@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5294},
      author = {Sevtsuk, Andres and Basu, Rounaq and Halpern, Dylan and  Hudson, Anne and Ng, Kloe and de Jong, Jorrit},
      title = {A tale of two Americas: Socio-economic mobility gaps  within and across American cities before and during the  pandemic},
      journal = {Cities},
      address = {2022-11-02},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {We examine differences in mobility outcomes between  residents of highest and lowest socio-economic index (SEI)  at the Census block group (CBG) level in nine major US  cities prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. While  low-SEI groups generally traveled shorter distances but  visited more city-wide CBGs before the pandemic, high-SEI  residents universally reduced their mobility to a greater  extent during the pandemic. Although high-SEI residents  were making more trips to parks and health-care providers,  and fewer subsistence trips to retail stores already before  the pandemic, COVID-19 significantly widened these  differences thereby exacerbating “mobility gaps” between  low-SEI and high-SEI groups. We further examine how such  “mobility gaps” can be mitigated by spatial advantages of  home locations, controlling for political inclination. We  find that living in better transit-served or more walkable  neighborhoods generally benefited high-SEI residents more  than low-SEI residents, with some variation across cities.  This suggests that built environments not only impact  mobility outcomes during “normal” times, but also influence  how different socio-economic groups are able to adapt  during times of crisis.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5294},
}