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Title: Racial Segregation in Interwar United States: A Dynamic Segregation Approach

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Between 1910 and 1950, more than 3.5 million African Americans migrated from the south, largely to northern, urban areas (Collins 1997). Yet when they arrived, they found themselves often limited in their choice of neighborhoods via racially restrictive covenants (Brooks 2011). This paper follows the dynamic segregation literature of Schelling (1971) and Card, Mas, Rothstein (2008) to explore whether neighborhoods in interwar cities in the United States demonstrated “tipping behavior” and how these tipping points evolved over time. We accomplish this using census-tract data from both the 1930 and 1940 U.S. Census via the NHGIS as well as data collected from various Real Property Inventories from 1934. Preliminary results suggest that tipping behavior did occur, although they were typically lower than those found in the modern era via Card, Mas, Rothstein (2008) with the exception of DC and Chicago.

Url: https://paa2015.princeton.edu/abstracts/153115

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Authors: Kollman, Trevor; Suardi, Sandy; Perez-Orselli, Emilia

Conference Name: Population Association of America 2015 Annual Meeting

Publisher Location: San Diego, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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