【主讲】Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Associate Professor, University of Toronto)
【主题】Long Run Consequences of Neighborhood Change(Nathaniel Baum-Snow (presenter), Daniel Hartley, and Kwan Ok Lee)
【时间】2018年6月20日 (周三) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼701室
【语言】英文
【摘要】A number of prominent studies examine long-run impacts of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. However, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than through moving. Using an urban economic geography model as a basis, this paper estimates causal effects of shifts in neighborhood attributes on long-run outcomes for incumbent children and households. For identification, we make use of quasi-random variation in 1990-2000 and 2000-2005 skill-specific labor demand shocks hitting each residential census tract in the U.S. Our results indicate that children in neighborhoods receiving a one standard deviation greater high-skill labor demand shock experienced 0.2 to 0.3 standard deviation improvements on standardized tests, long run labor market outcomes, and credit histories. Because parental outcomes are not affected by the same local labor demand shocks for some types of households, these results allow us to recover "neighborhood effects" that apply to children living in gentrifying neighborhoods.
