Abstract

author examines residential mobility trends among U.S. children and compares them with trends in other developed countries. The paper develops alternative explanations of the excess mobility of U.S. children and concludes that the most likely explanation is greater family disruption and childhood poverty in the United States. paper identifies what is an average number of moves for children at successive ages and models the association of selected socioeconomic and other variables with different measures of mobility. (EXCERPT)

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