This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods … been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have become less segregated. Across … all of these time periods there is a strong positive relation between urban population or density and segregation. We then …

This paper examines segregation in American cities from 1890 to 1990. We divide the century into three time periods … been a decline in segregation as blacks have moved to suburban areas and central cities have become less segregated. Across … all of these time periods there is a strong positive relation between urban population or density and segregation. We then …

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a … segregation, controlling for individual characteristics and both metropolitan area and country-of-origin fixed effects, we … may illuminate some of the causal mechanisms relating segregation to outcomes. …