Search Results - "Walsh, Randall"

Zoning and segregation in urban economic history by Shertzer, Allison, Twinam, Tate, Walsh, Randall P.

“…Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in public goods provision, growing regional inequality, and exploding…”
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Wildfire risk, salience & housing demand by McCoy, Shawn J., Walsh, Randall P.

“…In this paper we develop a parsimonious model that links underlying changes in location-specific risk perceptions to housing market dynamics. Given estimates…”
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Zoning and the economic geography of cities by Shertzer, Allison, Twinam, Tate, Walsh, Randall P.

“…Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet we know surprisingly little about its long-run impacts. We provide the first attempt to measure the…”
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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning by Shertzer, Allison, Twinam, Tate, Walsh, Randall P.

“…Zoning policies can have marked impacts on the spatial distribution of people and land use, yet there is little systematic evidence on their origin…”
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Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Tiebout's Mechanism by Banzhaf, H. Spencer, Walsh, Randall P.

“…Charles Tiebout's suggestion that people "vote with their feet" for communities with optimal bundles of taxes and public goods has played a central role in…”
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Who gentrifies low-income neighborhoods? by McKinnish, Terra, Walsh, Randall, White, T. Kirk

“…This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study demographic processes in neighborhoods that gentrified…”
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Urban Sprawl by Nechyba, Thomas J., Walsh, Randall P.

“…The authors begin with an overview of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on lower transportation…”
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Mandate and paternalism: A theory of large elections by Faravelli, Marco, Man, Priscilla, Walsh, Randall

“…We propose a game theoretic costly voting model of large elections that incorporates the assumption that mandate matters. This innovation is motivated by…”
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Building the Family Nest: Premarital Investments, Marriage Markets, and Spousal Allocations by IYIGUN, MURAT, WALSH, RANDALL P

“…We develop a transferable utility model of the household in which the marriage market is characterized by (negative or positive) assortative matching, and…”
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Segregation and Tiebout sorting: The link between place-based investments and neighborhood tipping by Banzhaf, H. Spencer, Walsh, Randall P.

“…Segregation has been a recurring social concern throughout human history. While much progress has been made to our understanding of the mechanisms driving…”
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The effect of property taxes on vacation home growth rates: Evidence from Michigan by Johnson, Erik, Walsh, Randall

“…The Tiebout model assumes that individuals sort to the jurisdiction which best matches their fiscal preferences. However, there is a paucity of reliable…”
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Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900-1930 by Shertzer, Allison, Walsh, Randall P., Logan, John R.

“…Most quantitative research on segregation and neighborhood change in American cities prior to 1940 has utilized data published by the Census Bureau at the ward…”
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THE EFFECTS OF GENDER INTERACTIONS IN THE LAB AND IN THE FIELD by Antonovics, Kate, Arcidiacono, Peter, Walsh, Randall

“…An important issue with conducting economic analysis in the lab is whether the results generalize to real-world environments where the stakes and subject pool…”
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Endogenous gender power, household labor supply and the demographic transition by Iyigun, Murat, Walsh, Randall P.

“…We present a microeconomic model of the household in which there exists no difference in spousal preferences but childrearing is more time costly for women…”
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Foreclosure, vacancy and crime by Cui, Lin, Walsh, Randall

“…This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a…”
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Games and Discrimination: Lessons From The Weakest Link by Antonovics, Kate, Arcidiacono, Peter, Walsh, Randall

“…We use data from the television game show, The Weakest Link, to determine whether contestants discriminate on the basis of race and gender and, if so, which…”
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Implementing value-added measures of school effectiveness: getting the incentives right by Ladd, Helen F, Walsh, Randall P

“…As part of their efforts to hold schools accountable, several states now calculate and publicize value-added measures of school effectiveness. This paper…”
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Promise scholarship programs as place-making policy: Evidence from school enrollment and housing prices by LeGower, Michael, Walsh, Randall

“…Place-based “Promise” scholarship programs—which guarantee financial aid for qualifying graduates of a school district—have proliferated in recent years. Using…”
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Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Racial Zoning Laws by Troesken, Werner, Walsh, Randall

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Communities, Competition, Spillovers, and Open Space by Strong, Aaron, Walsh, Randall P

“…We explore the impact of the spatial distribution of developers on the private provision of open space. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, we…”
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