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Moving for the Kids: Examining the Influence of Children on White Residential Segregation

White households with children are the least likely of all household types to live in integrated neighborhoods, yet few researchers have questioned whether children themselves influence residential decision‐making. Children may affect both residential preferences and constraints and in turn, househo...

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Published in:City & community 2014-06, Vol.13 (2), p.158-178
Main Authors: Goyette, Kimberly, Iceland, John, Weininger, Elliot
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Language:English
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Summary:White households with children are the least likely of all household types to live in integrated neighborhoods, yet few researchers have questioned whether children themselves influence residential decision‐making. Children may affect both residential preferences and constraints and in turn, household mobility decisions that shape patterns of segregation and integration. Following a cohort of household heads in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that white households whose oldest child is younger than six are more likely to move when the percentage of black residents and diversity in their neighborhoods is higher. However, when white households with children do move, they are not more likely than white households without children to move to neighborhoods with fewer blacks or less diversity. Young children may matter for segregation because they influence families to leave more diverse neighborhoods, and white movers generally move into neighborhoods with less diversity, whether or not they have children. Mudándose por lo Niños: Examinando la Influencia de los Niños en la Segregación Residencial de Familias Blancas Resumen Hogares blancos con niños son los tipos de hogares menos propensos de todos los tipos de hogares a vivir en barrios integrados; sin embargo pocos investigadores han preguntado si son los niños quienes influyen en la decisión del lugar de vivienda. Los niños pueden afectar tanto las preferencias y limitaciones residenciales, así como decisiones de mudanza de vivienda que forman los patrones de segregación e integración. Siguiendo una cohorte de cabezas de hogares en Estudio de Panel de Dinámicas de Ingreso, encontramos que son los hogares blancos cuyo hijo mayor es menor de seis años los más propensos a mudarse cuando el porcentaje de residentes negros y la diversidad en sus barrios son altos. Sin embargo, cuando las familias blancas con niños se mudan, no son más propensas que familias blancas sin niños a mudarse a barrios con menor población negra y menor diversidad. Los niños menores pueden importar para entender la segregación porque influyen en sus familias para dejar barrios más diversos, pero los blancos generalmente se mudan a barrios con menor diversidad, sea que tengan o no tengan niños.
ISSN:1535-6841
1540-6040
DOI:10.1111/cico.12058