Social interactions, residential segregation and the dynamics of tipping

Trevor Kollmann, Simone Marsiglio, Sandy Suardi and Marco Tolotti

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021, vol. 31, issue 4, No 11, 1355-1388

Abstract: Abstract We develop an analytically tractable population dynamics model of heterogeneous agents to characterize how social interactions within a neighborhood determine the dynamic evolution of its ethnic composition. We characterize the conditions under which integration or segregation will occur, which depends on the majority’s social externality parameter and net benefit from leaving, and the minority’s leaving probability. Minority segregation may result from the process of tipping, which may arise from three possible channels: two are related to exogenous shocks (migration flows and changes in tipping points) and one is related to the endogenous probabilistic features of our framework (endogenous polarization). This characterization of integration and segregation conditions yields interesting policy implications for social and urban planning policies to mitigate segregation.

Keywords: Residential segregation; Social interactions; Tipping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 D70 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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