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 …

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …

, uncovering differential patterns by race, education, age and family structure that would not have emerged in the more aggregate … graduates and white college graduates. The disproportionate retention and income gains of the former and the disproportionate in-migration …

linked, partly because ethnic capital summarizes the socioeconomic background of the neighborhood where the children were … raised. Ethnicity has an external effect, even among persons who grow up in the same neighborhood, when children are exposed …

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 rankings before and after information, we find that changes in …

of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality depends on peer or neighborhood effects. We develop a new …