TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bayer,Patrick
AU  - Fang,Hanming
AU  - McMillan,Robert
TI  - Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11507
PY  - 2005
Y2  - August 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11507
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11507.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Patrick Bayer
Department of Economics
Duke University
213 Social Sciences
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919/660-1832
E-Mail: patrick.bayer@duke.edu

Hanming Fang
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-898-7767
Fax: 215-573-2057
E-Mail: hanming.fang@econ.upenn.edu

Robert McMillan
University of Toronto
Department of Economics
150 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G7
CANADA
Tel: 416/978-4190
Fax: 416/978-6713
E-Mail: mcmillan@chass.utoronto.ca
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-08-01
AB  - This paper hypothesizes that segregation in US cities increases as racial inequality narrows due to the emergence of middle-class black neighborhoods. Employing a novel research design based on life-cycle variations in the relationship between segregation and inequality, we test this hypothesis using the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. Indeed, increased black educational attainment in a city leads to a significant rise in the number of middle-class black communities and segregation for older adults both in the cross-section and over time, consistent with our hypothesis. These findings imply a negative feedback loop that inhibits reductions in racial inequality and segregation over time.
ER  -