RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A Continuous Measure of the Joint Distribution of Race and Income Among Neighborhoods
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 34
OP 62
DO 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.2.02
VO 3
IS 2
A1 Sean F. Reardon
A1 Joseph Townsend
A1 Lindsay Fox
YR 2017
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/3/2/34.abstract
AB We develop and illustrate a general and innovative method for describing in detail the joint distribution of race and income among neighborhoods when only coarse income data are available. The approach provides estimates of the average income distribution and racial composition of the neighborhoods of households of a given racial category and specific income level. We illustrate the method using 2007–2011 tract-level data from the American Community Survey. We show, for example, that blacks and Hispanics of any given income typically live in neighborhoods substantially poorer than those of whites and Asians of the same income. Our approach provides a general method for fully characterizing the joint patterns of racial and socioeconomic segregation, and so may prove useful in understanding the spatial foundations and correlates of racial and socioeconomic inequality.