Paul A Jargowsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 248510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul A Jargowsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jargowsky |
| SIGNATURE | JARGOWSKY P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5579-523X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Estimating Income Statistics from Grouped Data: Mean-constrained Integration over Brackets
Researchers studying income inequality, economic segregation, and other subjects must often rely on grouped data—that is, data in which thousands or millions of observations have been reduced to counts of units by specified income brackets. The distribution of households within the brackets is unknown, and highest incomes are often included in an open-ended top bracket, such as “$200,000 and above.” Common approaches to this estimation problem in…
Rethinking Coup Risk: Rural Coalitions and Coup-Proofing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Military interventions continue to be prevalent in Africa. In the 21st century alone, 14 coups have been successfully staged. Whereas most studies of coup risk examine how militaries are organized or what structural conditions are associated with coups, we take a novel approach. We explore how coalition politics relate to coup risk. It has long been observed that regimes try to hold power by buying off urban consumers. We argue that focusing on u…
Underclass
Concentrated Disadvantage
The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes (Eds.)
Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban Policy
Most of the causes of poverty are relevant to any geographic locale: macroeconomic gyrations, low levels of human capital, discrimination, and factors that limit productivity, such as drug and alcohol addictions. However, urban poverty has additional causes and consequences related to the economic segregation of metropolitan regions. This article begins by examining the fundamental demographic shifts that created the current configuration of urba…
Immigrants and Neighbourhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation
Immigrants in the United States often live, at least for a time, in neighbourhoods that have high concentrations of fellow immigrants. Typically, these neighbourhoods also have high poverty levels and are located near concentrations of the native-born poor. Conventional wisdom is that living in extremely poor neighbourhoods leads to ‘concentration effects’ that exacerbate the problems of poverty and limit economic opportunity. While immigrants ar…
The “Underclass” Revisited: A Social Problem in Decline
In the early 1980s, widespread concern over the social conditions of inner-city neighborhoods gave rise to a literature on the “underclass.” A team of researchers led by Isabelle Sawhill, then of the Urban Institute, crafted a controversial operational definition of the underclass and found a rapid rise in the number of neighborhoods classifying as underclass in the 1970s and, to a lesser extent, in the 1980s ( Mincy and Wiener 1993 Mincy, Ronald…
Suburban Development and Economic Segregation in the 1990S
Suburbanization is changing the face of urban America. A common claim is that suburban sprawl has contributed to increasing levels of economic segregation, but few studies have directly tested this hypothesis. Using U.S. Census data for 1990 and 2000, this paper examines the trends in and the relationship between suburban development patterns and economic segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas. We find that economic segregation, as measured by th…
Medicaid matters: Children's health and medicaid eligibility expansions
In the late 1980s, a series of federal laws were enacted which expanded Medicaid eligibility to more of the nation's children. States had a great amount of discretion in how fast and how far these expansions were implemented. As a result, there was great variation among the states in defining who was eligible for the program. This variation provides a rare opportunity to disentangle the effect of Medicaid from a child's socioeconomic status. Usin…
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
Response to Loïc J.D. Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto
Beyond the Street Corner: The Hidden Diversity of High-Poverty Neighborhoods
The widely reported social pathologies of urban ghettos, barrios, and other slum areas have played a prominent role in the backlash against Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other social programs. The policy debate, however, has been fueled by a series of stereotypes about the characteristics of the residents of such neighborhoods. This article complements existing ethnographic research on high-poverty neighborhoods by examining social …
Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Compared to racial segregation, economic segregation has received little attention in recent empirical literature.Yet a heated debate has arisen concerning Wilson's hypothesis (1987) that increasing economic segregation plays a role in the formation of urban ghettos.This paper presents a methodological critique of the measure of economic segregation used by Massey and Eggers (1990) and finds that it confounds changes in the income distribution wi…
Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s
