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City characteristics, land prices and volatility J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sheridan Titman, Guozhong Zhu
We develop a model that describes how city characteristics affect the volatility of real estate rents and values. The model includes agglomeration externalities, which amplify the effect of productivity shocks on population growth and rents, as well as city characteristics that constrain population growth. While growth constraints make rents more subject to productivity shocks because of the inelastic
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Police brutality, law enforcement, and crime: Evidence from Chicago J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Kadeem Noray
It is a popular belief that police brutality incidents increase crime either by causing retaliation (i.e. rioting) or depolicing. But, these incidents may also deter crime, which makes the sign of the effect of brutality and crime ambiguous. In this paper, I build a simple model that highlights this theoretical ambiguity and provides guidance on how to use the joint effects of brutality on crime and
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JUE insight: Ticket to paradise? The effect of a public transport subsidy on air quality J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Niklas Gohl, Philipp Schrauth
This paper provides novel evidence on the impact of public transport subsidies on air pollution. We obtain causal estimates by leveraging a unique policy intervention in Germany that temporarily reduced nationwide prices for regional public transport to a monthly flat rate price of 9 Euros. Using DiD estimation strategies on air pollutant data, we show that this intervention causally reduced a benchmark
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The effects of residential landlord–tenant laws: New evidence from Canadian reforms using census data J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Dylan R. Clarke, Daniel E. Gold
We study the consequences of landlord–tenant laws on quality and prices in the rental housing market. We use the staggered introduction of Canadian to study the consequences of a landlord–tenant reform that reduced tenants’ litigation costs and improved their bargaining power through mandatory contractual terms. To do so, we employ the difference-in-differences approach to estimate the average treatment
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Introduction to special issue of Journal of Urban Economics: Race, Social Justice, and Cities J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Leah Boustan, David Neumark
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Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Maggie E.C. Jones, Trevon D. Logan, David Rosé, Lisa D. Cook
Quantitative analysis of Black business districts and evidence on the magnitude of social change leading up to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in particular as it relates to the accessibility of public accommodations, is limited. We combine newly digitized data on the precise geocoded location of nearly 6000 Green Book establishments – public accommodations that were friendly towards African
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“Downs's Law” under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Alex Anas
Downs (1962) claimed a “Law”: that expressways lower congestion even though they reach maximum traffic flow. In urban economics since Strotz (1965), road capacity is measured by road width, and congestion as the delay in travel: wider roads lower congestion. Duranton and Turner (2011), in an econometric study, atypically defined congestion, not as delay in travel, but as aggregate vehicle kilometers
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Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347 and 1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in plague mortality at the city level, as well as various identification strategies, we explore the short-run and long-run impacts of Black Death mortality on city growth. On average, cities recovered
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JUE insight: The unintended effect of Argentina's subsidized homeownership lottery program on intimate partner violence J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino, Martin A. Rossi
We study a natural experiment in Argentina, where low-income women were selected through a lottery system to receive a house and a heavily subsidized long-term mort- gage. We exploit the random assignment to estimate the causal link between sub- sidized homeownership programs and intimate partner violence (IPV). Our analysis utilizes administrative records of the population of women applicants to assess
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The marginal cost of mortality risk reduction: Evidence from housing markets J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Kelly C. Bishop, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Sophie M. Mathes, Alvin D. Murphy
We provide the first evidence on the rate at which spatial variation in all-cause mortality risk is capitalized into US housing prices. Using a hedonic framework, we recover the annual implicit cost of a 0.1 percentage-point reduction in mortality risk among older Americans and find that this cost is less than $3453 for a 67 year old and decreasing with age to less than $629 for an 87 year old. These
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Collaboration and connectivity: Historical evidence from patent records J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Thor Berger, Erik Prawitz
Why has collaboration become increasingly central to technological progress? We document the role of lowered travel costs by combining patent data with the rollout of the Swedish railroad network in the 19th and early-20th century. Inventors that gain access to the network are more likely to produce collaborative patents, which is partly driven by long-distance collaborations with other inventors residing
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Spatial and historical drivers of fake news diffusion: Evidence from anti-Muslim discrimination in India J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Samira S. Abraham, Gianandrea Lanzara, Sara Lazzaroni, Paolo Masella, Mara P. Squicciarini
