abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …

A busy airport's closure has large effects on noise, real estate markets, and neighborhood demographics. Using a unique …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and … childhood and adulthood. This paper summarizes the recent neighborhood effects literature and interprets the findings. Childhood … neighborhoods affect long-run economic and educational outcomes in a manner consistent with exposure models of neighborhood effects …

effects of officer experience on neighborhood crime. Equalizing officer seniority across districts would reduce violent crime …

To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a … development. Importantly, housing costs as well as neighborhood effects are endogenously determined in equilibrium. Having …

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 …

average adult. Even when comparing students and adults living in the same neighborhood, exposure to devices associated with a …

. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an … and high school. More importantly, we estimate that a five percentage point increase in school and neighborhood crime … are due to attending school with crime-prone peers, rather than living in the same neighborhood …

not make sacrifices on other dimensions of neighborhood quality and report much higher levels of neighborhood satisfaction …

of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks …