Residential mobility and neighborhood inequality during the transition to adulthood

Citation

Brazil, N. & Clark, W. A. V. (2018). Residential mobility and neighborhood inequality during the transition to adulthood. Urban Geography.

Abstract

There is ongoing interest on the outcomes of residential mobility during the young adulthood. In this paper, we examine movement in and out of disadvantaged and advantaged neighborhoods as individuals move out of the family home and experience significant life course events. Using longitudinal data on young adults in the United States from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we find that while the point-in-time measure of the neighborhood poverty gap (the difference between the most and least advantaged neighborhoods) remained nearly identical from adolescence to young adulthood. But the neighborhood poverty gap between individuals starting out in the least and most disadvantaged residential settings decreased by 18.2 percentage points. In other words, cross sectional estimates of the poverty gap do not capture the dynamism of changes in poverty with young adult transitions. Partner formation, home ownership, and educational attainment are important life course transitions associated with significant moves up and down the neighborhood poverty distribution. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

URL

https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1506614

Keyword(s)

affluence neighborhood poverty Residential mobility transition to adulthood

Notes

Export Date: 21 September 2018 Article in Press

Reference Type

Journal Article

Journal Title

Urban Geography

Author(s)

Brazil, N.
Clark, W. A. V.

Year Published

2018

DOI

10.1080/02723638.2018.1506614

Reference ID

8283