This dissertation centers on research at the intersection of labor, public, and urban economics. Chapter 1 details the role, process, and history of census tract delineation prior to each Decennial Census, and investigates short- and long-run implications of neighborhoods that receive further delineation, or become "split". Using a…

"The Integration Anomaly" explores a "puzzling divergence" between changes in metropolitan residential and school segregation. Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice. The report…

We examine whether the legal decision to grant unitary status to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, which led to the end of race-conscious student assignment policies, increased the probability that families with children enrolled in the district would move to neighborhoods with a greater proportion of student residents of the same race as…

How well do our education policies prepare America's youth for the labor market? What challenges limit our success, and what opportunities do we have for improvements? Can public policy play a greater role in encouraging more success? I consider these questions as they apply to the unique characteristics of metropolitan areas in the U.S. Most…

This article explores the changing attitudes towards student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. In the first part of this period there was a firm assumption, in universities and teacher training colleges, that the accommodation of students in or close to their university or college,…

Poverty in the United States is migrating far beyond the urban core and transforming the suburbs into places increasingly stratified by income, wealth, opportunity, and education. Census data from the 2005 American Community Survey reveal new patterns of income inequality, residential mobility, and spatial segregation that make the suburbs less of…

Examines changes in patterns of Black-White housing segregation in St. Louis (Missouri) between 1980 and 1988 using data from the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census. St. Louis exhibited a persistent pattern of segregation from 1940 to 1980. Finds the city remains quite segregated compared to 1980 national averages. (DM)

Important demographic trends in the United States include 1) the population's changing age profile, 2) the tendency for young people to remain single longer, 3) the widening mortality differential between the sexes, and 4) reversal of migration trends. Available from: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Box 211, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,…

Findings from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey show that almost 16% of individuals with mental retardation in residential facilities moved into other living arrangements during 1987. Most movement was between residential facilities of the same type and, thus, did not result in significant changes in the residential population between…

Demographic patterns of immigration to the United States from Ireland are examined, and a scenario is projected for Irish immigration in the twenty-first century. It is argued that the wave of Irish immigration of the 1980s will prove to be a last gasp of a 200-year-old tradition. (SLD)

This research examined the changing regional patterns of elderly migration, simultaneously examining both net migration and migration stream patterns. Four time periods were examined: 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1985. Migration is conventionally measured by recording the respondent's location of residence 5 years earlier. The 1985 data were obtained…

Analyzes changes in relative decentralization for Blacks in 40 metropolitan statistical areas during the 1970s. Although there is substantial suburbanization among Blacks, measured conventionally, evidence implies that Blacks will gain little if job growth, high-quality education, and superior environments follow Whites as they move further into…

Selected demographic data are presented on three topics: the benefits to employers for making accommodations for employees with disabilities, the impact of visual problems on social roles and health care utilization, and residential mobility patterns of Americans for geographic regions and selected states. (SW)

Housing choices of unisex versus coed dorms made by freshmen and authorized by parents reveal that black women students differ substantially from black men and white men and women students in choosing unisex housing more than two to one over coed housing. Reasons for the difference are explored. (Author)

This report provides statistics on persons with mental retardation in state-operated residential facilities in the United States. Part I presents population data for fiscal year 1986. The statistics represent aggregated data compiled by each state. Data include number of facilities, average daily population, first admissions, readmissions,…