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来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.74,P.83-98

语言

英文

关键字

H4;J1;Q5;R2;Segregation;Tipping;Public Goods;Place-based Investment

作者单位

Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, United States"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff3;Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, MT, United States"}]},{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff4;Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States"}]},{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1;Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States"}]},"aff2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff2;National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, United States"}]},"aff3":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff3;Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, MT, United States"}]},"aff4":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aff4;Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States"}]}},"correspondences":{"cor1":{"#name":"correspondence","$":{"id":"cor1

摘要

Segregation has been a recurring social concern throughout human history. While much progress has been made to our understanding of the mechanisms driving segregation, work to date has ignored the role played by location-specific amenities. Nonetheless, policy remedies for reducing group inequity often involve place-based investments in minority communities. In this paper, we introduce an exogenous location-specific public good into a model of group segregation. We characterize the equilibria of the model and derive the comparative statics of improvements to the local public goods. We show that the dynamics of neighborhood tipping depend on the levels of public goods. We also show that investments in low-public good communities can actually increase segregation.