Yinger J. Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy

World Scientific Publishing, 2018. — 615 p. — (World Scientific lecture notes in economics ; volume 4). — ISBN: 978-981-3222-18-2.Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a Ph.D. level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US and the world populations are becoming more and more urbanized, and these notes are designed to help scholars learn and teach about the factors that determine urban residential structure and that lead to urban problems such as inadequate housing, concentrated poverty, an inequitable distribution of local public services, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing, and traffic congestion. Although these notes focus on the US, many of the lessons in the notes apply to other countries as well. They also draw on Professor Yinger's extensive teaching experience and publication record in urban economics and should prove useful to many scholars who want to teach about or study urban areas.Urban Economics
The Basic Urban Model 1: Assumptions
The Basic Urban Model 2: Solutions
The Basic Urban Model 3: Comparative Statics
More General Treatment of Housing Demand
Estimating Housing Demand
The Urban Transportation System
Multiple Worksites and Full Labor Markets
Household Heterogeneity
Testing Urban Models
Neighborhood Amenities
Bidding and Sorting: The Theory of Local Public Finance
Property Tax Capitalization
Hedonic Regressions
School-Quality Capitalization
Housing Discrimination
Notes Based on: "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers?"
Homeownership Gaps Between Ethnic Groups
Residential Segregation: Measurement, Causes, Consequences
Mortgage Markets and Predatory Lending
Mortgage DiscriminationUrban PolicyEvaluating Social Programs
Housing Concepts, Household Bids
Household Sorting and Neighborhood Amenities
Neighborhood Change
Overview of Housing Markets
Housing Problems and Federal Housing Programs
Homelessness
Race and Ethnicity, Prejudice and Discrimination
Housing Discrimination and Its Causes
Residential Segregation: Measurement, Causes, Consequences
Mortgage Markets and Predatory Lending
Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
Poverty: Concepts and Evidence
Concentrated Poverty
Welfare Programs and Principles of Welfare Policy
The New World of Welfare Policy
Urban Labor Markets
Human Capital Programs to Promote Community Development
Financial Capital Programs to Promote Community Development
Key Issues in Studying Urban CrimeReadership: Students and academics interested in urban economics and urban policy.True PDF