What drives the propagation of discriminatory fake news? To answer this question, this paper focuses on India at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: on March 30, a Muslim convention (the Tablighi Jamaat) in New Delhi became publicly recognized as a COVID hotspot. Using Twitter data, we build a comprehensive novel dataset of georeferenced tweets to identify anti-Muslim fake news. First, we document
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On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Felipe Carozzi, Christian A.L. Hilber, Xiaolun Yu
We take advantage of two spatial discontinuities in Britain's Help to Buy (HtB) scheme to explore the effectiveness and distributional implications of mortgage credit expansion policies. Employing a Difference-in-Discontinuities design, we find that HtB significantly increased house prices and had no detectable effect on construction volumes in severely supply constrained and unaffordable Greater London
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Volatility in Home Sales and Prices: Supply or Demand? J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Elliot Anenberg, Daniel Ringo
We use a housing search model and data on individual home listings to decompose short-run fluctuations in home sales and price growth into supply or demand factors, defined as the number of new sellers and buyers entering the housing market, respectively. We find that fluctuations in the number of buyers demanding homes explain much more of the variation in home sales and price growth than do fluctuations
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Making their own weather? Estimating employer labour-market power and its wage effects J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Pedro S. Martins, António Melo
The subdued wage growth observed in many countries has spurred interest in monopsony views of regional labour markets. This study measures the extent and robustness of employer power and its wage implications exploiting comprehensive matched employer–employee data. We find average (employment-weighted) Herfindhal indices of 800 to 1,100, stable over the 1986–2019 period covered, and that typically
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Pushing towards shared mobility J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Roman Zakharenko
This paper provides a theoretical argument for preferential treatment of shared vehicles (SV) over private ones by municipal parking authorities. When all parked vehicles are treated equally, multiple equilibria may exist: (i) a “private” one, in which travellers are hesitant to switch to SV because the latter are hard to find, and (ii) a “shared” equilibrium, in which travellers use shared mobility
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Local causes and aggregate implications of land use regulation J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Andrii Parkhomenko
I study why some cities have strict land use regulation, how regulation affects the U.S. economy, and how policymakers can mitigate its negative consequences. I develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model where local regulation is determined endogenously, by voting. Landowners in productive cities with attractive amenities vote for strict regulation. The model accounts for 40% of the observed
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Social housing and the spread of population: Evidence from twentieth century Ireland J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Alan de Bromhead, Ronan C. Lyons
How does housing policy influence the long-run distribution of population? We examine the impact on long-term population dynamics of the world’s first large-scale rural public housing scheme, specifically the case of Ireland’s Labourers Acts. We link detailed data on the location of over 45,000 heavily subsidized cottages for agricultural laborers built 1883–1915 in over 200 districts to decennial
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Housing market and school choice response to school quality information shocks✰ J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Iftikhar Hussain
This paper investigates market response to a nationwide school quality information disclosure regime. Exploiting quasi-exogenous timing of the release of information through the school year, I uncover a number of novel empirical findings. First, investigating the house price margin, the results reveal a strikingly convex hedonic price function: large effects to school quality ratings for homes located
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Homeowner politics and housing supply J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Limin Fang, Nathan Stewart, Justin Tyndall
This paper examines whether homeowner opposition to nearby housing development affects local councillors’ votes on housing bills. Homeowners benefit financially from restricted housing supply through increased housing prices. City councillors, who approve housing development applications, cater to the needs of homeowners who are often long-term resident voters with a financial stake in neighbourhood
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Variation in racial disparities in police use of force J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Carl Lieberman
I examine how racial disparities in police use of force vary using new data covering every municipal police department in New Jersey. Along the intensive margin of force severity, I find disparities that disfavor Black subjects and are larger at higher force levels, even after adjusting for incident-level factors and using new techniques to address selection bias. I then extend empirical Bayes methods
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The geography of mortgage interest deductions J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Yashar Blouri, Simon Büchler, Olivier Schöni
We investigate the heterogeneous impact of the US federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on households’ location and tenure decisions. We develop a spatial general-equilibrium model featuring non-homothetic preferences in which households can choose whether to claim the MID or a standard tax deduction. Repealing the MID decreases homeownership rates more strongly in central areas because owner-occupiers
