Clemens Noelke

Noelke, C., McArdle, N., DeVoe, B., Leonardos, M., Lu, Y., Ressler, R., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2024a). Child Opportunity Index 3.0 technical documentation. https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-report/coi-30-technical-documentation

Noelke, C., McArdle, N., DeVoe, B., Leonardos, M., Lu, Y., Ressler, R., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2024b). Child Opportunity Index 3.0 database. diversitydatakids.org, Brandeis University. https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset/coi30-2010-tracts-child-opportunity-index-3-0-database--2010-census-tracts

Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., & Shafer, L. (2024). Confronting the Role of Structural Racism in Inequities in Child Neighborhood Opportunity and Child Health. Academic Pediatrics, 24(7S), S173-S177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.05.004

Acevedo-Garcia, D., McArdle, N., Shafer, L., & Noelke, C. (2024). The State of Racial/Ethnic Equity in Children's Neighborhood Opportunity – First Findings from the Child Opportunity Index 3.0. diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-report/geography-child-opportunity-why-neighborhoods-matter-equity

Carroll, A. R., Hall, M., Noelke, C., Ressler, R. W., Brown, C. M., Spencer, K. S., Bell, D. S., Williams, D. J., & Fritz, C. Q. (2024). Association of neighborhood opportunity and pediatric hospitalization rates in the United States. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 19(2), 120-125. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13252

Slopen, N., Cosgrove, C., Acevedo-Garcia, D., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Shonkoff, J. P., & Noelke, C. (2023). Neighborhood opportunity and mortality among children and adults in their households. Pediatrics, 151(4). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-058316

Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., Ressler, R. W., & Shafer, L. (2023). Improving the infrastructure for neighborhood indices to advance health equity. Health Affairs Forefront. https://doi.org/10.1377/forefront.20230830.428660

Noelke, C., Outrich, M., Baek, M., Reece, J., Osypuk, T. L., McArdle, N., Ressler, R. W., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2022a). Connecting past to present: Examining different approaches to linking historical redlining to present day health inequities. PLOS ONE, 17(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267606

Noelke, C., Outrich, M., Baek, M., Reece, J., Osypuk, T. L., McArdle, N., Ressler, R. W., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2022b). Home Owner Loan Corporation (HOLC) neighborhood grades for US census tracts. diversitydatakids.org, Brandeis University. https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset/holc_census_ tracts-home-owner-loan-corporation--holc--neighborhood-grades-for-us-census-tracts

Joshi, P., Walters, A. N., Noelke, C., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2022). Families' Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity. RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(5), 67-95. https://doi.org/10.7758/Rsf.2022.8.5.04

Bettenhausen, J. L., Noelke, C., Ressler, R. W., Hall, M., Harris, M., Peltz, A., Auger, K. A., Teufel, R. J., 2nd, Lutmer, J. E., Krager, M. K., Simon, H. K., Neuman, M. I., Pavuluri, P., Morse, R. B., Eghtesady, P., Macy, M. L., Shah, S. S., Synhorst, D. C., & Gay, J. C. (2022). The Association of the Childhood Opportunity Index on Pediatric Readmissions and Emergency Department Revisits. Academic Pediatrics, 22(4), 614-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.12.015

Saravanou, A., Noelke, C., Huntington, N., Acevedo-Garcia, D., & Gunopulos, D. (2021). Predictive modeling of infant mortality. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 35(4), 1785-1807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-020-00728-2

Krager, M. K., Puls, H. T., Bettenhausen, J. L., Hall, M., Thurm, C., Plencner, L. M., Markham, J. L., Noelke, C., & Beck, A. F. (2021). The Child Opportunity Index 2.0 and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. Pediatrics, 148(2). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-032755
Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Baek, M., Huntington, N., Huber, R., Hardy, E., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2020a). Child Opportunity Index 2.0 database. diversitydatakids.org, Brandeis University. https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset/coi20-child-opportunity-index-2-0-database

Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Baek, M., Huntington, N., Huber, R., Hardy, E., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2020b). Child Opportunity Index 2.0 technical documentation. https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-brief/how-we-built-it

Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., & McArdle, N. (2020). The geography of child opportunity: Why neighborhoods matter for equity. https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-report/geography-child-opportunity-why-neighborhoods-matter-equity

Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Sofer, N., Hardy, E. F., Weiner, M., Baek, M., Huntington, N., Huber, R., & Reece, J. (2020). Racial and ethnic inequities in children's neighborhoods: Evidence from the new Child Opportunity Index 2.0. Health Affairs, 39(10), 1693-1701. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00735

Noelke, C., Chen, Y.-H., Osypuk, T. L., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2019). Economic Downturns and Inequities in Birth Outcomes: Evidence From 149 Million US Births. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(6), 1092-1100. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz042

