Lecture notes in urban economics and urban policy

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Urban Economics:
Lecture 1. The Basic Urban Model 1: Assumptions
Lecture 2. The Basic Urban Model 2: Solutions
Lecture 3. The Basic Urban Model 3: Comparative Statics
Lecture 4. More General Treatment of Housing Demand
Lecture 5. Estimating Housing Demand
Lecture 6. The Urban Transportation System
Lecture 7. Multiple Worksites and Full Labor Markets
Lecture 8. Household Heterogeneity
Lecture 9. Testing Urban Models
Lecture 10. Neighborhood Amenities
Lecture 11. Bidding and Sorting: The Theory of Local Public Finance
Lecture 12. Property Tax Capitalization
Lecture 13. Hedonic Regressions
Lecture 14. School-Quality Capitalization
Lecture 15. Housing Discrimination
Lecture 16. Notes Based on: "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers?"
Lecture 17. Homeownership Gaps Between Ethnic Groups
Lecture 18. Residential Segregation: Measurement, Causes, Consequences
Lecture 19. Mortgage Markets and Predatory Lending
Lecture 20. Mortgage Discrimination

Part 2 Urban Policy:
Lecture 1. Introduction
Lecture 2. Evaluating Social Programs
Lecture 3. Housing Concepts, Household Bids
Lecture 4. Household Sorting and Neighborhood Amenities
Lecture 5. Neighborhood Change
Lecture 6. Overview of Housing Markets
Lecture 7. Housing Problems and Federal Housing Programs
Lecture 8. Homelessness
Lecture 9. Race and Ethnicity, Prejudice and Discrimination
Lecture 10. Housing Discrimination and Its Causes
Lecture 11. Residential Segregation: Measurement, Causes, Consequences
Lecture 12. Mortgage Markets and Predatory Lending
Lecture 13. Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
Lecture 14. Poverty: Concepts and Evidence
Lecture 15. Concentrated Poverty
Lecture 16. Welfare Programs and Principles of Welfare Policy
Lecture 17. The New World of Welfare Policy
Lecture 18. Urban Labor Markets
Lecture 19. Human Capital Programs to Promote Community Development
Lecture 20. Financial Capital Programs to Promote Community Development
Lecture 21. Key Issues in Studying Urban Crime

Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US and the world populations are becoming more and more urbanized, and these notes are designed to help scholars learn and teach about the factors that determine urban residential structure and that lead to urban problems such as inadequate housing, concentrated poverty, an inequitable distribution of local public services, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing, and traffic congestion. Although these notes focus on the US, many of the lessons in the notes apply to other countries as well. They also draw on Professor Yinger's extensive teaching experience and publication record in urban economics and should prove useful to many scholars who want to teach about or study urban areas.

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