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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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Joseph Townsend
bPhD candidate and Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow at Stanford University
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Lindsay Fox
cResearcher at Mathematica Policy Research
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