Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides

CREDITS

• Dee PatelWriter

DATEFebruary 23, 2021

SUBTOPICS

• Economics,

• Demography,

• Research

SCHOOLS

• Wharton School
  

In a Wharton study, chair of the Statistics Department Dylan Small says reasons for the disparity include institutional racism, underinvestment in communities, and housing segregation.

Majority Black neighborhoods have higher gun homicide rates than mostly white neighborhoods of the same socioeconomic status level, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open by Wharton Professor Dylan Small and School of Arts & Sciences undergraduates Yuzhou Lin and Audrey Chaeyoung Cheon. Wei Wang, a senior research investigator at the Perelman School of Medicine; and David Harding, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, were also co-authors. Learn More.