boyiguo1
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2 years ago - Residential segregation scores have obvious limitations. For example, the aspect of daily living, e.g. racial interaction during work is not accounted in the residential segregation metrics. See
- Cagney, K. A., York Cornwell, E., Goldman, A. W., & Cai, L. (2020). Urban mobility and activity space. Annual Review of Sociology, 46, 623-648.
- Modifiable area unit problem, i.e. the scores are highly sensitive to the arbitrary definition of the spatial units
- Kramer, M. R., Cooper, H. L., Drews-Botsch, C. D., Waller, L. A., & Hogue, C. R. (2010). Do measures matter? Comparing surface-density-derived and census-tract-derived measures of racial residential segregation. International journal of health geographics, 9(1), 1-15.
- Athey, S., Ferguson, B., Gentzkow, M., & Schmidt, T. (2021). Estimating experienced racial segregation in US cities using large-scale GPS data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(46).
- Echenique, F., & Fryer Jr, R. G. (2007). A measure of segregation based on social interactions. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2), 441-485.