TY  - JOUR
AU  - Glaeser,Edward L.
AU  - Kahn,Matthew E.
AU  - Rappaport,Jordan
TI  - Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7636
PY  - 2000
Y2  - April 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7636
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7636.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

Matthew E. Kahn
UCLA Institute of the Environment
Department of Economics
Department of Public Policy
Anderson School of Management
UCLA Law School, Box 951496
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496
Tel: 310/794-4904
Fax: 310/825-9663
E-Mail: mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu

Jordan Rappaport
Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198
E-Mail: jordan.m.rappaport@kc.frb.org
AB  - More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty.  The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap (the traditional urban economics explanation of urban poverty).  Instead, the urbanization of poverty appears to be the result of better access to public transportation in central cities, and central city governments favoring the poor (relative to suburban governments).
ER  -