Living in low-income neighborhoods can have adverse effects. Public policies that reduce income inequality might prevent residential segregation by income. However, previously documented associations between and may not reflect sorting We use rich full-population data for Sweden 1990–2017 take advantage of how in-moving residents change the municipal composition to rule out influence reverse ca...

Analysis of 2000 census data revealed that blacks in Metropolitan Detroit are the most racially segregated population group in the United States. Blacks in Metropolitan Detroit reside overwhelmingly in central city housing while whites reside overwhelmingly in suburban housing. The objective of this paper is to determine whether the low representation of blacks in suburban housing and the lower...

Neighborhood residential segregation by income has been increasing in the United States since 1970 at a higher rate than can be explained by rising income inequality alone. Nearly nine million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme poverty, defined as those in which at least 40 percent of residents are poor. As income segregation has increased, minority children from low-income families who...

Almost a decade ago, the Kerner Commission warned that this country was moving toward two societies-one white and one black. Data on residential segregation indicate clear-cut boundaries for these two societies-large cities are becoming black but most suburban areas remain white. Detroit is a case in point and this led the 1976 Detroit Area Study to investigate the sources of racial residential...

Households with children have been suggested to play a key role in ethnic residential segregation. One possible mechanism is that school district boundaries affect their segregation patterns, but d...