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Black Suburbanization and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality Since 1970

SSRN Electronic Journal
2022
  • 1
    Citations
  • 1,079
    Usage
  • 5
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
  • Usage
    1,079
    • Abstract Views
      920
    • Downloads
      159
  • Captures
    5
  • Mentions
    1
    • News Mentions
      1
      • 1
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      373,764

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Article Description

Since 1970, the share of Black individuals living in suburbs of large cities has risen from 16 to 36 percent. We study the causes and consequences of this shift, which involved as many people as the post-World War II wave of the Great Migration. We show that Black suburbanization is widespread across regions and suburban neighborhood types, while Black and total population have declined drastically in historically majority-Black city neighborhoods. A neighborhood choice model suggests that changes in relative housing prices and amenities each explain 30 to 50 percent of the shift to the suburbs, while rising education levels and regional reallocation together explain 10 percent. Next, we find that suburbanization accounts for over half of both the recent increase in within-Black income segregation and the improvement in the average Black household’s neighborhood quality. Suburbanization's association with stratification is partially explained by low White flight and differentials in the supply of low-cost housing.

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