Cumulative, Timing‐Specific, and Interactive Models of Residential Mobility and Children's Cognitive and Psychosocial Skills

Coley, Rebekah Levine; Kull, Melissa

doi:10.1111/cdev.12535

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“…If a person's unemployment imposes costs on their family, perhaps the family benefits of the move outweigh the individual's loss. But moving puts stress on children, which leads to behavioral problems, substance abuse, and poor mental health (Coley and Kull 2016;Oishi 2010). Subsidizing out-migration from distressed communities may often create as many problems as it solves.…”

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Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Bartik

2020

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Place-based jobs policies seek to create jobs in particular local labor markets. Such policies include business incentives provided by state and local governments, which cost almost $50 billion annually. The most persuasive rationale for these policies is that they can advance equity and efficiency by increasing long-term employment rates in distressed local labor markets. However, current incentives are not targeted at distressed areas. Furthermore, incentives have high costs per job created. Lower costs can be achieved by public services to business, such as manufacturing extension, customized job training, and infrastructure. Reforms to place-based jobs policies should focus on greater targeting of distressed areas and using more cost-effective policies. Such reforms could be achieved by state and local governments acting in their residents’ interests or could be encouraged by federal interventions to cap incentives and provide aid to distressed areas.

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Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Bartik

2020

Journal of Economic Perspectives

101

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“…Early childhood appears to be an especially mobile life stage—but it is also an age at which stability may be particularly important for development (Shonkoff & Garner, 2012). Past research on the developmental consequences of early childhood residential mobility has been mixed (Coley & Kull, 2016; Coley, Lynch, & Kull, 2015; Schmitt & Lipscomb, 2016). Our study addresses the implications of residential mobility for children’s kindergarten readiness, focusing on socioemotional functioning but also examining cognitive development.…”

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“…Coley, Lynch, and Kull (2015) conceptualized moves as part of “environmental chaos” and found no relationship between a count of moves in early childhood and children’s health or behavior in a high-risk urban sample. Coley and Kull (2016) used retrospective, nationally representative reports and found that two thirds of children moved before kindergarten with a range of 0 to 6 moves. Residential mobility was higher in early childhood than in later childhood or early adolescence.…”

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“…Socioemotional behavior is also important because it is a crucial aspect of school readiness, which has important implications for later development and educational attainment (Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 2004). Although children’s cognitive outcomes have not been linked as frequently to residential mobility and other types of instability (e.g., Coley & Kull, 2016), they are important for children’s later development (Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 2004), and some research has found cognitive implications of early residential mobility (Schmitt & Lipscomb, 2016). We therefore focus on behavior but also report results for cognitive outcomes.…”

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Residential Mobility Across Early Childhood and Children’s Kindergarten Readiness

2018

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Understanding residential mobility in early childhood is important for contextualizing family, school, and neighborhood influences on child well-being. We examined the consequences of residential mobility for socioemotional and cognitive kindergarten readiness using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, a nationally representative longitudinal survey that followed U.S. children born in 2001 from infancy to kindergarten. We described individual, household, and neighborhood characteristics associated with residential mobility for children aged 0-5. Our residential mobility indicators examined frequency of moves, nonlinearities in move frequency, quality of moves, comparisons between moving houses and moving neighborhoods, and heterogeneity in the consequences of residential mobility. Nearly three-quarters of children moved by kindergarten start. Mobility did not predict cognitive scores. More moves, particularly at relatively high frequencies, predicted lower kindergarten behavior scores. Moves from socioeconomically advantaged to disadvantaged neighborhoods were especially problematic, whereas moves within a ZIP code were not. The implications of moves were similar across socioeconomic status. The behavior findings largely support an instability perspective that highlights potential disruptions from frequent or problematic moves. Our study contributes to literature emphasizing the importance of contextualizing residential mobility. The high prevalence and distinct implications of early childhood moves support the need for further research.

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“…Yet this task is also essential, considering the widespread negative implications of residential mobility for mothers and children (Coley et al 2015) and the likelihood that children of mobile families may become more mobile adults (Ivlevs and King 2012). Using multilevel mixed longitudinal regression analyses, we assessed the relative importance of family characteristics as well as interpersonal, economic, housing, and community contexts in predicting low-income families' rates of residential mobility among a representative sample of low-income families living in three cities.…”

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The Roles of Instability and Housing in Low-Income Families’ Residential Mobility

Kull

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2015

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Given the repercussions of residential mobility, increased understanding of correlates of mobility is important for efforts to support family well-being. Using survey data on low-income families from the Three City Study (N = 2393), multilevel mixed longitudinal analyses examined factors associated with family residential mobility across the domains of family instability, housing and neighborhood contexts, and family characteristics. Results revealed contributions of family instability and housing and neighborhood contexts to residential mobility, with a higher rate of residential moves associated with experiences of intimate partner violence, relationship transitions, and job transitions, as well as with living in private-market rentals, substandard housing, and disordered neighborhoods. However, owning a home and living in disadvantaged neighborhoods predicted a lower rate of residential moves.

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Cumulative, Timing‐Specific, and Interactive Models of Residential Mobility and Children's Cognitive and Psychosocial Skills

Cited by 38 publications

References 40 publications

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Residential Mobility Across Early Childhood and Children’s Kindergarten Readiness

The Roles of Instability and Housing in Low-Income Families’ Residential Mobility

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