Potential home buyers may initiate contact with a real estate agent by asking to see a particular advertised house. This paper asks whether an agent's response to such a request depends on the race of the buyer or on whether the house is located in an integrated neighborhood. Like previous...

Policy makers and scholars have long been interested in teacher attrition, particularly in poor, urban schools. We investigate the determinants of teacher attrition in five large metropolitan areas in upstate New York. We focus on a teacher's decision to leave a school district or to leave...

The link between openness and income has received increasing attention as countries try to justify their trade-promoting policies. Recent work of Frankel & Romer (1999) examines the effect of trade on income. We explore how the estimates of the trade effect change when we relax their assumption...