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View article: Continuity and Change in Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Transitions: 1980–2020
Continuity and Change in Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Transitions: 1980–2020 Open
Since the 1980s, several studies have reported a decline in all-White neighborhoods and a rising number of racially mixed neighborhoods, including what have been called multiethnic “global” neighborhoods. Previous research has shown that t…
View article: Urban Micro-Segregation: Taking Segregation Analysis at the Micro Level
Urban Micro-Segregation: Taking Segregation Analysis at the Micro Level Open
Urban micro-segregation refers to segregation at the small scale, below the scale of the neighborhood [...]
View article: Using Public Data to Improve Population Estimates Within Consistent Boundaries
Using Public Data to Improve Population Estimates Within Consistent Boundaries Open
Studies of neighborhood change rely on interpolated data to cope with inconsistent boundaries of geographic units over time. The standard approach introduces error by assuming, counterfactually, that all kinds of people are distributed in …
View article: Contributors to concentrated poverty of Blacks and Hispanics in metropolitan America, 1980–2020
Contributors to concentrated poverty of Blacks and Hispanics in metropolitan America, 1980–2020 Open
A longstanding debate asks why African Americans have been disproportionately concentrated in poor neighborhoods. All sides agree that a key contributor is the high level of poverty among Blacks, but they differ on other sources. Has the e…
View article: The Role of Suburbanization in Metropolitan Segregation After 1940
The Role of Suburbanization in Metropolitan Segregation After 1940 Open
The three decades from 1940 through 1970 mark a turning point in the spatial scale of Black–White residential segregation in the United States compared with earlier years. We decompose metropolitan segregation into three components: segreg…
View article: The Clinical and Economic Burden of Tardive Dyskinesia in Israel
The Clinical and Economic Burden of Tardive Dyskinesia in Israel Open
Purpose/Background Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a hyperkinetic movement disorder caused by exposure to dopamine-receptor blockers. Data on TD burden in Israel are scarce. This analysis assesses the clinical and economic burden of TD in Israe…
View article: <i>Leclercia adecarboxylata</i> catheter-related bacteraemia in an immunocompromised patient
<i>Leclercia adecarboxylata</i> catheter-related bacteraemia in an immunocompromised patient Open
A 34-year-old man on active chemotherapy was hospitalised with fever, chills and rigours after power-washing a pig pen on a farm. His blood cultures grew Leclercia adecarboxylata , a gram-negative rod in the Enterobacteriaceae family, whic…
View article: Residential Segregation under Jim Crow: Whites, Blacks, and Mulattoes in Southern Cities, 1880–1920
Residential Segregation under Jim Crow: Whites, Blacks, and Mulattoes in Southern Cities, 1880–1920 Open
We study the residential patterns of blacks and mulattoes in 10 Southern cities in 1880 and 1920. Researchers have documented the salience of social differences among African Americans in this period, partly related to mulattoes’ higher oc…
View article: Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom?
Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom? Open
Reports of rising income segregation in the United States have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased because of a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies ha…
View article: Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom?
Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom? Open
Reports of rising income segregation have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased due to a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies have offered estimates of t…
View article: Global Neighborhoods' Contribution to Declining Residential Segregation.
Global Neighborhoods' Contribution to Declining Residential Segregation. Open
Legal and policy analysts focus on the variety of efforts to reduce racial and ethnic segregation and their impact. This study shows that independent population shifts, responding to the increasing diversity of the metropolitan population,…
View article: Models for Small Area Estimation for Census Tracts
Models for Small Area Estimation for Census Tracts Open
This study examines issues of Small Area Estimation that are raised by reliance on the American Community Survey (ACS), which reports tract‐level data based on much smaller samples than the decennial census long‐form that it replaced. We d…
View article: The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation?
