This paper investigates the general equilibrium consequences of assuming that the time it takes an individual to obtain a skill depends on the average level of education in the neighborhood of his/her birth. These neighborhood e ects provide an incentive for the high educated to break-o and form an exclusive neighborhood. Economic segregation is implemented by a zoning requirement which speci e...

9th January, 1949.?The patient, M. M., age 21 years, of A^illage Singhaguri near Sumudragarh, district Burdwan, a healthy young cultivator, came to sell straw in Nabadwip. About noon he went to purchase something in the bazar after selling the straw, when he was, according to bystanders, seized with convulsions and fell down on the road-side. The convulsions persisted for two hours, after which...

Two central assumptions concerning causal inference in the potential outcomes framework for estimating neighborhood effects are examined. The stable unit treatment value assumption in the context of neighborhood effects requires that an individual's outcome does not depend on the treatment assigned to neighborhoods other than the individual's own neighborhood. The assumption is important in tha...

Two central assumptions concerning causal inference in the potential outcomes framework for estimating neighborhood e¤ects are examined. The stable unit treatment value assumption in the context of neighborhood e¤ects requires that an individual’s outcome does not depend on the treatment assigned to neighborhoods other than the individual’s own neighborhood. The assumption is important in that ...

In this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal trajectories of achieved neighborhood income among nearly 4000 Chicago families followed for up to seven years wherever they moved in the United ...