Research in Focus — A study of racial segregation finds negative consequences for long-term economic mobility, yielding evidence of a little-studied enabler of segregation itself: railroad location.

Economic Insights — According to the economic literature, there is a strong relationship between homicides and poverty. But the full story is far more complicated.

WP 23-29 – This paper combines data on current and future property-level physical risk from major climate-related perils (storms, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires) that owner-occupied single-family residences face with data on local economic characteristics to study the geographic and demographic distribution of such risks in the contiguous United States.