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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment : a neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017

We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...

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Residential Segregation, Discrimination, and African-American Theater Entry During Jim Crow

Gil, Ricard; Marion, Justin G. - 2020

We examine the role of residential segregation and racial discrimination in determining the entry of movie theaters … residential segregation leads to more African-American theater entry. Using estimates from a Bresnahan and Reiss model of theater … discrimination, we conclude that bias leading to a taste for segregation leads to greater entry, while more generally racial bias …

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Neighborhood Effects on Intergenerational Cultural Transmission

Hwang, Yujung - 2022

I estimate bounds on the effect of growing up in an ethnic enclave on various outcomes associated with second-generation immigrants' cultural assimilation. I use the two-sample estimator of Hwang(2021) to bound the omitted variable bias from unobservable parental cultural preference, which...

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Sick of your poor neighborhood? : quasi-experimental evidence on neighborhood effects on health

Hasager, Linea; Jørgensen, Mia Herløv - 2024

Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986 to 1998. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had...

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