children are manifested beginning in early childhood. In 2010, black asthma rates were double non-black rates. Some but not all … records of all children born in New Jersey between 2006 and 2010, we show that when we split the data by whether or not … children live in a "black" zip code, this racial difference in the incidence of asthma among LBW children entirely disappears …

We argue that anti-density zoning increases black residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas by reducing the … Pendall, we estimate a series of regression models to measure the effect of maximum density zoning on black segregation …-density zoning and racial segregation, even after controlling for other zoning policies and a variety of metropolitan characteristics …

Racial and ethnic neighborhood diversity and residential segregation among whites, African-Americans, Latinos, and … more rapidly. Residential segregation is defined as the relative difference between neighborhood diversity and the maximum … possible for the urban area given the distribution of the population across the racial and ethnic groups. Segregation declined …