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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Urban Aff Rev Thousand Oaks Calif. 2009 Apr 9;44(6):779–806. doi: 10.1177/1078087409334163

Table 2.

OLS regression of density regulation on black-white residential dissimilarity and isolation indices in 49 U.S. metropolitan areas during 1990 and 2000.

dissimilarity index isolation index
1990 1990 2000 2000 1990 1990 2000 2000
Density Zoning Score −0.06*** −0.10*** −0.06** −0.09*** −0.09*** −0.11*** −0.07*** −0.09**
(0.020) (0.0239) (0.0238) (0.0316) (0.0237) (0.034) (0.0258) (0.037)
Affordable Housing Regulation 0.129** 0.0792 0.141 0.0930
(0.0535) (0.120) (0.0965) (0.127)
Containment 0.0750 −0.0171 0.0248 −0.0948
(0.0530) (0.0790) (0.0724) (0.091)
School Infrastructure Regulation 0.0641 0.139* 0.104 0.182**
(0.0556) (0.0773) (0.0725) (0.07)
Growth Control Regulation 0.207* 0.334 0.117 0.208
(0.108) (0.270) (0.170) (0.277)
Wharton Land Use Regulation Index −0.0375 −0.0333 −0.06** −0.050*
(0.0239) (0.0254) (0.027) (0.028)
Constant 0.455 0.445 0.329 0.293 0.0167 −0.0389 −0.741 −0.563
(0.530) (0.532) (0.696) (0.645) (0.761) (0.799) (0.786) (0.579)
Adjusted R-squared 0.611 0.658 0.500 0.563 0.744 0.766 0.727 0.807

Controls not shown: the number of general governments in 1962, the black share of the population, population density, the share of adults over 25 with a BA, the manufacturing share of industry, the median household income, the water-to-land ratio, a dummy for coastal proximity, the agricultural share of industry, the share of commuters with commute times over 35 minutes, population growth in the previous 10 years, the ratio of suburban to central city housing units, the median rent, the suburban to central city rent ratio, the share of homes with no plumbing, the rural share of housing units, the average local jurisdictions' reliance on own revenue (for each state), state taxation per capita.

***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1, standard errors are in parentheses and are robust to heteroskedastcity and clustering.