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| Volume 2, No. 1, April
2003
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Revisiting
Residential Segregation by Income:
A Monte Carlo Test |
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| Junfu Zhang |
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Research Fellow, Public
Policy Institute of California, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract |
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long-standing hypothesis states that racial housing segregation
in the U.S. results from the income inequalities between blacks
and whites. This paper reexamines this hypothesis with a new methodology.
We present a Monte Carlo study to show that segregation by income
explains only a small proportion of the high level of segregation. |
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Key words:
residential segregation; Monte Carlo test; dissimilarity index |
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classification:
C12; C15 |
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