Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

By L. Boustan. 2010

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

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Immigration and the Neighborhood (2006, neutral): “A s with the African American migration from the South to the North of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century ( Leah Platt Boustan 2007 , the socioeconomic outcomes of recent waves of immigrants could be shaped by the attitudes of natives toward mixed neighborhoods and the…”
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis (2020, methodology): “This specification is very similar to the ones used in Card (2001) or Altonji and Card (1991) and in Borjas (2003).”
The local innovation spillovers of listed firms (2021, background): “(24)See Wooldridge (2002) for a discussion of this two step-procedure and Paravisini (2008) for example in banks’ allocation of government funds or Boustan (2010) for example in the case of black migration across US cities.”
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010 (2020, neutral): “These include highway construction (Baum-Snow, 2007), decentralization of low-skilled work (Kain, 1992), white flight from rising minority populations in cities (Boustan, 2010), rising incomes (Margo, 1992), Federal Housing Authority mortgage insurance provision favoring the suburbs (Jackson, 1985) ”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, positive): “Boustan (2010) uses a similar historical pathways instrument for the size of the African American population in northern metropolitan areas after Word War II.”
The National Rise in Residential Segregation (2017, positive): “Boustan (2010) estimates that each black migrant after WWII resulted in more than one white exodus from the central city.”
The Growth of Cities (2013, neutral): “The spatial equilibrium condition of equation (13) is then replaced by v(c(R(x) + τN), w) = v , (24) where land rent at the city edge is now strictly greater than the agricultural land rent: R(x) > R.”
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, result): “Third, cities receiving more immigrants elected more conservative members of the House of Representatives who were in turn more likely to vote in favor of the 1924 National 36The 1921 Emergency Quota Act temporarily limited the number of immigrants from any given country that could enter the United ”
Urban revival in America (2020, neutral): “Overall, our model 1This suburbanization has been extensively studied, such as in Glaeser et al. (2004), Baum-Snow (2007), and Boustan (2010).”
Did Highways Cause Suburbanization (2007, positive): “…sorting [Tiebout 1956] has led people to the suburbs because of racial preferences interacted with changes in central city racial composition [Boustan 2006], increases in central city problems like crime and blight [Cullen & Levitt 1999], and the desegregation of central city school…”
The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure (2017, neutral): “In 1980, after a century of suburbanization, 72% of metropolitan blacks lived in central cities, compared to 33% of metropolitan whites (Boustant (2010)).”