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Working Papers

2007

1. Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
2. How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
3. Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
5. Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
6. The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)
7. When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Urban Economics (2008)

2006

8. Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Housing Economics (2008)
9. Fifty Million Voters Can't Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
10. Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
11. Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2006)
12. The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2009)
13. The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
14. Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2008)

2005

15. Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Law and Economics Review (2006)
16. Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (2004) View citations
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2005) View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2008)

2004

17. Liquidity Constraints and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from the VA Mortgage
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1997

18. The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1999)

Journal Articles

2009

1. The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91, (2), 398-419
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2008

2. Distinguishing Spurious and Real Peer Effects: Evidence from Artificial Societies, Small-Group Experiments, and Real Schoolyards
   Review of Law & Economics, 2008, 4, (3)
3. Do rising tides lift all prices? Income inequality and housing affordability
   Journal of Housing Economics, 2008, 17, (3), 212-224
   See also Working Paper (2006)
4. Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90, (3), 478-497
   See also Working Paper (2005)
5. The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22, (4), 135-54 View citations
6. When are ghettos bad? Lessons from immigrant segregation in the United States
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63, (3), 759-774 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)
7. Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina
   Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, (5-6), 1352-1370 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

8. Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects
   Economics of Education Review, 2007, 26, (6), 673-682
9. The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007, 7, (1) View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

10. Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools
    American Law and Economics Review, 2006, 8, (2), 347-389 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2005)
11. Liquidity constraints and housing prices: Theory and evidence from the VA Mortgage Program
    Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90, (8-9), 1579-1600 View citations
12. Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
    Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41, (4) View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2005

13. Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, topics.5, (1) View citations
14. Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People who Made It. By Alison Isenberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 441. $32.50, cloth; $20.00, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65, (01), 274-275
15. Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers
    Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24, (4), 377-392 View citations

2004

16. Community Composition and Collective Action: Analyzing Initial Mail Response to the 2000 Census
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (1), 303-312 View citations
17. Other People's Taxes: Nonresident Voters and Statewide Limitation of Local Government
    Journal of Law & Economics, 2004, 47, (2), 453-76 View citations

2003

18. Residential segregation and preference misalignment
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2003, 54, (3), 587-609 View citations
19. Retaking the SAT
    Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38, (1)
20. Thy neighbor's jobs: geography and labor market dynamics
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2003, 33, (6), 663-693

2002

21. Interpreting ethnic fragmentation effects
    Economics Letters, 2002, 75, (2), 271-276 View citations
22. Locations, Outcomes, and Selective Migration
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84, (4), 751-755 View citations
23. The Pursuit of Opportunity: Explaining Selective Black Migration
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 51, (3), 391-417 View citations

1999

24. The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto
    Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 107, (3), 455-506 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1997)