Social eating - or eating a meal with significant others - is universally important for social networking in society. This article reviews a research program on social eating as a network builder and resource mobilizer for favor exchanges, and presents new survey evidence on patterns of...

Reports of rising income segregation have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased due to a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies have offered estimates of this "sample-count" bias using public data. We show here...

Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a decline in the 1990s to an increase in the 2000-2010 decade. This finding reinforces concerns about the growing overall income inequality in the U.S. since the 1970s. Yet the...

Books reviewed: Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography Peter Meusburger and Heike Jons (eds.), Transformations in Hungary: Essays in Economy and Society Allen J. Scott (ed.), Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy James O....