Table of Contents
About the Editor v
Introduction xi
Part I The Basic Urban Model 1
Chapter 1 Introduction to Urban Models John Yinger 3
Chapter 2 The Basic Urban Model John Yinger 39
Chapter 3 The Demand for Housing John Yinger 89
Part II The Urban Transportation System 105
Chapter 4 Around the Block: Urban Models with a Street Grid John Yinger 107
Chapter 5 Bumper to Bumper: A New Approach to Congestion in an Urban Model John Yinger 137
Chapter 6 Timing Equilibria in an Urban Model with Congestion Stephen L. Ross John Yinger 167
Part III Sorting and Urban Labor Markets 197
Chapter 7 Normal Sorting John Yinger 199
Chapter 8 Household Sorting and the Derivation of Bid-Function Envelopes John Yinger 219
Chapter 9 An Equilibrium Model of Urban Population and the Distribution of Income John Yinger Sheldon Danziger 235
Chapter 10 City and Suburb: Urban Models with More than One Employment Center John Yinger 267
Chapter 11 Comparative Static Analysis of Open Urban Models with a Full Labor Market and Suburban Employment Stephen L. Ross John Yinger 297
Chapter 12 An Analysis of the Efficiency of Urban Residential Structure, with an Application to Racial Integration John Yinger 335
Part IV Urban Public Finance, Capitalization and Hedonics 359
Chapter 13 Bidding and Sorting John Yinger 361
Chapter 14 Property Tax Capitalization John Yinger 385
Chapter 15 Capitalization and the Theory of Local Public Finance John Yinger 399
Chapter 16 Capitalization and Sorting: A Revision John Yinger 433
Chapter 17 The Capitalization of School Quality into House Values: A Review Phuong Nguyen-Hoang John Yinger 443
Chapter 18 Hedonic Markets and Sorting Equilibria: Bid-Function Envelopes for Public Services and Neighborhood Amenities John Yinger 499
Chapter 19 Hedonic Equilibria in Housing Markets: The Case of One-to-One Matching John Yinger 555
Chapter 20 Hedonic Vices: Fixing Inferences about Willingness to Pay in Recent House-Value Studies John Yinger Phuong Nguyen-Hoang 583
Part V Racial and Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination 637
Chapter 21 Racial Prejudice and Racial Residential Segregation in an Urban Model John Yinger 639
Chapter 22 On Models of Racial Prejudice and Urban Residential Structure Paul N. Courant John Yinger 657
Chapter 23 Cash in Your Face: The Cost of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Housing John Yinger 683
Chapter 24 Hedonic Estimates of Neighborhood Ethnic Preferences John Yinger 717
Chapter 25 Measuring Racial Discrimination with Fair Housing Audits: Caught in the Act John Yinger 751
Chapter 26 Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers? Jan Ondrich Stephen L. Ross John Yinger 777
Chapter 27 Do Rental Agents Discriminate Against Minority Customers? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study Seok Joon Choi Jan Ondrich John Yinger 831
Chapter 28 Why Do Real Estate Brokers Continue to Discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study Bo Zhao Jan Ondrich John Yinger 867
Chapter 29 Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets John Yinger 915
Chapter 30 What Have We Learned from Paired Testing in Housing Markets? Sun Jung Oh John Yinger 943
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