@article{d7df447f556b4a51b5848180a73ef791,
title = "THE MEASUREMENT OF INCOME SEGREGATION",
abstract = "We examine the problem of measuring the extent to which students with different income levels attend separate schools. Unless rich and poor attend the same schools in the same proportions, some segregation will exist. Since income is a continuous cardinal variable, however, the rich–poor dichotomy is necessarily arbitrary and renders any application of a binary segregation measure artificial. This article provides an axiomatic characterization of a measure of income segregation that takes into account the cardinal nature of income. This measure satisfies an empirically useful decomposition by subdistricts.",
author = "{Lasso de la Vega}, Casilda and Oscar Volij",
note = "Funding Information: We are indebted to David M. Frankel. This article benefited greatly from his generous collaboration. We also thank the editor in charge for his useful comments. Finally, we thank the Spanish Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad (project ECO2015‐67519‐P) and the Gobierno Vasco (project IT1367‐19) for research support. This research has used as a source of information databases of the Education Quality Agency of Chile (Agencia de Calidad de la Educaci{\'o}n). The authors thank the Education Quality Agency for access to information. All the results of the study are the responsibility of the authors and do not compromise the institution. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} (2020) by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/iere.12466",
language = "English",
volume = "61",
pages = "1479--1500",
journal = "International Economic Review",
issn = "0020-6598",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "4",
}