De la Prada, Alex G. and Mario L. Small. 2024. “How People are Exposed to Neighborhoods Racially Different from their Own.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28): e2401661121. 

Small, Mario L. 2024. “The Value of Qualitative Data in Understanding Failure in Prediction.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28): e2409327121. 

Small, Mario L. 2023. “The Data Revolution and the Study of Social Inequality: Promise and Perils.” Social Research 90(4):757-80.

Li, Weiyu, Qi Wang, Yuanyuan Liu, Mario L. Small, and Jianxi Gao. 2022. “A Spatiotemporal Decay Model of Human Mobility when Facing Large-scale Crises.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 119(33) e2203042119

Small, Mario L., Cayce C. Hughes, Vontrese Pamphile, and Jeffrey N. Parker. 2022. “Words vs. Actions in the Network Behavior of Low-Income African Americans.” In Neil Gross, Isaac Arial Reed, and Christopher Winship, The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy. New York, NY: Columbia University Press

Small, Mario L., Armin Akhavan, Mo Torres, and Qi Wang. 2021. “Banks, Alternative Institutions, and the Spatial-Temporal Ecology of Racial Inequality.” Nature Human Behavior.

Small, Mario L. and Leah Gose. 2020. “How Do Low-Income People form Survival Networks?  The Role of Routine Organizations as Brokers.”  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 689(May):89-109

Jennifer Candipan, Nolan Edward Phillips, Robert Sampson, and Mario L. Small. Online first. “From Residence to Movement: The Nature of Racial Segregation in Everyday Urban Mobility.” Urban Studies

Phillips, Nolan E., Bryan L. Levy, Robert M. Sampson, Mario L. Small, and Ryan Q. Wang. Online first. “The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility across Neighborhoods.” Sociological Methods & Research

Small, Mario L. and Laura Adler. 2019. “The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties.”  Annual Review of Sociology 45:111-32.

Wang, Qi, Nolan Phillips, Mario L. Small, and Robert S. Sampson. 2018. “Urban Mobility and Neighborhood Isolation in America’s 50 Largest Cities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(30):7735-40

Small, Mario L., Robert Manduca, and William Johnston. 2018. “Ethnography, Neighborhood Effects, and the Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods across Cities.” City and Community 17(3):565-89

Small, Mario L. 2018. “Understanding When People Will Report Crimes to the Police.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 15(32):8057-59

Wang, Qi, Nolan Phillips, Mario L. Small, and Robert S. Sampson. 2018. “Urban Mobility and Neighborhood Isolation in America’s 50 Largest Cities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(30):7735-40

Chan Tack, Anjanette and Mario L. Small. 2017. “Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods.” Sociological Science. 4:224-48.

Teresa Eckrich Sommer, Terri J. Sabol, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Mario Small, Henry Wilde, Sean Brown, and Zong Yang Huang. 2016. “Promoting Parents Social Capital to Increase Children’s Attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an Experimental Intervention.” Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Small, Mario L. 2015. "De-Exoticizing Ghetto Poverty: On the Ethics of Representation in Urban Ethnography." City and Community 14(4):352-58

Small, Mario L.  2014. "No Two Ghettos Are Alike."  Chronicle Review March 17

Tran, Van C., Corina Graif, Alison D. Jones, Mario L. Small, and Christopher Winship. 2013. “Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston.” City and Community 12(3):187-210

Allard, Scott and Mario L. Small. 2013. “Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647(1):6-20

Small, Mario L. and Jessica Feldman. 2012.  “Ethnographic Evidence, Heterogeneity, and Neighbourhood Effects after Moving to Opportunity.” Pp. 57-77 in van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L. and Maclennan D. (eds). Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives. Springer: Dordrecht

Small, Mario L., David Harding, and Michele Lamont. 2010. “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 629(1):6-27

Small, Mario L, Erin M. Jacobs, and Rebekah P. Massengill. 2008. “Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: A Study of Resource Access through Childcare Centers.” Social Forces 87(1):387-414

Small, Mario L. 2008. “Four Reasons to Abandon the Idea of ‘The Ghetto’.” City and Community 7(4):389-98

Lamont, Michèle and Mario L. Small. 2008. “How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty.” Pp. 76-102 in Harris D. and Lin A., (eds.), The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation

Small, Mario L. 2007. “Is There Such a Thing as ‘The Ghetto’? The Perils of Assuming that the South Side of Chicago Represents Poor Black Neighborhoods.” City 11(3):413-21

Small, Mario L. 2007. “Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter?” Social Science Quarterly 88(2):320-43

Small, Mario L. and Monica McDermott. 2006. “The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects.” Social Forces 84(3):1697-1724

Small, Mario L. 2006. “Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers: Childcare Centers, Inter-Organizational Ties, and Resource Access among the Poor.” Social Problems 53(2):274-92

Small, Mario L. and Laura Stark. 2005. “Are Poor Neighborhoods Resource-Deprived?  A Case Study of Childcare Centers in New York.” Social Science Quarterly 86(s1):1013-36

Small, Mario L. 2002. “Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project.” American Journal of Sociology 108(1):1-54

Small, Mario L., and Katherine S. Newman. 2001. “Urban Poverty after The Truly Disadvantaged: The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 23-45

[For full list, see CV]