Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2021
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 …