This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and … opportunity cost of committing crime and become indeed more criminal than whites. Therefore beliefs are self-fulfilling. …

and crime using both recorded crime and self-reported crime victimization data. Controlling for a rich set of observables …, we find that crime is substantially lower in those neighbourhoods with sizeable immigrant population shares. The effect … neighbourhoods. Considering different crime types, the evidence suggests that such neighbourhoods benefit from a reduction in more …

The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city … zu einer Suburbanisierung von Armut in westlichen Stadtregionen führen. PersistenteTrends der Reurbanisierung verstärken …

Suburbanisierung bei West- und Ostberlinern resultiert aus Nuancierungen in der gewünschten Wohn- und Lebensweise, aus noch vorhandenen … suburbanization, which were focused only on housing characteristics (buying a home, better residential environment, cheaper housing in … the city or in outlying areas. Hence, the scope and dynamics of suburbanization processes are affected by special regional …

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment to examine the extent to which lower local-area crime … instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual arrest outcomes …