Dowell Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dowell Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dowell |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 476 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Housing shortages and the new downturn of residential mobility in the US
Housing shortages following the global financial crisis have been accompanied by a new, sharp downturn in rates of residential mobility, largely among renters. The Great Recession precipitated major, lingering housing disruptions, with local mobility declining by one-third in the US from 2010 to 2019. Slow construction despite employment recovery and burgeoning numbers of young Millennials led to intensified competition for vacancies. That ‘frict…
Synopsis
Colloquy| August 01 2021 Synopsis: Demographics of Housing the People in California Dowell Myers, PhD Dowell Myers, PhD Dowell Myers is a professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy of the University of Southern California, where he leads the PopDynamics Research Group. A demographer and urban planner, Myers specializes in trends of housing, immigration, and generational change. He also aims to form mutual benefits narratives that highligh…
Why Are Old Binary Descriptions of Race So Misleading in the Twenty‐first Century
Prophetic city
Prophetic city: Houston on the cusp of a changing America, by Stephen L. Klineberg." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Racial Population Projections and Reactions to Alternative News Accounts of Growing Diversity
Projections of changes in racial demographics depend on how race is classified. The U.S. Census Bureau makes several different projections of the nation's racial demographic future, but the most publicized version projects our racial future in a way that narrows the definition of race groups to exclude people who are of mixed race or Hispanic. This definition results in projections of many fewer "whites," accelerating the impending decline of the…
Mutual Benefits and Equity amid Racial Diversity
A mutual benefits strategy is proposed to reduce political resistance to greater social equity. Growing racial diversity signals a new era, but emphasis on projected change provokes defensive reactions. The twenty-first-century demography also includes massive aging and a white voting majority until 2060, so benefits of equity should be detailed for the older generation. Those include better workers, taxpayers, and home buyers resulting from inve…
Intergenerational Mobility of the Mexican-Origin Population in California and Texas Relative to a Changing Regional Mainstream
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites. We measure advancement of the Mexican-origin second generation using a suite of census-derived outcomes applied to immigrant parents in 1980 and grown children in 2005, as observed in California and Texas. Patte…
A summary period measure of immigrant advancement in the U.S
This paper proposes a method for summarizing the pace of advancement of the foreign-born population in a given period. The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by
Intergenerational mobility in the post-1965 immigration era
The new second generation of the post-1965 immigration era is observed as children with their parents in 1980 and again as adults 25 years later. Intergenerational mobility is assessed for both men and women in four major racial/ethnic groups, both in regard to children’s status attainment relative to parents and with regard to the rising societal standards proxied by native-born non-Hispanic whites. A profile of intergenerational mobility is pre…
Misleading Comparisons of Homeownership Rates when the Variable Effect of Household Formation Is Ignored
Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the US, the homeownership rate reached an all-time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of ‘success’ in achieving homeownership. It is found that, from 1990 to 2006, declining household formation led to an elevated homeownership rate in the US and that…
The Gradient of Immigrant Age-at-Arrival Effects on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the U.S
A young age at arrival is believed to be an important predictor of adult immigrant achievement, but there is no consensus on what age(s) at arrival is pivotal/crucial/critical. The 2000 census reports exact years of arrival and age providing us the opportunity to test different formulations for age-at-arrival effects for several different socioeconomic outcomes. We focus on the experiences of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in this study. Our resu…
Demographic Forces and Turning Points in the American City, 1950-2040
The effects of two major demographic forces are traced between 1950 and 2040: the formation and aging of the baby boom generation and the reduction and subsequent return of large-scale immigration. These forces combine to mark several major turning points essential for understanding the changing urban condition. These include the depopulation of “gray areas” that spurred urban renewal in the 1950s, the gentrification initiated in the 1970s, and t…
Immigrant obesity and unhealthy assimilation
Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles
Immigrants and the American Dream
What If Immigrants Had Not Migrated
Despite strong theoretical arguments and models about international migration, very few empirical studies rigorously test these arguments and models. The purpose of the present study is to analyze determinants and consequences for international migration, focusing particularly on the returns to post-hoc international migration. The present study compares residential well-being of Korean international migrants in the United States with that of the…
Responses to the Graduate Planning School Study
Local housing-market effects on tenure choice
Baluja Et Al. Respond
McCarthy and his colleagues raise interesting questions about smoking behavior in other countries. Our research, however, is restricted to the smoking behavior of foreign-born men and women in the United States. We apologize for any confusion about the meaning of “country of origin.” We follow the convention of most immigration research by using country of birth. That should resolve the doubts expressed by the letter writers regarding the treatme…
