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Preferences over the racial composition of neighborhoods: Estimates and implications

Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A. - 2023

We estimate the parameters of a dynamic, forward-looking neighborhood choice model in 197 metro areas where households have preferences over the racial composition of neighborhoods. Our inclusion of multiple metro areas in the estimation sample enables us to develop a new, shift-share IV...

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Foreclosure externalities: Some new evidence

Gerardi, Kristopher; Rosenblatt, Eric; Willen, Paul S.; … - 2012

In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale prices of nearby properties. We revisit this issue using a more robust identification strategy combined with new data that contain information on the location of properties...

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Foreclosure externalities: Some new evidence

Gerardi, Kristopher S.; Rosenblatt, Eric; Willen, Paul S.; … - 2012

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The pathway to enrolling in a high-performance high school: Understanding barriers to access

Sartain, Lauren; Barrow, Lisa - 2020

In 2017, Chicago Public Schools adopted an online universal application system for all high schools with the hope of providing more equitable access to highperformance schools. Despite the new system, Black students and students living in low-socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods remained...

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The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success

Aaronson, Daniel; Faber, Jacob; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2020

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...

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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices

Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - 2011

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...

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Digitalisation and neighbourhood cohesion in rural areas: Results of a mixed-method analysis

Kurtenbach, Sebastian; Küchler, Armin; Rees, Yann - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 80 (2022) 3, pp. 329-343

einer ländlichen Gemeinde zu intensiveren Kontakten in der Nachbarschaft sowie einem verstärkten Gefühl gesellschaftlicher …This paper discusses digital neighbourhood communication in rural areas and its effects on local communal life … results indicate that using digital neighbourhood platforms in rural communities intensifies contacts and further strengthens …

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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be … give new direction to the neighbourhood effects debate. The ten challenges are: 1) Future work should concentrate on … explaining what is in the black-box of the 'neighbourhood effect' by deriving and testing clear hypotheses on causal …

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? The case of the freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party...

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Housing adequacy and child outcomes in early and middle childhood

Laurence, James; Russell, Helen; Smyth, Emer - 2023

deprived neighbourhood conditions to socio-emotional problems. Frequent residential mobility has also been found to lead to … where levels of home ownership are high and levels of neighbourhood segregation are lower. This study addresses this gap … accommodation, heating deprivation, neighbourhood disorder and housing mobility. …

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