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Local Public Good Provision : Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility
Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis; Romer, Thomas; Sieg, … - 2022
Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality...
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What Determines School Segregation? The Crucial Role of Neighborhood Factors
Caetano, Gregorio; Macartney, Hugh - 2022
school segregation. Using detailed student enrollment and residential location data, our research design compares differences … schools. Our findings indicate that neighborhood factors explain around 62% of racial segregation and 44% of economic … segregation across all schools, playing an even more pronounced role in urban areas, where school segregation has been especially …
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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families : Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Ludwig, Jens - 2013
We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that 10-15 years...
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The Geography of Stock Market Participation : The Influence of Communities and Local Firms
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2004
This paper is the first to investigate the importance of geography in explaining equity market participation. We provide evidence to support two distinct local area effects. The first is a community ownership effect, that is, individuals are influenced by the investment behavior of members of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012785900
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Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?
McKinnish, Terra - 2010
This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study the demographic processes underlying the gentrification of low-income urban neighborhoods during the 1990's. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis is conducted at the more refined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759305
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Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities
Naik, Nikhil - 2015
initial appearances of bordering areas, supporting the Burgess “invasion” theory. In addition, physical appearance is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013927
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Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities
Borjas, George J. - 2021
externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224943
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Neighborhood Choice after COVID : The Role of Rents, Amenities, and Work-from-Home
Ferreira, Fernando V.; Wong, Maisy - 2022
We investigate how neighborhood preferences and choices changed one year after the beginning of the COVID pandemic. We study a Neighborhood Choice Program that helped graduating students choose where to live by providing new information about rents and amenities. Using panel data on neighborhood...
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Partners in Crime : Schools, Neighborhoods and the Formation of Criminal Networks
Billings, Stephen B. - 2016
criminal behavior. As a result, policies that increase residential and school segregation will – all else equal – increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999460
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Employer Neighborhoods and Racial Discrimination
Agan, Amanda; Starr, Sonja B. - 2022
Using a large field experiment, we show that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Our data also show racial disparities in the geographic distribution of job postings. Simulations illustrate how these...
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