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Measuring Spatial Segregation

Publications Resulting from the Project

Published Papers

Reardon, S.F. and G. Firebaugh (2002). "Measures of Multi-Group Segregation." Sociological Methodology 32:33-67.

Reardon, S.F. and D. O'Sullivan (2004). "Measures of Spatial Segregation." Sociological Methodology 34:121-162.

Reardon, S.F., S.A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, B.A. Lee, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell and K. Bischoff (2008). "The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation." Demography 45(3):489-514.
     Abstract | Online Supplement (.pdf document)

Lee, B.A., S.F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews and D. O'Sullivan (2008). "Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales." American Sociological Review 73(5):766-791.

Reardon, S.F., C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, K. Bischoff and G. Firebaugh (2009). "Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000." Social Science Research 38(1):55-70.
     Abstract

Working Papers

Income Inequality and Income Segregation. January 2010. Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff. (.pdf document)

PRI Working Paper 06-01 - The Segregation Profile: Investigating How Metropolitan Racial Segregation Varies by Spatial Scale; By: Sean F. Reardon, Stephen A. Matthews, David O'Sullivan, Barrett A. Lee, Glenn Firebaugh and Chad R. Farrell.
     Published as:
Reardon, S.F., S.A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, B.A. Lee, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell and K. Bischoff (2008). "The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation." Demography 45(3):489-514.
     Abstract

Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Residential Segregation at Multiple Scales. June 2006. Barrett A. Lee, Sean F. Reardon, Glenn Firebaugh, Chad R. Farrell, Stephen A. Matthews and David O'Sullivan.
     Published as:
Lee, B.A., S.F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews and D. O'Sullivan (2008). "Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales." American Sociological Review 73(5):766-791.
     Abstract

Conference Presentations

Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Spatial Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000. March 2007. Sean F. Reardon, Chad R. Farrell, Stephen Matthews, David O'Sullivan, Kendra Bischoff, Glenn Firebaugh and Barrett A. Lee.
     Published as:
Reardon, S.F., C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, K. Bischoff and G. Firebaugh (2009). "Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000." Social Science Research 38(1):55-70.
     Abstract

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