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Joe LaBriola is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, where he is faculty at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. His research examines the roots of social stratification in the contemporary United States. His current work centers on the role of housing and housing policy in exacerbating racial and socioeconomic inequalities, with three main areas of focus: 1) the causes and consequences of residential growth controls, 2) the unequal effects of the tax treatment of homeownership, and 3) the effect of rising house prices on wealth inequality. At the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, Joe is a Co-Investigator on the Wealth and Mobility Study, which is using tax and administrative records to create a public data infrastructure detailing the geographic distribution of wealth in the United States. His research has been published in leading sociology journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Social Problems.