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Title: Anchoring of American Families to their Homes and Neighborhoods: Determining Factors of Residential Mobility
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Hango, Darcy William |
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Anchoring of American Families to their Homes and Neighborhoods: Determining Factors of Residential Mobility Working Paper, Department of Soctiology, The Ohio State University, 2002. Also: http://www.canpopsoc.org/2002/hango_2002.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Hispanics; Home Ownership; Mobility; Neighborhood Effects; Residence Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This current research views family residential mobility as a potential strategy that families may use to improve their relative socioeconomic and geographic position. The focus here is on predicting the avenues and barriers to mobility, both in terms of distance and also between poor and nonpoor neighbourhoods. A driving assumption is that 'upward' moves from poor to nonpoor neighbourhoods are beneficial to the well-being of children, while downward' moves have the opposite effect. Longitudinal data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked mother-child files are combined with data from the 1990 US census to assess the salient factors that predict mobility between 1988 and 1994. Black and Hispanic families are less likely to leave poor neighbourhoods for nonpoor ones, and are also more likely to move from nonpoor neighbourhoods to poor ones. Homeownership is an impediment to residential mobility regardless of distance moved, or neighbourhood poverty level at origin and destination, and mother's prior delinquency appears to inhibit 'upward' geographic mobility. The findings are discussed in terms of how they affect racial residential segregation and the well-being of children. |
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Hango, Darcy William. "Anchoring of American Families to their Homes and Neighborhoods: Determining Factors of Residential Mobility." Working Paper, Department of Soctiology, The Ohio State University, 2002. |