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A Model of Residential Change and Neighborhood Tipping

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This paper applies the theory of probabilistic consumer demand to an analysis of residential change at the urban neighborhood scale. By developing the profit maximizing pricing behaviour of housing suppliers, it is shown that neighborhood transitions from high income to low income and from white to black can be explained on purely economic grounds without involving prejudicial preferences. The analytical model explains two types of transition. In the first, a neighborhood's social mix changes gradually in response to gradual exogenous changes. In the second, a neighborhood "tips" suddenly in response to similar exogenous changes. The two transitions can occur depending on the characteristics of the demand functions for the two competing groups.

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  • Alex Anas, 1978. "A Model of Residential Change and Neighborhood Tipping," Working Paper 305, Economics Department, Queen's University.
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    1. Stephan Heblich & Alex Trew & Yanos Zylberberg, 2021. "East-Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(5), pages 1508-1552.
    2. Coulson, N. Edward & Wommer, Gregory, 2019. "Tenure tipping," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 172-181.
    3. Attila Ambrus & Erica Field & Robert Gonzalez, 2020. "Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-Run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(2), pages 475-525, February.
    4. Yen-Jong Chen & Cheng-Kai Hsu, 2020. "Comparison of Housing Price Elasticities Resulting from Different Types of Multimodal Rail Stations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan," International Real Estate Review, Global Social Science Institute, vol. 23(3), pages 417-432.
    5. Clark, William A.V., 1988. "Ethnic Preferences and Neighborhood Transitions," Institute for Social Science Research, Working Paper Series qt9j54d99v, Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA.
    6. Ioannides, Yannis M., 2002. "Residential neighborhood effects," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(2), pages 145-165, March.
    7. Malone, Thom, 2020. "There goes the neighborhood does tipping exist amongst income groups?," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(C).
    8. Ioannides, Yannis M., 2003. "Interactive property valuations," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(1), pages 145-170, January.
    9. Yen-Jong Chen & Cheng-Kai Hsu, 2020. "Comparison of Housing Price Elasticities Resulting from Different Types of Multimodal Rail Stations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan," International Real Estate Review, Global Social Science Institute, vol. 23(3), pages 1043-1058.

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