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Racial harassment, ethnic concentration and economic conditions
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - 2010
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958857
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On the dynamics of segregation
Dahlberg, Matz; Fredriksson, Peter; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi - 2011 - Work in progress.
Card et al (2008a) formalize a model of ethnic residential segregation where an ethnically mixed neighborhood is … individuals and by individuals with kids, suggesting that tipping behavior may increase segregation of whites in a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508664
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Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
Dustmann, Christian - 2010
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144395
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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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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367612
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Racial harassment, ethnic concentration, and economic conditions
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 3, pp. 689-711
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376868
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The Effect of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2014
We argue that anti-density zoning increases black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the … Pendall, we estimate a series of regression models to measure the effect of maximum density zoning on black segregation …-density zoning and racial segregation, even after controlling for other zoning policies and a variety of metropolitan characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751324
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Housing inequality in the United States : a decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2009
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using data from the 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859919
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"Can't get enough" : prejudice, contact jobs and the racial wage gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252637
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Differences in Subprime Loan Pricing Across Races and Neighborhoods
Ghent, Andra C. - 2014
We investigate whether race and ethnicity influenced subprime loan pricing during 2005, the peak of the subprime mortgage expansion. We combine loan-level data on the performance of non-prime securitized mortgages with individual- and neighborhood-level data on racial and ethnic characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066252