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Racial Enclaves and Density Zoning : The Institutionalized Segregation of Racial Minorities in the United States
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2010
This paper attempts to explain two basic facts of segregation in the United States in recent decades. The segregation … of blacks remains everywhere higher than the segregation of Latinos and Asians, but the levels are converging. Previous … institutional force: local land regulation. Zoning increases inter-jurisdictional inequality and economic segregation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216538
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Unwelcome Neighbors : Evidence of Racial Neighborhood Effects from Transaction-Level Data
Leung, Tin Cheuk; Sun, Xiaojin (Aaron); Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2022
This paper identifies racial neighborhood effects at the transaction level. By matching two large micro-datasets (ZTRAX and HMDA) for the state of Virginia, we pin down the impact of a marginal change of racial composition in a neighborhood by looking at price impacts for transactions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238423
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The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children
Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - 2022
We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291202
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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016
Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523545
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Ethnicity of Leisure : A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities
Kamenik, Kristiina - 2016
This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in … segregation, this study focusses on ethnic segregation during leisure time. We investigate the most common leisure time activities …-of-home and out-of-workplace. Conceptually we link leisure time segregation both with residential and workplace segregation, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984841
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Assimilation, criminality and ethnic conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239273
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Ethnic segregation in England's school
Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah - 2004
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Ethnic switching : longitudinal evidence on prevalence, correlates, and implications for measuring ethnic segregation
Rademakers, Robbert; Hoorn, André van - In: Journal of development economics 152 (2021), pp. 1-16
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167539
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2014
We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058747
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Towards an Index of Ethnic Fractionalization
Yeoh 楊又興, Emile Kok-Kheng - 2012
Existing studies on public policy and ethnicity either included only one of the three main non-class cleavages in society - racial (phenotypical), linguistic, religious - or considered them as separate variables. This paper suggests that they should be regarded as different manifestations of one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166818