Many ethnically diverse countries have policies that encourage integration across ethnic groups. This dissertation investigates the impact and welfare implications of a residential desegregation policy in Singapore, the ethnic housing quotas. I employ both reduced form and structural form methods. In Chapter 1, I use regression discontinuity analysis to estimate the impact of the quota on price...

Ethnic discrimination proves to be a persistent problem on the private rental market. However, little attention has been paid contexts that might impact housing market, partly due fact these factors have not integrated into comprehensive study. We aim investigate whether types of discriminatory behavior vary and/or are moderated by three contextual factors: (1) dwelling indicators, such as type...

Does social cohesion explain variation in violence within divided cities? In line with insights drawn from the ethnic politics, criminology and urban geography literature we suggest that explaining intergroup is not possible by relying on motivational elements alone, attention to required as well. While can facilitate collective action aids violent mobilization, it also strengthen order contrib...

Abstract There is little research on how resident perceptions of neighborhood unsafety develop over time and changes in these relate to decreasing crime rates. The present study analyzes explains trends perceived within the Dutch city Rotterdam, based survey register data collected years 2003–2017 ( N = 148.344, 62 neighborhoods). In addition crime, we also assess what extent (changes in) econo...

As the United States diversifies, individuals are increasingly encountering and managing racial and ethnic difference in their neighboring relationships, thus challenging the "cultural" basis for consensus on the local meaning of community. This mixed-methods study considers the ways in which sense of community relates to mental health in two longstanding racially- and socioeconomically-diverse...

Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that neighborhood structural factors (e.g. poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a neighborhood's children who are victims of maltreatment. A newer strategy is the identification of potentially modifiable social processes at the neighborhood level that can also influence maltreatment. Toward this end,...

Why does ethnicity have varied effects on socioeconomic outcomes, such as educational achievement, for different national-origin groups, even after holding constant key socioeconomic and contextual factors? Why do the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants in the United States, regardless of socioeconomic backgrounds, excel and succeed in the educational arena in disproportionately large num...

AUGUST 2017 IZA DP No. 10944 Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children’s exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e.g., point-in-time and cumula...