John Yinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 368099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Yinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Yinger |
| SIGNATURE | YINGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2020-7864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Envelopes for economists: An intellectual history
All economists know that a long-run average cost curve is the envelope of a family of short-run average cost curves, but many economists do not realise that envelope mathematics can be applied to many other topics. This paper reviews envelope mathematics and describes its intellectual history on several topics, including housing hedonics. The envelope derivations in this paper shed light on the key distinction in many envelopes between movement a…
Poverty and Proficiency: The Cost of and Demand for Local Public EducationA Textbook in Education Finance
This book covers a wide range of topics in education finance. It is designed to introduce the literature on education finance to scholars and prospective scholars and can be used as a textbook for a graduate-level education finance class. The topics in the book include the incidence of the property tax as a source of revenue for elementary and secondary education, how much more it costs to reach a state's education targets in a high-poverty schoo…
Hedonic Vices: Fixing Inferences about Willingness to Pay in Recent House-Value Studies
A key tool for studying the demand for neighborhood amenities and estimating the benefits from amenity improvements is a regression of house value on amenity levels, controlling for housing characteristics. Several scholars have developed methods to address the methodological challenges, such as endogeneity, faced by these “hedonic” regressions. Unfortunately, however, some recent studies neglect basic principles of hedonic estimation in Rosen [(…
Hedonic markets and sorting equilibria: Bid-function envelopes for public services and neighborhood amenities
The capitalization of school quality into house values: A review
Are Education Cost Functions Ready for Prime Time? An Examination of Their Validity and Reliability
This article makes the case that cost functions are the best available methodology for ensuring consistency between a state's educational accountability system and its education finance system. Because they are based on historical data and well-known statistical methods, cost functions are a particularly flexible and low-cost way to forecast what each school district must spend to meet the standards in a state's accountability system. However, th…
Introduction to Education Cost Functions: Recent Developments In Their Estimation and Applications to Education Policy
Do lenders discriminate against minority and woman entrepreneurs
Why do real estate brokers continue to discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study
Does whole-school reform boost student performance? The case of New York City
Thousands of schools around the country have implemented whole-school reform programs to boost student performance. This paper uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the impact of whole-school reform on students' reading performance in New York City, where various reform programs were adopted in dozens of troubled elementary schools in the mid-1990s. This paper complements studies based on random assignment by examining a broad-based reform …
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers
Potential home buyers may initiate contact with a real estate agent by asking to see a particular advertised house. This paper asks whether an agent's response to such a request depends on the race of the buyer or on whether the house is located in an integrated neighborhood. Like previous research about the causes of housing discrimination, this paper uses data from fair housing audits, a matched-pair technique for comparing the treatment of equ…
The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement
An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection. In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is viewed as critical for access to the most desirable…
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
How Common is Housing Discrimination? Improving on Traditional Measures
Timing Equilibria in an Urban Model with Congestion
Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets
Economists have contributed to the measurement of racial and ethnic discrimination in consumption and to the identification of its causes, especially in housing markets and car sales. To test the hypothesis that discrimination exists, economists have turned to regression analysis and to audits, a matched-pair survey technique. Economists also have developed audit-based measures of the incidence and severity of discrimination. Audit studies find c…
Why is it so hard to help central city schools
Many states have implemented educational grant systems designed to provide more aid to school districts that are, by some standard, in greater need. Nevertheless, many if not most central city school systems continue to produce poor educational outcomes, as measured, for example, by test scores and dropout rates. Using data from New York State, this article asks why existing aid formulas fail to provide the assistance that central city school dis…
Cash in Your Face: The Cost of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Housing
According to recent evidence, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing continues to be widespread. This paper estimates the cost this discrimination imposes on black and Hispanic households. Building on the work of4, the paper develops a housing search model and measures the cost of discrimination by its impact on the gain a household can achieve through housing search. The cost of discrimination is then calculated for a representative sample …
Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? By J. Milton Yinger. Reply to review by Pierre L. van den Berghe in Social Forces 73(3):1181
Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict?By J. Milton Yinger. Reply to review by Pierre L. van den Berghe in Social Forces 73(3):1181 Get access J. Milton Yinger J. Milton Yinger Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 2, December 1996, Pages 744–745, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/75.2.744 Published: 01 December 1996
