empirical relationship between racial residential segregation and lynching is unknown. The existing economic, social, and … political theories of lynching contain hypotheses about the relationship between racial segregation and racial violence … measures of racial segregation cannot be used to estimate the relationship. We use a newly developed household-level measure of …

We provide measures of ethnic and racial segregation in urban consumption. Using Yelp reviews, we estimate how spatial … consumption choices, so consumption segregation partly reflects residential segregation. Social frictions also have a large impact … own. While spatial and social frictions jointly produce significant levels of consumption segregation, we find that …

This paper develops and tests a simple model to explain the origins of municipal segregation ordinances. Passed by … created and sustained residential segregation through private norms and vigilante activity. Only when these private … arrangements began to break down during the early 1900s did whites start lobbying municipal governments for segregation ordinances …

Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a … simulate the impact of different sampling rates on estimates of several measures of segregation and to propose and test the … segregation for all measures tested here, especially for subgroups (African Americans are studied here as an example). The methods …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically … political affiliation) with time-varying district-level racial and economic segregation outcomes. Focusing on the political …

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … ideological segregation in each domain using standard indices from the literature on racial segregation. We find that ideological … segregation of online news consumption is low in absolute terms, higher than the segregation of most offline news consumption, and …

We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are … consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the … nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition to providing a consistent measure of segregation, we also document new patterns …