Full Citation

Title: Intergenerational dynamics of white residential mobility: School desegregation and avoidance

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2015

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: Recent attention has focused on whether the decisions of parents play an important role in the persistence of racial and economic segregation. This analysis compares PSID families from 1968 through 2009 at different stages of child-rearing as they were exposed to local, mandated school desegregation plans. Families were linked by Census tract to 1970 school district boundaries, which were then merged to desegregation court case data. Preliminary analyses demonstrate that mobile white families with children avoided destination districts in desegregating districts to a higher degree than young couples without children, and to a much higher degree than black families. This highlights the unique contribution of parental behavior in shaping the segregated residential landscape.

Url: http://paa2015.princeton.edu/uploads/153629

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Rich, PM

Conference Name: Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2015

Publisher Location: San Diego, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: