Despite the abundance of research on neighborhoods' effects on children, most studies of neighborhood effects are cross-sectional, rendering them unable to depict the dynamic nature of social life, and obscuring important aspects of community processes and outcomes. This study uses residential histories from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and the Child Development Supplement of ...

Traditionally, the emotional attachment older adults have to their homes and the economic and health burden caused by residential moves have had a deterrent effect on mobility during old age� in spite of this static general trend, 20% of older europeans change their residential location after the age of 65� Some studies point out that this percentage will increase in the coming decades along wi...

1 Residential mobility and relocation choice are essential parts of integrated transportation and land use 2 models. These decision processes have been examined and modeled individually to a great extent but 3 there remain gaps in the literature on the underlying behaviors that connect them. Households may partly 4 base their decision to move from or stay at a current location on the price and ...

Marijuana use initiation is associated with numerous health and behavioral consequences, particularly among young adolescents. Finding easily identifiable risk markers for marijuana initiation is an important step for targeting primary and secondary prevention efforts. This study used data from the 2010-2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to evaluate the association between residential ...

Like Paleoindian populations elsewhere in North America, Pre-Archaic groups in the Great Basin are assumed to have been highly mobile and far ranging. This view is commonly based on analyses of lithic technology and source provenance studies. While these approaches have added to our knowledge of PreArchaic lifeways, they have rarely focused on occupation span e an aspect of hunteregatherer beha...

I examine how student allocation rules impact achievement of students of different ability and socioeconomic background. When the assignment rule shifts from exam to district based, a model illustrates that income relative to ability becomes a stronger predictor of student achievement and higher income households sort towards the better school districts. Using evidence from South Korea, I find ...