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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Ines Helm, Nicolas Koch, Alexander Rohlf
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible for scrappage. The scheme had substantial effects on car purchases and did not simply reallocate demand across
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Hot temperatures, aggression, and death at the hands of the police: Evidence from the U.S J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Sébastien Annan-Phan, Bocar A. Ba
We study the effect of temperature on police-involved civilian deaths in the U.S. from 2000 to 2016. We show that both violent crimes and the number of officers assaulted or killed increase on warmer days (≥17°C), indicating greater personal danger to officers and bystanders on such days. Consistent with these higher threat levels, we find suggestive evidence that fatal shootings of civilians by officers
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Black Lives Matter’s effect on police lethal use of force J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Travis Campbell
How has Black Lives Matter (BLM) influenced police lethal force? An event study design finds census places with early BLM protests experienced a 10% to 15% decrease in police homicides from 2014 through 2019, around 200 fewer deaths. This decrease was prominent when protests were large and frequent. Potential mechanisms behind the reduction include police agencies obtaining body-worn cameras to curtail
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JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, William Kerr, Ramana Nanda
We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20%–30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance. Loan growth begins with increases in average branch size and in places with more pre-GQ loan activity. New branch openings come later
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Congestion and incentives in the age of driverless fleets J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Federico Boffa, Alessandro Fedele, Alberto Iozzi
The diffusion of autonomous vehicles (AVs) will expand the tools to manage congestion. Differently than fleets of traditional vehicles, operators of fleets of AVs will be able to assign different travelers to different routes, potentially inducing different congestion levels (and speed). We look at the effects of the technological transition from traditional to autonomous vehicles. Our model exhibits
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Test scores, schools, and the geography of economic opportunity J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sulagna Mookerjee, David Slichter
Do standardized test scores in a community indicate whether schools there are effective at producing human capital? Counties with high average test scores produce high-earning adults. But, using data from North Carolina, we find that counties’ effects on test scores are uncorrelated with their effects on income in adulthood. We argue that this is probably because the inputs directly responsible for
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E-commerce and local labor markets: Is the “Retail Apocalypse” near? J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Hyunbae Chun, Hailey Hayeon Joo, Jisoo Kang, Yoonsoo Lee
The rapid growth of e-commerce is widely blamed for job losses in brick-and-mortar retail. Using geographic variations in online spending, constructed from over 30 billion credit card transactions in Korea, we examine the causal effect of e-commerce on local retail employment. We find that the rise in the share of online spending from 2010 to 2015 decreased county-level retail employment by about 4
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First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were centrally assigned to live in specific counties. To measure sentiments of native residents towards immigrants, we use geo-coded Twitter data, which provides our “negative sentiment
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A beam of light: Media, tourism and economic development J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists to filming municipalities (media multiplier) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism multiplier). To quantify the media multiplier, we employ a triple-difference empirical strategy exploiting the staggered international release across the EU of Inspector
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Highways and segregation J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Avichal Mahajan
This paper examines the impact of the Interstate Highway System, constructed between 1950 and 1990 in the United States (US), on racial segregation. To provide causal estimates, I use the 1947 plan of the Interstate Highway System, a variant of the 1947 plan that connects city center pairs in this plan through shortest-distance and exploration routes in the 16th-19th century, as the instruments for
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The structure and growth of ethnic neighborhoods J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Tianran Dai, Nathan Schiff
We introduce a new statistical definition of an immigrant ethnic neighborhood based on a choice model and using the location distribution of natives as a benchmark. We then examine the characteristics of ethnic neighborhoods in the United States using decadal census tract data from 1970 to 2010. We estimate that 43% of the foreign-born population lived in ethnic neighborhoods in 1970, increasing to
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Cities and productivity: Evidence from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Luis E. Quintero, Mark Roberts
This paper explores the roles of agglomeration economies and human capital externalities in accounting for productivity variations across sub-national areas in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries. We estimate positive elasticities of productivity with respect to density. While heterogeneity exists across countries, the estimated agglomeration elasticities for the region are comparable to those
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JUE Insight: The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Kevin Corinth, Amelia Irvine
