TY  - JOUR
AU  - Glaeser,Edward L.
AU  - Hanushek,Eric A.
AU  - Quigley,John M.
TI  - Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10312
PY  - 2004
Y2  - February 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10312
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10312.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Edward L. Glaeser
Department of Economics
315A Littauer Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-0575
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: eglaeser@harvard.edu

Eric A. Hanushek
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-6010
Tel: 650/736-0942
Fax: 650/723-1687
E-Mail: hanushek@stanford.edu

John M. Quigley
Department of Economics
Evans Hall #3880
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel: 510-643-7411
Fax: 510-643-9657
E-Mail: quigley@econ.berkeley.edu
AB  - Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore the effects of race on housing markets and labor market opportunities, but this was not always the case. Through what can be seen as a consistent and integrated research plan, John Kain developed many central ideas of urban economics but, more importantly, legitimized and encouraged scholarly consideration of the geography of racial opportunities. His provocative (and prescient) study of the linkage between housing segregation and the labor market opportunities of Blacks was a natural outgrowth of his prior work on employment decentralization and housing constraints on Black households. His more recent program of research on school outcomes employing detailed administrative data was an extension of the same empirical interest in how the economic opportunities of minority households vary with location. This paper identifies the influence of John Kain's ideas on different areas of research and suggests that his scientific work was thoroughly interrelated.
ER  -