• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2010.00671.x
Corpus ID: 17624822

Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model

@article{Zhang2011TippingAR,
  title={Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model},
  author={J. Zhang},
  journal={Wiley-Blackwell: Journal of Regional Science},
  year={2011}
}

J. Zhang

Published 2011

Economics

Wiley-Blackwell: Journal of Regional Science

This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined, which is crucial for understanding the dynamics of segregation. Complete segregation emerges and persists in the checkerboard model precisely because tipping is less likely to occur to such residential… CONTINUE READING

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