We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results indicate substantial compensatory sorting within and...

BACKGROUND The relationship between childhood residential mobility and health in the UK is not well established; however, research elsewhere suggests that frequent childhood moves may be associated with poorer health outcomes and behaviours. The aim of this paper was to compare people in the West of Scotland who were residentially stable in childhood with those who had moved in terms of a range...

Although power mobility has many potential benefits for users, power mobility incidents and accidents are a serious concern. To date, little research has explored power mobility safety, and no gold standard exists to determine whether the user is a safe driver. As a possible alternative to a facility unilaterally imposing regulations on power mobility users, we conducted a research project in w...

For the past three decades “separate but unequal” has characterized the residential location of blacks and to a lesser degree Hispanics. These groups are more likely to be residentially isolated and live in lower-quality neighborhoods. Recently, researchers have turned their attention towards understanding minorities’ residential mobility, since it is the behavior underlying where individuals l...

BACKGROUND Somali migrants fleeing the civil war in their country face punishing journeys, the loss of homes, possessions, and bereavement. On arrival in the host country they encounter poverty, hostility, and residential instability which may also undermine their mental health. METHODS An in-depth and semi-structured interview was used to gather detailed accommodation histories for a five ye...

PURPOSE In epidemiologic studies, neighborhood characteristics are often assigned to individuals based on a single residence despite the fact that people frequently move and, for most cancer outcomes, the relevant time-window of exposure is not known. The authors evaluated residential mobility patterns for a population-based series of childhood leukemia cases enrolled in the Northern California...

ISSN: 0747-4938 (Print) 1532-4168 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/lecr20 Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites Yan Dong , Li Gan & Yingning Wang To cite this article: Yan Dong , Li Gan & Yingning Wang (2015) Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites, Econometric Revi...

BACKGROUND Understanding residential mobility in early childhood is important for contextualizing influences on child health and well-being. OBJECTIVE This study describes individual, household, and neighborhood characteristics associated with residential mobility for children aged 0-5. METHODS We examined longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), ...