segregation. We first report that household moves from a given neighborhood are concentrated to a few destinations. For minority … partially explained by neighborhood networks. We then use Bartik-style labor market income shocks to show that gentrification … movers going to top 1 and 2 destinations based on neighborhood networks and increases the share of households moving out of …

measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we introduce a computer vision method to quantify change in physical appearance of …. We find that the strongest predictors of improvement in a neighborhood's physical appearance are population density and … monthly rent, do not predict improvement in physical appearance. We also find that neighborhood appearances converge to the …

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and … childhood and adulthood. This paper summarizes the recent neighborhood effects literature and interprets the findings. Childhood … neighborhoods affect long-run economic and educational outcomes in a manner consistent with exposure models of neighborhood effects …

We develop a novel strategy to identify the relative importance of school and neighborhood factors in determining … schools. Our findings indicate that neighborhood factors explain around 62% of racial segregation and 44% of economic … opportunity through education …

information about every amenity in each neighborhood. We estimate the model with data from a new neighborhood choice program that … provided information about market rents and same-school network, and collected neighborhood rankings for the same individual … the neighborhood sorting model reveal a strong negative marginal utility of rents, and a positive marginal willingness to …

to landlords and can therefore be offset with targeted transfers, but the destruction of neighborhood character can - in … seem to reflect the global impact of electronic commerce more than the replacement of idiosyncratic neighborhood services …

Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by …-linear effects of neighborhood conditions, magnitude of the change in neighborhood context, frequency of moves, treatment effect …, the findings suggest that selection bias might account for evidence of neighborhood effects on adult economic outcomes in …