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Residential mobility between cities and suburbs

Race, suburbanization, and back-to-the-city moves

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ID10969705
AuthorsJ South (0000-0002-0006-5133, University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author), Scott J South (Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222), Kyle D Crowder (0000-0002-0861-6489, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222), Kyle Crowder (0000-0002-1516-3385, University at Albany, State University of New York)
Year1997
Volume34
Issue4
Pages525-538
Publication date1997-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3038307
PMID9545629
OpenAlexW2007867499
LanguageEN
Citations received132
References cited43

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 mobility between central cities and suburbs. Consistent with the life-cycle model of residential mobility, mobility in both directions declines with age, but on balance the presence of young children deters moving to the suburbs. Among blacks, education increases the probability of moving from cities to suburbs, while high income retains blacks and whites in suburbs. Consistent with the place stratification model. blacks are substantially less likely than whites to move from cities to suburbs, and substantially more likely to move from suburbs to cities, even after standardizing for racial differences in sociodemographic characteristics. High levels of violent crime and unemployment in cities relative to suburbs also tend to spur city-to-suburb mobility or inhibit suburb-to-city moves

Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Population · Race (biology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Suburbanization · Demography · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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