Neighborhood income inequality
By: by Christopher H. Wheeler and Elizabeth A. La Jeunesse
Contributors: La Jeunesse, Elizabeth A.; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Series: Working paper -- 2006-039A; Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis : Online) -- 2006-039A.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "This paper offers a descriptive empirical analysis of the geographic pattern of income inequality within a sample of 359 US metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000.  Specifically, we decompose the variance of metropolitan area-level household income into two parts: one associated with the degree of variation among household incomes within neighborhoods - defined by block groups and tracts - and the other associated with the extent of variation among households in different neighborhoods.  Consistent with previous work, the results reveal that the vast majority of a city's overall income inequality--at least three quarters--is driven by within-neighborhood variation rather than between-neighborhood variation, although we find that the latter rose significantly during the 1980s, especially between block groups.  We then identify a number of metropolitan area-level characteristics that are associated with both levels of and changes in the degree of each type of residential income inequality"--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site.
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