Traditional assimilation theory suggests immigrant adaptation into society as a function of catching up to the status of the host society. Recent Chinese immigrants, rather than climbing socioeconomic ladders over time, may have achieved a socioeconomic status comparable to that of native-born...

One of the chief concerns that US policy-makers have discussed in the recent welfarereform legislation is that individual states will engage in a "race to the bottom". In order to avoidoffering relatively generous welfare packages that would attract recipients, states would cutbenefits. While...

Understanding the housing choices of the older households will grow in importance as the baby boom generation starts to retire. This proposed analysis utilizes a rich longitudinal data set (PSID) to provide insight into the reasons that older households leave homeownership to become renters....

Recent studies have documented substantially depressed levels of homeownership among African-American households. While prior analyses have focused largely on racial disparities in household financial characteristics, few studies have assessed the potential role of location choice and locational...

We find that children of homeowners have better outcomes than children of renters whether their parents make a large or small initial investment in their home, as long as they make a minimal down payment when they buy their homes. Children with parents who made no down payment have similar...

Changes in the Internal Revenue Code create and remove tax-induced trading constraints on homeowners. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 replaced a one-time, post- age 55 capital gain exclusion with a larger gain exclusion option that could be exercised every two years. We develop a simple...

Youths who share a school and neighborhood often have similar academic achievement, but some studies find all or most of this apparent effect is due to sorting, not to the neighborhood itself. We present a collage of evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) indicating...

This paper examines the effect of space and race/ethnicity on labor force participation outcomes among minority and immigrant youth in the Los Angeles metropolitan areas. This research contributes to the spatial mismatch literature by analyzing the differences between first and second generation...

This paper applies Census microdata from 1980 and 1990 to assess the determinants of housing tenure choice among racial and ethnic groups in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Like previous research, our results indicate that endowment differences (income, education, andimmigrant status) largely...