Noelke, C. (2017). Employment Protection Legislation and the Youth Labour Market. European Sociological Review, 33(6), 839-839. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcx073

Noelke, C., & Beckfield, J. (2017). Job security provisions and work hours. Acta Sociologica, 60(3), 246-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699316679241

Noelke, C., McGovern, M., Corsi, D. J., Jimenez, M. P., Stern, A., Wing, I. S., & Berkman, L. (2016). Increasing ambient temperature reduces emotional well-being. Environmental Research, 151, 124-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2016.06.045

Sabbath, E. L., Mejia-Guevara, I., Noelke, C., & Berkman, L. F. (2015). The long-term mortality impact of combined job strain and family circumstances: A life course analysis of working American mothers. Social Science & Medicine, 146, 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.024

Noelke, C., & Avendano, M. (2015). Who suffers during recessions? Economic downturns, job loss, and cardiovascular disease in older Americans. American Journal of Epidemiology, 182(10), 873-882. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwv094

Noelke, C., & Beckfield, J. (2014). Recessions, job loss, and mortality among older US adults. American Journal of Public Health, 104(11), e126-134. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302210

Noelke, C., & Horn, D. (2014). Social Transformation and the Transition from Vocational Education to Work in Hungary: A Differences-in-differences Approach. European Sociological Review, 30(4), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcu048

Noelke, C., Gebel, M., & Kogan, I. (2012). Uniform Inequalities: Institutional Differentiation and the Transition from Higher Education to Work in Post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. European Sociological Review, 28(6), 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcs008

Kogan, I., Noelke, C., & Gebel, M. (2011). Making the Transition: Education and Labor Market entry in Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford University Press.

Kogan, I., Gebel, M., & Noelke, C. (2008). Europe Enlarged: A Handbook of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Policy.

Reimer, D., Noelke, C., & Kucel, A. (2008). Labor Market Effects of Field of Study in Comparative Perspective An Analysis of 22 European Countries. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 49(4-5), 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715208093076

2024 University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health: “The Child Opportunity Index 3.0: What it is and how it compares to other metrics.”

2024 Champions for Youth Summit, Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. “The Child Opportunity Index: What it is, why it’s needed, what it shows, and how to use it.”

2024 Fenwick Institute’s Pediatric Health Equity Policy Research Symposium, one-hour workshop: “The Child Opportunity Index 3.0: What it is and how it compares to other metrics.”

2023 Heller-Tufts Brown Bag Lunch: “Comparing single- and multi-indicator measures of neighborhood context: Implications for equity-focused research and practice.”

2023 Fenwick Institute’s Pediatric Health Equity Policy Research Symposium: “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: Research and Applied Uses to Advance Child Health Equity.”

2023 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Spring Conference. “Comparing approaches to measuring the quality of children’s neighborhood environments.”

2023 Race and Racial Equity in Early Childhood Development Research Forum, Ohio State University, “The Future of Neighborhood Opportunity Mapping.”

2022 National Community Leadership Summit – Data Equity Symposium. “Neighborhood Redlining and Child Opportunity.”

2022 Heller-Tufts Brown Bag Lunch; Harvard School of Public Health; Centers for Disease Control Division for Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Webinar. “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: Why it’s needed, how we built it, what it shows, and how to use it.”

2021 Centers for Disease Control Division for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Speaker Series; Massachusetts Department for Housing and Community Development; Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Neonatology Speaker Series; Boston Children’s Hospital Office of Community Health; Children’s Hospital Association Analytics Group; Children’s Hospital Association PHIS User Group; School Based Health Alliance; Alliance for Early Success; Education Counsel; WK Kellogg Foundation; Abt Associates: “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: Why it’s needed, how we built it, what it shows, and how to use it.”

2021 American Community Survey User Conference (virtual): “Does Spatial Aggregation Affect Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Access to Neighborhood Opportunity?”

2021 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Spring Conference (virtual). “Historical government redlining and present-day child opportunity: evidence for the Boston metro area from a new national dataset.”

2021 Society for Social Work and Research (virtual). “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: A New Index of Neighborhood Opportunity for All US Neighborhoods.”

2020 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Spring Conference (virtual). “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: A New Index of Neighborhood Opportunity for All US Neighborhoods.”

2020 (cancelled by organizer) Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Philadelphia, PA: “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: A New Index of Neighborhood Opportunity for All US Census Tracts.”

2019 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Denver, CO: “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0” and “The National Equity Research Database.”

2019 American Community Survey User Conference, Washington, DC: “The National Equity Research Database (NERD)”, and “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0.”

2019 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Spring Conference, Boston, MA: “Using the National Equity Research Database to Shine Light on Racial/Ethnic Inequities: Examples from the Boston Metro Area”, and “The Child Opportunity Index 2.0: Measuring Neighborhood Equity Within and Across US Regions.”

