This paper surveys the modern economics literature on the role of neighborhoods in
influencing socioeconomic outcomes. Neighborhood effects have been analyzed in a range …

This paper examines competitive price discrimination with horizontal and vertical taste
differences. Consumers with higher valuations for quality are assumed to have stronger …

The evolution of neighborhood characteristics is an important but understudied component
of research on the consequences of community income and racial sorting. This paper …

This paper offers several hypotheses about which US higher-income households choose to
move into low-income neighbourhoods and why. It first explores whether the probability that …

This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long
Form data, to study the income dispersion of recent cohorts of migrants to mixed-income …

Whether people of differing types can live happily together is one of the most important
social and political questions concerning urban areas. From a variety of theoretical …

In American metropolitan areas, households are highly mixed by income with higher
average incomes at greater distances from downtown. Also, suburbs attract families with …

Many recent studies stress the link between neighborhood income segregation and
intergenerational income and educational distributions. This connection is motivated by …

Soziale Segregation als Phänomen der Stadtstruktur lässt sich vor allem auf zwei
verschiedene Ursachen zurückführen: auf Unterschiede der ökonomischen Möglichkeiten …