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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
... neighborhood inequality since 1980 has been sizable, far exceeding the narrowing of Hispanic-white neighborhood inequality; nonetheless, despite blacks’ relative gains, the disparity in black-white neighborhood economic conditions remains very large. Asian Americans, on the other hand, now reside...
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View articletitled, Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span> <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 1 Narrowing of poverty-based racial neighborhood inequality in the United States, 1980–2010
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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 2 Narrowing of income-based racial neighborhood inequality in the United States, 1980–2010
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Neighborhood selection and the social reproduction of concentrated racial inequality
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Robert J. Sampson; Patrick Sharkey Abstract In this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span> selection and the social reproduction of concentrated racial <span class="search-highlight">inequality</span>
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Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
...-varying covariates (such as individual or local socioeconomic status). Third, local income inequality may directly increase mortality risk if it increases stressful social comparisons or reduces neighborhood-level trust and social cohesion (without operating through known and observed mediators...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Place: Effects of Exposure to <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span>-Level Economic <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> on Mortality
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for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> in Place: Effects of Exposure to <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span>-Level Economic <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> on Mortality
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Temporary Integration, Resilient Inequality: Race and Neighborhood Change in the Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 889–912.
Published: 09 May 2012
... of young adulthood is characterized by continuity in neighborhood conditions and persistent racial inequality from childhood to adulthood. For young adults who exit highly segregated urban areas, this period is characterized by a substantial leveling of racial inequality, with African Americans moving...
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View articletitled, Temporary Integration, Resilient <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span>: Race and <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span> Change in the Transition to Adulthood
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Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini...
View articletitled, Family and <span class="search-highlight">neighborhood</span> sources of socioeconomic <span class="search-highlight">inequality</span> in children’s achievement
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 293–320.
Published: 01 February 2022
... disadvantaged in the neighborhood–wealth relationship. They live in more-disadvantaged neighborhoods and receive little return to reductions in neighborhood disadvantage. Findings indicate that disparities in neighborhood (dis)advantage figure prominently in wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap...
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View articletitled, Wealth, Race, and Place: How <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span> (Dis)advantage From Emerging to Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> and the Racial Wealth Gap
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for article titled, Wealth, Race, and Place: How <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhood</span> (Dis)advantage From Emerging to Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth <span class="search-highlight">Inequality</span> and the Racial Wealth Gap
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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 4 Change in black-white, Hispanic-white, and Asian-white neighborhood inequality in the average U.S. metropolitan area, 1980–2010
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Forced Displacement From Rental Housing: Prevalence and Neighborhood Consequences
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1751–1772.
Published: 19 August 2015
... is a critical yet overlooked mechanism of neighborhood inequality, this study helps to clarify why some city dwellers live in much worse neighborhoods than their peers. We now investigate with multivariate analyses whether forced displacement may influence the types of neighborhoods into which families select...
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Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Demographic Change: The Case of Severe Tornadoes in the United States, 1980–2010
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 653–674.
Published: 13 March 2020
... attributes, geographic scale, and impacted local context. I conclude that the natural environment is consequential for the sociospatial organization of communities and that a disaster declaration has little impact on mitigating this driver of neighborhood inequality. 29 1 2020 13 3 2020 ©...
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View articletitled, Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Demographic Change: The Case of Severe Tornadoes in the United States, 1980–2010
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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 6 Lorenz curves for U.S. metropolitan areas showing black-white and Hispanic-white neighborhood inequality in 2010
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The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 599–627.
Published: 01 April 2025
... of gentrification. Descriptive analyses of tract-level data from five cities show that neighborhoods with sharper declines in violence became less socioeconomically disadvantaged. Despite continued rising economic inequality, the crime decline has had its greatest impact on concentrated poverty, long seen as one...
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View articletitled, The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban <span class="search-highlight">Neighborhoods</span>
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Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
... of inequality in children’s lives: the neighborhood. We integrate multiple literatures to develop hypotheses on parental skill-based sorting by neighborhood socioeconomic status and public school test scores, which we test using an original follow-up of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. These data...
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View articletitled, Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children
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Socioeconomic Segregation in Large Cities in France and the United States
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 08 July 2016
... housing is disproportionately located in the poorest neighborhoods in the United States but is spread across many neighborhood income levels in France. We conclude that differences in government provision of housing assistance and levels of income inequality are likely important contributing factors...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2117–2138.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and 2015, and examined whether patterns varied across levels of neighborhood deprivation. Income inequality in remaining life expectancy at ages 65, 75, and 85 increased. The gap in life expectancy at age 65 grew by more than a year between the lowest and the highest income quartiles, for both men (from...
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View articletitled, Growing Income-Based <span class="search-highlight">Inequalities</span> in Old-Age Life Expectancy in Sweden, 2006–2015
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Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1277–1304.
Published: 05 July 2017
... of the current neighborhood and the selection of a new destination neighborhood. Analyses of out-mobility reveal that parents and young adult children living near each other as well as low-income adult children living near parents are especially deterred from moving. Discrete-choice models of neighborhood...
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Demographics of dumping ii: a national environmental equity survey and the distribution of hazardous materials handlers
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 461–466.
Published: 01 November 2000
... we find that RCRA-governed facilities are more likely to be sited in working-class neighborhoods with lower percentages of minority residents. We do not find evidence of stark environmental inequities. RCRA facilities, however, are close to neighborhoods with a higher percentage of minority residents...
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Racial Inequality in Education in Brazil: A Twins Fixed-Effects Approach
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1185–1205.
Published: 21 July 2016
... unobserved and observed neighborhood and family characteristics, we use twins fixed-effects models to assess whether racial disparities in education exist between twins and whether such disparities vary by gender. We find that even under this stringent test of racial inequality, the nonwhite educational...
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Choice Set Formation in Residential Mobility and Its Implications for Segregation Dynamics
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1665–1692.
Published: 21 August 2019
... of choice sets can amplify racial sorting. Our agent-based model suggests that decision processes—specifically, screeners used in the construction of choice sets—can be an important mechanism that helps sustain inequality and segregation. Using neighborhood mobility data from the Los Angeles Family...
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