Segregation Across Neighborhoods in a Small City

Shu En Lee, Jing Zhi Lim and Lucas Shen ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Social segregation has profound impacts on socioeconomic outcomes. Using anonymized GPS records for Singapore which we spatially join to census records, we examine daily movement across geographically-refined neighborhoods. We show that the GPS-derived data detect segregation by poverty, even with an imperfect proxy, and in the presence of targeted urban policies aimed at social integration. The findings bode well for the use of GPS data in general to measure social segregation.

Keywords: Social segregation; GPS; Mobile Phone Data; Singapore; Mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07
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Working Paper: Segregation across neighborhoods in a small city (2021)
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