ABSTRACT
We explore the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation using an agent-based model. The model reveals that high rates of mixed-race household formation reduce residential segregation considerably, even when preferences for own-group neighbors are high. However, it also reveals that neighborhood-scale segregation of single-race households can remain high even while a growing number of mixed-race households drives down the overall rate of residential segregation, highlighting the importance of parsing neighborhood segregation levels by household type.
