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 …

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 …

segregation on achievement and attainment, but had no impact on crime. We conclude that the end of busing widened racial … inequality, despite efforts by CMS to mitigate the impact of increases in segregation …

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 use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … ideological segregation in each domain using standard indices from the literature on racial segregation. We find that ideological … segregation of online news consumption is low in absolute terms, higher than the segregation of most offline news consumption, and …