题   目：The  Structure and Growth of Ethnic Neighborhoods

嘉   宾：Nathan  Schiff，副教授，上海财经大学经济学院

主持人：喻洋，助理教授，上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时   间：2023年5月24日（周三）11:40-13:10

地   点：上海交通大学（徐汇校区）安泰经济与管理学院A407

内容简介：

We introduce a new statistical definition of an  immigrant ethnic neighborhood based on a choice model and using the location  distribution of natives as a benchmark. We then examine the characteristics of  ethnic neighborhoods in the United States using decadal census tract data from  1970-2010. We estimate that 43% of the foreign-born population lived in ethnic  neighborhoods in 1970, increasing to 67% by 2010. Ethnic neighborhoods have  lower average incomes and housing values, and a higher percentage of residents  living in rental housing and commuting without a car, than other locations in  the city where the same group lives. Neighborhoods vary greatly in size and  the population distribution across neighborhoods within a group follows a  power law. Most neighborhoods disappear within one or two decades but larger  neighborhoods persist longer. Large neighborhoods have a well-defined spatial  structure with negative population   gradients and growth occurs primarily through spatial expansion into  adjacent locations.

演讲人简介：

Nathan Schiff is an associate professor at Shanghai  University of Finance and Economics, School of Economics. His work spans the  fields of urban economics, industrial organization, and public economics, with  a general focus on how geography affects competition and the characteristics  of markets. Some of his papers have been published in the Journal of Political  Economy, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Urban  Economics.

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