Home moves and child wellbeing in the first five years of life in the United States

Beck, Brenden; Buttaro, Anthony; Lennon, Mary Clare

doi:10.14301/llcs.v7i3.374

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“…Besides these regularities, moving patterns in the UK are different from those in the US, mainly because they are less frequent and the structure of housing tenure has been more favourably tilted towards social housing in the UK than is public housing in the US. We concentrate mainly on studies from the UK, as they are more relevant to our empirical analysis (see Beck et al, 2016, this issue, for further references to the US literature).…”

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“…In the first stage, we model mobility as a binary outcome and use a logistic regression to estimate the probability of making at least one move between the first survey at nine months and the third survey at age five. We prefer a binary indicator to a move count (as used by Beck, et al 2016, this issue) because the proportion of families making repeated moves is small. Also, results do not vary substantially when modelling mobility as the number of moves using a negative binomial model.…”

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Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Gambaro

Joshi

2016

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Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Gambaro

Joshi

2016

LLCS

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“…Our study focuses on the moves of young families in the 2000s, when large‐scale evidence was available for Great Britain. There has also been a parallel study of a comparable cohort in the United States (Beck, Buttaro, & Lennon, ). The comparison with the United States was of interest partly because its housing system was substantially different at the time from the UK, with higher levels of private renting for young families and much less “housing welfare,” although the contemporary British situation could be seen to be heading in a similar direction.…”

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Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

Gambaro

Joshi

Lupton

2017

Population Space and Place

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This paper assesses how far residential moves can result in improvement or deterioration of the housing and neighbourhood circumstances for families with young children. It uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study concentrating on the time between infancy and age 5, 2001 to 2006. First, we ask which families moved home and in what circumstances. We then examine how moving changed several aspects of housing: space standards, damp problems, and tenure. We show that the majority of moves resulted in improvements to housing conditions, especially in reducing overcrowding. We also consider neighbourhood circumstances, proxied by a measure of local poverty at small‐area level. Movers generally ended up in neighbourhoods with lower levels of poverty, or no worse, but almost one fifth of moves were downward or remained in the 30 percent poorest areas. We ask whether locating in an area with more local poverty may help achieve a larger home. There is evidence of such a trade‐off—1 in 5 families moved to a larger home, which was either in a poorer area than before or remained in the 30 percent poorest areas. We conclude by showing how the path of upward housing mobility, while numerically dominant, was far less common among families with relatively low resources and whose moves were attendant on partnership changes. For them, moves often result in smaller homes in poorer areas.

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“…With respect to family composition and family change, the role of mobility in the early years has been identified as a critical issue in understanding how young children are impacted by residential changes (Beck et al, 2016;Gambaro and Joshi, 2016). Frequent mobility generated by changes in family structures (separation or re-marriage), or persistent unemployment and unstable housing situations, often generates negative outcomes for children.…”

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Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

Clark

2017

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Residential mobility is the process whereby individuals and households adjust their locations in cities. These moves, in the aggregate, change neighborhoods as well as providing specific housing outcomes for households and families as a result of the move. The literature on residential change has evolved from cross-sectional studies of family structure and their housing circumstances, to life course analyses of the motivations for moving, the contexts in which the moves occur, and the intersection of life course change and housing choice. The combined work of demographers, geographers, economists and sociologists has provided a much clearer and more nuanced understanding of behavior in the housing market than was possible with cross-sectional analyses. This paper reviews the evolution of life course approaches to residential mobility and discusses the current state of the research literature. Keywords: mobility; life course; housing markets; neighborhoods; residential sorting * Some of the material in this paper was originally prepared for a seminar on housing hosted Resumen. La movilidad residencial en su contexto: interpretar el comportamiento en el mercado residencialLa movilidad residencial es el proceso por el cual los individuos y hogares ajustan su localización en la ciudad. Estos cambios, de manera agregada, transforman los barrios al tiempo que producen efectos específicos sobre los hogares y las familias. La literatura sobre cambios de residencia ha evolucionado desde los planteamientos transversales sobre la estructura familiar y las condiciones de su domicilio hacia análisis desde la perspectiva del curso vital de las razones para mudarse, los contextos en que ocurren los cambios, y la intersección de los cambios vitales y la elección residencial. El trabajo combinado de demógrafos, geógrafos, economistas y sociólogos ha proporcionado una comprensión más clara y matizada de lo que era posible con análisis transversales. Este artículo revisa la evolución de los acercamientos a la movilidad residencial desde el curso vital, y debate el estado de la cuestión en la literatura de investigación.

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Home moves and child wellbeing in the first five years of life in the United States

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Cited by 18 publications

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Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Moving to a better place? Residential mobility among families with young children in the Millennium Cohort Study

Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

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