Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain

摘要: Today, no economist studying the spatial economy of urban areas would ignore effects race on housing markets and labor market opportunities, but this was not always case. Through what can be seen as a consistent integrated research plan, John Kain developed many central ideas economics but, more importantly, legitimized encouraged scholarly consideration geography racial opportunities. His provocative (and prescient) study linkage between segregation opportunities Blacks natural outgrowth his prior work employment decentralization constraints Black households. recent program school outcomes employing detailed administrative data an extension same empirical interest in how economic minority households vary with location. This paper identifies influence Kain’s different suggests that scientific thoroughly interrelated.