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Comparative Study
. 2019 Nov:84:102346.
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102346. Epub 2019 Sep 3.

Kin location and racial disparities in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods

Elizabeth Ackert  1 , Amy Spring  2 , Kyle Crowder  3 , Scott J South  4
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Comparative Study

Kin location and racial disparities in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods

Elizabeth Ackert et al. Soc Sci Res. 2019 Nov.

Abstract

Blacks and Latinos/as are less likely than Whites to move from a poor neighborhood to a non-poor neighborhood and are more likely to move in the reverse direction. Using individual-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1980-2013) and neighborhood-level census data, this study explores the role that the spatial location of familial kin networks plays in explaining these racially and ethnically disparate mobility patterns. Blacks and Latinos/as live closer than Whites to nuclear kin, and they are also more likely than Whites to have kin members living in poor neighborhoods. Close geographic proximity to kin and higher levels of kin neighborhood poverty inhibit moving from a poor to a non-poor neighborhood, and increase the risk of moving from a non-poor to a poor tract. Racial/ethnic differences in kin proximity and kin neighborhood poverty explain a substantial portion of racial gaps in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods.

Keywords: Inequality; Neighborhoods; Race/ethnicity; Residential mobility.

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Distance to nuclear kin among Blacks, Whites, and Latinos/as originating in poor and non-poor neighborhoods, PSID 1980–2013.
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Nuclear kin neighborhood poverty levels for Blacks, Whites, and Latinos/as originating in poor and non-poor neighborhoods, PSID 1980–2013.
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Attenuation of average partial effect of Black and Latino/a racial status on mobility across poor and non-poor tracts with controls for distance to kin and kin tract poverty rates, PSID 1980–2013.
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