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Stephen L. Ross

Professor


Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT  06269-1063

Telephone:
(860) 486-3533
Fax: (860) 486-4463
e-mail:
Stephen.L.Ross@uconn.edu

Office Location: Monteith, Rm. 416

Office Hours: Click Here

 
Education: Ph.D. Syracuse

Research Interests: Urban Economics, local public finance

Teaching Fields: Public Finance

Links:

Vita

On-line Access to Papers

Urban and Real Estate Economics working paper series: Sign up

Ross and Yinger's chapter on Sorting and Voting

Housing Discrimination Study (HDS) 2000 Data and Related Research
 

Working Papers:

"The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health" (B. Bifulco and J. Fletcher).


"Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Income on Support for Redistribution and Other Proposals" (E. Brunner and E. Washington).


"Understanding Racial Segregation: What is Known about the Effect of Housing Discrimination."
"Identifying individual and group effects in the presence of sorting: A neighborhood effects application" (with P. Bayer)


"Universal vouchers and white flight" (with E. Brunner and J. Imazeki).


"How Decisive is the Decisive Voter?" (with E. Brunner).


"Public school choice and integration: Evidence from Durham, NC." (with B. Bifulco and H. Ladd).


"The effect of public school choice on those left behind: Evidence from Durham, NC." (with B. Bifulco and H. Ladd).


"Deposit insurance, bankruptcy risk, and the optimal capital structure of banks" (with J. Harding and X. Liang).


"Wage premia in employment clusters: Agglomeration economies or worker heterogeneity." (with S. Fu)


 

Recent Publications:

"Place of work and place of residence: Informal hiring networks and labor market outcomes" (with P. Bayer and G. Topa). Forthcoming. Journal of Political Economy.


"Are shirking and liesure substitutable: An empirical test of efficiency wages based on urban economic theory" (with Y. Zenou). Forthcoming. Regional Science and Urban Economics.


"Mortgage lending in Chicago and Los Angeles: A paired testing study of the pre-application process" (with M. Turner, E. Godfrey, and R. Smith). 2008. Journal of Urban Economics, 63, 902-919.


"Which school attributes matter? The influence of school district performance and demographic composition on property values" (with J. Clapp and A. Nanda). 2008. Journal of Urban Economics, 63, 451-466.


"Community income distributions in a metropolitan area" (with C. deBartolome). 2007. Journal of Urban Economics, 61, 496-518.


"Uncovering discrimination: A comparison of methods used by scholars and civil rights enforcement officials" (with J. Yinger). 2006. American Law and Economics Review, 8, 562-614.


"Housing discrimination in metropolitan America: Explaining changes between 1989 and 2000" (with M. Turner). 2005. Social Problems, 52, 152-180.


"Schools and housing markets: An examination of changes in school segregation and performance" (with J. Clapp). 2004. The Economic Journal, 114, F425-440.


"Whose in charge of the inner city: The conflict between efficiency and equity in the Design of a metropolitan area" (with C. deBartolome). 2004. Journal of Urban Economics, 56, 458-483


"Racial bias in motor vehicle searches: Additional theory and evidence " (with D. Dharmapala). 2004. Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 3, 1-21.


"Redlining, the community reinvestment act, and private mortgage insurance" (with G. Tootell). 2004. Journal of Urban Economics, 55, 278-297.


"Now you see it, now you don't: Why some homes are hidden from black buyers" (with J. Ondrich and J. Yinger). 2003. Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, 854-873.


Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methods, and Fair Lending Enforcement (with J. Yinger). 2002. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.


"Paired Testing and the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study." 2002. In Measuring Housing Discrimination in a National Study: Report of a Workshop (Authors S. Feinberg and A.W. Foster). National Resource Council. National Academy.