Search Results for Residential Evaluation

... through the intervening decision variables of residential evaluation and mobility expectation. In general, persons with weakened social attachments and little control over their lives and resources find it difficult to engage in the calculated, long-term type of decision-making process implied by mobility...

... contributions have received only limited empirical evaluation. Among the theoretical statements. Schelling’s model of the effects of small differences in preferences on residential patterns has provided a basic building block in our understanding of preferences, choices, and patterns. Several recent surveys...

... define activity spaces in two ways and estimate their socioeconomic characteristics. Our research has two goals. First, we determine whether residential neighborhoods represent the social conditions to which adults are exposed in the course of their regular activities. Second, we evaluate whether...

... overlooked a substantial source of instability in children’s lives. I argue that the instability in children’s residential arrangements is characterized by household instability rather than family instability. To evaluate this thesis, I use the 1968–2015 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and time...

...William H. Frey; Reynolds Farley Abstract This study examines 1990 residential segregation levels and 1980–1990 changes in segregation for Latinos, Asians, and blacks in U.S. metropolitan areas. It also evaluates the effect of emerging multiethnic metropolitan area contexts for these segregation...

... también por un principio de estabilidad acumulativa. La evidencia justifica major investigación sobre la aplicabilidad del modelo a ostros procesos sociales en los que operan factotes de tipo inercia. Summary The objective of this paper is to evaluate the empirical accuracy of the Cornell mobility model...

... conceived before marriage, detailed data on such births often are not available, especially in the United States. Danish statistics on first births by duration of marriage and on out-of-wedlock births permit evaluation of trends in premarital pregnancies. For the period 1950-65, they point to (1) a rise...

.... A major thrust in mobility research has been the examination of ways that objective measures of situation and context, hereafter called structural variables, operate in the mobility process by conditioning the household's subjective evaluation of residential satisfaction and, in turn, mobility desires...

... of attitudinal attachment in this study are evaluation and sentiment. Evaluation reflects an individual's satisfaction with the residential environment, whereas sentiment refers to an individual's emotional attach- ment to a community. Though these measures are similar, Guest and Lee (1983b) illustrated...

... determinants of migration. Al- though some determinants may be more important for residential mobility than for migration, a similar process of evaluation is appropriate for both types of residential change. 2. A concept of adjustment is in- troduced. Once a person has been stimu- lated through a negative...

... on the assumption that if stable integration is to exist, individuals must evaluate diversity positively and desire to live in racially mixed places (Lee et al. 1994 ). A central debate within this line of research focuses on understanding the factors that drive individuals’ racial residential preferences...

... ). Environmental Choice, Human Behavior and Residential Satisfaction . New York : Oxford University Press . Morrison P. A. ( 1967 ). Duration of residence and prospective migration: the evaluation of a stochastic model . Demography , 4 , 553 – 561 . 10.2307/2060298 Newman S. J...

... this population with statistical controls. We evaluate the effect of charter school enrollment change within districts using a structural equation model in which we simultaneously estimate one regression equation predicting change in school segregation and another predicting change in residential segregation...

... discrimination as explanations for these patterns (Yinger 1976). In addition, an extensive literature has evaluated personal preferences as a factor in the creation of the residential mosaic (Farley 1978), but observers still debate over the effect of minorities preferences in creating the patterns of separation...

... or no residential attachment. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Census Bureau Father Involvement Sample Household Decennial Census Nonresident Father References Adams , T.S. , & Krejsa , E.A. ( 2002 ). Results of the Person Followup/Evaluation...

.... Adjustments may take the form of additional investments, both monetary and personal, in the home that in themselves do not dissipate residential stressbut function as an alternative course of action following unfavorable evaluations of the residential environment. In the spirit of this article's thesis...

...-stayer model, movers are those who have both experi- enced residential dissatisfaction and fav- orably evaluated the costs and benefits of moving, whereas stayers are either satisfied with their residence or are dis- satisfied but have considered moving and decided that the costs outweigh the benefits...

... 566 DEMOGRAPHY,volume 16, number 4, November 1979 ter, 1977), the noneconomic aspects ofmi- gration decisions take on new relevance. The recent work of Speare, Goldstein and Frey (1974) emphasized evaluation of residential satisfaction as one stage in a sequential series of decisions regarding...

... of life) value of the housing-neighborhood package (Logan and Molotch 1987); further, it may involve a significant emotional component. If the investment is jeopardized seriously by a contextual threat, moving offers a rational option for minimizing losses. Residential aspirations, standards of evaluation...

...Yana Kucheva Abstract Patterns of household mobility across neighborhoods reproduce patterns of racial segregation at the metropolitan level. Substantial literature across the social sciences has explored the scale and predictors of household mobility as well as changes in metropolitan residential...