Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas

Spring, Amy; Ackert, Elizabeth; Crowder, Kyle; South, Scott J.

doi:10.1007/s13524-017-0587-x

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“…Research with these data has found that kin proximity is an important influence on adults’ residential moves. Kin who live close by are a brake on moving, and many moves are motivated by the imperative of reducing distance between adult children and parents (Spring, Ackert, Crowder and South 2017). Yet, much of this data pertains to families in the recent past after the peak of the Baby Boom or to families in modern lower income societies.…”

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The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Hacker¹,

Roberts²

2017

DemRes

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METHODS Most quantitative research on fertility decline in the United States ignores the potential impact of cultural and familial factors. We rely on new complete-count data from the 1880 U.S. census to construct couple-level measures of nativity/ethnicity, religiosity, and kin availability. We include these measures with a comprehensive set of demographic, economic, and contextual variables in Poisson regression models of net marital fertility to assess their relative importance. We construct models with and without area fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity. CONTRIBUTION All else being equal, we find a strong impact of nativity on recent net marital fertility. Fertility differentials among second generation couples relative to the native-born white population of native parentage were in most cases less than half of the differential observed among first generation immigrants, suggesting greater assimilation to native-born American childbearing norms. Our measures of parental religiosity and familial propinquity indicated a more modest impact on marital fertility. Couples who chose biblical names for their children had approximately 3% more children than couples relying on secular names while the presence of a potential mother-in-law in a nearby households was associated with 2% more children. Overall, our results demonstrate the need for more inclusive models of fertility behavior that include cultural and familial covariates.

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Section: Measurement Of Kin Proximitymentioning

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The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Hacker¹,

Roberts²

2017

DemRes

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“…Understanding the geographic proximity between generations by race may help explain familial support across generations and intergenerational economic mobility. Although assistance from family members may benefit the recipient, familial expectations may also constrain the labor market opportunities of some family members (Spring et al, ). This study identifies education as a key predictor that significantly explains large portions of the White–Black and White–Hispanic differences in living close to mothers across different levels of distance, yet a substantial share of these differences remains unexplained.…”

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Race/Ethnic Differences in Spatial Distance Between Adult Children and Their Mothers

Reyes

Schoeni

Choi

2019

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This brief study examines race/ethnic differences in geographic distance to mothers among adults in the United States. Background Race/ethnic differences in rates of adult children living with their mothers in the United States are well documented, but spatial distances beyond shared housing are not. Method Spatial distances between residential locations of adults aged 25 years and older and their biological mothers are estimated using the 2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics for Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites. Multinomial logistic regression models and nonlinear decomposition techniques are used to assess the role of demographic factors, socioeconomic status, and health of the child and mother in accounting for race/ethnic differences in adult child–mother proximity. Results Blacks are more likely than Whites to live with their mother and more likely to live within 30 miles but not coresident, whereas Whites are more likely to live more than 500 miles away. Geographic proximity to the mother is distinct for Hispanics with nearly one third having their mother outside the United States. Demographic, socioeconomic, and health factors account for the fact that Blacks are about twice as likely as Whites to live with their mother but do not fully account for large White–Black differences in proximity outside the household. The most important factor accounting for White–Black differences is marital status for coresidence, but education for proximity in the United States beyond coresidence. Conclusion New national estimates illustrate the complexity of race/ethnic differences in proximity to mothers that are not reflected in studies of coresidence.

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“…Several studies emphasize the importance of kin as an attractor to a destination (Hedman 2013;Boschman and van Ham 2015;Spring et al 2017). 6 Quillian (2015) did not allow the impacts of being above-and below-median income to be different in his model.…”

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“…; Spring et al. ). The second is distance in kilometers between the prospective neighborhood and the Oslo central business district (defined by the Norwegian parliament building, as shown by the asterisk in Figure ), an area surrounded by shopping, restaurants, theaters, and higher‐density residential areas .…”

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Status Aversion, Attraction and Discrepancy as Drivers of Neighborhood Selection

Galster

Turner

2019

City & Community

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Neighborhood income segregation is a widespread phenomenon. We explore its origins by modeling neighborhood selection by native Norwegian households making inter‐neighborhood moves, distinguishing influences of shares of three income groups and the discrepancy between the individual household's income and neighborhood median. We conduct a conditional logit analysis employing 2013–2014 population register data from the Oslo, Norway, metropolitan area. We find that status composition (shares of low‐ and high‐income households) and status discrepancy (difference between individual household's and neighborhood median disposable incomes) critically shapes neighborhood selection, though heterogeneously across income groups. All income groups sort into neighborhoods that have more of their own status group in residence. Middle‐ or high‐income households avoid neighborhoods with above‐average shares of low‐status households and median incomes that are higher than their own. High‐income households are more attracted to a place the greater the superiority of their incomes compared to the neighborhood median. Our findings suggest that although the drivers of residential income segregation are powerful, public policies aimed at neighborhood diversification have potential efficacy nevertheless.

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Influence of Proximity to Kin on Residential Mobility and Destination Choice: Examining Local Movers in Metropolitan Areas

Cited by 65 publications

References 63 publications

The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

The impact of kin availability, parental religiosity, and nativity on fertility differentials in the late 19th-century United States

Race/Ethnic Differences in Spatial Distance Between Adult Children and Their Mothers

Status Aversion, Attraction and Discrepancy as Drivers of Neighborhood Selection

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