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Goodman, John L., Jr.; Streitwieser, Mary L. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1983
Frey's analysis of White city-to-suburbs movement was replicated using 1974-76 data on Black outmovement. Results indicated that low outmovement by Blacks (attributed to actual or anticipated racial discrimination against them) better explained the higher rates of outmovement by Whites than did Black-White socioeconomic differences or White…
Descriptors: Blacks, Population Trends, Predictor Variables, Racial Attitudes
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Scott, Richard B. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1983
Data from the 1970 census indicated that Blacks in low percentage Black neighborhoods had higher incomes, a greater probability of working wives, and higher educational levels than those in high percentage Black neighborhoods. Discriminant analysis suggested that social psychological factors may mediate demographic factors in Blacks' decisions to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Discriminant Analysis, Educational Attainment, Family Characteristics
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Galster, George C.; Keeney, W. Mark – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1988
A cross-sectional simultaneous equation model is specified whereby metropolitan-wide levels of racial residential segregation, housing discrimination, interracial occupational dissimilarities, and Black/White mean incomes are endogenous. Results support the hypothesis of mutually causal interrelationships among these phenomena. Results of policy…
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Income, Labor Market
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Alba, Richard D.; Logan, John R. – International Migration Review, 1992
Investigates home ownership differences among 12 racial and ethnic groups using the Public Use Sample data of the 1980 Census. Majority group members have the greatest probability of home ownership. Results support an assimilation perspective on home ownership. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
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Polednak, Anthony P. – American Journal of Public Health, 1991
Black-white differences in infant mortality rate are examined for 38 large metropolitan statistical areas for 1982 through 1986. The most important difference predictor was a "segregation index" (residential dissimilarity) apparently independent of variation in median family income and poverty prevalence but possibly reflecting…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Blacks, Child Health, Family Income