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A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods

Sean F. Reardon, Joseph Townsend, Lindsay Fox
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2017, 3 (2) 34-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.02
Sean F. Reardon
aProfessor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University
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bPhD candidate and Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow at Stanford University
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cResearcher at Mathematica Policy Research
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vol. 3 no. 2 34-62
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.02

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2377-8253
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  • Published online February 1, 2017.

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© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Reardon, Sean F., Joseph Townsend, and Lindsay Fox. 2017. “A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 34–62. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.02. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Russell Sage Foundation conference “The Spatial Foundations of Inequality” on February 11–12, 2015. We thank George Galster, Patrick Sharkey, two anonymous reviewers, and the conference participants for helpful feedback. Direct correspondence to: Sean F. Reardon at sean.reardon@stanford.edu, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, 520 Galvez Mall, #526, Stanford, CA 94305, 650-736-8517; Joseph Townsend at jtownsen@stanford.edu, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, 520 Galvez Mall, #407, Stanford, CA 94305; and Lindsay Fox at lfox@mathematica-mpr.com, Mathematica Policy Research, 505 14th Street, Suite 800, Oakland, CA 94612. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Sean F. Reardona,
  2. Joseph Townsendb and
  3. Lindsay Foxc
  1. aProfessor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University
  2. bPhD candidate and Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow at Stanford University
  3. cResearcher at Mathematica Policy Research
  1. Corresponding authors:
    Sean F. Reardon, (sean.reardon{at}stanford.edu); Joseph Townsend, (jtownsen{at}stanford.edu); Lindsay Fox, (lfox{at}mathematica-mpr.com)
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    • MEASURING SEGREGATION
    • ESTIMATING AVERAGE NEIGHBORHOOD INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS, BY RACE AND INCOME
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    • APPENDIX A: ESTIMATING INCOME DENSITY AND EXPOSURE FUNCTIONS
    • APPENDIX B: ESTIMATING A NONLINEAR ASSOCIATION WHEN THE REGRESSOR IS MEASURED ORDINALLY
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