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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families : Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

Ludwig, Jens - 2013

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …

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Measuring Gentrification : Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks …

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Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Naik, Nikhil - 2015

measures of neighborhood appearance. Here, we introduce a computer vision method to quantify change in physical appearance of …. We find that the strongest predictors of improvement in a neighborhood's physical appearance are population density and … monthly rent, do not predict improvement in physical appearance. We also find that neighborhood appearances converge to the …

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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Kling, Jeffrey R.; Ludwig, Jens; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects … new neighborhood environments …

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Hypertension and Happiness Across Nations

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...

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Consumer City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...

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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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Cities and Warfare : The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form

Glaeser, Edward L.; Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2021

What impact will terrorism have on America's cities? Historically, large-scale violence has impacted cities in three ways. First, concentrations of people have an advantage in defending themselves from attackers, making cities more appealing in times of violence. Second, cities often make...

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