How do community context and spatial inequality shape socio-demographic outcomes?
Demographers are increasingly interested in spatial inequality and the ways in which life chances are shaped by varied dimensions of place and spatial context, including neighborhood resources, social networks, labor markets, and access to health facilities, schooling and other social institutions. PRI is a leading contributor to new scholarship on the measurement, nature, causes and consequences of spatial inequality. PRI’s growing portfolio of projects focusing on spatial dimensions of social problems builds on the GIS expertise and infrastructure within PRI. In both research and training, PRI continues to intensify its contribution to the national effort to understand spatial inequality and the interplay between context and individual and family outcomes, and to enhance the capacity of tomorrow’s researchers to incorporate the theory, tools and techniques of spatial analysis.
