Research Interests for Patrick Bayer

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.

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
Areas of Interest:

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

Recent 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]