Abstract Basedonextensiveresearchwithdistinguished scholars within the book project ‘Socioeconomic Segregation in European Capital Cities’, this chapter summarizes key trends income inequalityand socioeconomic segregationin Europe. We draw our data from two last census rounds, and we focus on most common indicators of incomeinequality(Gini Index) residential segregation(DissimilarityIndex). fin...

The Tiebout hypothesis (residential choice depends solely on local public goods) is extensively applied to explain geographic segregation, and the related literature finds that residents are segregated according to their heterogeneous preferences for public goods. This paper further examines the heterogeneous preferences for private goods in a spatial economy without public goods. Specifically,...

In this paper we explore the circumstances under which settlement processes lead to segregation through simulations of an artificial urban residential system with two racial/ethnic groups, using a recently developed statistical framework for modeling systems with complex dependencies (Butts, 2007). The study differs from previous research most importantly because it distinguish between in-group...

Black residential segregation has been declining in the United States. That accomplishment rings hollow, however, if blacks continue to live in much poorer neighborhoods than other Americans. This study uses census data for all US metropolitan areas in 1980 and 2010 to compare decline in the neighborhood poverty gap between blacks and other Americans with decline in the residential segregation ...

The relationship between residential segregation and overweight/obesity among African-American adults remains unclear. Elucidating that relationship is relevant to efforts to prevent and to reduce racial disparities in obesity. This article provides a critical review of the 11 empirical studies of segregation and overweight/obesity among African-American adults. Results revealed that most studi...