about me

Paul A. Jargowsky is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). His principal research interests are inequality, the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class. Other areas of interest include educational attainment and economic mobility. His book, Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997), is a comprehensive examination of poverty at the neighborhood level in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1970 and 1990. The Urban Affairs Association named Poverty and Place the "Best Book in Urban Affairs Published in 1997 or 1998."

For an update on neighborhood poverty from the 2000 Census, see the Brookings Institution Policy Brief, "Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: Concentration of Poverty in the 1990s." To view interactive maps of the spatial distribution of poverty, see the web site Windows on Urban Poverty web site, http://www.urbanpoverty.net.

Jargowsky has also been involved in policy development at both the state and federal levels. In 1993, he was a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where he helped design the simulation model used for welfare reform planning. In 1986, he was the Project Director for the New York State Task Force on Poverty and Welfare Reform. The report of the Task Force, The New Social Contract: Rethinking the Nature and Purpose of Public Assistance, was influential in reshaping the welfare reform debate. Jargowsky has also been involved as a consultant and expert witness in fair housing and school desegregation litigation. Current areas of research include racial and economic segregation, the impacts of economic and spatial inequality, and the causes and consequences of exclusionary suburban development patterns.

Jargowsky teaches courses on economics, sociology, social policy, and empirical methods. He is the Director of the Texas Schools Project, which uses administrative data from Texas public schools and colleges to study issues in education.

contact info

E-mail: jargo@utdallas.edu
Home Page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~jargo
Office Phone: (972) 883-2992
Fax: (972) 883-2551
Office: GR 3.202 (Green Hall)

Mail Address:
Prof. Paul A. Jargowsky
University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021