Life-Course Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Migration Between Poor and Non-poor Neighborhoods

Ying Huang (), Scott J. South (), Amy Spring () and Kyle Crowder ()
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Ying Huang: University of Texas at San Antonio
Scott J. South: University at Albany, State University of New York
Amy Spring: Georgia State University
Kyle Crowder: University of Washington

Population Research and Policy Review, 2021, vol. 40, issue 3, No 3, 429 pages

Abstract: Abstract 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 neighborhoods. We use individual-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2013 in conjunction with neighborhood-level data derived from four U.S. censuses. Results from logistic regression analyses show that a longer residential history spent in poor neighborhoods both reduces the likelihood of moving from a poor to a non-poor neighborhood and increases the likelihood of moving from a non-poor to a poor neighborhood. A decomposition analysis reveals that a sizeable portion of the racial differences in the likelihood of moving between poor and non-poor neighborhoods is attributable to differences between blacks and whites in the duration of time they have spent living in a poor neighborhood. Our study highlights the salient role of residential histories in perpetuating racial inequality in neighborhood poverty over the life course and across generations.

Keywords: Neighborhood poverty; Race; Residential mobility; Life course; Residential history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11113-020-09580-0

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