Closed doors, opportunities lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination
Nearly three decades after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics remains rampant in the United States. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost reports on a landmark nationwide investigation of real estate brokers and landlords, comparing their treatment of equally qualified white, black, and Hispanic customers. The study reveals pervasive discrimination. Economist John Yinger provides a lucid ac…
Around the Block: Urban Models with a Street Grid
Models of urban residential structure usually assume that transportation costs are a function of straight-line distance from the central business district (CBD), which is equivalent to assuming an infinite number of radial streets. This paper presents and expands existing work on urban models with an alternative transportation system, namely a dense network of vertical and horizontal streets, that is, a street grid. Several models are examined, i…
Bumper to Bumper: A New Approach to Congestion in an Urban Model
City and suburb: Urban models with more than one employment center
An analysis of the efficiency of urban residential structure, with an application to racial integration
America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy
Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets
Economists have contributed to the measurement of racial and ethnic discrimination in consumption and to the identification of its causes, especially in housing markets and car sales. To test the hypothesis that discrimination exists, economists have turned to regression analysis and to audits, a matched-pair survey technique. Economists also have developed audit-based measures of the incidence and severity of discrimination. Audit studies find c…
On models of racial prejudice and urban residential structure
Capitalization and the Theory of Local Public Finance
The Tiebout literature is incomplete, this paper argues, because it has not fully accounted for the capitalization of local fiscal variables into house values. The paper explains why capitalization arises, why it persists in long-run equilibrium, how it affects both residential location and the outcome of local voting, and why it interferes with the efficiency of a system of local governments. The analysis, which is based on the main Tiebout assu…
Racial prejudice and racial residential segregation in an urban model
Why do real estate brokers continue to discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study
City and suburb: Urban models with more than one employment center
Do lenders discriminate against minority and woman entrepreneurs
How Common is Housing Discrimination? Improving on Traditional Measures
Cash in Your Face: The Cost of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Housing
According to recent evidence, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing continues to be widespread. This paper estimates the cost this discrimination imposes on black and Hispanic households. Building on the work of4, the paper develops a housing search model and measures the cost of discrimination by its impact on the gain a household can achieve through housing search. The cost of discrimination is then calculated for a representative sample …
On fiscal disparities across cities
Hedonic markets and sorting equilibria: Bid-function envelopes for public services and neighborhood amenities
Does whole-school reform boost student performance? The case of New York City
Thousands of schools around the country have implemented whole-school reform programs to boost student performance. This paper uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the impact of whole-school reform on students' reading performance in New York City, where various reform programs were adopted in dozens of troubled elementary schools in the mid-1990s. This paper complements studies based on random assignment by examining a broad-based reform …
A note on the length of the black-white border
Timing Equilibria in an Urban Model with Congestion
Bumper to Bumper: A New Approach to Congestion in an Urban Model
An Equilibrium Model of Urban Population and the Distribution of Income
The relationship between the level of income and the population of an urban area is a familiar concern in urban economics. Existing models of this relationship assume a homogeneous labour force and hence no inequality in the size distribution of income within an urban area. In this paper we determine what happens to the degree of inequality in money incomes as urban population increases if there are two classes of workers and if each class is com…
Hedonic Vices: Fixing Inferences about Willingness to Pay in Recent House-Value Studies
A key tool for studying the demand for neighborhood amenities and estimating the benefits from amenity improvements is a regression of house value on amenity levels, controlling for housing characteristics. Several scholars have developed methods to address the methodological challenges, such as endogeneity, faced by these “hedonic” regressions. Unfortunately, however, some recent studies neglect basic principles of hedonic estimation in Rosen [(…
Are Education Cost Functions Ready for Prime Time? An Examination of Their Validity and Reliability
This article makes the case that cost functions are the best available methodology for ensuring consistency between a state's educational accountability system and its education finance system. Because they are based on historical data and well-known statistical methods, cost functions are a particularly flexible and low-cost way to forecast what each school district must spend to meet the standards in a state's accountability system. However, th…
Around the Block: Urban Models with a Street Grid
Models of urban residential structure usually assume that transportation costs are a function of straight-line distance from the central business district (CBD), which is equivalent to assuming an infinite number of radial streets. This paper presents and expands existing work on urban models with an alternative transportation system, namely a dense network of vertical and horizontal streets, that is, a street grid. Several models are examined, i…
America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy
