Racial and Spatial Interaction for Neighborhood Dynamics in Chicago

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Resumen

• We look at the empirical validity of Schelling’s models for racial residential segregation applied to the case of Chicago. Most of the empirical literature has focused exclusively the single neighborhood model, also known as the tipping point model and neglected a multineighborhood approach or a unified approach. The multi-neighborhood approach introduced spatial interaction across the neighborhoods, in particular we look at spatial interaction across neighborhoods sharing a border. An initial exploration of the data indicates that spatial contiguity might be relevant to properly analyze the so call tipping phenomena of predominately non-Hispanic white neighborhoods to predominantly minority neighborhoods within a decade. We introduce an econometric model that combines an approach to estimate tipping point using threshold effects and a spatial autoregressive model. The estimation results from the model disputes the existence of a tipping point, that is a discontinuous change in the rate of growth of the non-Hispanic white population due to a small increase in the minority share of the neighborhood. In addition, we find that racial distance between the neighborhood of interest and the surrounding neighborhoods has an important effect on the dynamics of racial segregation in Chicago.

autores

• Castro Iragorri, Carlos
• Rodríguez, Cristhian

fecha de publicación

• 2016-05

Área temática

• J15 - Economía de las minorías, de las razas, de los pueblos indígenas y de los inmigrantes; No discriminación laboral
• R23 - Migración regional; Mercado de trabajo regional; Población; Características del vecindario

Enfoque geográfico

• North America  Continent
• United States of America  Country

Líneas de investigación

• Chicago
• Racial Residential Segregation
• Spatial Econometrics
• Tipping Point

Issue

• 14589