2019 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, Presentation: “Economic Downturns and Inequities in Birth Outcomes: Evidence from 149 Million US Births.” Poster: “Predicting Infant Mortality at the Time of Birth.”

2019 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD: “The Child Opportunity Index.”

2018 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Spring Conference: “The Boston Equity Indicator Database.”

2015 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, Presentation: “The Causal Effect of Age on Subjective Well-Being.” Poster: “Temperature and Well-Being in the US: The Sub-Clinical Implications of Global Warming.”

2014 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2014, San Francisco, Presentation: “Recessions, Job Loss and Mortality.”

2014 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Budapest, Presentations: “Recessions, Job Loss and Mortality,” “The Causal Effect of Age (on Happiness).”

2014 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Presentation: “Recessions, Job Loss and Mortality.”

2014 Council for European Studies, Washington DC: Session chair “Macroeconomic and Institutional Determinants of Population Health in Europe and the U.S.,” Presentation: “Recessions, Job Loss and Mortality.”

2013 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Seminar: “Recession, Job Loss and Mortality.”

2012 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Seminar: “Job Security and Sickness Absence.”

2012 Jacobs University Bremen, SHSS Lecture Series, Invited Talk: “How To Fix European Youth Labor Markets.”

2012 Council for European Studies, Boston, Presentations: “Under Pressure: Trade Unions and Temporary Employment in Continental European Countries;” “Stratified Sickness Absence in European Welfare States: Evidence from the 2008/9 Economic Crisis in Western Europe,” with Jason Beckfield.

2011 Sociology of Education Workshop, Harvard University: “Social Transformation and the Transition from Vocational Education to Work.”
2010 Harvard-MIT Economic Sociology Colloquium, Harvard University: “Employment Protection and Job Insecurity.”

2010 Center of European Studies, Harvard University, Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe Study Group: “Employment Protection and Job Insecurity.”

2010 ISA World Congress, RC28, Gothenburg, Sweden: “Employment Protection and the Distribution of Job Security.”

2010 EQUALSOC Final Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands: “Employment Protection and the Distribution of Job Security.”

2009 Workshop “Employment Protection and Inequality in Comparative Perspective”, Harvard University: “Employment Protection and Youth Unemployment.”

2009 ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Yale University: “Youth Unemployment: Institutional Factors Revisited.”

2009 User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, GESIS, Mannheim: “Cross-national Variation in Tertiary Graduate Unemployment Rates.”

2009 EQUALSOC Research Team Meeting, Juan March Institute: “Ability Grouping, Equality and Reading Achievement,” with Michael Gebel.

2008 16th Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth Network, Bamberg University: “Vocational Education in Transition Countries,” with Daniel Horn; Chair and discussant for session “Training: Decisions and Consequences.”

2008 ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Stanford University: “Educational Expansion, Technological Change, and Youth Unemployment.”

2008 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, European University Institute: “Labor Market Entry in Post-socialist Countries: Consequences of Institutional Change in the Apprenticeship System,” with Daniel Horn.

2008 EQUALSOC Network Conference, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin: “Technological Change, Educational Expansion, and the Changing Distribution of Youth Unemployment Risks.”

2007 15th Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth Network, SHERPPA, Ghent, Belgium: “Structural Change and Youth Labor Market Inequality.”

2006 EQUALSOC Network Conference, Pompeu Fabra University: “ISCED-97 in the EULFS.”

2006 ECSR Summer School, Prague: “From School to Work or Unemployment? The Returns to Education under Varying Institutional and Structural Conditions”, with Michael Gebel.

Selected Grants

2024-25 “New Opportunity Area Definitions for the SNO MASS Project” (PI). Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC).

2021-23 “Developing the Child Opportunity Index 3.0 to improve equitable access to opportunity and health equity for children across the U.S.” (Co-PI with Dolores Acevedo-Garcia). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2021-23 “diversitydatakids.org 3.0: Updating, enhancing, and mobilizing data, analysis, and knowledge products to advance a national-to-local child racial/ethnic equity agenda” (Co-PI with Dolores Acevedo-Garcia). WK Kellogg Foundation.

2018-21 “Leveraging the Child Opportunity Index for Equitable Access to Healthy Communities” (Co-PI with Dolores Acevedo-Garcia).

2013-14 “The Health Effects of Job Loss at Older Ages” (Co-Pi with Jason Beckfield), Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Seed Grant and Harvard School of Public Health Program on the Global Demography of Ageing Pilot Research Grant.

2021 Early Career Research Investigator Award, Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

2021 Data Visualization Award for Child Opportunity Index interactive mapping application (team award), Association for Public Data Users

2018 Research Team Award (team award), Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

2004 Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation