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Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2002

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Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty and related subjects. This third issue includes the papers: "Local Government Fiscal Structure and Metropolitan Consolidation"; "Does Gentrification Harm the Poor?"; "Immigrant Children and Urban Schools: Lessons from New York on Segregation, Resources and School Attendance Patterns"; and "Corruption in Cities: Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the 20th Century".
William G. Gale is a vice president and director of the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies program, where he holds the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy. He is also founding codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. Janet Rothenberg Pack is professor of business and public policy and real estate at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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