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作者

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.73,P.237-250

语言

英文

关键字

Transit provision; Income segregation; Gentrification; Spatial sorting; PUBLIC-TRANSIT; TRANSPORTATION; IMPACT; RAILROADS; STATIONS; ATLANTA; CITIES; INCOME

作者单位

[Heilmann, Kilian] Univ Southern Calif, Dept Econ, USC Dornsife INET, 3620 S Vermont Ave,KAP300, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. Heilmann, K (reprint author), Univ Southern Calif, Dept Econ, USC Dornsife INET, 3620 S Vermont Ave,KAP300, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. E-Mail: heilmann@usc.edu

摘要

I study the effect of transit access on neighborhood incomes by exploiting a quasi-experimental setting of an extensively planned, but only partially built urban rail system in Dallas. I show that neighborhood income in census tracts that received rail access increases compared to neighborhoods that were promised to receive access, but did not due to funding cuts. The treatment effect is positively correlated with initial neighborhood income and negative for the poorest tracts. This reconciles gentrification and "poverty magnet" effects of rail infrastructure found in the earlier literature and highlights the role of transit as a potential incubator for income segregation.