Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2006

by Burtless, Gary; Pack, Janet Rothenberg

• ISBN13: 9780815713708
• ISBN10: 0815713703
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr

Summary

Tentative contents include: How the Rust Belt Got Shiny:A Study of Cities and Counties thatLost Steel and Auto Jobs in the 1980sBruce Sacerdote (Dartmouth College) Homeowners and the HousingEnterprises: Banks and MarketEfficiencyRobert Van Order (University of Michigan) Home Mortgages and the MortgageSystem: What Role for GovernmentSponsored Enterprises?Dwight Jaffee and John M. Quigley(University of California--Berkeley) FHA, the GSEs, and the UnderservedUrban HouseholdsRaphael Bostic, Stuart Gabriel, andYongheng Deng (USC) Differentiated Road Pricing, ExpressLanes, and Carpools: ExploitingHeterogeneous Preferences inPolicy DesignIngrid Gould Ellen (New York University)

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Editors' Summary	ix
Metropolitan Growth, Inequality, and Neighborhood Segregation by Income	1
TARA WATSON
Comments by Gerald Carlino and Ingrid Gould Ellen	46
Differentiated Road Pricing, Express Lanes, and Carpools: Exploiting Heterogeneous Preferences in Policy Design	53
KENNETH A. SMALL, CLIFFORD WINSTON, AND JIA YAN
Comments by Nathaniel Baum-Snow and José A. Gómez-Ibáñez	87
Understanding Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gaps during the First Years of School	97
RICHARD J. MURNANE, JOHN B. WILLETT, KRISTEN L. BUB, AND KATHLEEN MCCARTNEY
Comments by Eric Hanushek and Rebecca Maynard	128
Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment: Results from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore	137
KRISTIN TURNEY, SUSAN CLAMPET-LUNDQUIST, KATHRYN EDIN, JEFFREY R. KLING, AND GREG J. DUNCAN
Comments by Jens Ludwig and John Karl Scholz	173
Effects of Property Taxation on Development Timing and Density: Policy Perspective	189
RICHARD ARNOTT
Comments by Robert M. Schwab and Jan K. Brueckner	223
Sprawl and Jurisdictional Fragmentation	231
EDWIN S. MILLS
Comments by Dennis Epple and Jacob L. Vigdor	244
Errata for 2005 issue, pages 207-62	257