The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach
Parker Webservices
Ian Lundberg Sociological Science December 9, 2025 10.15195/v12.a35 Abstract Segregation—whether across schools, neighborhoods, or occupations—is regularly invoked as a cause of social and economic disparities. However, segregation is a complicated causal treatment: what do we mean when we appeal to a world in which segregation does not exist? One could take societal contexts as the unit of analysis and compare across societies with differing levels of segregation. In practice, it is more common