Art galleries serve several important functions within the art industry. Economically, galleries are loci of arts consumption, generally focusing on visual arts such as painting and sculpture. If artists visit galleries to learn about their peers’ work, galleries may also contribute to...

Large racial differences in home ownership have been a source of considerable concernamong policymakers because homeownership choice may influence wealth accumulation, labormarket outcomes, and even children's educational outcomes. Racial differences in ownershiprates may be affected by...

Simple introspection as well as accumulating evidence from academic research suggests that a core idea of urban economists, that journeys-to-work dominate households’ choice of residential location, is suspect (Giuliano and Small, 1993). Indeed, our own recent research identifies...

Recent academic and policy analyses have sought to explicate the persistently depressed levels of black and Latino homeownership. While prior research has focused largely on racial disparitiesin household endowments (see, for example, Bostic and Surette (2001), Gabriel and Painter(2001),...

This paper, using 1990 census microdata, investigates immigrants’ residential location choices that are relevant to urban sprawl. Regression models of two location choices are separately estimated, in which households choose from areas with different levels of residential density and new...