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Title: The Process of Ghetto Formation: Evidence from Chicago

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: Residential segregation along ethnic and racial lines is a fact of life in the US and in many other countries. A substantial body of literature documents the economic and social costs of segregation. Ethnic sorting retards inter-generational improvements for relatively disadvantaged groups1, reduces empathetic connections between ethnic groups and therefore diminishes political support for redistribution (as in Cutler, Elmendorf and Zeckhauser (1993)) and increases statistical discrimination because whites, for example, end up relying more on stereotypes of blacks instead of actual experience (Wilson 1987).While we know a great deal about the outcomes of residential segregation on society the mechanism which gives rise to ghettos2 in the rst place is less clear. What features make a residential area in the city particularly susceptible to ethnic transition? Can we explain why transition occurred so rapidly in North American cities and gave rise to the core of the modern black ghettos between the years 1900 and 1920? Finally, why are ghettos such as the one on the south side of Chicago so persistent over time?...

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Authors: Mobius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya S.

Publisher: Harvard University and NBER

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation

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