Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point / William Easterly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easterly, William.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15069.

NBER working paper series no. w15069

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Empirics of Strategic Interdependence

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.

Summary:

The Schelling model of a "tipping point" in racial segregation, in which whites flee a neighborhood once a threshold of nonwhites is reached, is a canonical model of strategic interdependence. The idea of "tipping" explaining segregation is widely accepted in the academic literature and popular media. I use census tract data for metropolitan areas of the US from 1970 to 2000 to test the predictions of the Schelling model and find that this particular model of strategic interaction largely fails the tests. There is more "white flight" out of neighborhoods with a high initial share of whites than out of more racially mixed neighborhoods

Notes:

Print version record

June 2009.