Segregation and inequality across neighborhoods, classrooms, and police jurisdictions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Our lives are profoundly shaped by our interactions with public institutions and by the characteristics of those particular institutional units with which we interact. Institutions group populations and spaces into manageable units that operate under distinct conditions. This differentiation is often accompanied by unequal provisions of public goods across units, promoting social inequality, and frequently contributes to disparities as these unequal provisions map onto the segregation of social groups across units. Improving our public institutions requires a detailed picture of how geographic and institutional boundaries divide populations and configure the unequal distribution of public goods. To that end, this dissertation considers spatial segregation, institutional segregation, and institutional inequality with respect to three institutions: housing, schooling, and policing. Chapter 1 provides a formal framework for understanding and overcoming bias in measures of residential income segregation. Chapter 2 uses an innovative approach to studying segregation at small scales to uncover and explain the high nationwide prevalence of racial classroom segregation in Brazil. Chapter 3 uses novel data to estimate benchmarked police homicide rates, finding substantial inequality in police deadliness among US police departments that face similar risks to officer and public safety.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gagne, Joshua Paul |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Grusky, David B |
| Degree supervisor | Reardon, Sean F |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Reardon, Sean F |
| Thesis advisor | Finch, Brian |
| Thesis advisor | Torche, Florencia |
| Degree committee member | Finch, Brian |
| Degree committee member | Torche, Florencia |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Joshua Leung-Gagné. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nz834xt0795 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Joshua Paul Gagne
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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