighborhood Patterns in the US Mid-Life Mortality Crisis: A Sequence Analysis. SSRN [preprint]

Jain, G., Yang, W., Sarkar, S. K., Frazier, A. E., & Connor, D. S. CoSal: A remote sensing and machine learning framework for mapping coastal soil salinity trends around aquaculture in South Asia. OSF [preprint]

Published

Tellman, B., Jain, M., Eakin, H., Connor, D., & de Alba, F. (2026). Electoral politics influence expansion and titling of informal urban settlements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(21), e2421303123.

Xie, S., & Connor, D. S. (2026). STEMming from Where? Spatial and Demographic Income Disparities in the US Technology Workforce. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-22.

Connor, D. S., Xie, S., Jang, J., Frazier, A., Kedron, P., Jain, G., Yu, Y., Kemeny, T. (2025). Big cities fuel inequality within and across generations. PNAS nexus, 4(2), pgae587.

Jeong, A., Connor, D. S., Dorn, R. I., & Seong, Y. B. (2025). Estimating Urbanization’s Impact on Soil Erosion: A Global Comparative Analysis and Case Study of Phoenix, USA. Land, 14(8), 1590.

Yu, Y., Flores, A., Connor, D., Meerow, S., Braswell, A. E., & Leyk, S. (2025). Flood risk and the built environment: big property data for environmental justice and social vulnerability analysis. Population and Environment, 47(1), 14.

Karanja, J., Vanos, J., Joshi, A., Penner, S., Guzman, G. E., Connor, D. S., & Rykaczewski, K. (2025). Impact of tent shade on heat exposures and simulated heat strain for people experiencing homelessness. International Journal of Biometeorology, 1-14.

Connor, D. S., Berg, A. K., Kemeny, T., & Kedron, P. J. (2024). Who gets left behind by left behind places?. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17(1), 37-58.

Connor, D. S., Xie, S., Uhl, J. H., Talbot, C., Hester, C., Jaworski, T., ... & Hunter, L. (2024), Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America. Population, Space and Place, e2802.

Suss, J., Kemeny, T., & Connor, D. S. (2024). GEOWEALTH: spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960-2020. Scientific Data. Volume 11, article number 253.

Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., & Connor, D. S. (2024). Leaving the enclave: Historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office.The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 352-394.

Berg, A. K., Connor, D. S., Kedron, P., & Frazier, A. E. (2024). Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–2020. Applied Geography, 167, 103271.

Connor, D. S., Kemeny, T., & Storper, M. (2024). Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity. Journal of Economic Geography, 24(3), 393-414.

Goodchild, M. F., Connor, D., Fotheringham, A. S., Frazier, A., Kedron, P., Li, W., & Tong, D. (2024). Digital twins in urban informatics. Urban Informatics, 3(1), 1-9.

Hu, Y., Connor, D.S., Stuhlmacher, M., Peng, J., Turner, B. L. More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China. npj Urban Sustainability, 4, 33 (2024).

Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Catron, P., Connor, D., & Voigt, R. (2023). The refugee advantage: English-language attainment in the early twentieth century. Sociological Science, 10, 769-805.

Connor, D. S., Hunter, L., Jang, J., & Uhl, J. H. (2023). Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 87, 100844.

Jamme, H. T., & Connor, D. S. (2023). Diffusion of the Internet-of-Things (IoT): A framework based on smart retail technology. Applied Geography, 161, 103122.

Uhl, J. H., Hunter, L. M., Leyk, S., Connor, D. S., Nieves, J. J., Hester, C., ... & Gutmann, M. (2023), Place-level urban–rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018, Landscape and Urban Planning, 236, 104762.

Braswell A. E., Leyk S, Connor D. S., Uhl J. H. (2022), Creeping disaster along the U.S. coastline: Understanding exposure to sea level rise and hurricanes through historical development, PLoS ONE 17(8): e0269741.

Sheehan, C., Zajacova, A., Connor, D., & Montez, J. K. (2022), State-level variation in the association between educational attainment and sleep, Population Research and Policy Review, 41(3), 1137-1160.

Connor, D. (2021), In the name of the father? Fertility, religion and child naming in the demographic transition, Demography 58 (5), 1793-1815.

Uhl, J., Connor, D. S., Leyk, S., Braswell A. (2021), A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States, Communications Earth and Environment,  2, article 20.

Uhl, J. H., Leyk, S., McShane, C. M., Braswell, A. E., Connor, D. S., & Balk, D. (2021), Fine-grained, spatio-temporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States, Earth System Science Data, 13, 119-153.

Connor, D. S., Storper, M. (2020), The changing geography of social mobility in the United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  117 (48).

Leyk, S., Uhl, J. H., Connor, D. S., Braswell, A. E., Mietkiewicz, N., Balch, J. K., & Gutmann, M. (2020), Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States, Science Advances, 6(23), eaba2937.

Connor, D. S. (2020), Class background, reception context and intergenerational mobility: A record linkage and surname analysis of the children of Irish immigrants, International Migration Review, 54(1), 4-34.

Connor, D. S., Gutmann, M., Clement, K., Cunningham, A., Leyk, S. (2020), How entrenched is the spatial structure of inequality in cities? Integrating Census and Zillow building data for Denver from 1940-2016, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(4), 1022-1039.

Hunter, L. M., Talbot, C. B., Connor, D. S., Counterman, M., Uhl, J. H., Gutmann, M. P., & Leyk, S. (2020), Change in US Small Town Community Capitals, 1980–2010, Population Research and Policy Review, 39, 913-940.

Connor, D. S. (2019), The cream of the crop? Geography, networks and Irish migrant selection in the Age of Mass Migration, The Journal of Economic History, 79(1), 139-175.

Connor, D. S. (2018), A review of Do We Need Economic Inequality? by Danny Dorling, Economic Geography, 94(3), 321-323.

Connor, D. S. (2017). Putting people in their place: intergenerational inequality in the age of mass migration. University of California, Los Angeles [Doctoral Dissertation].

Connor, D. S. (2017), Poverty, religious differences and child mortality in the early 20th Century: The case of Dublin, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(3), 625-646.

Schwarzer, S., & Connor, D. (2012). Political engagement among the youth: Effects of political socialization across Europe. In Democracy in Transition: Political Participation in the European Union (pp. 253-272). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg [book chapter]/

Connor, D. S., G., Mills, and N., Moore-Cherry, (2011), The 1911 Census and Dublin City: A spatial analysis, Irish  Geography, 44(2-3), 245-263.