I've got a ton of literature review to do in January so I don't have much time to do another one. It's not too difficult to find though. One interesting starti

I've got a ton of literature review to do in January so I don't have much time to do another one. It's not too difficult to find though. One interesting starting point is a study called 'are ghettos good or bad?'. It's a little dated, 20 years old now, especially with economic segregation on the rise since then and a sharp increase of academic interest in the topic. But it sets the tone and introduces a little bit of theoretical history, provides empirical evidence for the notion that economic segregation is damaging, as well as its causal direction (ghettos create bad outcomes, rather than vice versa), although it lacks in explanatory power. The NBER is typically well-respected. You can find it here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w5163.pdf http://www.nber.org/papers/w5163.pdf For something more recent, this report is another good place to start. The Urban Institute is quite liberal though, so its research is a bit more partisan than a typical academic piece, but it's still good stuff. This research, and others, suggests that it's not just low-income groups who suffer from economic segregation, but that it affects all residents negatively as well, on average. (mostly for two reasons: one is that when low-income groups are worse off, their issues e.g. with crime or drugs spill over to non low-income communities, and two that, simply said, a Google engineer is more productive if he doesn't have to spend his day preparing food and doing laundry, so you need a healthy mix of people and proximity matters). https://www.urban.org/research/publication/cost-segregation https://www.urban.org/research/publication/cost-segregation Hope to be of more help next month.