Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities

Francesco Andreoli; Mauro Mussini; Vincenzo Prete; Claudio Zoli

doi:10.1007/s10888-020-09475-2

Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities

Francesco Andreoli, Mauro Mussini, Vincenzo Prete, Claudio Zoli

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We 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	599-642
Number of pages	44
Journal	Journal of Economic Inequality
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-020-09475-2
Publication status	Published - 3 Aug 2021

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Open access funding provided by Università degli Studi di Verona within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.

Funding Information:
We are grateful to conference participants at RES 2018 meeting (Sussex), LAGV 2018 (Aix en Provence) and ECINEQ 2019 (Paris) and to two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. The usual disclaimer applies. Replication code for this article is accessible from the authors’ web-pages. This article forms part of the research project The Measurement of Ordinal and Multidimensional Inequalities (grant ANR-16-CE41-0005-01) of the French National Agency for Research and the NORFACE project IMCHILD: The impact of childhood circumstances on individual outcomes over the life-course (grant INTER/NORFACE/16/11333934/IMCHILD) of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), whose financial support is gratefully acknowledged.

Funding Information:
We are grateful to conference participants at RES 2018 meeting (Sussex), LAGV 2018 (Aix en Provence) and ECINEQ 2019 (Paris) and to two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. The usual disclaimer applies. Replication code for this article is accessible from the authors? web-pages. This article forms part of the research project The Measurement of Ordinal and Multidimensional Inequalities (grant ANR-16-CE41-0005-01) of the French National Agency for Research and the NORFACE project IMCHILD: The impact of childhood circumstances on individual outcomes over the life-course (grant INTER/NORFACE/16/11333934/IMCHILD) of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), whose financial support is gratefully acknowledged.

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© 2021, The Author(s).

Keywords

ACS
Axiomatic
Census
Concentrated poverty
Decomposition
Gini
Spatial

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Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities

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