Essays on Urban Economics

This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on neighborhood population dynamics of a major urban renewal policy implemented in Ca...

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Autor: González Pampillón, Nicolás
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Economia urbana
Economía urbana
Urban economics
Discriminació en l'habitatge
Discriminación en la vivienda
Discrimination in housing
Ciències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials
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spelling Essays on Urban EconomicsGonzález Pampillón, NicolásEconomia urbanaEconomía urbanaUrban economicsDiscriminació en l'habitatgeDiscriminación en la viviendaDiscrimination in housingCiències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials33This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on neighborhood population dynamics of a major urban renewal policy implemented in Catalonia (Spain) between 2004 and 2010. The results suggest that the urban renewal projects had little (if any) effects on population dynamics, suggesting that substantial investment in deprived neighborhoods is insufficient to attract natives and/or high income households. Interestingly, the sole exception were the interventions made in Barcelona’s historic districts, where the policy seems to have augmented ongoing processes of urban revival into its most deprived neighborhoods furthering processes of gentrification. The third chapter provides a new empirical test of one-sided tipping models in the population composition of neighborhoods using an infrequent set of events in Spain. In the immigration boom period, 2001-2009, neighborhoods with high minority shares in 2001 received larger inflows of immigrants and experienced outflows in native population. In the immigration freeze period, 2010-2015, the neighborhoods that received large immigrant influxes in the 2001-2009 period kept loosing native population, despite the fact that these neighborhoods were actually experiencing slight losses of immigrant population. Results are consistent with tipping behavior. The fourth chapter studies the external effects of tax benefits given to residential developers in Uruguay on both house prices and crime records. Clear evidence of spillovers is found: house prices increase by around 12% in the period 2014-2016 in a 400-meter wide band in the subsidized border area. Using a continuous but endogenous treatment measure, IV estimates show an elasticity of .035 with respect to housing prices. An examination of crime records shows that the property crime rate seems to decrease at the border, but there is no evidence of a decrease in the non-property crime rate.Universitat de BarcelonaViladecans Marsal, ElisabetJofre Monseny, JordiViladecans Marsal, ElisabetUniversitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa201820182018info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion165 p.application/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10803/663272TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)reponame:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Redinstname:CBUC, CESCAInglésADVERTIMENT. L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi doctoral i la seva utilització ha de respectar els drets de la persona autora. Pot ser utilitzada per a consulta o estudi personal, així com en activitats o materials d'investigació i docència en els termes establerts a l'art. 32 del Text Refós de la Llei de Propietat Intel·lectual (RDL 1/1996). Per altres utilitzacions es requereix l'autorització prèvia i expressa de la persona autora. En qualsevol cas, en la utilització dels seus continguts caldrà indicar de forma clara el nom i cognoms de la persona autora i el títol de la tesi doctoral. No s'autoritza la seva reproducció o altres formes d'explotació efectuades amb finalitats de lucre ni la seva comunicació pública des d'un lloc aliè al servei TDX. Tampoc s'autoritza la presentació del seu contingut en una finestra o marc aliè a TDX (framing). Aquesta reserva de drets afecta tant als continguts de la tesi com als seus resums i índexs.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:www.tdx.cat:10803/6632722026-06-14T12:46:07Z
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title Essays on Urban Economics
spellingShingle Essays on Urban Economics
González Pampillón, Nicolás
Economia urbana
Economía urbana
Urban economics
Discriminació en l'habitatge
Discriminación en la vivienda
Discrimination in housing
Ciències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials
33
title_short Essays on Urban Economics
title_full Essays on Urban Economics
title_fullStr Essays on Urban Economics
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title_sort Essays on Urban Economics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González Pampillón, Nicolás
author González Pampillón, Nicolás
author_facet González Pampillón, Nicolás
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
Jofre Monseny, Jordi
Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economia urbana
Economía urbana
Urban economics
Discriminació en l'habitatge
Discriminación en la vivienda
Discrimination in housing
Ciències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials
33
topic Economia urbana
Economía urbana
Urban economics
Discriminació en l'habitatge
Discriminación en la vivienda
Discrimination in housing
Ciències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials
33
description This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on neighborhood population dynamics of a major urban renewal policy implemented in Catalonia (Spain) between 2004 and 2010. The results suggest that the urban renewal projects had little (if any) effects on population dynamics, suggesting that substantial investment in deprived neighborhoods is insufficient to attract natives and/or high income households. Interestingly, the sole exception were the interventions made in Barcelona’s historic districts, where the policy seems to have augmented ongoing processes of urban revival into its most deprived neighborhoods furthering processes of gentrification. The third chapter provides a new empirical test of one-sided tipping models in the population composition of neighborhoods using an infrequent set of events in Spain. In the immigration boom period, 2001-2009, neighborhoods with high minority shares in 2001 received larger inflows of immigrants and experienced outflows in native population. In the immigration freeze period, 2010-2015, the neighborhoods that received large immigrant influxes in the 2001-2009 period kept loosing native population, despite the fact that these neighborhoods were actually experiencing slight losses of immigrant population. Results are consistent with tipping behavior. The fourth chapter studies the external effects of tax benefits given to residential developers in Uruguay on both house prices and crime records. Clear evidence of spillovers is found: house prices increase by around 12% in the period 2014-2016 in a 400-meter wide band in the subsidized border area. Using a continuous but endogenous treatment measure, IV estimates show an elasticity of .035 with respect to housing prices. An examination of crime records shows that the property crime rate seems to decrease at the border, but there is no evidence of a decrease in the non-property crime rate.
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