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Working Papers

2025

1. The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (1)

2024

2. The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2024) View citations (1)

2021

3. Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Zoning and segregation in urban economic history, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (6) (2022)

2020

4. The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2023) (2023)

2019

5. Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
6. The Impact of Early Investments in Urban School Systems in the United States
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2016

7. Migration Responses to Conflict: Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
8. Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2019) View citations (43) (2019)
9. Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (5)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Zoning and the economic geography of cities, Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (36) (2018)

2014

10. Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2016) View citations (35) (2016)

2013

11. Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization: Evidence from European Migration to the United States
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Immigrant group size and political mobilization: Evidence from European migration to the United States, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (19) (2016)

2012

12. Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2010

13. Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2023

1. The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s
   The Journal of Economic History, 2023, 83, (4), 1019-1056
   See also Working Paper The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2022

2. Zoning and segregation in urban economic history
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, (C) View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (4) (2021)

2019

3. Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (3), 415-427 View citations (43)
   See also Working Paper Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (9) (2016)

2018

4. A Review Essay on Howard Bodenhorn's The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, (1), 206-16
5. Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War
   The Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78, (3), 822-861 View citations (4)
6. Zoning and the economic geography of cities
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, (C), 20-39 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities, Working Papers (2016) View citations (5) (2016)

2017

7. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. By Daniel Amsterdam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Pp. 240. $45.00, cloth
   The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (4), 1239-1241

2016

8. Immigrant group size and political mobilization: Evidence from European migration to the United States
   Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 139, (C), 1-12 View citations (19)
   See also Working Paper Immigrant Group Size and Political Mobilization: Evidence from European Migration to the United States, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (9) (2013)
9. Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8, (3), 217-46 View citations (35)
   See also Working Paper Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (4) (2014)
10. Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900–1930
    Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2016, 49, (4), 187-197 View citations (14)

2015

11. Creating the Black Ghetto
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 660, (1), 18-35
12. Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schooling Laws on Immigrants
    American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7, (3), 258-90 View citations (71)

2013

13. Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950–2000
    Demography, 2013, 50, (1), 125-147 View citations (14)