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All in the Family: Residential Outcomes and Family Proximity

Howell, Aaron J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1415283636

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2014, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Sociology.
A large sociological literature focuses on the impact of family change on the likelihood of residential mobility. This literature tends to focus on the ways that household level change influences the decision to move. Little research considers extended family in the residential attainment process. This dissertation focuses on an understudied dimension of this process and examines the causes and consequences of the spatial proximity of family, specifically the proximity of adult children and their living parents. Despite qualitative research indicating that extended family do play a role in the residential decisions of households there is little nationally representative data brought to bear on the topic. Using nationally representative data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the United States Census, I employ a variety of statistical regression techniques to examine determinants of family proximity, how family proximity affects neighborhood diversity, and the ways in which family change might induce change in spatial proximity. My findings suggest that proximity between parents and adult children varies systematically across categories of race, economic class, and gender. I find that the racial and ethnic neighborhood contexts of adult children are associated with parental neighborhood contexts. Finally, family change is associated with an increased likelihood to remain spatially proximate to parents. In general, I find support for the need to treat family proximity as both a cause and consequence of the residential mobility process.
Jeffrey Timberlake, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jennifer Malat, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Ervin Matthew, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
122 p.
Sociology
family; residential; proximity; mobility; attainment; race

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  • Howell, A. J. (2014). All in the Family: Residential Outcomes and Family Proximity [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1415283636

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Howell, Aaron. All in the Family: Residential Outcomes and Family Proximity. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1415283636.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Howell, Aaron. "All in the Family: Residential Outcomes and Family Proximity." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1415283636

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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