Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London

Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm

No 32333, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in London before and after the Second World War. We develop a quantitative urban model, in which heterogeneous groups of individuals endogenously sort across locations in response to differences in natural advantages, wartime destruction and neighborhood effects. We find strong and localized neighborhood effects, which magnify the direct impact of wartime destruction, and make a substantial contribution to observed differences in socioeconomic outcomes across locations.

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Date: 2024-04
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