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increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we first document a positive correlation between … inequality and segregation at the MSA level between 1980 and 2010. We then develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations … model, segregation and inequality amplify each other because of a local spillover that affects the returns to education. We …
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increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we first document a positive correlation between … inequality and segregation at the MSA level between 1980 and 2010. We then develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations … model, segregation and inequality amplify each other because of a local spillover that affects the returns to education. We …
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Since the '80s the US has experienced both an increase in income inequality and an increase in residential segregation … where to raise their children. Segregation and inequality amplify each other because of local spillovers that affect the … Hendren (2018b). We then show that segregation contributes to 28% of the increase in inequality between 1980 and 2010 after an …
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"We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census to examine the work and fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the...
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"This paper presents intergenerational evidence in favor of the hypothesis that a significant factor explaining the increase in female labor force participation over time was the growing presence of men who grew up with a different family model--one in which their mother worked. We use...
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