Who gentrifies low-income neighborhoods?
By: Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh, Kirk White.
Contributors: Walsh, Randall P., 1963-; White, T. Kirk, 1969-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14036; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14036.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study the demographic processes underlying the gentrification of low-income urban neighborhoods during the 1990's.  In contrast to previous studies, the analysis is conducted at the more refined census-tract level with a narrower definition of gentrification and more closely matched comparison neighborhoods.  The analysis is also richly disaggregated by demographic characteristic, uncovering differential patterns by race, education, age and family structure that would not have emerged in the more aggregate analysis in previous studies.  The results provide no evidence of displacement of low-income non-white households in gentrifying neighborhoods.  The bulk of the increase in average family income in gentrifying neighborhoods is attributed to black high school graduates and white college graduates.  The disproportionate retention and income gains of the former and the disproportionate in-migration of the latter are distinguishing characteristics of gentrifying U.S.  urban neighborhoods in the 1990's"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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