The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...

The authors focus on the relationship between being a college graduate (that is, having a bachelor's degree or higher) and household location in the city of Chicago's lakefront neighborhoods, other parts of the city, and the suburbs in Illinois. Overall, their results indicate that being a...

The effect of a Catholic grade school education on the test scores of non-Hispanic whites is examined. Particular attention is given to the issue of selection into the Catholic grade school sector. It is shown that eight years in a Catholic grade school is associated with higher vocabulary,...