Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Economics · January 1, 2018
We present new evidence on the evolution of black-white earnings differences among all men, including both workers and nonworkers. We study two measures: (i) the level earnings gap-the racial earnings difference at a given quantile; and (ii) the earnings r ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · November 1, 2017
Do minorities pay more than whites for similar housing? We revisit this important question using a rich new dataset that covers two million repeat-sales housing transactions drawn from four major metropolitan areas. Our analysis applies a repeat-sales fram ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economic Studies · July 1, 2016
This article develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new national competitor on the structure of urban markets. In order to accommodate substantial heterogeneity (both observed and unobserved) ac ...
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Journal ArticleEconometrica · May 1, 2016
This paper develops a dynamic model of neighborhood choice along with a computationally light multi-step estimator. The proposed empirical framework captures observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity across households and locations in a flexible way ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 10, 2016
This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made females eligible to serve on E ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2016
Historical anecdotes of new investors being drawn into a booming asset market, only to suffer when the market turns, abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical literature, causal empirical ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2016
This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · April 1, 2015
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an ass ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · December 5, 2014
This paper presents new empirical evidence that internal movement - selling one home and buying another - by existing homeowners within a metropolitan housing market is especially volatile and the main driver of fluctuations in transaction volume over the ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · March 1, 2013
This paper uses unique panel data covering over two million repeat-sales housing transactions from four metropolitan areas to test for the presence of racial price differentials in the housing market. Drawing on the strengths of these data, our research de ...
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Journal ArticleAdvances in Econometrics · January 1, 2013
Many dynamic problems in economics are characterized by large state spaces which make both computing and estimating the model infeasible. We introduce a method for approximating the value function of highdimensional dynamic models based on sieves and estab ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Public Economics · December 1, 2012
Tiebout's classic 1956 paper has strong implications regarding stratification across and within jurisdictions, predicting in the simplest instance a hierarchy of internally homogeneous communities ordered by income. Typically, urban areas are less than ful ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · May 1, 2012
This paper sets out a new research design to test for price discrimination by sellers in the housing market. The design controls carefully for unobserved differences in the quality of neighborhoods and homes purchased by buyers of each race, using novel pa ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Economics · May 1, 2012
This article examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We use a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate qua ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2012
This paper uses data from over 700 felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results of the analysis imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremp ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Business and Economic Statistics · April 1, 2011
We consider identification and estimation of a Roy model that includes a common nonpecuniary utility component associated with each choice alternative. This augmented Roy model has broader applications to many polychotomous choice problems in addition to o ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Inquiry · October 1, 2009
We examine the effects of education on financial decision-making skills by identifying an interesting source of variation in pertinent training. During the 1990s, an increasing number of individuals were exposed to programs of financial education provided ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · July 1, 2009
Conventional hedonic techniques for estimating the value of local amenities rely on the assumption that households move freely among locations. We show that when moving is costly, the variation in housing prices and wages across locations may no longer ref ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Economics · February 1, 2009
This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional fa ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2008
Given the extent of residential segregation on the basis of race and ethnicity in U.S. cities, it is unsurprising that a long line of research in social science has attempted to better-understand the causes and consequences of segregation. One prominent br ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Economy · December 1, 2008
We use a novel research design to empirically detect the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes. Using Census data on residential and employment locations, we examine whether individuals residing in the same city block are more likely to wo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Economy · October 23, 2007
This paper develops a framework for estimating household preferences for school and neighborhood attributes in the presence of sorting. It embeds a boundary discontinuity design in a heterogeneous residential choice model, addressing the endogeneity of sch ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Journal · March 1, 2007
While there is growing interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers, it is well understood that such spillovers cannot be distinguished from unobservable local attributes using solely the observed location decisions of individuals or firms. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Law and Economics · October 1, 2005
This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · May 1, 2005
Important to many models of location choice is the role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or attributes of other individuals or firms that choose the same or nearby locations in e ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · November 1, 2004
Using restricted Census microdata that link households to the Census block in which they live, this paper re-examines the question of whether racial differences in sociodemographic characteristics can explain observed levels of racial segregation. We devel ...
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In cities throughout the United States, blacks tend to live in significantly poorer and lower-amenity neighborhoods than whites. An obvious first-order explanation for this is that an individual%u2019%u2019s race is strongly correlated with socioeconomic s ...
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This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique
dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a
research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composit ...
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