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May 15, 2026
The wrong side of the tracks
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6:35Tyler SmithHOST
So turning to your results, what did you find? What was the impact of segregation?
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6:39Eric ChenGUEST
So using this research design that is revolving around comparing, um, cities that are more or less segregated because of railroads, we look at a lot of different long-run outcomes for kids.
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6:51Eric ChenGUEST
We start by looking at measures of labor market outcomes and earnings, and we do this separately for African American kids and then also white kids there.
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7:04Eric ChenGUEST
And we s- have a number of different impacts, and I'll sort of just take you through a little bit of a tour.
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7:09Eric ChenGUEST
All of our effects can be, you know, the units that we do in the paper is talking about, like, a one standard deviation increase in segregation.
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7:17Eric ChenGUEST
You might ask, "What is a one standard deviation increase in segregation?" Well, two real-world examples.
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11:36Tyler SmithHOST
Why does segregation have this, uh, seem to have this effect on the public provision of goods?