School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
研究了1970年代法院强制废除种族隔离计划对城市与郊区房价差距的影响，发现城市公立学校废除隔离导致城市房价和租金相对郊区下降6%，并分析了背后的机制和财政外部性。
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. Desegregation of public schools in central cities reduced the demand for urban residence, leading urban housing prices and rents to decline by 6 percent relative to neighboring suburbs. Aversion to integration was due both to changes in peer composition and to student reassignment to nonneighborhood schools. The associated reduction in the urban tax base imposed a fiscal externality on remaining urban residents.