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Inequality and City Size
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Pavan, Ronni - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 5, pp. 1535-1548
A strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size developed between 1979 and 2007 in the … inequality in larger locations than in smaller locations. This influence occurred throughout the wage distribution, was most … prevalent during the 1990s, and was mostly driven by more rapid growth in within-skill-group inequality in larger cities. © 2013 …
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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Inequality, neighbourhoods and welfare of the poor
Gulati, Namrata - In: Journal of development economics 122 (2016), pp. 214-228
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The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children : Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment
Billings, Stephen B.; Hoekstra, Mark; Pons Rotger, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about which neighborhood characteristics are most important, and at what scale neighborhood effects operate. By using the random assignment of public housing along with...
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On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Agostinelli, Francesco; Luflade, Margaux; Martellini, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to which educational access is determined by sorting based on heterogeneous preferences over school attributes, or local...
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White Flight from Asian Immigration : Evidence from California Public Schools
Boustan, Leah Platt; Cai, Christine; Tseng, Tammy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the US but we know little about how Asian immigration has affected cities, neighborhoods and schools. This paper studies white flight from Asian arrivals in high-socioeconomic-status Californian school districts from 2000-2016 using initial...
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Beyond Racial Attitudes : The Role of Outside Options in the Dynamics of White Flight
Blair, Peter Q. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
When the fraction of minorities in a neighborhood exceeds the tipping point white flight accelerates. I develop a revealed-preference method to estimate the tipping points of 38,000 census tracts and the preferences of households for minority neighbors in the 123 Metropolitan Statistical Areas...
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Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change : A Nearest Neighbor Design
Bayer, Patrick J.; Casey, Marcus D.; McCartney, William B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Whether contemporary households consider the race of their neighbors when choosing a neighborhood is controversial. We study neighborhood choice using a novel research design that contrasts the move rate of homeowners who receive a new different-race neighbor nearby to that of homeowners who...
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Neighborhood Effects : Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in...
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Labor-Market Integration, Investment in Risky Human Capital, and Fiscal Competition
Wildasin, David E. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 1, pp. 73-95
reduces ex post earnings inequality. If instead human capital investment can only be financed through local taxes, labor …
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