The Racial Wealth Gap and Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods

Dionissi Aliprantis, Daniel Carroll and Eric Young

Economic Commentary, 2021, vol. 2021, issue 18, 5

Abstract: Some Black households live in neighborhoods with lower incomes, as well as higher unemployment rates and lower educational attainment, than their own incomes might suggest, and this may impede their economic mobility. We investigate reasons for the neighborhood sorting patterns we observe and find that differences in financial factors such as income, wealth, or housing costs between Black and white households do not explain racial distributions across neighborhoods. Our findings suggest other factors are at work, including discrimination in the housing market, ongoing racial hostility, or preferences by Black households for the strength of social networks or other neighborhood amenities that some lower-socioeconomic locations provide.

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Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-ec-202118

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