Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2016
deprivation in 1881. Second, these equilibria persist to this day even though the pollution that initially caused them has waned … model to recreate the spatial distribution of pollution. First, individual-level census data show that pollution induced … neighborhood sorting during the course of the nineteenth century. Historical pollution patterns explain up to 15% of withincity …