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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue7,P.981-998

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英文

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作者单位

University of California, Los Angeles

摘要

The number of neighborhoods with diverse mixtures of the major ethnic and racial groups is increasing. There is also work that suggests that young adults are more open to integration and that they may be making more integrative choices. In this context, we use data on neighborhood residential mobility from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to compare changes in neighborhood percentage own race from adolescence to young adulthood across race and ethnicity, paying specific attention to how factors in adolescence (parental educational attainment) and young adulthood (income, educational attainment) influence these changes. The focus is on residential selections in the period of most active relocation behavior, the years of leaving home, setting up families and careers, and entering the housing market. We find much more dynamism in the distribution of neighborhood selections than is suggested in previous studies that focus on average outcomes. Specifically, we show that though there is continued sorting into neighborhoods that are reflections of race and ethnicity there is also considerable individual variation. Moving into high and low percentage own-race neighborhoods can be explained by own and parental educational attainment and percentage own race in the adolescent neighborhood.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam A. V. ClarkWilliam A. V. Clark is Research Professor at the University of California Los Angeles where he has focused his research efforts on modeling and understanding the changing urban mosaic. He has focused on changes in population composition at local neighborhood scales including studies of segregation and ethnic change. He has written extensively on residential mobility and tenure and neighborhood choice and the interrelationships of population migration and the nature of demographic change in large metropolitan areas, notably in California. His edited volume with David Clapham and Ken Gibb (The Sage Handbook of Housing) brings together work on residential change, housing choice, housing markets, and housing policy.Noli BrazilNoli Brazil is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Development in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. His research agenda spans multiple areas of inquiry connected by an interest in understanding the influence of place and space in generating social, economic, and health inequalities.