Inclusion of Immigrant Status in Smoking Prevalence Statistics
Objectives. Data from the 1995–1996 and 1998–1999 Current Population Survey tobacco use supplements were used to examine smoking prevalence statistics by race/ethnicity and immigrant status. Methods. Smoking prevalence statistics were calculated, and these data were decomposed by country of birth for Asian immigrants to illustrate the heterogeneity in smoking rates present within racial/ethnic groups. Results. Except in the case of male Asian/Pac…
Interracial Marriage and Residential Well Being
The purpose of this study is to describe and contrast the determinants and outcomes of Korean women's interracial marriages in the US. Social scientists in general agree on intermarriage being an indicator of the extent to which minorities have assimilated into the host society. However, very few studies have ever attempted to discern the socioeconomic outcomes of the marriage contracts of minorities. In a multivariate context, this study seeks t…
The Dynamics of Immigration and Local Governance in Santa Ana
This article examines the City of Santa Ana's responses to a changing urban landscape. We explore how the rapid growth of the Immigrant neighborhoods called into question traditional ways of municipal governance and city planning. We pay special attention to how the local government used land‐use policy to protnote urban revitalization and bring substandard housing up to code. Initially the urban policy choices fueled neighborhood‐based protest a…
Current preferences and future demand for denser residential environments
This article assesses the future demand for denser, more walkable residential environments in the United States as a whole. A review of survey evidence on preferences is coupled with demographic projections and other trends to construct a demand projection for the period 2000 to 2010 and compare it with 1990 to 2000. It is possible to foresee a turnabout already under way. Households older than 45 show particular interest in more densely configur…
Reply to Frans Dieleman
Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice
Intergenerational mobility in the post-1965 immigration era
The new second generation of the post-1965 immigration era is observed as children with their parents in 1980 and again as adults 25 years later. Intergenerational mobility is assessed for both men and women in four major racial/ethnic groups, both in regard to children’s status attainment relative to parents and with regard to the rising societal standards proxied by native-born non-Hispanic whites. A profile of intergenerational mobility is pre…
Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice
Immigration cohorts and residential overcrowding in southern California
To what degree do immigrants reduce their high rates of residential overcrowding with increasing length of residence in the United States? This question is addressed through the application of a “double cohort” method that nests birth cohorts within immigration cohorts. This method enables duration of immigration effects to be separated from aging effects as cohorts pass through life course phases, when family sizes may be growing or shrinking. T…
Temporal Differentiation in the Occupational Mobility of Immigrant and Native-Born Latina Workers
This study estimated changes during 1980-90 in the occupational participation of native-born and immigrant Latino workers in 7 southern counties in California. Data were obtained from US Censuses on cohorts aged 15-24 in 1980 and aged 25-34 in 1990. The Myers-Lee double cohort method was used to estimate changes in cohorts in a period by a cohort matrix. Several assumptions were made about period and aging effects. Native Latinos and immigrant La…
Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership
Homeownership is an important symbol of a middle-class standard of living and residential assimilation in the United States. This study explores the rate of advancement into homeownership of immigrants, relative to native borns, in Southern California, a principal region of immigrant settlement. Application of a double cohort method enables longitudinal trends for immigrants, due to both aging and assimilation, to be distinguished from the cohort…
Constructing the Future in Planning
The fuItLu-e is a long-recognized focus of thie uirban planning profession, but it has been nieglected of late particuLlarly in the academiiic COmmLullity. This article reviews concepts, theories, and tools useful for strengthening a ftttLire focus in planning. Core analytical coIncepts InCItide distinctions among projections forecasts and plans, and continiuities of past, present, anid future. Ethical issues center oni the tension betweeni an ac…
The Gradient of Immigrant Age-at-Arrival Effects on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the U.S
A young age at arrival is believed to be an important predictor of adult immigrant achievement, but there is no consensus on what age(s) at arrival is pivotal/crucial/critical. The 2000 census reports exact years of arrival and age providing us the opportunity to test different formulations for age-at-arrival effects for several different socioeconomic outcomes. We focus on the experiences of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in this study. Our resu…
Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership
Cohort Longitudinal Estimation of Housing Careers
The housing life cycle is a time-honoured approach to longitudinal conception of people's housing careers, but one difficult to measure accurately. Cross-sectional data often provide a misleading 'snapshot' of changes over time; yet, panel data that follow individual observationsover the life course also have several drawbacks. Construction of cohorts from cross-sectional data provides a useful third alternative, a quasi-panel approach, that capt…
Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles
Inclusion of Immigrant Status in Smoking Prevalence Statistics
Objectives. Data from the 1995–1996 and 1998–1999 Current Population Survey tobacco use supplements were used to examine smoking prevalence statistics by race/ethnicity and immigrant status. Methods. Smoking prevalence statistics were calculated, and these data were decomposed by country of birth for Asian immigrants to illustrate the heterogeneity in smoking rates present within racial/ethnic groups. Results. Except in the case of male Asian/Pac…
