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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....

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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

Cutler, David M. - 2005

-born children of immigrants could be consistently excluded from the analysis. We analyze longitudinal variation in immigrant …. Immigration itself has surged in recent decades, but the tendency for newly arrived immigrants to be younger and of lower …

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The Spatial Mismatch Between Innovation and Joblessness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019

American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without...

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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults

Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

different race is 20% lower for students. Looking at more broad measures of urban mobility, we find that students spend more …. Finally, we find correlational evidence that neighborhoods with more geographic mobility today also had more intergenerational … income mobility in the past. We hope future work will more rigorously test the hypothesis that different geographic mobility …

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Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location : The Influence of John Kain

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore the effects of race on housing markets and labor market opportunities, but this was not always the case. Through what can be seen as a consistent and integrated research plan, John Kain developed many central ideas of...

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The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

Cutler, David M. - 1997

This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods. From 1890 to 1940, ghettos were born as blacks migrated to urban areas and cities developed vast expanses filled with nearly exclusively black housing. From 1940 to 1970, black...

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The Political Economy of Hatred

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002

What determines the intensity and objects of hatred? Hatred forms when people believe that out-groups are responsible for past and future crimes, but the reality of past crimes has little to do with the level of hatred. Instead, hatred is the result of an equilibrium where politicians supply...

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When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

Cutler, David M. - 2007

data on first-generation immigrants in the United States. Using average group characteristics as instruments for …

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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1999

Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and trustworthiness rise with social connection; differences in race and nationality reduce the level of trustworthiness. Certain individuals appear to be persistently more...

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Measuring Gentrification : Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

We demonstrate that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e. nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local economy is changing. Combining...

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