Over the past decades, transport researchers and policy-makers have devoted increasing
attention to questions about justice and equity. Nonetheless, there is still little engagement …

This chapter summarizes recent research in economics that investigates differentials by race
and gender in the labor market. We start with a statistical overview of the trends in labor …

Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families
housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their
parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we …

From a rising young economist, an examination of innovation and success, and where to
find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

We construct a publicly available atlas of children's outcomes in adulthood by Census tract
using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire US population. For each tract …

We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to
the amount and type of public goods the city supplies. We test the implications of the model …

Families, primarily female‐headed minority households with children, living in high‐poverty
public housing projects in five US cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the …

We estimate the causal effect of each county in the United States on children's incomes in
adulthood. We first estimate a fixed effects model that is identified by analyzing families who …