Racial Population Projections and Reactions to Alternative News Accounts of Growing Diversity
Projections of changes in racial demographics depend on how race is classified. The U.S. Census Bureau makes several different projections of the nation's racial demographic future, but the most publicized version projects our racial future in a way that narrows the definition of race groups to exclude people who are of mixed race or Hispanic. This definition results in projections of many fewer "whites," accelerating the impending decline of the…
Immigrant obesity and unhealthy assimilation
Intergenerational Mobility of the Mexican-Origin Population in California and Texas Relative to a Changing Regional Mainstream
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites. We measure advancement of the Mexican-origin second generation using a suite of census-derived outcomes applied to immigrant parents in 1980 and grown children in 2005, as observed in California and Texas. Patte…
Misleading Comparisons of Homeownership Rates when the Variable Effect of Household Formation Is Ignored
Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the US, the homeownership rate reached an all-time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of ‘success’ in achieving homeownership. It is found that, from 1990 to 2006, declining household formation led to an elevated homeownership rate in the US and that…
Demographic Forces and Turning Points in the American City, 1950-2040
The effects of two major demographic forces are traced between 1950 and 2040: the formation and aging of the baby boom generation and the reduction and subsequent return of large-scale immigration. These forces combine to mark several major turning points essential for understanding the changing urban condition. These include the depopulation of “gray areas” that spurred urban renewal in the 1950s, the gentrification initiated in the 1970s, and t…
Local housing-market effects on tenure choice
The Dynamics of Immigration and Local Governance in Santa Ana
This article examines the City of Santa Ana's responses to a changing urban landscape. We explore how the rapid growth of the Immigrant neighborhoods called into question traditional ways of municipal governance and city planning. We pay special attention to how the local government used land‐use policy to protnote urban revitalization and bring substandard housing up to code. Initially the urban policy choices fueled neighborhood‐based protest a…
Anchor Points for Planning's Identification
What If Immigrants Had Not Migrated
Despite strong theoretical arguments and models about international migration, very few empirical studies rigorously test these arguments and models. The purpose of the present study is to analyze determinants and consequences for international migration, focusing particularly on the returns to post-hoc international migration. The present study compares residential well-being of Korean international migrants in the United States with that of the…
A cohort-based indicator of housing progress
Housing shortages and the new downturn of residential mobility in the US
Housing shortages following the global financial crisis have been accompanied by a new, sharp downturn in rates of residential mobility, largely among renters. The Great Recession precipitated major, lingering housing disruptions, with local mobility declining by one-third in the US from 2010 to 2019. Slow construction despite employment recovery and burgeoning numbers of young Millennials led to intensified competition for vacancies. That ‘frict…
Housing progress in the seventies
Responses to the Graduate Planning School Study
Upward Mobility and the Filtering Process
A major revision is proposed to current em pirical theories about filtering in the hous ing market The trickle-down model is overly simplified and one-sided because it focuses only on dwelling decline There is a second process — upward mobility — that must be expressly understood. The chief advantage of the upward mobility model is that it provides a more dynamic description of households' participation in the filtering process. The article begin…
Housing Allowances, Submarket Relationships and the Filtering Process
The Housing Progress of Young Cohorts
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981
Housing progress in the seventies
A cohort-based indicator of housing progress
Upward Mobility and the Filtering Process
A major revision is proposed to current em pirical theories about filtering in the hous ing market The trickle-down model is overly simplified and one-sided because it focuses only on dwelling decline There is a second process — upward mobility — that must be expressly understood. The chief advantage of the upward mobility model is that it provides a more dynamic description of households' participation in the filtering process. The article begin…
Reliance Upon Wives' Earnings for Homeownership Attainment
In recent years a fresh awareness has emerged that demographic trends wield an impact on housing markets independent of the income effects on which most eco nomic models focus (Alonso 1980) Dra matic social changes occurred during the 1970s Perhaps the best recognized factor impacting housing markets was the emer gence of the baby boom generation into adulthood and the consequent surge in household formations In addition to this shift in age stru…
Community-Relevant Measurement of Quality of Life
A popular term for describing our cities emerged in the 1980s: quality of life. Recent efforts to measure quality of life have responded to the growing interest of citizens, business leaders, and government officials, but these measurements have emphasized comparisons among places. Although these measurements are of value for citizens and businesses who are comparison-shopping prospective new locations, locally committed citizens and organization…
Sawicki's Comment on Planning Education and Practice
The Changing Problem of Overcrowded Housing
