The Social Context of Spatial Choice: Activity Locations and Residential Segregation↗
JOB MARKET PAPER
R&R at Demography
With Christopher Browning and Luc Anselin
Data and Method:
- Individual level travel survey data in Chicago Metro Area.
- Discrete choice models.
Highlights:
- Integrate behavioral expectations in urban sociological theories (geographic isolation and compelled mobility) with decision science.
- (Dis)Advantage in institutional resources and safety largely explains people’s everyday activity location choices.
- The spatially continuous Black segregated boundary functions as an “invisible wall” to its Black residents, limiting their exposure to advantaged White CSC neighborhoods.