Bayer, Patrick J.; Fang, Hanming; McMillan, Robert - 2012
This paper introduces a mechanism that, contrary to standard reasoning, may lead segregation in U.S. cities to increase … segregation as households re-sort. To examine the importance of this 'neighborhood formation' mechanism in practice, we propose a … mechanism is important, inequality and segregation should be negatively related for older blacks, as we find using both the 1990 …