evidence indicates that the laws' effects on blacks' housing market outcomes, on residential segregation, and on the value of …

and home ownership and the persistence of residential segregation …

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 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 …

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 provides new evidence on the causal impacts of city-wide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility …. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the … arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century. Our analysis finds that higher segregation reduces upward mobility for …