When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation In the United States

By David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Jacob L. Vigdor. 2008

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Recent studies provide conflicting evidence on the connection between ethnic or racial neighborhood segregation and outcomes. Some studies find that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship is small. One hypothesis is that studies differ because the impact of segregation varies across groups, perhaps because its impact is more benign for better-educated groups. This paper presents new evidence on this hypothesis using data on first-generation immigrants in the United States. We confront the endogenous selection into residential enclaves and find that selection into enclave neighborhoods is on balance negative. Correcting for this selection produces positive mean effects of segregation, and a positive correlation between group average human capital and the impact of segregation.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. G. Galster
2. Roger Andersson
3. S. Musterd
4. E. Zhuravskaya
5. A. Alesina
6. Rafaela Dancygier
7. David D. Laitin
8. Elvire Guillaud

In Education

1. A. Alesina
2. S. Musterd
3. G. Galster
4. Roger Andersson
5. Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
6. Russell Smyth *

In Sociology and Political Science

1. G. Galster
2. Roger Andersson
3. S. Musterd
4. A. Alesina
5. Rafaela Dancygier
6. David D. Laitin
7. E. Zhuravskaya
8. Timo Kauppinen

Citations in the corpus

• Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries (2011, background): “[10] Cutler, David, Glaeser, Edward, and Jacob Vigdor, "When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States," Journal of Urban Economics, May 2008, 63:759-774.”
• Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy (2014, background): “Edin et al. (2003), Friedrichs et al. (2003), and Cutler et al. (2008) review these hypotheses.7 Establishing which effects are at work is difficult, in part because a household’s residential choice is likely correlated with unobserved characteristics that also influence economic success.”
• The National Rise in Residential Segregation (2017, unknown): “…2009), and the neighborhood e↵ects and social networks that influence a range of socioeconomic outcomes (Case & Katz, 1991; Brooks-Gunn et al., 32 1993; Borjas, 1995; Cutler et al., 2008; Ananat, 2011; Ananat & Washington, 2009; Echenique & Fryer, 2007; Sethi & Somanathan, 2004; Ramcharan, 2010).”
• Who Is Affected by Neighbourhood Income Mix? Gender, Age, Family, Employment and Income Differences (2010, background): “Other multivariate works have analysed only a narrow range of individuals, such as those from a particular income or ethnic group, thereby obviating the possibility of cross-group comparisons (see Propper et al., 2007; Oberwittler, 2007; Musterd et al., 2008; Cutler et al., 2008; Pinkster, 2008; van”
• (The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe (2018, unknown): “9 For investigations into the effect of ethnic concentration on immigrant labour market outcomes, see Borjas (1995), Beaman (2012), Cutler et al. (2008), Dagnelie et al. (2017), Damm (2009) and Edin et al. (2004), among others.”