Jacob L. Vigdor
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Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and
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Click here to access the Cutler/Glaeser/Vigdor segregation data.
For embarrassingly out-of-date photos: Nate Juliana
The following items are available for download in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format:
Working Papers
"When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States" with David Cutler and Edward Glaeser, revised 7/06
"Does Urban Decay Harm the Poor?" revised 7/06
"Fifty Million Voters Can't Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics" revised 6/06
"Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability" with Janna Matlack, revised 5/06
"Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers In High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina" with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, and Helen Ladd, revised 5/06
"Sixth Graders in Middle
School Behave Worse than Sixth Graders in Elementary School"
with Philip Cook, Robert MacCoun and Clara Muschkin, revised 5/06 (in
MS Word format)
"Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation" with David Cutler and Edward Glaeser, revised 5/06 (earlier version available as NBER working paper #11295)
"Does the River Spill Over? Estimating the Economic Returns to Attending a Racially Diverse College" with Peter Arcidiacono, revised 3/06 text tables"The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1940-2000" revised 3/06 (earlier version available as NBER working paper #12143)
"Teacher Sorting, Teacher Shopping, and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness" with Charles Clotfelter and Helen Ladd, revised 1/06 (forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources)
"Bad Seeds" with Brian Jacob, revised 11/05 (in RTF format)
"Is There a College Drinking Problem?" with Brian Jacob and Dean Lillard, revised 10/05
"Liquidity Constraints and Durable Good Prices: Theory and Evidence from the Housing Market" revised 9/05 (forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics, earlier version available as NBER working paper #10611)
"Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools" with Tom Nechyba, revised 7/05 (forthcoming, Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, P.E. Peterson and L. Woessmann, eds., MIT Press) (in MS Word format)"Peer Effects in Neighborhoods and Housing" revised 6/05 (forthcoming as Chapter 8 in Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions, K.A. Dodge, T.J. Dishion, and J.E. Lansford, eds., Guilford Press) (in MS Word format)
"Peer Effects in Elementary School: Learning from 'Apparent' Random Assignment" with Thomas Nechyba, revised 11/04 (in MS Word format).
"On the Value of Inter-Racial Contact and Affirmative Action as a Means to Achieve It" with Peter Arcidiacono, revised 3/04
"Racial
Segregation in
Modern-Day Public Schools" by Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd
and Jacob Vigdor, revised 10/03
Published Papers
Most of the prominent ones can be found via this site. Here's where to find some other "popular" ones.
"Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence From Neilsen Ratings," with Eric Aldrich and Peter Arcidiacono, published in Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy.
"Does Gentrification Harm the Poor," published in the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, is available through Project Muse.
"Other People's Taxes: Nonresident Voters and Statewide Limitation of Local Government" can be found at the Journal of Law and Economics website.
If you'd like help finding a different one, just send me an email.
