- Kane, Kevin, John R. Hipp, and Jae Hong Kim. (2016). “Los Angeles employment concentration in the 21st century.” Urban Studies.
- Kim, Jae Hong, John R. Hipp, and Victoria Basolo. (2017). “Municipal Planning and Urban Land Use Change Dynamics in Southern California.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. [This project explores how the policies of cities, and the broader context surrounding them, impacts land use development.]
- Hipp, John R. and Alyssa W. Chamberlain. (2015). “Foreclosures and crime: A City-level Analysis in Southern California of a Dynamic Process.” Social Science Research. 51(2): 219-232. [This project explores how the impact of foreclosures on crime rates differs across cities based on the socio-demographic characteristics of cities.]
- Hipp, John R. and Amrita Singh. (2014). “Changing Neighborhood Determinants of Housing Price Trends in Southern California, 1960-2009.” City & Community. 13(3): 254-274. [This project studies whether the relationship between certain characteristics of neighborhoods and home values have changed over a 50 year period in Southern California. An important finding is that the negative relationship with racial/ethnic minorities has decreased substantially in recent decades.]
- Boggess, Lyndsay N. and John R. Hipp. (2014). “The spatial dimensions of gentrification and the consequences for neighborhood crime.” Justice Quarterly. Forthcoming. [Studies the relationship between the increase in average home values (a component of gentrification) and crime in Los Angeles between 1990 and 2000.]
- Hipp, John R. and Adam Boessen (2012). “Immigrants and social distance: Examining the social consequences of immigration for Southern California neighborhoods over 50 years.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 641(1): 192-219. [This project studied the effect of immigrant in-mobility on the trajectory of socio-economic change in neighborhoods in southern California over a nearly 50-year period (1960 to 2007)]
- Hipp, John R. and Cynthia M. Lakon. (2010). “Social Disparities in Health: Disproportionate toxicity proximity in minority communities over a decade.” Health & Place. 16(4): 674-683. [A study of disproportionate exposure to toxic waste sites in six southern California counties over a ten year period (1990-2000).]
- Boggess, Lyndsay N. and John R. Hipp. (2010). “Violent crime, residential instability and mobility: Does the relationship differ in minority neighborhoods?” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 26(3): 351-370. [This study examines the relationship between violent crime and residential instability in Los Angeles neighborhoods between 1992 and 1997]
- Hipp, John R., George E. Tita, and Robert T. Greenbaum. (2009). “Drive-bys and Trade-ups: The Impact of Crime on Residential Mobility Patterns in Los Angeles.” Social Forces. 87(4): 1777-1812. [Study of neighborhoods in Los Angeles city in the 1990s tests which comes first: home sales volatility or crime?]
- Hipp, John R., George E. Tita, and Lyndsay N. Boggess. (2009). “Inter- and Intra-group violence: Is violent crime an expression of group conflict or social disorganization?” Criminology. 47(2): 521-564. [Using incident level data for the South Bureau Policing Area of the Los Angeles Police Department aggregated to Census tracts, the study uses a novel methodology to construct intra- and inter-group rates of robbery and assaults.]