Poisson indices of segregation

Angelo Mele

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2013, vol. 43, issue 1, 65-85

Abstract: Existing indices of residential segregation are based on a partition of the city in neighborhoods: given a spatial distribution of racial groups, the index measures different segregation levels for different partitions. I propose a spatial approach, which estimates segregation at the individual level and produces the entire spatial distribution of segregation. This method provides different rankings of cities in terms of segregation and new insights on the effect of segregation on socioeconomic outcomes. Using Census data and controlling for endogeneity using instrumental variables, I show that reduced form estimates of the impact of segregation on socioeconomic outcomes are not robust to the spatial approach.

Keywords: Spatial segregation; Spatial processes; Nonparametric estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C21 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Poisson Indices of Segregation (2009)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.04.002

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