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

Households “sort” across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for
public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these …

We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190
countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the …

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring
Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The …

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

We document large long-run differences in average house price appreciation across
metropolitan areas over the past 50 years, and show they can be explained by an inelastic …

Tiebout choice among districts is the most powerful market force in American public
education. Naive estimates of its effects are biased by endogenous district formation. I derive …

Research over the past several years has led to the development of models characterizing
equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. An important insight from these models is that …

Effective governance of residential development and housing markets poses difficult
challenges for land regulators. In theory, excessive land restrictions limit the buildable …

We investigate whether political jurisdictions form in response to the trade-off between
economies of scale and the costs of a heterogeneous population. We consider …