Overcrowding has increased in the U.S. after decades of decline—dramatically so in some locales and for some ethnic groups. The nature of the problem and its very definition for policy purposes are also changing. We examine the special characteristics of the overcrowded, where they are located, why the incidence of crowding has resurged, and why it is confined to specific locales. Ethnicity, age, immigration, and poverty play important roles, but…
Immigration cohorts and residential overcrowding in southern California
To what degree do immigrants reduce their high rates of residential overcrowding with increasing length of residence in the United States? This question is addressed through the application of a “double cohort” method that nests birth cohorts within immigration cohorts. This method enables duration of immigration effects to be separated from aging effects as cohorts pass through life course phases, when family sizes may be growing or shrinking. T…
Anchor Points for Planning's Identification
Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership
Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership
Homeownership is an important symbol of a middle-class standard of living and residential assimilation in the United States. This study explores the rate of advancement into homeownership of immigrants, relative to native borns, in Southern California, a principal region of immigrant settlement. Application of a double cohort method enables longitudinal trends for immigrants, due to both aging and assimilation, to be distinguished from the cohort…
Temporal Differentiation in the Occupational Mobility of Immigrant and Native-Born Latina Workers
This study estimated changes during 1980-90 in the occupational participation of native-born and immigrant Latino workers in 7 southern counties in California. Data were obtained from US Censuses on cohorts aged 15-24 in 1980 and aged 25-34 in 1990. The Myers-Lee double cohort method was used to estimate changes in cohorts in a period by a cohort matrix. Several assumptions were made about period and aging effects. Native Latinos and immigrant La…
Cohort Longitudinal Estimation of Housing Careers
The housing life cycle is a time-honoured approach to longitudinal conception of people's housing careers, but one difficult to measure accurately. Cross-sectional data often provide a misleading 'snapshot' of changes over time; yet, panel data that follow individual observationsover the life course also have several drawbacks. Construction of cohorts from cross-sectional data provides a useful third alternative, a quasi-panel approach, that capt…
Constructing the Future in Planning
The fuItLu-e is a long-recognized focus of thie uirban planning profession, but it has been nieglected of late particuLlarly in the academiiic COmmLullity. This article reviews concepts, theories, and tools useful for strengthening a ftttLire focus in planning. Core analytical coIncepts InCItide distinctions among projections forecasts and plans, and continiuities of past, present, anid future. Ethical issues center oni the tension betweeni an ac…
An Econometric Model of Homeownership
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the multifamily housing sector through models of household tenure decision, by comparing the various individual and market characteristics. We utilized individual household-level census data in the United States to detect different responses between single-family housing occupiers and multifamily housing occupiers during the 1980s. We found that although the investment potential for multifam…
Current preferences and future demand for denser residential environments
This article assesses the future demand for denser, more walkable residential environments in the United States as a whole. A review of survey evidence on preferences is coupled with demographic projections and other trends to construct a demand projection for the period 2000 to 2010 and compare it with 1990 to 2000. It is possible to foresee a turnabout already under way. Households older than 45 show particular interest in more densely configur…
Reply to Frans Dieleman
Race, Immigrant Status, and Housing Tenure Choice
Interracial Marriage and Residential Well Being
The purpose of this study is to describe and contrast the determinants and outcomes of Korean women's interracial marriages in the US. Social scientists in general agree on intermarriage being an indicator of the extent to which minorities have assimilated into the host society. However, very few studies have ever attempted to discern the socioeconomic outcomes of the marriage contracts of minorities. In a multivariate context, this study seeks t…
The Dynamics of Immigration and Local Governance in Santa Ana
This article examines the City of Santa Ana's responses to a changing urban landscape. We explore how the rapid growth of the Immigrant neighborhoods called into question traditional ways of municipal governance and city planning. We pay special attention to how the local government used land‐use policy to protnote urban revitalization and bring substandard housing up to code. Initially the urban policy choices fueled neighborhood‐based protest a…
Local housing-market effects on tenure choice
Baluja Et Al. Respond
McCarthy and his colleagues raise interesting questions about smoking behavior in other countries. Our research, however, is restricted to the smoking behavior of foreign-born men and women in the United States. We apologize for any confusion about the meaning of “country of origin.” We follow the convention of most immigration research by using country of birth. That should resolve the doubts expressed by the letter writers regarding the treatme…
Inclusion of Immigrant Status in Smoking Prevalence Statistics
Objectives. Data from the 1995–1996 and 1998–1999 Current Population Survey tobacco use supplements were used to examine smoking prevalence statistics by race/ethnicity and immigrant status. Methods. Smoking prevalence statistics were calculated, and these data were decomposed by country of birth for Asian immigrants to illustrate the heterogeneity in smoking rates present within racial/ethnic groups. Results. Except in the case of male Asian/Pac…
Sociology (30 works) · Economics (28 works) · Geography (24 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (24 works) · Demographic economics (22 works) · Immigration (19 works) · Demography (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Housing Market and Economics (13 works)