This annotated bibliography gives an overview of the theoretical literature on regional economic growth and examines its conceptual foundations, major competing paradigms, and recent developments. The overview concludes with a discussion of the policy implications suggested by this body of theory. Throughout the review, three themes are emphasized: (1) the theoretical predictions regarding the convergence or divergence of per capita incomes across regions over time, (2) the assumptions regarding the importance of internal and external scale economies to regional economic growth, and (3) the role of space in shaping regional labor market outcomes.

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This paper discusses a new measure of residential segregation by race that incorporates spatial proximity among neighbourhoods into the calculation of the index. The basis for the measure is the Gini index of segregation. Unlike other similar measures discussed in recent years, this measure satisfies the 'principle of transfers', is flexible enough to quantify a range of pre-specified spatial patterns of segregation and is easy to compute using spatial statistics software packages. The properties of the index are illustrated using several simple simulations and a case study of non-White-White segregation in Atlanta, Georgia. The application of the index in Atlanta suggests that spatial proximity among adjacent neighbourhoods has a large impact on overall levels of racial segregation.

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Black-white residential segregation, while on the decline, still persists at high levels in most US metropolitan areas. Despite decades of research into the underlying causes of black-white residential segregation, there is still much disagreement among scholars over the root causes of this phenomenon. This article examines recent evidence on the causes of blackwhite residential segregation. Evidence on the following hypotheses is examined: racial income differences, racial differences in tastes for housing services, racial differences in housing market information, racial prejudice, and housing market discrimination. Recent evidence suggests that household-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics explain only a small proportion of the racial differences in location choices. Racial processes such as prejudice and housing market discrimination continue to drive black-white segregation patterns.Black-white residential segregation, while on the decline, still persists at high levels in most US metropolitan areas. Despite decades of research into the underlying causes of black-white residential segregation, there is still much disagreement among scholars over the root causes of this phenomenon. Some argue that segregation is caused by nonracial socioeconomic and demographic factors, while others argue that segregation is driven by racial processes including prejudice and housing market discrimination.During the last decade, several new studies appeared that challenge many commonly held assumptions regarding the causes of black-white residential segregation. Many of these recent studies rely on datasets not previously available to segregation researchers, such as the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) and spatially referenced versions of public micro-datasets such as Census Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the American Housing Survey (AHS). With these new sources of information emerged new methodological approaches.This article offers a summary and critique of recent empirical evidence on five competing hypotheses concerning the causes of black-white residential segregation: (1) racial income differences, (2) racial differences in tastes for housing services, (3) racial differences

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