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