Jessie Handbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 2531176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie Handbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Handbury |
| SIGNATURE | HANDBURY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates
We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest levels of college attainment in 1980 to the highest in 2017. We discuss the determinants of changes in sorting patterns, focusing on the role of transportation technology and income growth. We outline various consequences of the recent urbanization of college graduate…
JUE Insight
Urban revival in America
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across ge…
Urban revival in America
JUE Insight
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates
We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest levels of college attainment in 1980 to the highest in 2017. We discuss the determinants of changes in sorting patterns, focusing on the role of transportation technology and income growth. We outline various consequences of the recent urbanization of college graduate…
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across ge…
Urban revival in America
JUE Insight
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates
We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest levels of college attainment in 1980 to the highest in 2017. We discuss the determinants of changes in sorting patterns, focusing on the role of transportation technology and income growth. We outline various consequences of the recent urbanization of college graduate…
Demographic economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 works) · Urbanization (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Cartography (1 work)