Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes - When did ghettos go bad?

Authors
Collins, WJ Margo, RA
Citation
Wj. Collins et Ra. Margo, Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes - When did ghettos go bad?, ECON LETT, 69(2), 2000, pp. 239
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
ECONOMICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
01651765 → ACNP
Volume
69
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-1765(200011)69:2<239:RSASO->2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Cutler and Glaeser (1997) show that urban residential segregation has a str ong adverse effect on labor market and social outcomes of young African-Ame ricans relative to whites. We show that this effect is a fairly recent hist orical phenomenon. There is little evidence of such an effect from 1940 to 1970; rather, it emerged between 1970 and 1980, and it grew stronger during the 1980s. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.