East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting

Why are the east sides of formerly industrial cities more deprived? To answer this question, we use individual-level census data and create historical pollution patterns derived from the locations of 5,000 industrial chimneys and an atmospheric model. We show that this observation results from path-...

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Published in:The Journal of political economy 2021-05, Vol.129 (5), p.1508-1552
Main Authors: Heblich, Stephan, Trew, Alex, Zylberberg, Yanos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Censuses
Coal
Economic theory
Individual differences
Neighborhoods
Political economy
Pollution
Question answer sequences
Relocation
Residential segregation
Segregation
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