Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. The editors seek to integrate broader research into the policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studyring subjects with important urban implications.
In this issue, six papers on urban economics address a wide range of issues:
Editors' Summary (Full Text)
Metropolitan Growth, Inequality, and Neighborhood Segregation by Income (Abstract)
Tara Watson
Differentiated Road Pricing, Express Lanes, and Carpools: Exploiting Heterogeneous Preferences in Policy Design (Abstract)
Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, and Jia Yan
Understanding Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gaps during the First Years of School (Abstract)
Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Kristen L. Bub, and Kathleen McCartney
Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment: Results from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore (Abstract)
Kristin Turney, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Greg J. Duncan
Effects of Property Taxation on Development Timing and Density: Policy Perspective (Abstract)
Richard Arnott
Sprawl and Jurisdictional Fragmentation (Abstract)
Edwin S. Mills