Research Interests for Patrick Bayer

Professor Bayer is interested in conducting studies that explore racial discrimination, segregation, crime, school quality and competition, and housing markets. He is currently working on projects that explore housing price dynamics, racial discrimination in home sales, dynamic equilibrium in city systems, micro-dynamics of neighborhood discrimination, and race as it pertains to the justice system. He has received funding for his projects from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada research grant, a Housing and Urban Development grant, and others. He has collaborated with several of his contemporaries in conducting his research, most recently Randi Hjalmarsson and David Pozen on “Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections,” and Bryan and Paul Ellickson on “Housing Price Dynamics.” He is also currently completing research on “The Microfoundations of Housing Market Dynamics” with Chris Timmins. He is also the co-principal investigator with Robert McMillan for a study entitled, “Competition in Local Schooling Markets” that will go on until 2010. He recently completed a study for the U.S. Department of Education on “The Unintended Consequences of Major Education Policy Reform.”

Keywords:

Urban, Education, Public , Labor, Segregation, Social Interactions, discrimination education, school choice, school competition , housing markets, house proce dynamics, mortgage crisis, peer effects, neighborhood effects , crime, urban economics, urban sprawl, migration

Areas of Interest:

Residential Sorting
Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Education Demand
School Competition
Housing Markets
Racial Discrimination

Recent Publications

1. Peter Arcidiacono and Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo, Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability no. 13951 (April, 2008) [html] [retirement]
2. Patrick Bayer and Stephen L. Ross and Giorgio Topa, Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 116 no. 6 (2008), pp. 1150-1196 [html]
3. Patrick Bayer and Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan, A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods no. 13236 (July, 2007) [html]
4. Patrick Bayer and Christopher Timmins, Estimating Equilibrium Models Of Sorting Across Locations, Economic Journal, vol. 117 no. 518 (March, 2007), pp. 353-374 [html]
5. Patrick Bayer and Stephen L. Ross, Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application no. 12211 (May, 2006) [html]