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11月1日Seminar：Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
发布时间：2012-10-29
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主 题：Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
[摘要]It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, I present a residential sorting model that allows for estimating the overall effect of racial segregation. The key idea underlying my empirical approach is that if segregation indeed has a negative overall effect, migrants should be willing to give up some earnings to avoid living in segregated cities. Using census data from 1980 to 2000, I provide new evidence that ghettos are bad. It is shown that both white and black migrants prefer to live in less segregated cities. For a one-percentage-point reduction in the dissimilarity index, estimated marginal willingness to pay of whites falls from $615to $284 (in 1999 dollars) between 1980 and 2000. For blacks, in contrast, marginal willingness to pay rises from $93 to $438 in this period.
主讲人：郑亮，Ph.D. candidate of economics at Clark University
主持人：罗楚亮教授
时 间：11月1日下午2点半到4点
地 点：北师大后主楼1610