E Chyn, LF Katz - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …
E Derenoncourt - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …
A Alesina, S Stantcheva - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution …
Urban economics and branches of mainstream economics–what we call the 'housing as opportunity'school of thought–have been arguing that shortages of affordable housing in …
DS Connor, M Storper - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility—the rate at which children born into poverty climb the income ladder—varies considerably across the United States. Is this …
L Althoff, H Reichardt - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …
V Fouka, S Mazumder, M Tabellini - The Review of Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration …
I Kuziemko, E Washington - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
A long-standing debate in political economy is whether voters are driven primarily by economic self-interest or by less pecuniary motives like ethnocentrism. Using newly …
This article shows how the migration of millions of Southern whites in the twentieth century shaped the cultural and political landscape across the United States. Racially and …