We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation with any number of ethnic groups. These …

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multi-group school segregation indices: the Atkinson Indices for the … districts. Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed. In an empirical application, we document a … weakening of the effect of ethnicity on school assignment from 1987/8 to 2007/8. We also show that segregation between districts …

Using only ordinal axioms, we characterize several multigroup school segregation indices:  the Atkinson Indices for the … districts.  Properties of other school segregation indices are also discussed.  In an empirical application, we document a … weakening of the effect of ethnicity on school assignment from 1987/8 to 2007/8.  We also show that segregation between …

We characterize measures of school segregation for any number of ethnic groups using a set of purely ordinal axioms … that includes Scale Invariance: a school district's segregation ranking should be invariant to changes that do not affect … subdivided or (b) its students in a subarea are moved around so as to weakly raise segregation in that subarea. If the …

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of multigroup school segregation. They are motivated by two criteria: do … by Henri Theil, has a more intuitive decomposition than other indices. As an application, we find that segregation … between districts within cities accounts for 33% of school segregation. Segregation across states, driven mainly by the …

We propose a set of axioms for the measurement of school-based segregation with any number of ethnic groups. These …

This paper gives an axiomatic characterization of the multigroup Atkinson indices of segregation relying entirely on …