What Would It Take to Desegregate U.S. Metropolitan Areas? Pathways to Residential Desegregation by Race | Zendy

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What Would It Take to Desegregate U.S. Metropolitan Areas? Pathways to Residential Desegregation by Race

Author(s) -

Yana A. Kucheva

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.1215/00703370-9737156

Subject(s) - metropolitan area , census , geography , desegregation , demographic economics , counterfactual thinking , race (biology) , american community survey , current population survey , demography , population , sociology , economics , psychology , gender studies , social psychology , archaeology

Patterns of household mobility across neighborhoods reproduce patterns of racial segregation at the metropolitan level. Substantial literature across the social sciences has explored the scale and predictors of household mobility as well as changes in metropolitan residential segregation over time. This study unifies these two strands of inquiry by connecting the sorting of households across neighborhoods to aggregate changes in segregation levels. Using discrete choice models of intrametropolitan mobility and restricted decennial census and American Community Survey data for 1960–2014, I model the correlates of household mobility and identify the counterfactual scenarios under which lower segregation levels can be achieved. The results show that even though the mobility flows of the White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian populations across census tracts have become more similar over time, U.S. metropolitan areas are far from experiencing large drops in segregation.

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