abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …

high-opportunity neighborhood to receive a voucher. The intervention increased the fraction of families who moved to high … the treatment do not make sacrifices on other aspects of neighborhood quality, tend to stay in their new neighborhoods … when their leases come up for renewal, and report higher levels of neighborhood satisfaction after moving. These findings …

. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an … and high school. More importantly, we estimate that a five percentage point increase in school and neighborhood crime … are due to attending school with crime-prone peers, rather than living in the same neighborhood …

This paper isolates the causal impact of neighborhood environment on credit outcomes of low-income borrowers by … neighborhoods lead to a reduction of overdue debts and delinquencies, but only among those given unrestricted neighborhood choice …

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

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 …