Hurricane Katrina displaced virtually the entire population of New Orleans. Blacks were much less likely to return to the city than nonblacks. We examined this disparity using restricted data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. We investigated the extent to which the race disparity in returning to New Orleans was due to socioeconomic… Continue reading Returning to New Orleans in the Year after Hurricane Katrina: Disparities by Race and the Effects of Flooding

Segmented assimilation theory has been a popular explanation for the diverse experiences of assimilation among new waves of immigrants and their children. While the theory has been interpreted in many different ways, we emphasize its implications for the important role of social context: both processes and consequences of assimilation should depend on the local social… Continue reading The social context of assimilation: Testing implications of segmented assimilation theory

This study presents three novel approaches to the question of how best to identify ethnic neighborhoods (or more generally, neighborhoods defined by any aspect of their population composition) and to define their boundaries. The authors use data on the residential locations of all residents of Newark, NJ, in 1880 to avoid having to accept arbitrary… Continue reading Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods