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 …

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 …

study uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to examine the impact of residential and occupational segregation on … immigrants' ability to speak English. We allow for heterogeneity in the relationship between segregation and English language … those who are less residentially and occupationally segregated. The magnitude of the effect of segregation on language …