The Uptick in Income Segregation
Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7612432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J R Logan (0000-0001-8641-4826, John Brown University), Arnold Foster (0000-0002-0406-7558, John Brown University), Andrew Foster, Jun Ke (0000-0002-7792-8566, John Brown University), Fan Li (0000-0002-7481-0394, Duke University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 185-222 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/697528 |
| PMID | 32713956 |
| OpenAlex | W2743817073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 18 |
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 inequality in the U.S. since the 1970s. Yet the evidence may be systematically biased to show an upward trend because the effective sample for the American Community Survey (ACS) is much smaller than it was for Census 2000, to which it is being compared. There is a possibility that the apparent changes in disparities across census tracts result partly from a higher level of sampling variation and bias due to the smaller sample. This study uses 100% microdata from the 1940 census to simulate the impact of different sampling rates on estimates of several measures of segregation and to propose and test the effectiveness of approaches to correcting the bias. It then applies those approaches to publicly available data for 2000 and 2007-2011. The reduction in sample sizes associated with the ACS results in exaggeration of evidence for increasing income segregation for all measures tested here, especially for subgroups (African Americans are studied here as an example). The methods of correction applied here will yield more conclusive and unbiased results when applied to the original sample data that is held internally by the Census Bureau
American Community Survey · Census · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Metropolitan area · Microdata (statistics) · Population · Sample (material) · Sample size determination · Sampling (signal processing) · Sampling bias · Sampling frame · Sociology · Statistics · Survey sampling · Demography · Housing Market and Economics · Mathematics · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |