In the Media

A new working paper co-authored by Prof. Nathan Wilmers finds that affordable chain restaurants can provide “much more socioeconomic integration than do independently owned commercial businesses — or, for that matter, traditional public institutions,” reports Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post. “The authors analyzed a massive trove of geolocation data to assess where and when Americans come into contact with people of different income classes than themselves,” writes Rampbell, “if they do at all.”