The majority of U.S. households that qualify for federal rental housing assistance do not receive it. In the absence of an entitlement to housing assistance, an underexplored cause of the shortfall is that higher rents in some areas driven by supply-constraining local regulations increase program costs, leaving fewer funds available to serve additional families. In this paper, we simulate the effect
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How do subnational governments react to shocks to different revenue sources? Evidence from hydrocarbon-producing provinces in Argentina J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Martín Besfamille, Diego A. Jorrat, Osmel Manzano, Bernardo F. Quiroga, Pablo Sanguinetti
Based on the fiscal regime that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we estimate the effects of changes in intergovernmental transfers and hydrocarbon royalties on provincial public consumption and debt. Whenever intergovernmental transfers increase, all provinces primarily increase public consumption and, to a lesser extent, decrease their debt. However, when hydrocarbon-producing provinces experienced
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Nobody’s gonna slow me down? The effects of a transportation cost shock on firm performance and behavior J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Catarina Branco, Dirk C. Dohse, João Pereira dos Santos, José Tavares
We study the firm-level responses to a substantial increase in transportation costs in the wake of a quasi-experiment that introduced tolls in a subset of Portuguese highways. Exploiting a unique dataset encompassing the universe of Portuguese private firms, we find that the introduction of tolls caused a substantial decrease in turnover (−10.2%) and productivity (−4.3%) in treated firms vis-à-vis
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JUE insight: The role of establishment size in the city-size earnings premium J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Charly Porcher, Hannah Rubinton, Clara Santamaría
Both large establishments and large cities are known to offer workers an earnings premium. In this paper, we show that these two premia are closely linked by documenting a new fact: when workers move to a large city, they also move to larger establishments. We then ask how much of the city-size earnings premium can be attributed to transitions to larger and better-paying establishments. Using administrative
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The impact of upzoning on housing construction in Auckland J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Peter C.B. Phillips
There is a growing debate about whether upzoning is an effective policy response to housing shortages and unaffordable housing. This paper provides empirical evidence to further inform debate by examining the various impacts of recently implemented zoning reforms on housing construction in Auckland, the largest metropolitan area in New Zealand. In 2016, the city upzoned approximately three quarters
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The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Andrew McNeil, Davide Luca, Neil Lee
Does growing up in a high-economic adversity area matter for individual economic, cultural, and political views? Despite a significant focus upon the effect of birthplace on economic outcomes, there is less evidence on how local economic conditions at birth shape individual attitudes over the long-term. This paper links the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) from English and Welsh respondents with
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The size and Census coverage of the U.S. homeless population J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse, Kevin Corinth
Fundamental questions about the size and characteristics of the homeless population are unresolved because it is unclear whether existing data are sufficiently complete and reliable. We examine these questions and the coverage of new microdata sources that are designed to be nationally representative. We compare two restricted data sources largely unused to study homelessness, the 2010 Census and American
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The impact of the school admission restriction policy on the housing market in Shanghai J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Kangzhe Ding, Ryo Itoh
This study explores the influence of a regulation of informal school choice on the housing market in Shanghai to estimate the significance of loopholes in the school district system. The policy limited the priority for enrollment in a public elementary schools given to house owners in the school's district so that each housing property is given only one priority every five years; hence, informal acquisition
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The impact of return migration on employment and wages in Mexican cities J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Dario Diodato, Ricardo Hausmann, Frank Neffke
How does return migration from the US to Mexico affect local workers? Return migrants increase the local labor supply, potentially hurting local workers. However, having been exposed to a more advanced U.S. economy, they may also carry human capital that benefits non-migrants. Using an instrument based on involuntary return migration, we find that, whereas workers who share returnees’ occupations experience
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JUE insight: White flight from Asian immigration: Evidence from California Public Schools J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Leah Boustan, Christine Cai, Tammy Tseng
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the US but we know little about how Asian immigration has affected cities, neighborhoods and schools. This paper studies white flight from Asian arrivals in high-socioeconomic-status suburban Californian school districts from 2000–2016 using initial settlement patterns and national immigrant flows to instrument for entry. We find that, as Asian
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JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings? J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Rachel M.B. Atkins, Pablo Hernández-Lagos, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Robert Seamans
