Most of the research attention to schools has focused on the level of student achievement with much less attention given to the distribution of results. Policy makers on the other hand place a disproportionate amount of attention on achievement results for minorities and disadvantaged students. This paper considers a range of school factors that potentially have differential effects on groups i...

The housing market is a dynamic system of intricately woven interdependent processes. It is affected by the volatility in the fi nancial markets and the conditions of this market affect discriminatory individual level behaviour. Like other applications, agent-based models (ABMs) can be used to simulate activity in this market with a view to gaining a better understanding of how the market works...

Internal mobility ratios of the two cations in the molten binary systems (Li, Na)Cl and (Na, K)C1 have been measured with Klemm's column method. From these and available data on the densities and conductivities the internal mobilities bLi, bNa and bK have been calculated. In (Li, Na)Cl, bLi is smaller than fcNa in the investigated composition and temperature range, and in (Na, K)C1, the Chemla ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the discrete factors of gentrification modeled by cellular Automata. The gentrification is the arriving of middle and high social classes in the inner-city areas. It corresponds to the residential mobility of solvent households, attracted by residential comfort and the central retailing equipment. The proximity, diversity and quality of this equipment bec...

THE DYNAMICS OF HOUSING PRICES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE∗ by Peter Englund Yannis M. Ioannides Department of Economics Department of Economics University of Uppsala VPI&SU S–751 20 Uppsala Sweden Blacksburg, VA 24061-0316 Telephone: 46-18-181105 Telephone: 1-703-231-7981 Email: Email: yannis@vtvm1 This paper provides an international perspective on the dynamics of housing prices in alternat...

The relation between segregation and residential mobility goes back to the relation between mobility and the modern metropolis.1 In Simmel’s terms mobility is part of a ‘world in flux, whose substantive contents are themselves dissolved in motion’ (Frisby, 2002: xxiv). Mobility is the product of the intense commodification of social relations fuelled by industrial development and entwined with ...

People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to have poor physical and mental health, but this might be due to selective residential mobility rather than causal neighborhood effects. As a test of social causation, I examined whether persons were less healthy when they were living in disadvantaged neighborhoods than at other times when they were living in more advantaged neighborhoods. Da...

One of the most persistent and lasting debates in economic research refers to whether the answers to subjective questions can be used to explain individuals’ economic behavior. Using panel data for twelve EU countries, in the present study we analyze the causal relationship between self-reported housing satisfaction and residential mobility. Our results indicate that: i) households unsatisfied ...

Understanding the relationship between mobility and the family and work transitions experienced by individuals approaching retirement is an important research topic. Both family transitions, such as divorce, widowhood or children leaving home, and work transitions, particularly retirement, influence where individuals will reside and, as they age, how much assistance they may need. This paper us...