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Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation / Patrick Bayer, Hanming Fang, Robert McMillan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayer, Patrick.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11507.
- NBER working paper series no. w11507
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- This paper hypothesizes that segregation in US cities increases as racial inequality narrows due to the emergence of middle-class black neighborhoods. Employing a novel research design based on life-cycle variations in the relationship between segregation and inequality, we test this hypothesis using the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. Indeed, increased black educational attainment in a city leads to a significant rise in the number of middle-class black communities and segregation for older adults both in the cross-section and over time, consistent with our hypothesis. These findings imply a negative feedback loop that inhibits reductions in racial inequality and segregation over time.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2005.
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