Background: Despite a powerful civil rights movement and legislation barring discrimination in housing markets, residential neighborhoods remain racially segregated. Purpose: This study examines the extent to which neighborhoods' racial composition is inherited across generations and the extent to which high schools' and colleges' racial…

To further test Charles Tiebout's suggestion that households reveal their preferences for public goods through their decisions to relocate, questionnaires were sent to the 2,290 people who bought homes in Charlotte (North Carolina) during 1977 and who were still living in the same house during the summer of 1981. Each of the 1,176 respondents…

Examines housing and neighborhood satisfaction of six types of black households, including family households headed by couples, females, and males; households headed by a person aged 65 or older; and nonelderly males and females living alone. The model predicts better for neighborhood satisfaction and for some family types. (SLD)