BACKGROUND We assessed direct effects of neighborhood-level characteristics and interactive effects of neighborhood-level characteristics and individual socioeconomic position on adult smoking and drinking, after consideration of individual-level characteristics in Taiwan. METHODS Data on individual sociodemographic characteristics, smoking, and drinking were obtained from Taiwan Social Chang...

The racial/ethnic composition of a neighborhood may be related to residents' depressive symptoms through differential levels of neighborhood social support and/or stressors. We used the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis to investigate cross-sectional associations of neighborhood racial/ethnic composition with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale in adults aged 45-84...

In this paper I simulate neighborhood level political migration dynamics following a change in neighborhood racial composition using SimPolSeg, an original agent-based modeling software program. SimPolSeg simulates agent behavior according to the Migration-Polarization (MP) theory of partisan sorting (Anastasopoulos 2014a). Dynamic simulations using SimPolSeg demonstrate how non-white migration...

Population displacement is difficult to measure, but quantifying its presence critical delineating the scope, scale and potential causes of displacement’s effect in urban areas. This paper considers whether widely available data used measure turnover can be effectively other forms population change. The article presents two new metrics, Fresh Faces Ratio Replacement Index, that better capture s...