Inequality and Segregation

By Rajiv Sethi, R. Somanathan. Journal of Political Economy, 2004

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets (2013, methodology): “Sieg et al. (2004) refine this estimator by adding moment conditions based on the distribution of housing prices.”
Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation (2014, unknown): “Sethi and Somanathan [31] presented an alternative model in which they show that low levels of racial inequality are consistent with extreme and even rising levels of segregation in cities where the minority population is large.”
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).”
Fractionalization and the Size of Government (2007, background): “Sethi and Somanathan (2004) study the inter-play of income inequality and residential segregation, but they do not study how redistribution is affected.”
Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model (2011, unknown): “For example, Sethi and Somanathan (2004) explain residential segregation based on a preference over both neighborhood affluence and its racial composition.”