(University of Oregon, 2009-03) Leasor, Michele McNeely
In recent years, researchers have taken a particular interest in the
spatial concentration of poverty due to evidence suggesting that people liVing
within certain densities of poverty are more likely to experience certain
problems or what have become known as neighborhood effects. This analysis is
a quantitative study, focused on describing changes in poverty concentration
between 1990 and 2000 in United States metropolitan areas. The study reports
changes seen at the commonly used 40% poverty concentration threshold
between 1990 and 2000, while at the same time considering other
concentration thresholds and how changing the threshold by which we evaluate
poverty informs the general trends policy makers receive information about
when changes in poverty occur.
