Max Besbris

Broadly, I study how individuals make decisions in economic markets, how these decisions are affected by interactions with others, and how these decisions, in turn, affect racial and socio-spatial inequalities. My research questions tend to focus on housing and neighborhoods, and I am increasingly interested in how climate change is impacting real estate values, residential decision-making, and inequality more generally.

Selected Publications:

Besbris, Max, Sadie Dempsey, Brian McCabe, and Eva Rosen. “Pandemic Housing: The Role of Landlords, Social Networks, and Social Policy in Mitigating Housing Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10, no. 4 (2024): 207-224.

Besbris, Max, Rebecca Elliott, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Ruthy Gourevitch. “The housing regime as a barrier to climate action.” npj Climate Action 3, no. 1 (2024): 66.

Besbris, Max. “What Is Sociological About Environmental Sociology?: Qualitative Methods in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change.” Qualitative Sociology (2024): 1-7.

Rhodes, Anna, and Max Besbris. “A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster.“ Qualitative Sociology (2024): 1-28.

Mikulas, Alex, Brenden Beck, and Max Besbris. “Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level.” Socius 10 (2024): 23780231241261606.