Did Suburbanization Cause Residential Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas
| Autor: | Boishampayan Chatterjee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Estimation
Suburbanization education.field_of_study Population social sciences Decennial census Suburbanization Residential Segregation Highways Metropolitan area Metropolitan area Transportation Facility jel:J1 Population decline Geography Location pattern jel:R40 population characteristics jel:R23 Economic geography jel:R11 education |
| Zdroj: | SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.2250579 |
| Popis: | This paper analyzes the link between population suburbanization and racial residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas. I hypothesize that rapid suburbanization between 1960 and 2000 has caused an increase in racial residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas. Earlier studies fail to identify the direction of causality in explaining the relationship between suburbanization and residential segregation. Using the 1947 national interstate highway plan as an instrument for suburbanization and decennial Census data from 1960 to 2000, I find that central city population decline (suburbanization) causes racial residential segregation in a metropolitan area to rise. Estimation results from both long difference and panel regressions are robust to an array of specifications. Improvement in transportation facility reduces the cost of mobility, thereby enabling the affluent whites to move to the suburbs. As a result we observe a distinctive location pattern with nonblacks living in the suburbs and blacks in the central city of a metropolitan area. Had there been no suburbanization between 1960 and 2000, racial residential segregation on average would have declined by about 4 percentage points more than what is observed in the data. JEL Classification: R11, R23, R40, H31 |
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