Segregation, Informativeness and Lorenz Dominance
27 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2016
Date Written: December 13, 2013
Abstract
It is possible to partially order cities according to the informativeness of neighborhoods about their ethnic groups. It is also possible to partially order cities with two ethnic groups according to them Lorenz criterion. We show that a segregation order satisfies four well-established segregation principles if and only if it is consistent with the informativeness criterion. We then use this result to show that for the two-group case, the Lorenz and the informativeness criteria are equivalent.
Keywords: Segregation, informativeness, Lorenz dominance, Blackwell's theorem
JEL Classification: C43, C81, D63
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