The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation? Open
Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a decline in the 1990s to an increase in the 2000-2010 decade. This finding reinforces concerns about the growing overall incom…
View article: The Spatial Scale and Spatial Configuration of Residential Settlement: Measuring Segregation in the Postbellum South
The Spatial Scale and Spatial Configuration of Residential Settlement: Measuring Segregation in the Postbellum South Open
Studies of residential segregation typically focus on its degree without questioning its scale and configuration. We study Southern cities in 1880 to emphasize the salience of these spatial dimensions. Distance-based and sequence indices c…
View article: School Segregation and Disparities in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas
School Segregation and Disparities in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Areas Open
Much of the literature on racial and ethnic educational inequality focuses on the contrast between black and Hispanic students in urban areas and white suburban students. This study extends the research on school segregation and racial/eth…
View article: The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variance
The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variance Open
Recent studies have reported a reversal of an earlier trend in income segregation in metropolitan regions, from a decline in the 1990s to an increase in the 2000-2010 decade.This finding reinforces concerns about the growing overall income…
View article: Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization
Black lives and policing: The larger context of ghettoization Open
President Lyndon Johnson's appointment of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder (Kerner Commission) followed a series of inner-city riots in the 1960s. The Commission's 1968 report, issued months before Martin Luther King, Jr.…
View article: Schools at the Rural-Urban Boundary: Blurring the Divide?
Schools at the Rural-Urban Boundary: Blurring the Divide? Open
Schools often mirror the communities in which they are located. Research on rural-urban school inequality tends to focus on the contrast among urban, suburban, and rural schools, glossing over the variation and similarities within these ar…
View article: Racial segregation in postbellum Southern cities: The case of Washington, D.C.
Racial segregation in postbellum Southern cities: The case of Washington, D.C. Open
Background: Segregation in Southern cities has been described as a 20th-century development, layered onto an earlier pattern in which whites and blacks (both slaves and free black people) shared the same neighborhoods. Urban historians hav…
View article: Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis
Global Neighborhoods: Beyond the Multiethnic Metropolis Open
Neighborhoods where blacks and whites live in integrated settings alongside Hispanics and Asians represent a new phenomenon in the United States. These “global neighborhoods” have previously been identified in the nation’s most diverse met…
View article: Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900–1930
Segregation and neighborhood change in northern cities: New historical GIS data from 1900–1930 Open
Most quantitative research on segregation and neighborhood change in American cities prior to 1940 has utilized data published by the Census Bureau at the ward level. The transcription of census manuscripts has made it possible to aggregat…
View article: Trapped in Place? Segmented Resilience to Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, 1970–2005
Trapped in Place? Segmented Resilience to Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, 1970–2005 Open
Hurricanes pose a continuing hazard to populations in coastal regions. This study estimates the impact of hurricanes on population change in the years 1970–2005 in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Geophysical models are used to construct a uniq…
View article: Birds of a Feather: Social Bases of Neighborhood Formation in Newark, New Jersey, 1880
Birds of a Feather: Social Bases of Neighborhood Formation in Newark, New Jersey, 1880 Open
This study examines the bases of residential segregation in a late nineteenth century American city, recognizing the strong tendency toward homophily within neighborhoods. Our primary question is how ethnicity, social class, nativity, and …
View article: Validating Population Estimates for Harmonized Census Tract Data, 2000–2010
Validating Population Estimates for Harmonized Census Tract Data, 2000–2010 Open
Social scientists regularly rely on population estimates when studying change in small areas over time. Census tract data in the United States are a prime example, since there are substantial shifts in tract boundaries from decade to decad…
View article: School Segregation, Charter Schools, and Access to Quality Education
School Segregation, Charter Schools, and Access to Quality Education Open
Race, class, neighborhood, and school quality are all highly inter-related in the American educational system. In the last decade a new factor has come into play, the option of attending a charter school. We offer a comprehensive analysis …
View article: The seeds of the black ghetto were sown in the 1880s, longbefore the Great Migration
The seeds of the black ghetto were sown in the 1880s, longbefore the Great Migration Open
More than a year after the tragic shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri by a white police officer, the influence and legacy of historic racial segregation still looms large in the US. In new research, John R. Logan, Weiwei Z…