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Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities
Mauro MussiniClaudio ZoliFrancesco AndreoliVincenzo Pretesubject
Concentrated poverty Axiomatic Gini Decomposition Census ACS SpatialOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementCensusDecompositionIndex (economics)Sociology and Political SciencePovertybusiness.industryConcentrated povertyDistribution (economics)CensuConvergence (economics)Gini indexACSMetropolitan areaConcentrated povertyAxiomaticGiniDevelopment economicsSpatialbusinessEmpirical evidenceGeneral Economics Econometrics and FinancePublic financedescription
AbstractWe characterize axiomatically a new index of urban poverty that i) captures aspects of the incidence and distribution of poverty across neighborhoods of a city, ii) is related to the Gini index and iii) is consistent with empirical evidence that living in a high poverty neighborhood is detrimental for many dimensions of residents’ well-being. Widely adopted measures of urban poverty, such as the concentrated poverty index, may violate some of the desirable properties we outline. Furthermore, we show that changes of urban poverty within the same city are additively decomposable into the contribution of demographic, convergence, re-ranking and spatial effects. We collect new evidence of heterogeneous patterns and trends of urban poverty across American metro areas over the last 35 years.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-03 |