This article uses 1990 census data to analyze the changes in ghetto poverty among blacks in the 1980s. Ghetto poverty among blacks increased, both in terms of the number of blacks living in ghettos and as a percentage of the black population. The black poor became increasingly isolated in ghettos, with nearly half of the black poor in metropolitan areas living in a ghetto neighborhood. The physical size of ghettos expanded rapidly, even in some m…
Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Compared to racial segregation, economic segregation has received little attention in recent empirical literature.Yet a heated debate has arisen concerning Wilson's hypothesis (1987) that increasing economic segregation plays a role in the formation of urban ghettos.This paper presents a methodological critique of the measure of economic segregation used by Massey and Eggers (1990) and finds that it confounds changes in the income distribution wi…
Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s
This article uses 1990 census data to analyze the changes in ghetto poverty among blacks in the 1980s. Ghetto poverty among blacks increased, both in terms of the number of blacks living in ghettos and as a percentage of the black population. The black poor became increasingly isolated in ghettos, with nearly half of the black poor in metropolitan areas living in a ghetto neighborhood. The physical size of ghettos expanded rapidly, even in some m…
Immigrants and Neighbourhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation
Immigrants in the United States often live, at least for a time, in neighbourhoods that have high concentrations of fellow immigrants. Typically, these neighbourhoods also have high poverty levels and are located near concentrations of the native-born poor. Conventional wisdom is that living in extremely poor neighbourhoods leads to ‘concentration effects’ that exacerbate the problems of poverty and limit economic opportunity. While immigrants ar…
Suburban Development and Economic Segregation in the 1990S
Suburbanization is changing the face of urban America. A common claim is that suburban sprawl has contributed to increasing levels of economic segregation, but few studies have directly tested this hypothesis. Using U.S. Census data for 1990 and 2000, this paper examines the trends in and the relationship between suburban development patterns and economic segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas. We find that economic segregation, as measured by th…
The “Underclass” Revisited: A Social Problem in Decline
In the early 1980s, widespread concern over the social conditions of inner-city neighborhoods gave rise to a literature on the “underclass.” A team of researchers led by Isabelle Sawhill, then of the Urban Institute, crafted a controversial operational definition of the underclass and found a rapid rise in the number of neighborhoods classifying as underclass in the 1970s and, to a lesser extent, in the 1980s ( Mincy and Wiener 1993 Mincy, Ronald…
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Beyond the Street Corner: The Hidden Diversity of High-Poverty Neighborhoods
The widely reported social pathologies of urban ghettos, barrios, and other slum areas have played a prominent role in the backlash against Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other social programs. The policy debate, however, has been fueled by a series of stereotypes about the characteristics of the residents of such neighborhoods. This article complements existing ethnographic research on high-poverty neighborhoods by examining social …
Medicaid matters: Children's health and medicaid eligibility expansions
In the late 1980s, a series of federal laws were enacted which expanded Medicaid eligibility to more of the nation's children. States had a great amount of discretion in how fast and how far these expansions were implemented. As a result, there was great variation among the states in defining who was eligible for the program. This variation provides a rare opportunity to disentangle the effect of Medicaid from a child's socioeconomic status. Usin…
Estimating Income Statistics from Grouped Data: Mean-constrained Integration over Brackets
Researchers studying income inequality, economic segregation, and other subjects must often rely on grouped data—that is, data in which thousands or millions of observations have been reduced to counts of units by specified income brackets. The distribution of households within the brackets is unknown, and highest incomes are often included in an open-ended top bracket, such as “$200,000 and above.” Common approaches to this estimation problem in…
Rethinking Coup Risk: Rural Coalitions and Coup-Proofing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Military interventions continue to be prevalent in Africa. In the 21st century alone, 14 coups have been successfully staged. Whereas most studies of coup risk examine how militaries are organized or what structural conditions are associated with coups, we take a novel approach. We explore how coalition politics relate to coup risk. It has long been observed that regimes try to hold power by buying off urban consumers. We argue that focusing on u…
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Response to Loïc J.D. Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto
Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s
