School desegregation and urban change
Subtitle: evidence from city boundaries
By: Leah Platt Boustan
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16434; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16434.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "I examine changes in the city-suburban housing price gap in metropolitan areas with and without court-ordered desegregation plans over the 1970s, narrowing my comparison to housing units on opposite sides of district boundaries.  The desegregation of public schools in central cities reduced the demand for urban residence, leading urban housing prices and rents to decline by six percent relative to neighboring suburbs.  The aversion to integration was due both to changes in peer composition and to student reassignment to non-neighborhood schools.  The associated reduction in the urban tax base imposed a fiscal externality on remaining urban residents"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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