This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States …. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual … counterparts in more integrated areas. This difference appears to reflect the causal effect of segregation on economic outcomes …

We provide measures of ethnic and racial segregation in urban consumption. Using Yelp reviews, we estimate how spatial … consumption choices, so consumption segregation partly reflects residential segregation. Social frictions also have a large impact … own. While spatial and social frictions jointly produce significant levels of consumption segregation, we find that …

and across ethnic groups. As a result, the segregation choices made by particular households depend both on the household … who belong to disadvantaged groups have lower probabilities of ethnic residential segregation relative to the choices made …

At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and … causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal relationship between segregation and population outcomes by exploiting … to segregation. I show that, conditional on miles of railroad track laid, the extent to which track configurations …

In a classic paper, Schelling (1971) showed that extreme segregation can arise from social interactions in white …

chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic models of segregation, information-based discrimination, peer dynamics … consistent with the time-series data. Segregation and models of discrimination both contradict the trends in important ways …