Racial prejudice and racial residential segregation in an urban model
A note on the length of the black-white border
On models of racial prejudice and urban residential structure
An Equilibrium Model of Urban Population and the Distribution of Income
The relationship between the level of income and the population of an urban area is a familiar concern in urban economics. Existing models of this relationship assume a homogeneous labour force and hence no inequality in the size distribution of income within an urban area. In this paper we determine what happens to the degree of inequality in money incomes as urban population increases if there are two classes of workers and if each class is com…
An Equilibrium Model of Urban Population and the Distribution of Income
The relationship between the level of income and the population of an urban area is a familiar concern in urban economics. Existing models of this relationship assume a homogeneous labour force and hence no inequality in the size distribution of income within an urban area. In this paper we determine what happens to the degree of inequality in money incomes as urban population increases if there are two classes of workers and if each class is com…
Capitalization and the Theory of Local Public Finance
The Tiebout literature is incomplete, this paper argues, because it has not fully accounted for the capitalization of local fiscal variables into house values. The paper explains why capitalization arises, why it persists in long-run equilibrium, how it affects both residential location and the outcome of local voting, and why it interferes with the efficiency of a system of local governments. The analysis, which is based on the main Tiebout assu…
Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities
On fiscal disparities across cities
Deteriorating Urban America
America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy
Property Taxes and House Values: The Theory and Estimation of Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization
City and suburb: Urban models with more than one employment center
An analysis of the efficiency of urban residential structure, with an application to racial integration
Around the Block: Urban Models with a Street Grid
Models of urban residential structure usually assume that transportation costs are a function of straight-line distance from the central business district (CBD), which is equivalent to assuming an infinite number of radial streets. This paper presents and expands existing work on urban models with an alternative transportation system, namely a dense network of vertical and horizontal streets, that is, a street grid. Several models are examined, i…
Bumper to Bumper: A New Approach to Congestion in an Urban Model
Closed doors, opportunities lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination
Nearly three decades after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics remains rampant in the United States. Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost reports on a landmark nationwide investigation of real estate brokers and landlords, comparing their treatment of equally qualified white, black, and Hispanic customers. The study reveals pervasive discrimination. Economist John Yinger provides a lucid ac…
Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict? By J. Milton Yinger. Reply to review by Pierre L. van den Berghe in Social Forces 73(3):1181
Ethnicity: Source of Strength? Source of Conflict?By J. Milton Yinger. Reply to review by Pierre L. van den Berghe in Social Forces 73(3):1181 Get access J. Milton Yinger J. Milton Yinger Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 75, Issue 2, December 1996, Pages 744–745, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/75.2.744 Published: 01 December 1996
Why is it so hard to help central city schools
Many states have implemented educational grant systems designed to provide more aid to school districts that are, by some standard, in greater need. Nevertheless, many if not most central city school systems continue to produce poor educational outcomes, as measured, for example, by test scores and dropout rates. Using data from New York State, this article asks why existing aid formulas fail to provide the assistance that central city school dis…
Cash in Your Face: The Cost of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Housing
According to recent evidence, racial and ethnic discrimination in housing continues to be widespread. This paper estimates the cost this discrimination imposes on black and Hispanic households. Building on the work of4, the paper develops a housing search model and measures the cost of discrimination by its impact on the gain a household can achieve through housing search. The cost of discrimination is then calculated for a representative sample …
Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets
Economists have contributed to the measurement of racial and ethnic discrimination in consumption and to the identification of its causes, especially in housing markets and car sales. To test the hypothesis that discrimination exists, economists have turned to regression analysis and to audits, a matched-pair survey technique. Economists also have developed audit-based measures of the incidence and severity of discrimination. Audit studies find c…
How Common is Housing Discrimination? Improving on Traditional Measures
Timing Equilibria in an Urban Model with Congestion
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement
An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection. In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is viewed as critical for access to the most desirable…
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers
Potential home buyers may initiate contact with a real estate agent by asking to see a particular advertised house. This paper asks whether an agent's response to such a request depends on the race of the buyer or on whether the house is located in an integrated neighborhood. Like previous research about the causes of housing discrimination, this paper uses data from fair housing audits, a matched-pair technique for comparing the treatment of equ…
Economics (25 works) · Housing Market and Economics (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Econometrics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Demographic economics (8 works)