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What should an index of school segregation measure? [PDF]
Oxford Review of Education, 2007 The article aims to make a methodological contribution to the education segregation literature, providing a critique of previous measures of segregation used in the literature, as well as suggesting an alternative approach to measuring segregation.
Rebecca Allen, Anna Vignoles
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Additively Decomposable Segregation Indexes. The Case of Gender Segregation by Occupations and Human Capital Levels in Spain [PDF]
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003 Building upon the ideas first exposed by Theil and Finizza (1971) and Fuchs (1975), this paper presents an additively decomposable segregation index based on the entropy concept used in information theory. For any pair of classification variables in a given year, the index is decomposed into a between-group and a within-group term.
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, Mora, Ricardo
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An evaluation of an entropy based index of segregation [PDF]
, 2003 This paper reviews the properties suggested in the methodological literature on the measurement of gender segregation by occupation. It is found that an index of segregation based on the entropy concept satisfies twelve basic axioms previously proposed in the single-dimensional case.
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, Mora, Ricardo
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The axiomatic properties of an entropy based index of segregation [PDF]
, 2005 This paper reviews the properties suggested in the methodological literature on the measurement of occupational gender segregation. It is found that an index of (relative) segregation based on the entropy concept, IE, satisfies thirteen basic axioms previously proposed in the single-dimensional case, and can be expressed as the sum of a between-group ...
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, Mora, Ricardo
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A defense of an entropy based index of multigroup segregation [PDF]
, 2007 This paper defends the use of the entropy based Mutual Information index of multigroup segregation for the following five reasons. (1) It satisfies 14 basic axioms discussed in the literature when segregation takes place along a single dimension. (2) It is additively decomposable into between- and within-group terms for any partition of the set of ...
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, Mora, Ricardo
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The Divergence Index: A Decomposable Measure of Segregation and Inequality
, 2015 Decomposition analysis is a critical tool for understanding the social and spatial dimensions of segregation and diversity. In this paper, I highlight the conceptual, mathematical, and empirical distinctions between segregation and diversity and introduce the Divergence Index as a decomposable measure of segregation.
Roberto, Elizabeth
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Animals, 2021 Home range overlap/segregation has several important applications to wildlife conservation and management. In this work, we first address the issue of measuring the degree of overlap/segregation among an arbitrarily large number (i.e., n ≥ 2) of ...
Alessandro Ferrarini +3 more
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More reliable inference for the dissimilarity index of segregation. [PDF]
The econometrics journal, 2015 The most widely used measure of segregation is the so-called dissimilarity index. It is now well understood that this measure also reflects randomness in the allocation of individuals to units (i.e. it measures deviations from evenness, not deviations from randomness).
Allen, Rebecca +3 more
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Racial and economic segregation in Brazil: a nationwide analysis of socioeconomic and socio-spatial inequalities [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2023 This article aims to analyze residential segregation by race (racial segregation) and income (economic segregation) in Brazil and explore its relationship with socioeconomic and socio-spatial factors.
José Firmino de Sousa Filho +11 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2021 Background: Preterm birth (PTB) accounts for the majority of perinatal morbidity and mortality in developed nations, accounting for 9.9% of all births in the U.S. in 2016.
Nathan S.N. Quan, Michael R. Kramer
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