Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers

The authors are grateful for comments from participants at the Labor Market Networks session of the 2013 American Economic Association Meetings, the 2012 Housing-Urban-Labor-Macro Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2011 Greater Boston Area Urban and Real Estate Economics Seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and seminars at SERC in the London School of Economics, the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Ohio State University, Peking University, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. This research was supported by the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of Connecticut and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Basic Scientific Center Project #71988101). The majority of the analyses presented in this paper were conducted using restricted data at a Census Research Data Center. Opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. Results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. The authors have no competing interests to declare. Some research results in this paper were presented earlier in 2013 NBER Working Paper #18933. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.