TY - JOUR
T1 - A note on the length of the black-white border
AU - Yinger, John
N1 - Funding Information:
1 This paper was written while the author was at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and was supported in part by funds granted to the Institute by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 370
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1976/10
Y1 - 1976/10
N2 - Two simple models of racial prejudice and household location predict that the black area in a city will be of the shape that minimizes the length of the black-white border. This note provides a way to test these models by showing, for a variety of assumptions about urban structure, that in a city with a population more than about 10% black, the black-white border will be shorter if the black area is wedge-shaped than if it is circular.
AB - Two simple models of racial prejudice and household location predict that the black area in a city will be of the shape that minimizes the length of the black-white border. This note provides a way to test these models by showing, for a variety of assumptions about urban structure, that in a city with a population more than about 10% black, the black-white border will be shorter if the black area is wedge-shaped than if it is circular.
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U2 - 10.1016/0094-1190(76)90036-X
DO - 10.1016/0094-1190(76)90036-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34548853568
SN - 0094-1190
VL - 3
SP - 370
EP - 382
JO - Journal of Urban Economics
JF - Journal of Urban Economics
IS - 4
ER -