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

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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 Feb 2017, 3 (2) 34-62; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.02
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- Article
- Abstract
- MEASURING SEGREGATION
- ESTIMATING AVERAGE NEIGHBORHOOD INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS, BY RACE AND INCOME
- DATA
- DISCUSSION
- APPENDIX A: ESTIMATING INCOME DENSITY AND EXPOSURE FUNCTIONS
- APPENDIX B: ESTIMATING A NONLINEAR ASSOCIATION WHEN THE REGRESSOR IS MEASURED ORDINALLY
- APPENDIX C: OTHER QUANTITIES OF INTEREST
- FOOTNOTES
- REFERENCES
- Figures & Data
- Info & Metrics
- References
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