Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of city-wide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility …. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the … arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century. Our analysis finds that higher segregation reduces upward mobility for …