Section outline

  • Migration and Urbanization; Measurement of segregation

    Theories of migration (neoclassical, segmented labor markets, family economics, cumulative causation)

    a.     Definitions, trends and measures of urban-ness

    b.     Measurement of migration

    c.     Health in cities: urban penalty or advantage?

    d.     Index of dissimilarity and dimensions of segregation (evenness, exposure, clustering, concentration, centralization)


    Location:  Mission Hall 1108

    • Session Slides:

    • Required Reading:

      a.     Hummer, Robert A., Daniel A. Powers, Starling G. Pullum, Ginger L. Grossman and W. Parker Frisbie.  2007.  “Paradox Found (Again):  Infant Mortality Among the Mexican-Origin Population in the United States.”  Demography 44(3):441-457.

      b.     Ro and Fleischer. 2014. “Changes in health selection of obesity among Mexican immigrants: A binational examination” Social Science & Medicine 123 (2014)

      c.     Montgomery Mark R. and Paul C. Hewett 2005. “Urban Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Household and Neighborhood Effects” Demography Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug., 2005), pp. 397-425


    • Turn in Lab 5 here Assignment
    • HUMMER, 2007 File
    • MONTGOMERY 2005 File
    • Ro 2014 File
    • Lab 5 File
    • DemogHealthMigrationSegregation 2018 File