
Lincoln Quillian
Associate Professor of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University, 1997
l-quillian@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Social demographer Lincoln Quillian is interested in social stratification,
race and ethnicity, urban sociology, and quantitative research methods.
Most of his research has focused on how social structure and group
demography influence inequality and inter-group attitudes, with
special emphasis to race and ethnicity. Along these lines, he has
studied how the relative size of racial minority groups influences
racial attitudes. He has investigated the patterns of migration
that underlie segregation on the basis of race and income in American
cities.
Recently, he has published on the correspondence between audit
measures of discrimination and survey measures of prejudice (with
Devah Pager), racial segregation in adolescent friendship networks,
and the influence of racial stereotypes on perceptions of neighborhood
crime levels. These projects have appeared as publications in a
number of journals in sociology and demography. He has been awarded
a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford University.
Current Research
Racial Stereotypes and Racial Inequality. This
study focuses on better understanding the nature of stereotypes
and their influence on racial inequality, integrating perspectives
from sociology, psychology, and economics. The project employs survey
measures that provide quantitative evaluations of risk of negative
events to study how implicit prejudices influence the accuracy of
impressions formed about members of other racial groups, and how
these impressions guide judgments and result in discriminatory action.
Spatial Income Segregation and Social Outcomes.
This study assesses the consequences of metropolitan income segregation
for socioeconomic inequality on the basis of income and race. It
uses a variety of existing data sources to estimate the losses to
disadvantaged groups and the gains to advantaged groups from spatial
income segregation, and to clarify the importance of different social
mechanisms through which spatial segregation among income groups
influences inequality.
Selected Publications
Quillian, L. 2006. New approaches to understanding racial prejudice and discrimination. Annual Review of Sociology 32: 299-328.
Pager, D., and L. Quillian. 2005. Walking the talk? What employers
say versus what they do. American Sociological Review 70(3):
355-380.
Quillian, L. 2003. How long are exposures to poor neighborhoods?
The long-term dynamics of entry and exit from poor neighborhoods.
Population Research and Policy Review 22:221-249.
Quillian, L., and M. Campbell. 2003. beyond black and white: The
present and future of multiracial friendship segregation. American
Sociological Review 68:540-566.
Quillian, L. 2003. The decline of male employment in low-income
black neighborhoods, 1950-1990. Social Science Research 32:220-250.
Quillian, L., and D. Pager. 2001. Black neighbors, higher crime?
The role of racial stereotypes in evaluations of neighborhood crime.
American Journal of Sociology 107(3): 717-67.
Quillian, L. 1999. Migration patterns and the growth of high-poverty
neighborhoods, 1970-1990. American Journal of Sociology 105(1):
1-37.
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