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neighborhoods closer to the city center. The centralization of price growth during the boom was particularly dramatic in those … metropolitan areas where income is higher away from the city center. We consider four different explanations for why city centers … centralized price growth; (3) areas with centralized poverty had the weakest supply response to the boom in prices in the city …
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This paper presents an analysis of the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city …
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from the law of one price (LOP) are positively correlated with the distance between cities. A standard, two-city …
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create less greenhouse gas emissions when they live closer to the city center. This study uses three data sets reporting on … negative association between center city living and a household's carbon footprint …
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The standard revealed-preference estimate of a city's quality of life is proportional to that city's cost …" rankings and stated preferences, and do not decrease with city size. Mild seasons, sunshine, hills, and coastal proximity …
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What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and people in unequal cities are more likely to say that they are unhappy. There is also a negative association between local inequality and the growth of both income and population,...
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For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult today than it was several decades ago. Yet economic and social changes make performance improvement especially important today. Two quite different bodies of research provide...
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Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their lifetimes. Most of the existing research has concluded that exposure to violence leads to restricted emotional development, aggressive behavior and poor school outcomes. However, this literature fails to...
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residential location and property values. The police represent the largest public expenditure in city-level crime control efforts …
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it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city than in the countryside. Despite the lack of systematic national …
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