Income Segregation and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy
研究了美国城市中知识密集型活动增加对空间不平等的影响，发现专利增长每增加一个标准差，收入隔离上升0.65个基尼点，主要源于居民按收入、职业和教育的分类聚集。
We analyze the effect of an increase in knowledge-intensive activities on spatial inequality in US cities. We leverage a predetermined network of patent citations to instrument for local innovation trends. Between 1990 and 2010, a one-standard-deviation increase in patent growth increases income segregation by 0.65 Gini points, corresponding to 0.31 standard deviations of the over-time change in income segregation. This effect mainly arises from the sorting of residents by income, occupation, and education. Local shocks to innovation induce a clustering of knowledge-intensive jobs and residents, amplified by the response of rents and amenities.