Dylan Connor

Dylan Connor

Associate Professor, School of Geog Sci & Urban Pln
  • d.c@asu.edu
  • Mail code: 5302
    Campus: Tempe
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Dylan Connor is an associate professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. He uses big data to study the role of geographic forces in shaping human behavior, migration, social mobility and inequality over long periods of time.

For further information on his work, visit his Google Scholar profile or his research website.

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Education
  • PhD Geography, University of California Los Angeles
  • MSc Statistics, University of Leuven
  • MA Geography, University College Dublin
  • BA Economics & Geography, University College Dublin
CV
Curriculum Vitae (178.28 KB)
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Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QXQhGBwAAAAJ&hl=en
Publications

Working Papers

Connor, D. S., Uhl, J. H., Xie, S., Talbot, C., Hester, C., Jaworski, T., Leyk, S., Gutmann, M, Hunter, L. M. Rising community poverty reduces social mobility for rural children

Jamme, H. T., Connor. D. S. Small cities and smart retail.

Xie, S., Connor, D. S. Stemming the tide of inequality? Immigration, gender, and spatial income disparities in today’s leading technological sectors

Anbinder, T., Connor, D. S., Ó Gráda, C., & Wegge, S. The Problem of False Positives in Automated Census Linking: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century New York's Irish Immigrants.

Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., & Connor, D. S. Leaving the enclave: Historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office (No. w27372). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., Catron, P., Connor, D. S., Voigt, R. Refugees without Assistance: English-Language Attainment and Economic Outcomes in the Early Twentieth Century

 

Published

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).

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.

Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L and Connor, D.S. (2020) Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office. NBER Working Paper Series, June 2020.

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.

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). 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.

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.

Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number Course Title
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
2022 Fall
Course Number Course Title
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
2022 Summer
Course Number Course Title
GIS 492 Honors Directed Study
2022 Spring
Course Number Course Title
GCU 351 Population Geography
GCU 351 Population Geography
CDE 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
SOC 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
GIS 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
GIS 598 Special Topics
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
2021 Fall
Course Number Course Title
SOC 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
CDE 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
GIS 598 Special Topics
GIS 469 Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
2020 Fall
Course Number Course Title
CDE 498 Pro-Seminar
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
GIS 494 Special Topics
GCU 496 Geographic Research Methods
2020 Spring
Course Number Course Title
GIS 494 Special Topics
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
CDE 498 Pro-Seminar
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
2019 Fall
Course Number Course Title
CDE 498 Pro-Seminar
GIS 494 Special Topics
GCU 496 Geographic Research Methods
2019 Spring
Course Number Course Title
CDE 498 Pro-Seminar
GIS 494 Special Topics
GIS 470 Adv Stats Geography & Planning
Expertise Areas
History
Immigration
Inequality
Quantitative Analysis
Urban Development
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