Plausibly Exogenous [1000] - Racial Segregation (10/27/2022)
LHS Variable
Intergenerational mobility
RHS Variable
City-wide racial segregation
Source of Exogenous Variation
Variation in segregation due to the arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century
- Chyn, Haggag, and Stuart (2022), “The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement”