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 …

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 …

in wealth. This paper studies how residential segregation by race eroded black wealth in prewar urban areas. Using a …

This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods … been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have become less segregated. Across … all of these time periods there is a strong positive relation between urban population or density and segregation. We then …

empirical relationship between racial residential segregation and lynching is unknown. The existing economic, social, and … political theories of lynching contain hypotheses about the relationship between racial segregation and racial violence … measures of racial segregation cannot be used to estimate the relationship. We use a newly developed household-level measure of …

and industries in the South, thereby reducing the extent of racial segregation in employment and resulting in higher black … World War Two and that this increase in employment segregation cannot be explained by racial differences in schooling … was associated with a rise in the earnings ratio. Yet despite the effects of the war, employment segregation in the south …