An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market: The Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation

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This paper presents a new equilibrium framework for analyzing economic and policy questions related to the sorting of households within a large metropolitan area. We estimate the model using restricted-access Census data that precisely characterize residential and employment locations for households the San Francisco Bay Area, yielding accurate measures of preferences for a wide variety of housing and neighborhood attributes across different types of household. We use these estimates to explore the causes and consequences of racial segregation in general equilibrium. Our results indicate that, given the preference structure of households in the Bay Area, the elimination of racial differences in income and wealth would significantly increase the residential segregation of each major racial group, as the equalization of income leads, for example, to the formation of new wealthy, segregated Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. We also provide evidence that sorting on the basis of race itself (whether driven by preferences or discrimination) leads to large reductions in the consumption of housing, public safety, and school quality by Black and Hispanic households.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Center Discussion Paper ; No. 860

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Segregation ; Sorting ; Housing Markets ; Locational Equilibrium ; Residential Choice ; Discrete Choice ; Rasse ; Städtische Wohnungsversorgung ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; Hedonischer Preisindex ; Schätzung ; San Francisco Bay (Region) ; Segregation ; Diskrete Entscheidung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bayer, Patrick ; McMillan, Robert ; Rueben, Kim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Yale University, Economic Growth Center
• (wo): New Haven, CT
• (wann): 2003

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98293
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