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    The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sexual Activity Among Young Adults

    Using data from the 2013 through 2021 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Transition into Adulthood Supplement (PSID-TAS), this study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual activity amo...

    Lei Lei, Scott J. South in Population Research and Policy Review (2024)

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    Exposure to Violence and Migration from Mexico to the United States

    Longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, in conjunction with aggregated vital statistics and census data, are used to examine how Mexican adults’ experiences of violent victimization and percepti...

    Scott J. South, Katherine Trent, Soo** Han in Journal of International Migration and Int… (2024)

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    Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Violent Victimization in Mexico

    The migration of young men from Mexico to the United States generates a deficit of men and a relative abundance of women in many Mexican communities, but the implications of this imbalanced sex ratio for Mexic...

    Scott J. South, Soo** Han, Katherine Trent in Population Research and Policy Review (2022)

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    Life-Course Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Migration Between Poor and Non-poor Neighborhoods

    Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study examines the effect of residential histories spent living in poor neighborhoods on the contemporaneous likelihood of moving between poor and non-poor neighbor...

    Ying Huang, Scott J. South, Amy Spring… in Population Research and Policy Review (2021)

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    Racial Differences in Neighborhood Attainment: The Contributions of Interneighborhood Migration and In Situ Change

    Recent research shows that as they age, blacks experience less improvement than whites in the socioeconomic status of their residential neighborhoods. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and U.S...

    Ying Huang, Scott J. South, Amy Spring in Demography (2017)

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    Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas

    A growing body of research has examined how family dynamics shape residential mobility, highlighting the social—as opposed to economic—drivers of mobility. However, few studies have examined kin ties as both p...

    Amy Spring, Elizabeth Ackert, Kyle Crowder, Scott J. South in Demography (2017)

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    Skewed Sex Ratios and Criminal Victimization in India

    Although substantial research has explored the causes of India’s excessively masculine population sex ratio, few studies have examined the consequences of this surplus of males. We merge individual-level data ...

    Scott J. South, Katherine Trent, Sunita Bose in Demography (2014)

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    India’s ‘Missing Women’ and Men’s Sexual Risk Behavior

    Although scholars and policymakers have long been concerned with the “missing women” of India, little rigorous research has examined the consequences of India’s sex ratio imbalance for young men’s sexual risk ...

    Scott J. South, Katherine Trent, Sunita Bose in Population Research and Policy Review (2012)

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    Metropolitan Structure and Neighborhood Attainment: Exploring Intermetropolitan Variation in Racial Residential Segregation

    Using data from the 1981, 1991, and 2001 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and several decennial censuses, we examine how characteristics of metropolitan areas are associated with black and white hou...

    Scott J. South, Kyle Crowder, Jeremy Pais in Demography (2011)

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    White Flight Revisited: A Multiethnic Perspective on Neighborhood Out-Migration

    Using geo-linked data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the decennial census, we compare probabilities of neighborhood out-migration for Anglos, blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans by varying...

    Jeremy F. Pais, Scott J. South, Kyle Crowder in Population Research and Policy Review (2009)

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    Migration and spatial assimilation among u.s. latinos: Classical versus segmented trajectories

    We used merged data from the Latino National Political Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the U.S. census to examine patterns and determinants of interneighborhood residential mobility between 199...

    Scott J. South, Kyle Crowder, Erick Chavez in Demography (2005)

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    Housing Discrimination and Residential Mobility: Impacts for Blacks and Whites

    We merge metropolitan-level measures of racial discrimination in housing markets derived from two national housing audit studies, along with tract-level 1980 census data, with the 1979-1985 waves of the Panel ...

    Scott J. South, Kyle D. Crowder in Population Research and Policy Review (1998)

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    Residential mobility between cities and suburbs: race, suburbanization, and back-to-the-city moves

    Information from the 1979 to 1985 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics is merged with data on respondents’ tract and metropolitan area of residence to examine patterns and determinants of residential mo...

    Scott J. South, Kyle D. Crowder in Demography (1997)

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    Interracial homicide: A macrostructural-opportunity perspective

    Using data for 154 cities, we test a model of the determinants of interracial homicide that is informed by both Blau's macrostructural theory and elements of the general criminal opportunity perspective. Consi...

    Steven F. Messner, Scott J. South in Sociological Forum (1992)

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    Marriage markets and nonmarital fertility in the United States

    We merge census microdata with vital statistics data to examine the effect of women’s marriage opportunities on nonmarital fertility rates and ratios across 75 U.S. metropolitan areas. Measures of the quantity...

    Scott J. South, Kim M. Lloyd in Demography (1992)

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    Unemployment and the homicide rate: A paradox resolved?

    The heretofore perplexing relationship between the unemployment and homicide rates is reevaluated through a dynamic, macro social indicator model of the postwar United States. Whereas prior research has failed...

    Scott J. South, Lawrence E. Cohen in Social Indicators Research (1985)

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    Unemployment and social problems in the post-war United States

    This paper examines the impact of unemployment on social problems in the post-war United States. Working within a conceptual framework derived from sociological and economic theory, dynamic macro social indica...

    Scott J. South in Social Indicators Research (1984)

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    A note on stability in the U.S. Metropolitan system: 1950–1970

    Scott J. South, Dudley L. Poston in Demography (1980)