Randall Walsh

TL;DR: This paper used a locational equilibrium model to derive formal tests of Tiebout's premise that people "vote with their feet" for communi? ties with optimal bundles of taxes and public goods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a new approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in spatially delineated public goods such as air quality, using a locational equilibrium model and compute equilibria for alternative scenarios characterizing the availability of public goods within a system of communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the value-added approach to measuring school success with particular attention to its implementation as a tool for increasing student achievement and find that, as implemented, value added measures of school effectiveness distort incentives and are likely to discourage good teachers and administrators from working in schools serving concentrations of disadvantaged students.

TL;DR: The results suggest that gentrification of predominantly black neighborhoods creates neighborhoods that are attractive to middle-class black households, not consistent with displacement and harm to minority households.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study demographic processes in neighborhoods that gentrified during the 1990s and found that, on average, the demographic flows associated with the gentrification of urban neighborhoods during 1990s are not consistent with displacement and harm to minority households.