TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Quantifying Separate and Unequal
JO  - Urban affairs review
A1  - Osypuk, T. L.
A1  - Galea, S.
A1  - McArdle, N.
A1  - Acevedo-Garcia, Dolores
SP  - 25
EP  - 65
VL  - 45
IS  - 1
N2  - Researchers measuring racial inequality of neighborhood environment across metropolitan areas have traditionally used segregation measures; yet such measures are limited for incorporating a third axis of information, including neighborhood opportunity. Using Census 2000 tract-level data for the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, the authors introduce the interquartile-range overlap statistic to summarize the substantial separation of entire distributions of neighborhood environments between racial groups. They find that neighborhood poverty distributions for minorities overlap only 27%, compared to the distributions for Whites. Furthermore, the separation of racial groups into neighborhoods of differing poverty rates is strongly correlated with racial residential segregation. The overlap statistic provides a straightforward, policy-relevant metric for monitoring progress toward achieving more equal environments of neighborhood opportunity space.<p />
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SN  - 1078-0874
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087408331119
ID  - ref1
ER  -