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Title: Urban Inequality

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: For the almost 2,500 years since Plato wrote that “any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich,” urban scholars have been struck by the remarkable amount of income inequality within dense cities. America is an unequal nation, and while there is certainly plenty of rural inequality, there is a 44 percent correlation between inequality and density across those U.S. counties with more than one person per every two acres. Moreover, just as inequality within the United States as a whole has been rising since the 1970s, inequality in almost every metropolitan area has risen since 1980. In many cases, the increase in inequality has been considerable. This policy brief reviews the economic determinants of inequality at a local level. Pre-tax income inequality is generally understood as refl ecting the distribution of skills in the population as well . . .

Url: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/taubman/files/urban_inequality_final.pdf

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Authors: Glaeser, Edward L; Resseger, Matt; Tobio, Kristina

Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School Taubman Center

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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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