Who Leaves and Who Enters? Flow Measures of Neighborhood Change and Consequences for Neighborhood Crime
Journal: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Year: 2022

Objectives Longitudinal studies of the relationship between neighborhood change and changes in crime typically focus exclusively on the net level of change in key socio-demographic characteristics. Methods We instead propose a demographic accounting strategy that captures the composition of neighborhood change: our measures capture which types of people are more likely to leave, stay, or enter the neighborhood. We use data for 3,325 tracts in the Southern California region over nearly two decade