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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.39,Issue3,P.335-357

语言

英文

关键字

HIGH-POVERTY NEIGHBORHOODS; LIFE-COURSE; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION; OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENT; RESIDENTIAL-MOBILITY; STATE SEQUENCES; UNITED-STATES; OLD IDEAS; INEQUALITY; MIGRATION

作者单位

[Lee, Kwan Ok] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Real Estate, Singapore, Singapore. [Smith, Richard] Wayne State Univ, Social Work, Detroit, MI 48202 USA. [Galster, George] Wayne State Univ, Urban Affairs, Detroit, MI 48202 USA. Lee, KO (reprint author), Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Real Estate, 4 Architecture Dr, Singapore 117566, Singapore. E-Mail: rstleeko@nus.edu.sg

摘要

Neighborhood poverty experienced over time by low-income households is a topic of increasing interest and public policy importance. We employ sequence analysis of neighborhood poverty rates to identify distinct patterns among the 18- to 22-year longitudinal residential trajectories of 389 low-income households in the United States who formed households during 1988-1992, as represented in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our most striking finding is the important role of poverty in their first neighborhood to the probability that low-income households ultimately reside in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there are a wide variety of neighborhood poverty trajectories that low-income American households experience. However, those with felicitous neighborhood trajectories were almost entirely White households. The majority of Blacks formed households in high-poverty neighborhoods and were unlikely to live in any other sort of neighborhood for the next two decades when they are typically raising children. In addition, both in-place neighborhood changes and residential mobility have likely led to this racial variation in low-income neighborhood trajectories. We contribute to the evidence base about the role of place in perpetuating socioeconomic and racial inequalities.