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At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and … causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal relationship between segregation and population outcomes by exploiting … to segregation. I show that, conditional on miles of railroad track laid, the extent to which track configurations …
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At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and … causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal relationship between segregation and population outcomes by exploiting … to segregation. I show that, conditional on miles of railroad track laid, the extent to which track configurations …
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This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia in 1967, which forced the last 16 Southern...
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Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....
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tests. Racial segregation is frequently pointed out as one of the main factors behind this situation in the international … literature. We studied the effects of racial segregation on the black-white score gap for 5th-grade students in Brazil. Even … after the inclusion of several control variables, we found that the higher school racial segregation is, the higher the …
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A great deal of urban policy depends on the possibility of creating stable, economically and racially mixed neighborhoods. Many social interaction models - including the seminal Schelling (1971) model -- have the feature that the only stable equilibria are fully segregated. These models suggest...
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