Research

See full CV here

Interests

Integration; housing; poverty; inequality; urban studies/planning; migration; the interconnectedness of housing, health, and education policy; intergroup contact; measures of social cohesion/trust; community-based participatory research; mixed-methods research

Publications and Articles Under Review

Published Papers

• Mleczko, Matthew and Matthew Desmond. 2023. “Using Natural Language Processing to Construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database.” Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/00420980231156352
  • Urban Studies 2023 Best Article Shortlist
  • See the following GitHub page for data and programs

Conditionally Accepted

• Mleczko, Matthew. “Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000-2020.” Urban Affairs Review.

Invited for Resubmission

• Mleczko, Matthew. “The Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods.”

Under Review

• Mleczko, Matthew. “A Virtuous Cycle? Fair Housing and the Promotion of Long-Term Residential Integration.”

Working Papers

• Mleczko, Matthew. “The Role of Residential Integration in Promoting Successful School Integration.”
• Mleczko, Matthew. “Using Individual-Level Data to Understand 21st Century U.S. Residential Integration.”

Policy Reports

• Kalra, Vanita, Martina Manicastri, Tanushree Bansal, Adam Gordon, and Matthew Mleczko. 2023. “Dismantling Exclusionary Zoning: New Jersey’s Blueprint for Overcoming Segregation.” Cherry Hill, NJ. Fair Share Housing Center.
• Ruiz, David, Kristie McNealy, Kristen Corey, Jill Simmerman, Jelena Zurovac, Catherine McLaughlin, Mike Barna, and Matt Mleczko. 2017. “Evaluation of the Community-based Care Transitions Program.” Final report submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Bethesda, MD: Econometrica, Inc. and Mathematica Policy Research.
• Orzol, Sean, Lindsey Leininger, Lauren Hula, Cara Orfield, Richard Chapman, and Matthew Mleczko. 2016. “The Impact of Transitioning Stairstep Children from Separate CHIP to Medicaid on Use of Health Services: Evidence from Colorado and New York.” Final report submitted to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission. Ann Arbor, MI: Mathematica Policy Research.