Patrick Bayer, Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair

Please note: Patrick has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Bayer's research focuses on wide range of subjects including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, housing markets, education, and criminal justice. His most recent work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is currently working on projects that examine jury representation and its consequences, the intergenerational consequences of residential and school segregation, neighborhood tipping, gentrification, the effect of police and criminal justice interactions on families, and the impact of bail reform.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	236 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://sites.duke.edu/patrickbayer/

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• ECON 901.01, APPLIED MICROECONOMICS WKSHP Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

• ECON 951S.03, APPLIED MICRO RESEARCH Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, M 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• ECON 901.01, APPLIED MICROECONOMICS WKSHP Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

• ECON 951S.03, APPLIED MICRO RESEARCH Synopsis

  Social Sciences 113, M 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Office Hours:

by appointment

Education:

Ph.D.	Stanford University	1999
B.A.	Princeton University	1994

Specialties:

Urban and Real Estate Economics
Economics of Education
Industrial Organization
Labor Economics / Economics of the Household

Research Interests: urban economics, public economics, economics of education, economics of crime

Bayer's research focuses on wide range of subjects including racial inequality and segregation, social interactions, housing markets, education, and crime. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, and the US Department of Education. His most recent work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Environmental Economics, and American Economics Association P&P. He is currently working on projects that explore housing price dynamics, racial discrimination in home sales, dynamic equilibrium in a national system of cities, the microdynamics of neighborhood discrimination, and the impact of the racial composition of juries on criminal trial outcomes.

Areas of Interest:

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

Keywords:

crime • Discrimination • discrimination education • Education • house proce dynamics • Housing • housing markets • Jury • Labor • migration • mortgage crisis • neighborhood effects • peer effects • Public • Race • school choice • school competition • Segregation • Social Interactions • Urban • urban economics • urban sprawl • Verdicts

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Alvin Murphy  
• Erika Martinez  
• Marcus Casey  
• Elliot Anenberg  
• Randi Hjalmarsson  
• Mainak Sarkar  
• Ulrich Wagner  
• Kyle Mangum  
• Aurel Hizmo  

Postdocs Mentored

• Marcus Casey (2009)  

Working Papers   (More Publications)

1. Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan, Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality, NBER Working Paper no. 11813 (December, 2005) [html]

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Bayer, P; Charles, KK, Divergent paths: A new perspective on earnings differences between black and white men since 1940, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 133 no. 3 (January, 2018), pp. 1459-1501, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
2. Bayer, P; Casey, M; Ferreira, F; McMillan, R, Racial and ethnic price differentials in the housing market, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 102 (November, 2017), pp. 91-105, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
3. Bayer, P; Ferreira, F; Ross, SL, The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust: Corrigendum, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 9 no. 1 (February, 2017), pp. 344-345, American Economic Association [doi]  [abs]
4. Arcidiacono, P; Bayer, P; Blevins, JR; Ellickson, PB, Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models in continuous time with an application to retail competition, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 83 no. 3 (July, 2016), pp. 889-931, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
5. Bayer, P; McMillan, R; Murphy, A; Timmins, C, A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods, Econometrica, vol. 84 no. 3 (May, 2016), pp. 893-942, The Econometric Society [doi]  [abs]