Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

Arielle Samet and Mike Moody provided excellent research assistance. The authors gratefully acknowledge helpful insights from anonymous referees, Martha Bailey, Richard Bingham, Leah Platt Boustan, Leah Brooks, Linda Carter, Price Fishback, Carola Frydman, Robert Groberg, Kei Hirano, Shawn Kantor, Robert Margo, Greg Niemesh, and John Wallis; assistance from the staff at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland; and suggestions from seminar participants at the University of California at Merced, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Harvard University, University of Tennessee, the Economic History Association Meetings (2009), Allied Social Science Associations Meetings (2009), Southern Economic Association Meetings (2009) and the Econometric Society World Congress (2010). Part of this research was supported by Vanderbilt's Kirk Dornbush Research Assistantship and Douglas Grey Funds. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 5, 2011