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No, if they've done their data analysis right (and I dunno...) they're saying it's actually _flight_ b/c whites leave faster than Asians arrive, and apparently
by abeppu 3y ago
No, if they've done their data analysis right (and I dunno...) they're saying it's actually _flight_ b/c whites leave faster than Asians arrive, and apparently they confirm by getting this number by more than one route. They hammer on this in multiple sections:
"our estimate of white flight from Asian entry in high-SES districts is larger, with each new Asian student leading to 1.5 white student departures"
"Overall, we find a 1.5-to-one departure rate for the average suburban district, which is above the one-for-one threshold that would pertain to a pure housing market response."
"In this case, we use Census data from 2000 and 2010 and find that each Asian arrival in a district leads to the departure of -1.5 white households with children, a number very similar to our baseline estimate."
- meowtimemania 3y agoSo are there tons of vacant houses? I’m guessing they aren’t including other races that are also moving in
- abeppu 3y agoBut also when one family with school aged kids moves out, some proportion of the time, the buyers don't have kids. The houses don't have to be vacant for their stated number to hold. I didn't look closely but their data did consider other racial groups.