TY - JOUR
T1 - Inference for the neighbourhood inequality index
AU - Andreoli, Francesco
AU - Peluso, Eugenio
PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - The neighborhood inequality (NI) index measures aspects of spatial inequality in the distribution of incomes within a city. It is a population average of the normalized income gap between each individual’s income (observed at a given location in the city) and the incomes of the neighbours located within a certain distance range. The approach overcomes the modifiable areal units problem affecting local inequality measures. This paper provides minimum bounds for the NI index standard error and shows that unbiased estimators can be identified under fairly common hypothesis in spatial statistics. Results from a Monte Carlo study support the relevance of the approximations. Rich income data are then used to infer about trends of NI in Chicago, IL, over the last 35 years.
AB - The neighborhood inequality (NI) index measures aspects of spatial inequality in the distribution of incomes within a city. It is a population average of the normalized income gap between each individual’s income (observed at a given location in the city) and the incomes of the neighbours located within a certain distance range. The approach overcomes the modifiable areal units problem affecting local inequality measures. This paper provides minimum bounds for the NI index standard error and shows that unbiased estimators can be identified under fairly common hypothesis in spatial statistics. Results from a Monte Carlo study support the relevance of the approximations. Rich income data are then used to infer about trends of NI in Chicago, IL, over the last 35 years.
KW - individual neighbourhood
KW - variogram
KW - ratio measures
KW - variance approximation
KW - US Census and American Community Survey (ACS)
KW - income
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c2959aa2-c265-3926-bf00-236bb3836cb7/
U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2020.1800071
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2020.1800071
M3 - Article
SN - 1742-1772
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
ER -