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Sunbelt/Frostbelt
Metropolitan growth and development results from a complex mix of factors. Consumer preferences, growth and geographical shifts in population, increasing incomes, market restructuring, quality of schools, and location of affordable housing are just a few that play a critical role. Other important influences include state and local interactions, historical circumstances, and the natural topography of a metropolitan area. Federal and state policies, taken together, set the "rules of the development game" that tend to facilitate economic decentralization, the concentration of poverty, and greater fiscal and racial disparities between communities. In S unbelt/Frostbelt, Janet Rothenberg Pack and...
Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America
While the suburbs of most metropolitan areas are wealthier than their urban counterparts, rapid regional growth can improve the welfare of both city and suburb, according to a new book from Janet Rothenberg Pack. In Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America, Pack identifies growth trends that have contributed to the convergence of welfare among regions. Pack analyzes demographic, social, and economic data from 277 metropolitan areas in the northeastern, midwestern, southern, and western United States between 1960 and 1990. Her analysis reveals a strong connection between regional growth and improved socioeconomic vitality. She finds little connection between population growth—the focu...
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2007
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 urban policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studying subjects with important urban implications. In this issue, six papers on urban economics address a wide range of issues: the impact of business improvement districts on commercial property values; the impact of lost steel and auto jobs in cities and counties in the early 1980s; the role of government-sponsored enterprises in providing financial support for U.S. housing; the way GSEs affect mortgage rates and market liquidity; effects on lower-income, underserved housing markets of the affordable housing goals set by GSEs; the impact of terrorism on urban form since 1990.
Building Assets, Building Credit
Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they accumulate wealth? In the United States, homeownership is often the answer. Homes not only provide shelter but also are assets, and thus a means to create equity. Mortgage credit becomes a crucial factor. More Americans than ever now have some access to credit. However. thanks in large part to the growth of global capital markets and greater use of "credit scores," not all homeowners have benefited equally from the opened spigots. Different terms and conditions mean that some applicants are overpaying for mortgage credit, while some are getting in over their heads. And the door is left wide open for predatory lenders. In this important new volume, accomplished analysts examine the situation, illustrate its ramifications, and recommend steps to improve it. Today, low-income Americans have more access to credit than ever before. The challenge is to increase the chances that homeownership becomes the new pathway to asset-building that everyone hopes it will be.
Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2001
Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this new series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.Contents of the second issue include:"Decentralized Employment and the Transformation of the American City"Edward Glaeser (Brookings Institution) and Matthew Kahn (Columbia University)"Urban Sprawl: Lessons from Urban Economics"Jan K. Brueckner (University of Illinois)"Can Boosting Minority Car-Ownership Rates Narrow Inter-Racial Employment Gaps?Steven Raphael (University of California, Berkeley) and Michael Stoll (UCLA)"The Effects of Urban Poverty on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"Jens Ludwig (G...
Privatization and Its Alternatives
Emerging from a conference, Racine, Wisconsin, November 1987, 15 papers explore controversies around privatization in a number of policy areas--such as education, housing, and law-enforcement--in a number of countries, and from the perspective of several disciplines. Paper edition (unseen), for $19.75. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Do Donors Get what They Paid For?
"Recipient government responses to development project aid have typically been studied at high levels of aggregation, using cross-country comparisons and/or aggregate time series data. Yet increasingly the relevant decisions are being made at the local level, in response to specific community-level projects. The authors use local-level data to test for fungibility of World Bank financing of rural road rehabilitation targeted to specific geographic areas of Vietnam. A simple double difference estimate suggests that the project's net contribution to rehabilitated road increments is close to zero, suggesting complete displacement of funding. However, with better controls for the endogeneity of project placement the authors find much less evidence of fungibility, with displacement accounting for around one-third of the aid. The results point to the importance of dealing with selection bias in assessing project aid fungibility. " -- Cover verso.
Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid
While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impact of a rural road rehabilitation project in Vietnam on the kilometers of roads actually rehabilitated and built. Using local-level survey data collected for this purpose, the authors test whether the evidence supports the standard economic argument that there will be little or no impact on rural roads rehabilitated, given fungibility. They find evidence that, although project aid impacts on rehabilitated road kilometers were less than intended, more roads were built in project areas. The results suggest that there was fungibility within the sector, but that aid largely stuck to that sector.
Development, Duality, and the International Economic Regime
A stellar group of economists examine and evaluate important issues in development economics
Place Matters
How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems—poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollution, education, energy consumption, and housing, among others? That’s the basic question addressed by the new edition of this award-winning book. Thoroughly revised and updated for its third edition, Place Matters examines the major trends and problems shaping our cities and suburbs, explores a range of policy solutions to address them, and looks closely at the potential political coalitions needed to put the country’s “urban crisis” back on the public agenda. The problem of rising inequality is at the center of Place Matters. During ...
