do school attendance zones integrate diverse neighborhoods, or reinforce existing segregation boundaries? Our new paper in ASAP develops a new measure for and applies it to the 110 largest metros in the country. More integrative than we thought link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Measuring Spatial Congruence in the School-Neighborhood Nexus - Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

This research addresses the critical need for a comprehensive understanding of the spatial dynamics between public schools and residential neighborhoods, both of which significantly influence children...

omg shes fucking fantastic 😭

48 hours in and this is (hands down) the best political oration I've ever seen in my 36 years

listen if she ran for office i would commit voter fraud for michelle obama

Now do economists

so is anyone ever going to tell Card (or anyone at nber) that you can't use adjacent geographic units as controls because they are not independent? www.nber.org/papers/w32496

School Equalization in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and Consequences of Resource Disparity in Mississippi circa 1940

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Urban Analysis and Spatial Science (under contract with CRC Press) is in draft at knaaptime.com/urban_analysis and I appreciate critical feedback if you have any :)