Philip N CohenExpect to hear this from every econpolicybro you meet for the next 5 years: "When Asians move into rich neighborhoods, white people start to move out because they don't want their kids to lose relative class rank in school."
One approach would be to see if the finding replicates in different contexts, try to nail down the extent to which it is actually causal, etc., then consider mechanisms. The other is to presume it's causal and express 100% certainty in a mechanism that fits your assumptions. Which gets you more clicks.
Craig Froehle@philipncohen The answer is whatever makes the most people the most upset, shocked, and/or offended. It's the age-old idea that any press is good press.
Mark Igra@philipncohen Your annotation here is masterful. I wonder how many tweets you could paste it onto with equal accuracy.
@markigra it's a formula 🤷🏻♂️
SpinozasHeresySo wouldn’t the corollary be that when a black family moves into the neighborhood it would be better to remain so your white children attain higher academic rankings due to their superior white intellect?
Veedems@philipncohen wow. That’s incredible.
Jonathan Horowitz@philipncohen It's not because of class rank, exactly, it's because white parents hate to see their kids outhustled. And I would imagine it is probably contingent on other things--this happened in Cupertino and a Toronto suburb but I don't think it happened in Toronto itself.
@jonathanhorowi1 color me skeptical people literally sold their houses and moved for this and only this reason - as distinct from "racial animus" (which is supposedly controlled in the paper).
TransitBiker@philipncohen I did nazi that coming.