After developing a longitudinal database of civil divisions within 27 large metropolitan areas (MSAs) from the 1970 - 1990 U.S. Censuses, this study examines changes in the spatial concentration of income and poverty within these MSAs. A series of cross sectional analyses of geographic and...

American policy analysts and policymakers have assumed that poverty (or low income households) is increasingly concentrating in the inner suburbs of large American cities. This study demonstrates that assumption to be inaccurate. Using data on median household income and the poverty rate for...