The Massive Recent Decline in Concentrated Poverty: A Change of Neighborhoods or of Racial Labels?

Dionissi Aliprantis () and David van Riper
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Dionissi Aliprantis: CERGIC - Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon
David van Riper: Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation - UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] - UMN - University of Minnesota System

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Abstract: Large efforts in research and policy are driven by the fact that in segregated American cities there is a high concentration of poor Black residents in neighborhoods with the lowest socioeconomic status (SES). This concentration has witnessed a massive decline over the past decade as measured in the American Community Survey (ACS). This decline is not due to tract boundary changes. This decline could be due to changes in the neighborhood SES of poor Black Americans, but we show that a large share could also be due to changes in the way the Census Bureau assigns racial labels to individuals.

Keywords: Concentrated poverty; Residential segregation by race; Racial categories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05-11
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