This article uses 1990 census data to analyze the changes in ghetto poverty among blacks in the 1980s. Ghetto poverty among blacks increased, both in terms of the number of blacks living in ghettos and as a percentage of the black population. The black poor became increasingly isolated in ghettos, with nearly half of the black poor in metropolitan areas living in a ghetto neighborhood. The physical size of ghettos expanded rapidly, even in some m…
Beyond the Street Corner: The Hidden Diversity of High-Poverty Neighborhoods
The widely reported social pathologies of urban ghettos, barrios, and other slum areas have played a prominent role in the backlash against Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other social programs. The policy debate, however, has been fueled by a series of stereotypes about the characteristics of the residents of such neighborhoods. This article complements existing ethnographic research on high-poverty neighborhoods by examining social …
Take the Money and Run: Economic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Compared to racial segregation, economic segregation has received little attention in recent empirical literature.Yet a heated debate has arisen concerning Wilson's hypothesis (1987) that increasing economic segregation plays a role in the formation of urban ghettos.This paper presents a methodological critique of the measure of economic segregation used by Massey and Eggers (1990) and finds that it confounds changes in the income distribution wi…
Response to Loïc J.D. Wacquant’s ‘Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto
Who's Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
Medicaid matters: Children's health and medicaid eligibility expansions
In the late 1980s, a series of federal laws were enacted which expanded Medicaid eligibility to more of the nation's children. States had a great amount of discretion in how fast and how far these expansions were implemented. As a result, there was great variation among the states in defining who was eligible for the program. This variation provides a rare opportunity to disentangle the effect of Medicaid from a child's socioeconomic status. Usin…
The “Underclass” Revisited: A Social Problem in Decline
In the early 1980s, widespread concern over the social conditions of inner-city neighborhoods gave rise to a literature on the “underclass.” A team of researchers led by Isabelle Sawhill, then of the Urban Institute, crafted a controversial operational definition of the underclass and found a rapid rise in the number of neighborhoods classifying as underclass in the 1970s and, to a lesser extent, in the 1980s ( Mincy and Wiener 1993 Mincy, Ronald…
Suburban Development and Economic Segregation in the 1990S
Suburbanization is changing the face of urban America. A common claim is that suburban sprawl has contributed to increasing levels of economic segregation, but few studies have directly tested this hypothesis. Using U.S. Census data for 1990 and 2000, this paper examines the trends in and the relationship between suburban development patterns and economic segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas. We find that economic segregation, as measured by th…
Immigrants and Neighbourhoods of Concentrated Poverty: Assimilation or Stagnation
Immigrants in the United States often live, at least for a time, in neighbourhoods that have high concentrations of fellow immigrants. Typically, these neighbourhoods also have high poverty levels and are located near concentrations of the native-born poor. Conventional wisdom is that living in extremely poor neighbourhoods leads to ‘concentration effects’ that exacerbate the problems of poverty and limit economic opportunity. While immigrants ar…
Urban Poverty, Economic Segregation, and Urban Policy
Most of the causes of poverty are relevant to any geographic locale: macroeconomic gyrations, low levels of human capital, discrimination, and factors that limit productivity, such as drug and alcohol addictions. However, urban poverty has additional causes and consequences related to the economic segregation of metropolitan regions. This article begins by examining the fundamental demographic shifts that created the current configuration of urba…
The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes (Eds.)
Underclass
Concentrated Disadvantage
Estimating Income Statistics from Grouped Data: Mean-constrained Integration over Brackets
Researchers studying income inequality, economic segregation, and other subjects must often rely on grouped data—that is, data in which thousands or millions of observations have been reduced to counts of units by specified income brackets. The distribution of households within the brackets is unknown, and highest incomes are often included in an open-ended top bracket, such as “$200,000 and above.” Common approaches to this estimation problem in…
Rethinking Coup Risk: Rural Coalitions and Coup-Proofing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Military interventions continue to be prevalent in Africa. In the 21st century alone, 14 coups have been successfully staged. Whereas most studies of coup risk examine how militaries are organized or what structural conditions are associated with coups, we take a novel approach. We explore how coalition politics relate to coup risk. It has long been observed that regimes try to hold power by buying off urban consumers. We argue that focusing on u…
Sociology (13 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Metropolitan area (5 works)