counterfactual reductions in commuting costs lead to marked increases in racial and education segregation and, to a lesser degree …, increases in income segregation, given that households now find it easier to locate in neighborhoods with like households. While … turning off preferences for housing characteristics increases racial segregation, especially for blacks, doing so reduces …

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 …

This paper hypothesizes that segregation in US cities increases as racial inequality narrows due to the emergence of … between segregation and inequality, we test this hypothesis using the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. Indeed, increased black … educational attainment in a city leads to a significant rise in the number of middle-class black communities and segregation for …

increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we first document a positive correlation between … inequality and segregation at the MSA level between 1980 and 2010. We then develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations … model, segregation and inequality amplify each other because of a local spillover that affects the returns to education. We …

This paper seeks to disentangle the impactof residential segregation from that of employment discrimination in … this effect increased during the late 1970's. In contrast, residential segregation is relatively less important …. In both cities,residential segregation strongly influences black employment patterns and limits the efficacy of efforts …

American metropolitan areas have experienced rising residential segregation by income since 1970. One potential … presents a measure of residential segregation by income, the Centile Gap Index (CGI) which is based on income percentiles …. Using the CGI, I find that a one standard deviation increase in income inequality raises residential segregation by income …

greater segregation of high- and low-skill workers into separate firms. A model in which workers of different skill-levels are … imperfect substitutes can simultaneously account for these increases in segregation and inequality either through technological …