Please join the Evans School Research Seminar on Wednesday February 22^nd at 11:30am in PAR 360, where Eric Chyn from the Department of Economics at UT-Austin will be giving a talk is entitled, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux.”

Abstract:  This paper provides new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation programs by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. From the late 1970s to the 1990s, Gautreaux assisted thousands of Black families in relocating to predominately White, mostly suburban neighborhoods. We link historical program records from Gautreaux to administrative data and use plausibly exogenous variation in neighborhood placements to estimate the effects of Gautreaux on the long-run outcomes of children. Being placed in a White neighborhood significantly boosts children’s future lifetime earnings, employment, and wealth. Gautreaux children placed in a White neighborhood are also significantly more likely to be married and twice as likely to be married to a White spouse. Moreover, neighborhood placements through Gautreaux shape the neighborhood choices of Gautreaux children in adulthood. Children placed in White neighborhoods

Please join the Evans School Research Seminar on Wednesday February 22^nd at 11:30am in PAR 360, where Eric Chyn from the Department of Economics at UT-Austin will be giving a talk is entitled, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux.”

Abstract:  This paper provides new evidence on the long-run effects of residential racial desegregation programs by studying the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. From the late 1970s to the 1990s, Gautreaux assisted thousands of Black families in relocating to predominately White, mostly suburban neighborhoods. We link historical program records from Gautreaux to administrative data and use plausibly exogenous variation in neighborhood placements to estimate the effects of Gautreaux on the long-run outcomes of children. Being placed in a White neighborhood significantly boosts children’s future lifetime earnings, employment, and wealth. Gautreaux children placed in a White neighborhood are also significantly more likely to be married and twice as likely to be married to a White spouse. Moreover, neighborhood placements through Gautreaux shape the neighborhood choices of Gautreaux children in adulthood. Children placed in White neighborhoods

CSDE Affiliate Robert Crutchfield will join a NASEM panel of distinguished experts to discuss effective strategies for reducing and preventing gun violence.  The panel will be on February 21 at 2pm ET (11am PST).  For more information click on this link.

In a new paper, published in the most recent issue of Demography, entitled ” Migration as a Vector of Economic Losses From Disaster-Affected Areas in the United States”, CSDE External Affiliate Jack DeWaard and colleagues demonstrate how human migration is associated with the economic losses due to extreme weather disasters. Taking a comparative case study approach and using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York/Equifax Consumer Credit Panel, the researchers document the size of economic losses attributable to migration from 23 disaster-affected areas in the United States before, during, and after some of the most costly hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires on record. Employing demographic standardization and decomposition to determine if these losses primarily reflect changes in out-migration or the economic resources that migrants take with them

CSDE External Affiliate Deleena Patton and team recently released “The Well-Being of Washington State’s Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Behavioral Health Trends” a report for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. This report uses Medicaid claims data to examine trends in children’s behavioral health diagnoses and services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington State. The authors examine trends in outpatient mental health services, claims with specific mental health diagnoses, claims with a suicide or self-harm diagnosis, and mental health and substance use-related emergency department claims. Trends across gender and race/ethnicity are also examined.