We study the effect of Opportunity Zones (OZs) on job postings using data comprising the near-universe of U.S. online job postings. The OZs program grants tax breaks for investment in designated distressed communities, nominated by each state’s governor based on multiple factors. We use propensity score matching to account for those factors and a difference-in-differences model over the matched sample
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The Problem Has Existed over Endless Years: Racialized Difference in Commuting, 1980–2019 J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 devin michelle bunten, Ellen Fu, Lyndsey Rolheiser, Christopher Severen
How have the longer journeys to work faced by Black commuters evolved in the United States over the last four decades? Black commuters spent 49 more minutes commuting per week in 1980 than White commuters; this difference declined to 22 minutes per week in 2019. Two factors account for the majority of the difference: Black workers are more likely to commute by transit, and Black workers make up a larger
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Locating Public Facilities: Theory and Micro Evidence from Paris J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Gabriel Loumeau
This paper proposes a novel approach to evaluate location decisions for public facilities. The approach addresses, not only the standard distance-minimizing problem, but also the endogenous location decisions of individuals. The paper develops a quantifiable general equilibrium model with endogenous (residential and commercial) densities, housing prices, commutes to work, as well as to public/private
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Household sorting in an ancient setting J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Abhimanyu Gupta, Jonathan Halket
We use archaeological data from ancient settlements of three different historical eras on a Greek island to construct novel measures of consumption. Using these, we show that the shares of high-quality consumption goods were relatively more concentrated closer to the center of nucleated settlements as compared to low-quality consumption goods. There is no such pattern in a placebo settlement. In this
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The impact of minimum income on homelessness: Evidence from France J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Gedeão Locks, Josselin Thuilliez
In France, childless adults younger than 25 face hard-to-meet eligibility conditions to enroll in the minimum income program. The restrictive requirements generate a “jump” in the number of recipients at ages around 25. We use a Regression Discontinuity (RD) design to assess the impact of the French minimum income program (RSA) on users of accommodation and meal distribution services. We find that
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An Alternative Approach to Estimating Foreclosure and Short Sale Discounts J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 James N. Conklin, N. Edward Coulson, Moussa Diop, Nuno Mota
Current research documents astonishingly large price discounts for foreclosures and short sales. However, such outsized estimates may largely be due to omitted variables bias. We propose an innovative methodology relying on appraisers’ ability to match properties along both observable and unobservable attributes when performing appraisals. Our empirical approach, which relies on the use of appraisal
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Monitoring Police with Body-Worn Cameras: Evidence from Chicago J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Toshio Ferrazares
Using data from the Chicago Police Department on complaints filed by civilians and reports of force filed by officers, this paper estimates the effect of body-worn cameras (BWCs) of officer and civilian behavior. Using a two-way fixed effects design, I find BWCs are associated with a 29% reduction in use-of-force complaints, driven by white officer-black civilian complaints. Additionally, I find a
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Public housing spillovers: Evidence from South Africa J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-01-30
Can place-based policies promote urban development beyond their footprints? We estimate the spillover effects of public housing projects in South Africa by comparing changes near 166 projects that were successfully constructed to changes near 140 projects that were planned but not constructed. Constructed projects triple the amount of formal housing inside their footprints and lead to one new informal
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Making it home? Evidence on the long-run impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless on housing, employment and health J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Daniel Kuehnle, Guy Johnson, Yi-Ping Tseng
Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, little is known about their long-run outcomes or the consequences of ending such services. We investigate both aspects by examining the long-run effects of an intensive support program on
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Crime risk and housing values: Evidence from the gun offender registry J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-01-17
This paper estimates the effects of crime risk on housing values. To estimate the causal effects, we rely on the introduction of the gun offender registry in Baltimore City, Maryland, that discloses the residences of ex-gun offenders to the public. Specifically, we exploit the changes in perceived crime risk after ex-gun offenders move into the neighborhoods. Our most conservative estimates indicate
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JUE insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains J. Urban Econ. (IF 5.456) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Cristina Bratu, Oskari Harjunen, Tuukka Saarimaa
We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate units triggers moving chains that quickly reach middle- and low-income neighborhoods and individuals. Thus, new market-rate construction loosens the housing market in middle- and low-income areas even in