Location of the poor: neighborhood versus household characteristics. The case of Bogotá

Juliana Aguilar () and Tito Yepes

No 11559, Working Papers Series. Documentos de Trabajo from Fedesarrollo

Abstract: Latin American cities are characterized by a high correlation between the location chosen by poor households and their income level. However, it is difficult to identify to what extent they live there by choice because it maximizes the returns to their efforts or by restrictions that pull them to locations that make them poorer. We define the former case as unrestricted sorting in the urban economics context, while the latter is assumed to be the commonly used definition of segregation. Distinguishing between these alternatives is difficult because of the circular relationship between poverty and location. People can freely choose a location that makes them poor or they can choose a location because they are poor.

Keywords: Income levels; locations; segregation; Bogotá. Niveles de ingreso; locaciones; segregación. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J62 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2014-04-30
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