NYU Furman Center Spring Speaker Series: Eric Chyn
Please join the NYU Furman Center for a virtual lunchtime presentation:
The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux
with
Eric Chyn
Associate Professor
Department of Economics at The University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, April 19th from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
Please register using this link.
Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation policies by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. From the late 1970s until the 1990s, Gautreaux assisted thousands of Black families to move to predominately white, mostly suburban neighborhoods. We link historical program records to administrative data and use plausibly exogenous variation in neighborhood placements to estimate the effects of Gautreaux on the long-run outcomes of children. Being placed in a white neighborhood significantly increases children's future lifetime earnings, employment, and wealth. Gautreaux children placed in a white neighborhood are also significantly more likely to be married and twice as likely to be married to a white spouse. Moreover, placements through Gautreaux impact the neighborhood choices of children in adulthood. Children placed in white neighborhoods during childhood live in more racially diverse neighborhoods with higher rates of upward mobility nearly 40 years later. Read the paper here.
About the Presenter: Dr. Chyn is an applied microeconomist whose research covers a range of topics in labor and public economics. Much of his research focuses on understanding the effects of government programs on the long-run outcomes of children. His research has been published in the leading academic journals in economics, such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy, and covered by national media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. His dissertation work was awarded the Dorothy S. Thomas Award from the Population Association of America (PAA) and the Dissertation Prize from the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2016.
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