TY  - JOUR
AU  - McKinnish,Terra
AU  - Walsh,Randall
AU  - White,Kirk
TI  - Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14036
PY  - 2008
Y2  - May 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14036
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14036.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Terra McKinnish
University of Colorado at Boulder
E-Mail: Terra.Mckinnish@colorado.edu

Randall Walsh
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
4901 WW Posvar Hall
230 S. Bouquet St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: 412/648-1737
Fax: 412/648-3011
E-Mail: walshr@pitt.edu

Kirk White
Economic Research Service, USDA
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Mail Stop 1800
Washington, DC  20250-1800
Tel: 919-451-9357
Fax: 919-684-8974
E-Mail: tkirkwhite@gmail.com
AB  - This paper uses confidential Census data, specifically the 1990 and 2000 Census Long Form data, to study the demographic processes underlying the gentrification of low-income urban neighborhoods during the 1990's.  In contrast to previous studies, the analysis is conducted at the more refined census-tract level with a narrower definition of gentrification and more closely matched comparison neighborhoods.  The analysis is also richly disaggregated by demographic characteristic, uncovering differential patterns by race, education, age and family structure that would not have emerged in the more aggregate analysis in previous studies.  The results provide no evidence of displacement of low-income non-white households in gentrifying neighborhoods.  The bulk of the increase in average family income in gentrifying neighborhoods is attributed to black high school graduates and white college graduates.  The disproportionate retention and income gains of the former and the disproportionate in-migration of the latter are distinguishing characteristics of gentrifying U.S. urban neighborhoods in the 1990's.
ER  -