2017
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050717000079
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The National Rise in Residential Segregation

Abstract: Exploiting complete census manuscript files, we derive a new segregation measure using the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. The fineness of our measure reveals new facts not captured by traditional segregation indices. First, segregation doubled nationally from 1880 to 1940. Second, contrary to prior estimates, Southern urban areas were the most segregated in the country and remained so over time. Third, increasing segregation in the twentieth century was not strictly driven by urbanization, black mig… Show more

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“…This process has had long-lasting economic and health implications for Blacks [22][23][24][25]. For example, racial and ethnic segregation is reported at higher rates between Black and Whites, followed by between Whites, Latinos, and Asians [30,[54][55][56][57][58]. Despite shifts in segregation, Blacks across all socioeconomic groups still live in more highly segregated areas compared to Whites and other racial/ethnic groups [30,[56][57][58].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This process has had long-lasting economic and health implications for Blacks [22][23][24][25]. For example, racial and ethnic segregation is reported at higher rates between Black and Whites, followed by between Whites, Latinos, and Asians [30,[54][55][56][57][58]. Despite shifts in segregation, Blacks across all socioeconomic groups still live in more highly segregated areas compared to Whites and other racial/ethnic groups [30,[56][57][58].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, racial and ethnic segregation is reported at higher rates between Black and Whites, followed by between Whites, Latinos, and Asians [30,[54][55][56][57][58]. Despite shifts in segregation, Blacks across all socioeconomic groups still live in more highly segregated areas compared to Whites and other racial/ethnic groups [30,[56][57][58]. There are strong links between racial and income segregation and adverse birth outcomes among Black women, with relatively few articles examining the asso ciation between the intersection of racial and income segregation [11-13, 34, 59].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The restricted version of the complete count census database includes full information on names, allowing simple measures of kin propinquity based on an egocentric isonymic matching approach (Minnesota Population Center and Ancestry.com 2013; Ruggles et al 2020). This approach is similar to propinquity methods used to measure kinship (Smith 1989) and segregation (Grigoryeva and Ruef 2015;Logan and Parman 2017). Due to changing surnames after marriage for women, we can only capture patrilineal links for ever-married women, and kin propinquity links are significantly understated for women (Ruggles 2016).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…a substantial amount of within-district segregation (Grigoryeva and Ruef 2015;Logan and Parman 2017). Using a smaller geographical scale will probably reveal a more augmented level of racial segregation than what we observed, particularly in places like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, where nonwhite and white neighborhoods abut each other, as illustrated in Figure 4.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 62%